Legendary Leederville eatery Tsuke Ba serves up some of the freshest sushi you’re ever likely to try this side of Tokyo. Tucked-away in Oxford Street’s Tip Top arcade, this hidden gem is definitely worth seeking out, for super tasty food at a fantastic price.
Ideal for a quick bite before or after the movies, or a healthy take away option for the family, Tsuke Ba has something for everyone. Tsuke Ba does mini-sushi rolls which are very popular with kids and are just the right size for little fingers. If you don’t fancy sushi, there’s a tempting range of salads, rice paper rolls and hot meals such as katsu chicken on offer.
Family-owned and operated, the team at Tsuke Ba take pride in rolling their own sushi – which they’ve been doing since 2005. Everything is made fresh daily, using quality local produce. Vegan and gluten free choices are available too.
Planning a function or party? Talk to the friendly team about their healthy and delicious platters.
Tsuke Ba 3/139 Oxford Street, Leederville Monday to Saturday 8.30am-5pm Phone 9201 0800
ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) This is a fine time for Rams to proudly prance free. Chiron is with you, gently leaning on you to keep things on a creative and healing trajectory. Uranus is gone, meaning that there shouldn’t be any major disruptive events turning you on your head. Celebrate all that makes you happy.
TAURUS (Apr 21 – May 2) The Aries Sun is a sure guarantee that you will be moved along by life, in those places where you have gotten yourself stuck. Life is removing you from any potholes you might have gotten bogged in. If you have been putting things off, you won’t be able to put them off any longer. Move on.
GEMINI (May 21 – June 21) Mars moves into Gemini this week. Add this to the transit of the Sun through Aries and the omens are clear. There is a cat among your pigeons. Movement is prescribed. There is no room for stagnation or complacency. Though it might initially feel like a cyclone, you’ll find your way.
CANCER (June 22 – July 22) As much as you would like this to be a time to be still and take refuge, that’s not what’s on the existential menu. It is a time of courage, action and adventure. Move through your reluctance and jump into whatever ventures life is offering up for the taking. It won’t take long to shift gears.
LEO (July 23 – Aug 22) With the Sun passing through Aries, you are exalted. As the king and queen of the beasts, this is naturally one of your favourite feelings. Don’t behave like a camel and avoid accepting the accolades coming your way. A lion who refuses to shine is not a lion at all. Be who you are.
VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sept 22) The slow movement of Mercury through Pisces means you are staying contemplative and quiet as the rest of the world gets on its collective herd of donkeys and goes tilting at windmills. You aren’t about to be overly influenced by the clamour of the crowd – any crowd. Discern for yourself.
LIBRA (Sept 23 – Oct 23) The moment the Sun goes into Aries, as it has now, your life gets interesting. There’s no way you will be able to rest on your laurels this month. You will be tested. Any peace and wisdom you have gleaned, will have to survive the onslaught of all sorts of doubters. Accept your challenges.
SCORPIO (Oct 24 – Nov 21) This is a good moment to contemplate a new order. The old one has been turned on it’s head. In the chaos that has ensued, clarity and purpose have gone missing. Use your capacity for feeling deeply into things, to come to a transformational understanding of the potential journey ahead.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) Any friction you might be feeling is essentially positive. You are being leaned on to deepen your awareness and sensitivity. That’s a good thing, even when uncomfortable for your ego. There’s a dance in your step. Difficult matters are being made a whole lot easier by work already done.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) As long as you remain expansive, you will stay on track. The moment you become too dour or allow yourself to have blinkers placed on your eyes, things can go pear-shaped. Subvert that possibility by keeping your eyes on the overview. Don’t let yourself be bumped off track.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) The waning Moon will pass through early in the week, giving you an emotional boost. The Sun is in Aries. You are happier with the energy and movement this generates. Stasis serves nobody well. Even false movement helps. It can expose those falsities that often remain passive and hidden.
PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) Mercury and Venus remain in Pisces, even though the Sun has moved on into Aries. There is plenty going on in your neck of the woods. Life is teaching important lessons about the nature of love and awareness. Beauty stays perfectly intact when appreciated without being coveted or possessed.
SWEATY youngsters once whacked shuttlecocks over a net as they raced across the jarrah floor of this former church hall in Mt Hawthorn.
The hall was painstakingly renovated in 2009 by a former owner – a philosopher, university lecturer and atheist – who turned it into a capacious home.
Of the 270sqm of living space, 170sqm is devoted to a sweeping open-plan room in this fantastic warehouse-style conversion.
High overhead, steel girders support huge timber panels in the cathedral ceiling, and light pours in through massive glass doors and windows on three sides.
Hanging from the ceiling by chains, a huge day bed (which comes with the property) is a relaxing spot to contemplate this ethereal space.
With a good book and a cup of tea, it would be hard to get up once settled in, and if I’d been there on my own I may have been tempted to stay put.
The crisp-white kitchen doesn’t look as if it’s had much of a work out; the stack of cupboards and drawers, and the white marble on the benchtops and central island, all look pristine.
There’s a choice of alfresco areas with a timber deck off the living area and another beside the front door. Both are sheltered by high walls.
Three bedrooms and a funky second bathroom and laundry form a wing off the side of the hall.
The main bedroom has walk-in-robes and a spacious en suite.
This stand-out Kalgoorlie Street abode would be great for an artist, musician, or perhaps a yoga or pilates teacher working from home.
Or simply move in with the family and enjoy this unique property.
STIRLING deputy mayor David Lagan says his council will listen to Mt Lawley residents if they really hate proposed modifications to a dangerous intersection.
On Saturday Cr Lagan joined mayor Mark Irwin and six of his colleagues at a public meeting organised by residents to protest against the council’s plan to allow only left-hand turns from Second Avenue into Carrington Street (“Taking a turn for the worse,” Voice, March 2, 2019).
Speaking after the occasionally heated meeting of about 80 residents, Cr Lagan said there had been two recent examples in Menora where councillors had stepped in to help residents who were unhappy with traffic calming proposals.
• Stirling mayor Mark Irwin addresses about 80 residents who are angry with the council’s plans to allow only left-hand turns at a dangerous intersection in Mt Lawley, saying the ‘solution’ will only push the traffic problems onto their streets. Photos by Ian Merker
“If the community say ‘we don’t want this’, we will drop it,” Cr Lagan said.
“There are multiple ways that the issue could be addressed, and I’m sure that we will come up with the best option that suits the community.”
Cr Lagan said anger at Saturday’s meeting had been stoked by an anonymous flyer distributed to residents a few days before, which claimed the council’s decision to ban right turns was set in concrete.
• Tempers flared, which one councillor said was fuelled by “misinformation” in an anonymous pamphlet.
“My take on it was that they came down and have been spoon-fed misinformation,” he said of the crowd.
Cr Lagan said the meeting helped to calm the tension, but acknowledges some people were still expressing distrust in the council.
Following the Voice’s initial report (“Taking a turn for the worse,” Voice, March 1, 2019), councillor Elizabeth Re raised a notice of motion at the council’s last meeting calling on the city’s traffic engineers to slow down and do some more consultation.
Residents in the surrounding streets subsequently received a letter from the council asking for their views, with submissions due to close yesterday (Friday, March 23).
Meeting organiser Jan Wilkie says opposition to the current plan is growing quickly, with a couple of hundred people already putting their signature to a petition calling on the council to have a rethink.
The surgeon that heads Royal Perth Hospital’s trauma unit, Dr Sudhakar Rao, is also a First Avenue resident and added his voice to concerns the council’s plans could actually increase the number of traffic accidents in the area.
KIDS at Maylands Peninsula Primary School are having to use their playground in shifts because there’s not enough equipment.
Students number have doubled to 650 since the school opened in 2004 and Federal Labor Perth MP Patrick Gorman says parents told him there’s a weekly roster to use the playground equipment.
Mr Gorman lobbied shadow health and education minister Tanya Plibersek, and while in Perth this week she pledged $30,000 for slides, netting and monkey bars if Labor win the looming federal election.
“Patrick came to me quite some time ago to tell me the school had grown absolutely exponentially in student numbers,” Ms Plibersek said.
“He made a very good case that if we could find a modest amount of funding to help them build, extend and renovate the playground then it would make a really big difference.
• Labor’s candidate for the federal seat of Perth, Patrick Gorman at Maylands Peninsula Primary School, where kids have to queue to play because the school’s grown so much.
She said play benefited “children’s gross motor skills and their health, and teachers talk all the time about how kids benefit in the classroom from having good physical activity outside.
“We now know that so many children are missing out on playtime at home and the physical health effects of that are very serious indeed, so I was very happy to be able to find $30,000 to rebuild the playground for this lovely little school.”
School P&C president Dan West said the “we’re really, really happy [with the announcement] and we look forward to being able to translate that into progress on the ground”.
“Essentially the school has doubled in size since it was originally established, and there hasn’t been any expansion of playground equipment in that time…from a P&C perspective, we thought this just isn’t the standard that we thought our kids deserve.”
Schools in the Perth electorate have been promised $21 million across three years under the Shorten government’s “Fair Go For Schools” plan, with Maylands Peninsula Primary School to receive $780,000.
QUEENSLAND box trees are a safety hazard and have no place in Stirling, says councillor Joe Ferrante.
At Stirling’s last meeting, Cr Ferrante called for staff to investigate Claremont council’s trial removal of the species and he wants his council to consider something similar.
Cr Ferrante says residents should have the right to trim back box trees that encroach from the verge onto their property, saying they’re getting frustrated.
• Cr Joe Ferrante says box trees are a menace.
“I frequently receive complaints about this particular tree; nuts are always on footpaths and it becomes a tripping or slipping hazard,” Cr Ferrante told the Voice.
“I find that it’s a common complaint across the whole of the city of Stirling.
Cr Ferrante wants to replace white-ant infested or dead box trees with blue Jacarandas, including in heritage precincts.
The box tree motion will be voted on at next month’s council meeting.
FEDERAL LABOR has pledged $1.5 million to help save Maylands Waterland if they win the upcoming federal election.
The ageing council-owned facility was set to close at the end of the summer season after the city said it couldn’t afford to pay for essential repairs and upgrades and had been unsuccessful in securing external funding.
• Bayswater mayor Dan Bull, Friends of Maylands Waterland chair Josh Eveson, federal Perth MP Patrick Gorman and shadow finance minister Jim Chalmers.
Federal Perth MP Patrick Gorman dropped by the Clarkson Road facility on Friday (March 15) to meet up with Bayswter mayor Dan Bull, Friends of Maylands Waterland chair Josh Eveson and shadow finance minister Jim Chalmers to announce the pledge.
Mr Gorman said “the future of Maylands Waterland has been a constant point of discussion for our community”.
More than 5500 people signed a FoMW petition to save the Waterland.
The council’s working group, including two members of the FoMW, will now meet to discuss redevelopment options.
FORMER Stirling mayor Terry Tyzack faces having his name scrubbed off signage outside an Inglewood aquatic centre named in his honour.
Stirling councillor Suzanne Migdale has called for individual names to be removed from the external signage and marketing of all Stirling’s leisure centres so they can be branded according to their suburb.
She says the current hodgepodge of names makes it hard to advertise the centres consistently and the city doesn’t get the appropriate plaudits for providing them.
“Appropriate recognition of the people after whom some of the Stirling leisure centres have been named should be applied within the centre, but not part of the external branding or marketing of the centre,” Cr Migdale wrote in a notice of motion to the last full council meeting.
If she’s successful, the renaming would also affect the Herb Graham Recreation Centre in Mirrabooka, named after a former WA deputy premier and housing minister in the Hawke government.
Mr Graham died in 1982, but Mr Tyzack is well and truly alive and kicking.
He declined to comment, but when his name was temporarily detached from the centre during a pre-election stoush in 2009, his daughter Fiona Hogan described it as “offensive and insulting”.
The naming was reinstated a week after the election, but two years ago Mr Tyzack’s legacy faced another pre-election challenge.
He was seeking another term in Inglewood when councillor Stephanie Proud complained that council adverts for the aquatic centre were giving him an unfair advantage.
She wanted a moratorium on councillors’ names appearing in ads until after local government elections, but her motion was voted down.
Cr Migdale didn’t respond to questions. He rebranding motion will be considered at next month’s council meeting.
A BAYSWATER real estate agent unhappy with Bayswater council’s plans to build a toilet at the foot of the Seventh Avenue bridge in Maylands delivered a code-brown protest from a portable loo on Saturday.
Locals have been kicking up a stink over the council’s lack of public consultation since the location was revealed in February.
King William Street-based real estate agent Steve Lay was so angry he lugged a portable toilet down to the site and filmed a video protest last Saturday (March 16)
“A lot of people think [it’s] a shithouse idea,” Mr Lay said in the video.
Interesting location
“I’m sure there’s another spot you could put it, maybe on the Public Transport Authority land closer to the actual train station, rather than putting it out here in an interesting location.”
Mr Lay said the bridge was an entry statement into Maylands and it was not a great look to “put a dunny right there”.
He called on Bayswater staffers to “take a long hard look at yourself…and actually go to the community, and do what you’re supposed to do and get community consultation, and not just whitewash it and shove it through and pretend you’ve done the right thing.”
Mr Lay, who has been credited with turning around the ailing Bayswater bowling club, said: “I think the community is really disappointed with this decision.”
At the Monday, March 18 meeting of the Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association, members voted 14-1 against relocating the bridge’s commemorative sculpture and replacing it with a public toilet.
• Steve Lay delivers a rousing speech on his portable toilet.
There’s no outhouse within 350m of the Maylands train station and locals have been complaining for nearly a decade about people peeing and defecating there.
The council initially wanted to install the toilet at the train station, but the Public Transport Authority repeatedly refused the request, citing concerns about who would maintain the loo and provide security.
But the decision’s already been made, and after enduring three weeks of second guessing over the location Bayswater councillor Catherine Ehrhardt posted a comprehensive explanation on her councillor Facebook page on the weekend.
While on council and previously being a local business owner, she’d worked for years to find a spot for the much-needed public toilet for Maylands’ town centre and exhausted many dead end options.
“The PTA have categorically said no to a public toilet in the old Parcels Office, and no to a public toilet being located anywhere on their land,” she posted on Facebook.
“Yes, Whatley Crescent is not the best location overall, and was no-ones first choice, but it is the best location that is available for use.”
The city-owned verges surrounding the train station have been suggested as a location by locals in the past couple of weeks, but Cr Ehrhardt says they are “not wide enough to house a public toilet, and there is also a gas main line that runs under the verge”.
THOUSANDS of Perth school pupils marched through the streets to demand action on climate change as part of the School Strike 4 Climate last Friday (March 15).
It’s the second time in under six months Australian students have walked out of school to demand action on global warming ahead of the upcoming federal election.
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