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The Greens say they will build an $18 million dedicated indigenous residential health centre if elected to government on September 7. “The Greens health package for WA includes more than $150 million for the state’s hospitals, with $50 million of that quarantined for rural and regional hospitals,” party health spokesman Richard Di Natale said Wednesday.…
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Full-scale model trains have gone up in the Hay Street mall to protest Barnett government plans to run light rail through the pedestrian strip. Perth city council installed the models to show how cramped the mall would become with a MAX line running through it. Anti-MAX propaganda handed to passers-by said a train through the…
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John Howard has heard all the stories about sharing a name with a certain former prime minister and makes it clear he has no interest in talking about it any more. The prickly thespian clearly doesn’t relish talking about himself during our interview, giving him plenty in common with Tim Winton, the playwright of Shrine,…
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The Palmer United Party candidate for Perth is former English teacher and law graduate Gabriel Harfouche. A union man, he says he climbed aboard billionaire Clive Palmer’s bandwagon because of his plan to “reunite the nation” and get fresh faces into parliament. Mr Harfouche says PUP policies he most likes include banning party officials from…
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Kidsland was nearly Never Never Land. For more than a year the Mt Lawley play centre has been stuck in limbo after Stirling city council declared the building “unsafe” in 2012 and closed it down just one week after it opened. It reopened this month after finally getting all the proper approvals. Owner Shahid Tirmazi…
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The Perth Jazz Society is a tough old boot. Since forming in 1973 it has has survived flares, synthesisers and all manners of personal changes and musical fads. In its heyday it showcased international jazz stars, including Stéphane Grappelli and Miles Davis sideman David Liebman. This month it celebrates its 40th anniversary at the newly…
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Vincent locals stick together Huge numbers turned up to a robust rally last weekend to demand Vincent be kept together. And within four days, Colin Barnett, WA’s increasingly flip-flop premier, caved in. About 1200 people flooded Angove Street last Saturday to oppose plans to split Vincent and hand everything north of Vincent Street to neighbouring…
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Rod Willox is so angry with the Barnett merger he’s abandoned plans to retire from Stirling city council in October. Cr Willox has represented Lawley ward for 20 years and is determined to seek re-election to fight to keep Mt Lawley in Stirling. Under the Barnett merger, his home of 40 years is to wind…
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Bayswater mayor Terry Kenyon referred to the proposed Bayswater-Bassendean super council as “Greater Morley” at a special council meeting this week. “We should stop referring to the new merged council as Bayswater, it is a merger not a take-over,” he said diplomatically. The city will swallow the City of Bassendean, the suburb of Inglewood and…
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A “STAY IN STIRLING” public rally will be held at Astor Theatre, Mt Lawley at 7pm on August 28. Theatre owner Bruno Zimmermann has agreed to provide the venue free of charge. The rally will protest the Barnett government’s decision to move Mt Lawley from Stirling into a new Bayswater-Bassendean super council. Paul Collins, president…
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