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MOUNT LAWLEY Labor MP Simon Millman has condemned Liberal MP Jim Chown’s “Jews of Asia” remark, saying it follows an increase in intolerance that constituents have reported to him lately. On Saturday The West Australian reported Mr Chown made the comment during a 2015 meeting in Shanghai, which he and other MPs attended to meet…
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SHE’S a dancing queen, but she’s certainly not seventeen. 99-year-old Madge Hitchins is a walking or dancing reminder that it’s never too late to boogie as she takes to the dance floor at Leederville Town Hall every Saturday night. Mrs Hitchens always steals the show and dresses to shock, claims her close friend Margaret Hodgson.…
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A FILM detailing the fight by Aboriginal communities to stop mining on their country will get a free screening in Perth tomorrow (Sunday, February 24). The 1980 documentary On Sacred Ground documents the Noonkanbah land rights movement, when the Yungngora people protested the drilling for oil on sacred sites. Noonkanbah is a station in the…
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TURNER GALLERIES have kicked off the year with three eclectic exhibitions that include everything from Mexican religion to jarring thoughts. If artists were good with words they’d be authors says Perth sculptor Harry Hummerston, demonstrating the point when I phoned him last week. “Trying to explain the work becomes a struggle to replace images with…
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PERTH federal MP Patrick Gorman has stepped into a local planning issue, imploring Woolworths to cough up for an artwork at its proposed Beaufort Street store. The supermarket giant is planning a shop on the site where Bunnings burned down last year, but has told Stirling council it doesn’t want to put in an obligatory…
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AFTER seven months of radio silence the state’s planning and heritage department now expects to release a report on the future of the heritage-listed Maylands Brickworks before July. A year ago this month the department released four proposals for a $7.7 million redevelopment of the 1927 brickworks, three involving apartment complexes to fund the makeover.…
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TURTLE-murdering helium balloons are in the crosshairs of Stirling council, with mayor Mark Irwin calling on the state government to ban balloon releases. In a letter to WA environment minister Stephen Dawson, he says that under the 1979 Litter Act it’s not littering if you release a balloon into the air, only if it can…
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AFTER five years of development delays, Lyric Lane co-owner Michiel de Ruyter says he hopes to open the venue late next month. The de Ruyter family first floated the idea of an ambitious music bar/cafe on the site of the old Speelite bike shop on Guildford Road in May 2014. At the time Mr de…
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BAYSWATER council has been unsuccessful in getting a million-dollar state government grant to keep Maylands Waterland open. The grant application was a last ditch attempt to get funds to repair the ageing council water park, as the council had already taken its begging bowl to Lotterywest, various politicians and 16 private companies. Bayswater council will…
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THE first ever Maylands Laneway festival kicks off in February 23 from 5.30pm to 8pm. Lyric Lane (the venue) had hoped to be open in time, but at least the actual laneway itself (off 8th Ave) will be ready for the party with live music, art, a silent disco and snacky stalls.
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