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Six new storeys breaks promise
By BEN DICKINSON
A deal between a City Beach retirement village and a developer could see a six-storey apartment complex built on a long-vacant site.
But the plan has rankled people who bought blocks and built houses in Ocean Mia and were promised any development would be no more than four storeys.
“All the people around here
are spewing,” said Ocean Mia resident Frank Yujnovich.
Jarrad Sizer’s firm Bode has applied to build 31 apartments on a site in the Ocean Mia estate after buying it from the neighbouring Ocean Gardens Retirement Village.
The 2501sq.m site in Balandi Way has sat empty since the Ocean Mia estate was subdivided in the mid-2000s.
Ocean Gardens CEO Jacob Hollenberg said the retirement


said the anti-woke campaigner’s presence indicated Mr White had endorsed the Liberal Party’s right-wing shift.
Ms Credlin, a Sky News commentator and former chief of staff to prime minister Tony Abbott, will headline a public event at the Cottesloe Civic
Centre on February 7.
Ms Chaney, who holds the seat by a margin of 1.3%, said Ms Credlin was “an odd choice
“It confirms two things – the Liberal Party has shifted further right under Peter Dutton and the local candidate endorses that shift,” she said.
Ms Credlin’s hard-right views on issues like renewable energy and reconciliation seem at odds with the progressive-leaning Curtin electorate, which was
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village planned to use the proceeds of the Balandi Way sale to knock over eight neighbouring retirement villas and build a four-storey complex with 24 apartments in their place.
“It made sense to sell the vacant site to a developer that has the same values as Ocean Gardens and focus our investment on making our village an even better place to live,” Mr Hollenberg said.
Bode and Ocean Gardens have jointly lodged their plans with the WA Planning Commission, which is advertising them for public feedback.
The Ocean Mia design guidelines, which were given to buyers of freehold lots in the estate, said development on the steeply-sloping Balandi Way site would only be permitted up to 6m above natural ground level.
But in a report to the WAPC, Bode’s planning consultants wrote that the design guidelines were unrealistic.
“The two apartment sites have
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The trip from Murdoch to Nedlands exceeded the state governrnment’s 30 minute estimate.
“People are spewing” over the proposed six-storey complex at Ocean Mia.
By BEN DICKINSON
Peta Credlin
Nedlands Liberal candidate Jonathan Huston and Wembley woman Alex Reid have been speed testing the trips between Perth’s maternity and children’s hospitals.
Dog
ownership without tears, the way forward
I commend the POST for highlighting the escalating issue of dog attacks in our community, particularly with the poignant article (Hero Luke saved mauled Nedlands girl, January 18).
The surge in dog ownership during the pandemic has led to increased presence of adult dogs in our streets, parks and beaches, inevitably raising the likelihood of attacks.
While rottweiler advocates argue that training and socialisation matter more than breed, it’s crucial to acknowledge that larger breeds, especially those bred for hunting, fighting, or guarding, are physically capable of inflicting far more severe injuries than smaller breeds.
Despite best efforts in training, dogs, like humans, can have bad days or react unpredictably due to fear or instinct.
The recent trend of adopting rescue dogs, while admirable, introduces animals that may have traumatic pasts, potentially adding to their unpredictability.
The current requirement for dogs to be “under control” when off-leash is unrealistic, because a dog is only controlled until it chooses not to be.
Rather than implementing a breed-specific ban, which would be slow to take effect and ignore dangerous dogs of other breeds, I propose a comprehensive overhaul of dog ownership regulations. They could include:
• Mandatory education for dog owners on safe ownership practices.

• Compulsory muzzling for potentially dangerous dogs when off-leash.
• Self-closing gates for homes with dogs.
• Clear delineation and signposting of off-leash areas.
• Stricter enforcement and significant penalties for breaches. These measures would mirror how we regulate other potentially dangerous sources of enjoyment, such as cars, swimming pools and firearms. While I don’t wish to curtail the enjoyment of pet ownership, it’s paramount that both dog owners and non-owners, especially children, can freely walk the streets, parks and beaches without fear of attack. David Curtis Granby Crescent, Nedlands
Tiny response to big problem
Just suppose there were an estimated 2000 children in WA starving and likely to die early for a range of different reasons. The public conscience would rightly demand action.
If the government response was to build a single restaurant in the western suburbs at a cost of $34million, and make provision for seven children to live in and receive meals for a week, would that be an ethical or even practical response?
How would decisions be made as to who would be fed and who would have to wait? Who would make those decisions and on what basis?
The children’s hospice now under construction in Allen Park, Swanbourne, offers no answers to a statewide healthcare need. Is it a political vote-winner and a prestigious “trophy” goal
Large holes in battle against borer
It seems the department of primary industry and regional development is now moving from public parks to nature strips to destroy trees infested with polyphagous shot-hole borer (Would you like chips with that? Letters, January 11).
A tree is not “suspected” of being infected – the evidence can be readily confirmed. A resident has every right to demand proof.
If a verge tree is marked for removal, it stands to reason that other trees in the vicinity may also be deemed worth inspecting.
process.
Nor that an infected branch or branches can be cut out to save the tree during the many weeks waiting for the contractor to arrive. All we have been told thus far is that there is no cure other than wholesale removal.
The public must be kept better informed in every aspect of the disease and how they might personally assist towards its speedy eradication.
for the promoters?
Park 6008.
Thoughtful answers on a postage stamp, please because, like my correspondence with the Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation, they will be ignored.
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Unlike treatment for infestation by the citrus gall wasp, there is a conspicuous lack of any systematic or rational plan with regard to eradicating this latest and potentially far more devastating blight.
Now that the beetle has got into private property, where is the compulsory house-to-house check, or the distribution of advisory pamphlets?
Residents are not told how they can detect, correctly identify and report infested trees.
Is this because DPIRD would be unable to deal with the potential scale of it?
They definitely won’t tell you if the wood-chipping process is effective in killing the minute pest, or merely a spreading
The availability of on-line sites is not enough. DPIRD’s failure to find a fix over the past three years is a challenge to householders to try homegrown methods and start up social media exchanges about success and failure.
And if this would be deemed harmful by the department, we should be informed why.
Patsy Millett Bellevue Avenue, Dalkeith
I have followed the POST for more than four decades. We are so fortunate to have this independent community newspaper right on our doorsteps each week.
Travel around our state and to other Australian capital cities and you soon realise this newspaper is a precious gem. There is nothing like it elsewhere. It reliably reports local news and gives a detailed perspective not found in any other news organisation. It helps to inform about goingson while putting the local community front and centre.
How many clubs and events rely on the POST for free coverage?
From diverse research, to choirs, fundraising, exercise and the arts more broadly – you want to contribute, the POST is your go-to. Find that group that fits your requirements. And how many trades have we used through the POST? I have lost count.
Letters to the editor assist in keeping the news cycle rotating and I am sure they receive many more than are printed. Don't ever let this paper disappear, because so many people depend on this free resource. Thank you, everyone who makes this paper. Keep going in 2025. Rebecca Coghlan Bulimba Road, Nedlands
Standing up for Tom
Phil Haberland (Will the real Tom White stand up? Letters, January 11) took umbrage to an ad run in this paper critical of Kate Chaney.








The stakes in Curtin are too high not to be discussing the facts.
Mr Haberland and others cannot shield themselves from genuine policy critique with undergraduate-style bleating. Zachary Krumme McNamara Way, Cottesloe
He did not refute one single claim in the Liberal Party advertisement that supposedly upset him so much. Instead, we were treated to a tired parade of lazy tropes like bullying and misogyny wherever Kate Chaney faced criticism.


Neville Hills Mooro Drive, Mt Claremont

Leak left gushing for more than a week
By BEN DICKINSON
A leaking pipe in Mosman Park gushed tens of thousands of litres of water for eight straight days this month.
Harvey Street resident Tim Carew-Reid said he first noticed water gushing from his building’s mains pit late on January 13 and reported it to Water Corporation the following morning.
Despite water running down the street the problem was not fixed until more than a week later.
“The stock answer I got was: ‘It’s on the list’,” he said.
“It’s such a waste of water.”
Repair crews were unable to fix the leak during business hours because doing so would mean cutting off the water supply to a medical centre in Mr Carew-Reid’s building.
“Later delays were encountered owing to several priority after-hours jobs,” a spokesperson said.
“The leak was largely contained to a pit and assessed not to pose a risk to nearby structures.”
Water that bypassed the car park’s storm drain spilled onto the footpath, turning it into a creek for a stretch of about 70m.
A crew excavated part of the building’s verge to access pipes on Monday night before returning to finish the repairs on Tuesday night.
“We’re all on restrictions, and yet they let this much water flow down the drain,” Mr Carew-Reid said.
The Water Corporation’s spokesperson said the utility worked hard to minimise water loss from leaks and bursts, but repairs were scheduled according to urgency.
“We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank those who reported the leak,” they said.




Activist defends protest
By BEN DICKINSON
A teenage climate activist was inspired by suffragette women who broke the law to win historic voting rights.
Matilda Lane-Rose said she looked to “the argument of the broken pane”, an early 20th Century suffragette tactic of smashing windows as a political protest, when she was arrested outside the City Beach home of Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill.
“I don’t think anyone’s saying ‘I wish the suffragettes were more measured in their approach’,” Ms Lane-Rose told the POST.
“They had tried to go about it in a respectful, fact-based way, but no-one listened.”
One British suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison, was killed by King George V’s horse when she jumped in front of it during the 1913 Epsom Derby.
Women in Britain in 1928 fi the same voting rights as Australian women received in 1902.
Ms Lane-Rose, now 20, was one of four climate activists who pleaded guilty in Perth Magistrates Court this week to downgraded charges of trespass and attempted unlawful damage after being arrested carrying spray cans and padlocks.
They intended to lock a gate to stop Ms O’Neill going to work, and paint messages on her house.
Ms Lane-Rose said she has no regrets about her role in the foiled protest.
“I was always going to undertake it with the knowledge that this was the sort of protest that would attract criminal charges,” she said.
Police were lying in wait on the morning of August 1, 2023, when Ms

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A 70m-stretch of footpath was turned into a river for more than a week.
Climate protesters Matilda-Lane Rose, Joanna Partyka, Tahlia Stolarski, Jesse Noakes, Gerard Mazza, and Emil Davey outside Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

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Holiday high point
Mt Chudalup is a monadnock, a billion-year-old granite hill sitting on a flat plain.
The stately hill is 187m high and towers over the Chudalup wetlands in D’Entrecasteaux National Park, about 10km north of the appropriately named Windy Harbour on WA’s south coast.
West Leederville plant enthusiast Janine Cullen has long wanted to climb the imposing hill and used a trip to Windy Harbour to examine the varied vegetation that flourishes in the rock’s vicinity.
“The granite breaks down over millions of years and helps form the specialised soil that is essential for the karri trees that surround it,” Janine said.
“It was fascinating to be present for the process, even if it is happening so slowly that you would never notice the difference in your lifetime … or even 100 lifetimes.”
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Cat death costs $6,000
A captured cat named Jamison that died after being locked in an Esky for 10 hours resulted in a $4000 fine for a Floreat man this week.
The 38-year-old pleaded guilty in the Perth Magistrates Court to dealing with the cat in a manner that caused it unnecessary harm.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Woods said that cat was in the Esky for 10 hours and “had no chance of surviving.
“The reality is it was a long, slow painful death for the cat,” she said.
“It is beyond comprehension that to believe that a person could confine a cat in an Esky for so long and expect it to still be alive ten hours later.”
She said the cat was vulnerable and had no doubt suffered a lot
of pain and distress.
She ordered the man to also pay $2,189 costs, and granted him a spent conviction.
The man said that he had thought the cat was feral, and had removed the Esky’s bung to allow it to breath.
When he opened the Esky and found the cat dead, he had called the Nedlands ranger, who scanned Jamison’s microchip and located the owner.
An RSPCAWA vet said the cat likely died from hypoxia and hypercapnia, made worse by increased humidity and water vapour. Stress would have increased its metabolism and heat and carbon dioxide production.
The maximum penalty is $50,000 fine and five years in jail.
New footpath poem needed after tree trim
THE listening
Artist Trish Stedman used a colourful footpath poem last year to warn Shenton Park pedestrians about a low-hanging branch in Herbert Road (Footpath warning branches out, Listening POST, April 27).
That rhyme is now obsolete after the offending branch was cut off recently. The poem is still in place, but perhaps needs an amendment. Any ideas?
RIGHT: The Herbert Road verge tree has been trimmed.



Councils go it alone on Australia day
The three councils on the Cottesloe peninsula are going it alone for their citizenship ceremonies this year, splitting from their joint Australia Day ceremony for the first time in many years.
Peppermint Grove has voted to establish a new community event in October, the month it became a Roads Board in 1895.
A joint ceremony rotating between Peppermint Grove, Cottesloe and Mosman Park was held on Australia Day in previous years.
Cottesloe and Subiaco are the only local councils that will hold citizenship and award ceremonies on Australia Day itself.
Mosman Park will host its event a day earlier, at 10am on Saturday at its council chambers at 1 Memorial Drive.
Claremont will host its ceremony at council chambers at 6pm on Wednesday.
Subiaco’s ceremony will be held at 7.15am at Rankin Gardens on Rokeby Road.
Cottesloe will hold its Australia Day ceremony on Sunday in the War Memorial Hall, Cottesloe Civic Centre, beginning at 10am.
Five citizenship awards will be presented, and Paul Litherland, the 2022 WA Australian of the Year, will deliver the Australia Day ambassador address. Peppermint Grove’s first standalone community event, targeted at Shire residents, will be on October 26, when new citizens will be welcomed, and citizenship awards presented.
The October events will be held every second year, coinciding with the council election schedule.
Cambridge and Nedlands held citizenship ceremonies on Thursday this week.


POSTie Janine Cullen and her children Scarlett and Iris take in the view from the top of Mt Chudalup.
Sneak sports turfed off Rosalie Park
By LLOYD GORMAN

A regular Sunday evening game of touch rugby at heavily-used Rosalie Park has been given the boot by Subiaco council.
Signs have been erected at the Shenton Park facility to warn against unauthorised sport and that no more official bookings would be taken.
Soccer, lacrosse, football, cricket and touch rugby clubs are part of a formal users group that has an agreement with Subiaco outlining the terms and times of their access to the area.
There has been such demand on Rosalie Park in recent years that children were turned away from joining these sports clubs (Kids squeezed out of junior sport, POST, July 27 2019).
But another bunch of sports fans have been playing a game of cat and mouse with the council.
“At least one group that I am aware of have been going there for quite a few years to play touch rugby late every Sunday, when there are no rangers or grounds people around,” a Shenton Park resident told the POST.
“They’re well organised and clearly old enough to pay fees.”
Fire strikes site twice
The resident confronted the players about their presence but had no impact.
Another figure linked with formal sport at the park confirmed a group had been using the area for touch rugby on Sundays.
“It’s one thing for people to come down to the park and walk around it with their dog but it’s another when you’ve got a gang organising to play on the grass without permission or paying anything and potentially causing damage to the turf,” he said.

Secret social flats for Subi
By LLOYD GORMAN
A new social and affordable housing complex is coming to Subiaco – but the location will be kept secret until next week.
Housing minister John Carey and his federal counterpart Clare O’Neil this week announced the build-to-rent project on government-owned land.
They would not reveal the location of the 13 units but the DevelopmentWA website listed Hay Street as the location.
The POST has learned the former Princess Margaret Hospital site has been ruled out as the location, and the only other government-owned land controlled by DWA is at the
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“It makes it hard for the City to manage the grounds properly and it’s unfair to the other park
A suspected arson attack scorched a stand of trees outside the derelict
OneSteel site in Mosman Park on Sunday night.
A second grass fire broke out at the other end of the same building on Thursday afternoon.
Firefighters were called to McCabe Street around 9pm on Sunday as smoke billowed onto Stirling Highway.
“There were flames on the McCabe Street side and the Stirling Highway side,” said a Mosman Park woman who drove past the scene.
“It was big.
“I thought: ‘I want to get out of here’.”
Crews from Fremantle and Cockburn fire stations took 15 minutes to extinguish the blaze.
A department of fire and emergency services spokesman said the fire started at
users. They were right to put up the signs.”
Rosalie Park is Subiaco’s main outdoor sport facility with the City regularly replacing worn turf.
The POST was told the signs were erected in response to organised sporting groups –outside the formal users group –using the park without approval.
An independent turf consultant examined Rosalie Park and assessed it as over-capacity.

Enquiries have declined since the signs went up.

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“The cause of the fire has been deemed deliberate,” they said.
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Firefighters made short work of this McCabe Street blaze. Photo: Paul McGovern LEFT: The Sunday night fire soon after it started. Photo: Louisa Wales
Cottesloe skills saved kids
By BONNIE CHRISTIAN
Margot Horgan’s life was shaped by her love of swimming at Cottesloe beach.
She lived on nearby John Street, her husband was a member of the local surf club, and it is where she learnt the water safety skills that she would eventually teach in South-East Asia, while helping disadvantaged people alongside actress Angelina Jolie.
Those years were captured in stunning photos from the 1940s and 50s that are now on display at The Grove Library in Peppermint Grove.
Sun-smart? Not a bit of it
“After I retired, I went to help out in a Thai refugee camp that was caught up in the civil war involving Khmer Rouge,” Margot, 96, said.
“There were many reservoirs, some of them very deep and many children were drowning because they did not know how to swim.
“So, I went to the UN and asked if I could set up a lifeguard program there.
“The drownings went down from 30 or 40 a year to about three or four.
“Eventually, there was a lifeguard tower at every reservoir with a trained lifeguard, just like the ones at Cottesloe.”
When the camp closed Margot went to Cambodia where she worked in prisons.
“There were many people affected by land mines and terrible injuries,” she said.
“Angelina Jolie became a friend of mine, and we worked together to help these people.
“Ange donated money to allow this marginalised group

to build homes and businesses for themselves.
“It made a huge difference to how the community at large accepted those disfigured community members.”
Margot’s reflections on her earlier years were spurred by one of her four sons, Tim, a photographer who started sifting through her old photos.
They capture a life spent at Cottesloe beach, taking part in surf lifesaving club competitions in front of huge crowds and socialising on her time off, her best friend Audrey Archibald a regular fixture.
She was considering a move to Sydney at one point but told her mum she did not want to



Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club Reel and Rescue competition in 1946. The crowd looks on 1946. from the limestone terraces as Margot Horgan runs out as Margot Horgan the front with a waist belt on, pulling the reel rope.
leave Cottesloe.
Her mum’s advice was that she could always return if she did not like it.
“I was back within six months,” Margot said.
In summer, she and her friends would go to weekly open-air dances above the bathing pavilion.
“We were 17 and 18 and you couldn’t drink until you were 21 in those days so not much grog around then,” she said.
“But the boys would bury their drinks in the sand at the beach and go out at half-time for a drink.

“None of the girls drank then.”
Ms Horgan did become “one of the boys” during her time at




She was 23 when she married Bruce after meeting him at a dance at St Philips Hall in Cottesloe. Margot still swims, but now it’s laps in her local pool in Falcon,
“Most of my mates have passed away now, but then I was able to reconnect with all my friends from those early years and we used to swim together every Sunday down at Cottesloe,” she said.
“The beach was the place I would always run into people and catch up with the people I knew, and it was always fun.”
The exhibition is running until February 2 at the Grove Library Main Hall.









TOP: Margot and her best friend Audrey Archibald beneath the Centenary Pavilion in the 1940s.
LEFT: Actress and activist Angelina Jolie with Margot in Cambodia where they were helping prisoners.
‘Labor needs to lift’
By LLOYD GORMAN
Six lifts were promised by the McGowan government as part of the redeveloped Claremont train station but never materialised, the Liberal Party says.
Sandra Brewer, the Liberal candidate for Cottesloe, has raised the lack of lifts at the station as a potential issue in the March 8 state election.
Ms Brewer said the issue hit home for her when transport minister Rita Saffioti and premier Roger Cook launched Labor’s election run with a $107million pledge to expand the ferry service on the Swan River, including a new terminal at Matilda Bay (Ferry scheme launches campaign, POST, January 11).
“At one point six lifts were promised to enable easy accessibility to the platform, and that hasn’t been delivered as the project’s been completed,” she said.
“For parents with prams, elderly people with mobility issues and people with disabilities it represents a big barrier.
“Our community should expect that people will have easier and more accessible access to this station, a really important station on the Fremantle line.”
Liberal leader Libby Mettam, who joined her this month, talked up infrastructure projects but stopped short of making a commitment to build the lifts if her party won government.
“This is something our local candi-

date has raised as an issue and that is something we will be considering,”
Ms Mettam said.
“It’s about a government not delivering on what they have promised.
People in wheelchairs or wheeling trolleys have to travel twice the length of the station to get to a bus or shops.
Labor had set out with a $3billion budget for Metronet but had blown this out to more than $13billion.
The Public Transport Authority said
it was not to blame for the lifts not being delivered.
The overpass was not supported by the Town or the State Design Review Panel.”
At a public forum in Claremont in 2018 a DAX PTA said: “Yes. The proposed overpass will have six lifts in total, two lifts on either side of the tracks and two lifts going from the overpass to the station platform. These lifts are in addition to stairs.”
Free showers back on the road
By BEN DICKINSON
A mobile shower service that lost its only truck is back on the road after a $40,000 donation from Nedlands Rotary Club members.
The Brollie Brigade, which has provided free showers and haircuts for those in need since 2018, was forced to scale down its service last year after the old truck it used was requisitioned by its east coast owners.
“They yanked it out of Perth at almost no notice,” said Jim Mellor, chairman of the brigade’s parent organisation, Umbrellas and Footprints.

The old truck was replaced by a trailer carrying just one shower, halving the group’s capacity while Perth’s rental crisis worsened.
“There’s an awful lot of people out there struggling to get a secure roof over their head,” Mr Mellor said.
“We get pensioners who are trying to work out how to make their pension last the week, who don’t have hot water, and they come and see us.”
When the brigade found a replacement truck – owned by a laundry char-
ity in Brisbane – members of Nedlands Rotary Club raised the funds to buy it, ship it to Perth and refit it.
“We saw it as a great opportunity for a community service project,” said club president David Taylor.
Other groups and businesses chipped in funds and heavily discounted services to help get the truck on the road late last year. It is fitted out with two showers,

solar power, heating, floodlights, and a hair salon.
“It made a critical difference to us at a critical time,” Mr Mellor said.
Brollie Brigade volunteers had noticed big changes in the demographics of people who find themselves on the street, or in precarious living situations, as cost-of-living pressures have ramped up.
“Pre-pandemic more than half [of shower users] were rough sleepers,” Mr Mellor said.
“We’re getting many more people now who, for a variety of reasons, just don’t have the means to get by.”
About 70 people showered in the truck in December, and 30 received haircuts.
Mr Mellor said the new truck was able to go to more places than its predecessor, thanks to solar panels, lithium batteries, and a greywater collection system.
“We can go where the need arises and have even been able to provide hygiene triage for car sleepers,” he said.
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NOISE MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR SPECIFIED WORKS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (NOISE) REGULATIONS 1997 REGULATION 14A (8)
The Chief Executive Officer of the City of Subiaco proposes to approve a Noise Management Plan for specified works (waste collection and cleaning of roads, footpaths and public places) within the City. The purpose and effect of this Noise Management Plan is to describe how the noise impact from waste collection and roads, footpaths and public places cleaning activities carried out by the City of Subiaco will be managed and minimised.
A copy of the proposed Noise Management Plan may be inspected at or obtained from the City’s Customer Service & Council Chambers at Level 2, 388 Hay St Subiaco during office hours Monday –Friday 9:00am – 4:30pm.
Any comments regarding the proposal should be submitted in writing by 21st February 2025.
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Lifts left out … Libby Mettam, left, and Sandra Brewer with frustrated station users Brian Thompson and Gabrielle and Michael Mulholland. Photo: Paul McGovern
The Brollie Brigade replacement shower truck provides a vital service for people in need.
New



raingardens deliver a sustainable approach to greening

In response to increasingly hotter and drier climate conditions, the City has embraced an innovative solution to safeguarding its leafy charm into the future.
The recently completed raingardens on Duke Street are designed to make better use of stormwater in the area, diverting it from the drainage systems into the ground.
The innovative approach to greening has many benefits. Not only is it more water efficient, but the trees act as a filtration system, preventing pollutants from entering our waterways.

A quick monthly update from Mayor David McMullen
Another year is underway, with plenty of Council projects to go on with.
A snapshot: Finalise our new Council Plan (10 year strategic planning document); complete the architectural tender for the civic precinct redevelopment; progress our national-first City-wide ‘Subi Streets’ project; go live on the next phase of the organisation’s digital transformation; design and deliver the new Rupert Street pocket park; and formally consider a reduction to 40km/hr on local residential roads (such as this one, pictured).
There’s more, but this is only a short column! Here’s to 2025.
The native trees and plants in the raingardens will remove excess nitrogen and phosphorus from water run-off, which can cause dangerous algal blooms.
Mayor David McMullen said the new raingardens are part of the City’s plan to deliver urban greening while managing water in a more sustainable way.
“The new raingardens will increase the tree canopy on Duke Street, which was reduced by recent developments,” he said. “They are part of the City’s ongoing work to deliver a greener environment for our community through a number of ongoing sustainability initiatives.”
Call for EOI – Heritage Reference Group
The City is inviting expressions of interest from community members who live in or own property in the City’s Shenton Park Precinct to be part of a reference group that will guide the review of the Local Heritage Survey for the Precinct.
The Shenton Park Precinct is the area bounded by Railway Road, Nicholson Road, Thomas Street and Aberdare Road.
Expressions of Interest are open now and close at 5pm on Monday 10 February 2025.
For further information and to submit your nomination go to www.haveyoursay.subiaco. wa.gov.au or visit the City’s Administration Centre, Level 2, 388 Hay Street Subiaco during office hours.
New artist in residence
Dana Garlett has been announced as Subiaco Museum’s newest artist in residence as part of its Community Artist Series.
Dana is a Whadjuk, Nyikina, Minang, Ballardong woman who founded ‘Paperbark Prints’, and last year, she was selected to create the artwork for the City of Subiaco’s Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan.
Bus shelter replacement program
The City has removed some old bus shelters and is installing new ones. There is no disruption to bus services, however some stops may be without shelter during this transition. Due to some delays, the new shelters are due to be replaced in early 2025.
New park a step closer
The demolition of the Subiaco Community Centre has now commenced to make way for a future pocket park.
The lemon-scented gum tree on the site, which was added to the City’s Significant Tree Register in 2023, will be preserved throughout the demolition and the new park’s development.
The design of the park will be informed by community consultation which was untaken in December 2024. Consultation found the community wants a quiet space with shade, natural vegetation and seating.
Once the building has been demolished, the site will be mulched to ensure it remains tidy whilst plans for the park design are underway.
Grants support inclusion and connection
In its latest round of Community Development Grants, the City awarded $15,000 to four community-focussed organisations aimed at promoting and supporting social connection, mental health, inclusivity and creativity through theatre and music.
These include Barking Gecko Theatre’s Ticketing Access Program which enables disadvantaged and vulnerable children to access arts experiences; and concerts by Catch Music Inc that highlight contributions from people with disabilities, mental illness and disadvantaged backgrounds as performers and songwriters.
To find out more about these grants, awards or how you can apply for a Community Development Grant, visit the City’s website.

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Proposal to include 17 places on the Heritage List
The City of Subiaco is inviting public comment on the proposal to include 17 places identified as being of either exceptional (level 1) or considerable (level 2) significance on the Heritage List under Local Planning Scheme No. 5.
For more information on the proposal visit www. haveyoursay.subiaco.wa.gov.au or visit the City’s Administration Centre, Level 2, 388 Hay Street, Subiaco during office hours.
Any comments with respect to the proposal should be submitted in writing through the online submission form on the City’s website, via email to city@subiaco.wa.gov.au or by letter addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, City of Subiaco, PO Box 270, Subiaco WA 6904.
Submissions should clearly indicate the name and address of the person making the submission and the proposal to which the submission relates.
Submissions need to be received by 5pm Monday 24 February 2025.
Proposal to amend the level of significance of 260-262 Churchill Avenue, Subiaco on the Local Heritage Survey
The City of Subiaco is inviting public comment on the proposal to amend the level of significance of 260-262 Churchill Avenue, Subiaco from General (Level 2) to Some Significance (Level 3) on the Local Heritage Survey (LHS).
The LHS is an information resource that identifies places in the local district that are, or may become, of cultural heritage significance.
For more information on the proposal visit www. haveyoursay.subiaco.wa.gov.au or visit the City’s Administration Centre (Level 2, 388 Hay Street Subiaco) during office hours.
Any comments with respect to the proposal should be submitted in writing through the online submission form on the City’s website, via email to city@subiaco.wa.gov.au or by letter addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, City of Subiaco, PO Box 270, Subiaco WA 6904.
Submissions need to be received by 5pm Monday 24 February 2025.
Secrecy fight spark cash hunt
By BRET CHRISTIAN
A group of councillors have appealed for money to fight a decision to keep secret financial and other details of people appointed to about 30 government panels.
Attempts to use freedom of information laws to discover the details, including how much
each person is paid, have been torpedoed.
The group hopes to get this decision overturned in the Supreme Court after a senior lawyer advised of three grounds for a successful appeal.
WA information commissioner Catherine Fletcher ruled just before Christmas that the WA Local Government Association, which submits
lists of candidates from which the government selects appointees, does not have to release the details.
“It’s the thin end of the wedge,” said former Cottesloe councillor Sandra Boulter, chair of the Local Government Elected Members Association.
“The Freedom of Information Act is a fundamental tenet of our democracy.
Perry Lakes under the pump
By JEN REWELL
A near-new Perry Lakes pump that failed at the beginning of summer has risked a $3million project to restore historic water levels.
Local Trish McGarry said that Perry Lakes had dried up far earlier than it should.
“These lakes naturally go dry but it’s not usually until March or April,” she said.
“The west lake is almost gone and there is no water coming from the Perry Lakes drain.”
Cambridge council announced the Perry Lakes Replenishment Project in February 2023, which aimed to redirect storm water to the wetlands.
Excess fresh water spills into the ocean at Floreat unless it is redirected.
A council spokesperson said an investigation revealed a pump based at Newman College had stopped working before Christmas.

The pump would be repaired as soon as possible, the spokesperson said.
Ms McGarry was dismayed that the lack of water meant the hard work of bush care volunteers was going to waste.
“Volunteers have been watering plants because they’ve been dying,” she said.
She said volunteers should get more help from the council given the countless hours provided by bush care groups were an invaluable resource for local government.
Ms McGarry often pulls up scotch thistles and has a keen eye for deadly nightshade seedlings.
“Without it working as it should there can be no informed activism.
“We can’t make decisions or representations for change unless we have the information from public bodies.”
Ms Fletcher ruled that WALGA, which refused to supply what it called personal information, was not an agency covered by WA’s freedom of information laws.
“The Queensland Supreme Court has said this is a sort of organisation that should be releasing its records for community access,” Ms Boulter said.
“We want to appeal the decision to our Supreme Court, but we need the money to do so.”
The organisation has set up a GoFundMe page to find at least $70,000 for legal costs.
It had sought details of the people WALGA has nominated to about 30 government boards, committees, panels and other organisations, how much they are paid, and minutes of the WALGA meetings that appointed them.
“An incredibly important principle is at stake here,” Ms Boulter said.
“Records relating to the accountability for the expenditure of public monies and exercise of a statutory appointment power must be public record as a fundamental tenet of government accountability.”
Ms Fletcher confirmed as much in a contribution to a UWA policy agenda publication, Going Further Faster.

“High levels of government transparency equip citizens to take part in informed debate and, ultimately make an informed choice at the ballot box,” she wrote.
However, her ruling meant she did not have to make a decision on the merits of Ms Boulter’s organisation’s requests.
She noted that in the Queensland case the Supreme Court found that a body similar to WALGA did have public purposes in circumstances that were broadly similar.
“However … that decision is not binding on me as it is from a different jurisdiction,” she said.
“WALGA is better described as an advocacy body for local government with some statutory conferred functions consistent with its role.
“I find that WALGA is not an agency as defined in the glossary to the FOI Act. As a result, the complainant has no right of access to the requested documents under the FOI Act.”
The GoFundMe page is gofundme.com/f/stand-up-againstlocal-government-and-walgasecrecy.



Catherine Fletcher
Perry-less waters … Trish McGarry stands on dry land at Perry Lakes.
Photo: Paul McGovern






















Drug saviour seeks new addict approach
By BRET CHRISTIAN
Subiaco doctor George O’Neil has launched a political campaign to try to change Labor government policies on the treatment of drug addicts.
“Vote No to Labor’s current drug treatment policy,” he said this week.
“Ask your politician ‘Will he or she do better?’”
Dr O’Neil said premier Roger Cook had led him to believe the government would assist in his
world-recognised Fresh Start program with addicts.
He and his helpers at Fresh Start have administered 15,000 doses of slow-release drug naltrexone, which blocks the effects of heroin as well as the detox drug methadone and other opioid drugs.
He said Mr Cook had undertaken to assist his work after telling the premier that a fund shortage meant Fresh Start was unable to treat the flood of addicts seeking treatment.
Dr O’Neil said he had been
personally subsidising the medication, costing $5000 per treatment, for decades.
He has been able to do that because of worldwide royalties from sales of a vacuum cup and catheter still widely used after he invented them 45 years ago.
Doctors in the US had adopted his naltrexone treatment techniques, but there it cost $A36,000 a treatment.
“Labor pays up to $5000 per patient per year for heroin addicts staying on opioids [methadone],” he said.


George O’NeilRoger Cook
“They will pay zero for medication for those ceasing opioids by using naltrexone.
“There is no defence to the state and federal Labor policy.
“We request at the very least
$1m cost for every 200 patients put on long-acting naltrexone.
“In the US the cost would be $A7m per 200 patients cared for on medication cost alone.
“Giving the WA government such a good deal is just not respected by Roger Cook or his ministers.
“Just passing these issues on to a chief of staff is not fair or reasonable.”
A state government spokesperson said Dr O’Neil has met with the health minister’s chief
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Shark no match for Marko

Cambridge Notice



HOW IMPORTANT ARE YOUR EYES?

Clare Rossiter BCom, MBA, CA, FFin
AUS based optometrist regularly asked her patients “How often do you see your dentist?” The response is often twice a year, or at least once a year. If you lost a tooth, what would be the impact on your life? Some inconvenience, undoubtedly, but there are options for reconstruction and or repair. Now compare this to going blind in one eye? Less options and significantly greater impact on a person’s life. Yet, we tend to prioritise a visit to a dentist over and above a visit to an optometrist. Why are our teeth more important than our eyes? Why do we believe that if we can see perfectly well, or believe that we are seeing perfectly well, that there are no issues of concern?
2017–18 National Health Survey. Common eye conditions that cause vision loss include cataracts, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy (damage to the retina from diabetes). Not all eye conditions are related to age. The ABS survey also identified that 12% of children aged 0-14 years reported chronic eye conditions. This is only likely to increase given the amount of time now spent indoors and using screen based devices.
In research conducted by Optometry Australia and reported in their 2022 Vision Index Report, they found that “while three in four Australians value vision as their most important sense, eye health issues have increased at a rate of concern to Optometry Australia.”
Often, the health of our eyes is undervalued
Whilst the recommendation is to have your eyes tested every two years, their research found that “13% of survey respondents had never had an eye examination with an optometrist, 29% have neglected an assessment as they believe their vision is perfect, 28% because they believe it is too expensive and 15% because they are afraid of the results”.
By JANE WISHAW
When fearless Cottesloe beach veteran Marko Knezevic was told he had been swimming with a fenced-in shark, he was unfazed. A large crowd had gathered along the Cottesloe groyne shouting “Shark!, Shark!” and waving their arms trying to get his attention.
But Marko, a retired builder, happily kept to his daily ritual of swimming the length of the groyne, close to the same spot where the wounded shark escaped from a spearfisherman.
“I never knew there was a shark there,” he said later.
Lifeguards rushed down, blowing their whistles, but Marko, wearing his bathing cap, stroked on.
He finally left the water with one of the lifeguards, much to everyone’s relief.
Often, the health of our eyes is undervalued. If we change the purpose of our visit to the local optometrist to be about the health of our eyes rather than the purchase of a pair of spectacles, or prescription sunglasses, it is likely to reap benefits in our lives.
In Australia, over 13 million people have one or more chronic (long-term) eye conditions, according to self-reported data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics
The low attendance, or infrequent attendance, to check eye health is a cause for concern. Over 90% of vision loss is considered avoidable or treatable with early detection. Hence, we believe that the health of your eyes is important and something that should be regularly monitored. Please make the health of your eyes a priority!

“I finally saw people waving their arms around at me,” he said. “No shark’s going to stop me having my daily swim.”
With a big smile he added: “Next week I’m turning 96, so it’s all good.”
The 2.5m bronze whaler shark became trapped inside the Cottesloe shark barrier for more than 36 hours (Shark speared inside Cott barrier, POST, January 11).
Wounded, it eventually escaped into the open sea after contractors opened four sections of the barrier.


The survey identified:







NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INCLUDE PLACES IN TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE HERITAGE LIST AND LOCAL HERITAGE SURVEY
At its meeting held on 26 November 2024, Council considered a report on the outcomes of a heritage survey undertaken in the West Leederville Activity Centre.
• 240-242 Railway Parade, West Leederville;
• 246-250 Railway Parade, West Leederville;
• 2 Rosslyn Street, West Leederville;
• 4 Rosslyn Street, West Leederville;
• 5-7 Rosslyn Street, West Leederville;
• 9-11 Rosslyn Street, West Leederville;
• 10 Northwood Street, West Leederville;
• 18-20 Northwood Street, West Leederville; and
• 19 Northwood Street, West Leederville as having heritage values that warrant inclusion on the Town’s Heritage List and Survey.
In accordance with the Town of Cambridge Local Planning Policy 1.5 Amending the Local Heritage Survey, Heritage List and Heritage Areas the public are invited to comment on the proposed place records and provide information which may improve the accuracy of the heritage place record. A copy of the place records for these properties can be found on the Town’s website under Current Planning & Development Projects. Submissions close on 17 February 2025 and can be made to: mail@cambridge.wa.gov.au PO Box 15 Floreat, WA 6014
For further information please contact the Town’s Strategic Planning team via email to mail@cambridge.wa.gov.au, telephone (08) 9347 6000, or visit the Town of Cambridge Administration Office at 1 Bold Park Drive, Floreat, during business hours.
KELTON HINCKS ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER









People on the Cottesloe groyne wave and shout warning to Marko, oblivious in his bathing cap, as a shark circles inside the enclosure. Photo: Jane Wishaw.
Marko Knezevic
Reflections on a favourite lake
Lake Jualbup in Shenton Park is rarely undisturbed by wind. Good reflections are rare, maybe a few times a year. Perfect reflections are even rarer. But this example occurred on Friday last week, January 17.
There was not the slightest breath of wind anywhere.
The entire lake was totally still. It was magic.
Geoffrey Dean Nicholson Road, Subiaco

Cruelty to children under Dutton’s watch
Curtin Liberal candidate Tom White’s campaign ad in last week’s POST bears a QR code pointing to “the Liberal team’s plan to get Australia back on track”.
That includes a page in “Our Team” painting Liberal leader Peter Dutton in a most positive light, with his background, political climb, lovely photos of him with his mum and his family, and his political achievements including “ensuring all children were removed from detention”.
It is true that freeing children from detention occurred while Mr Dutton was immigration minister, but only after a long and determined public campaign. Removal happened in spite of Dutton/Morrison opposition.
Perhaps Tom is not familiar with the Biloela family story:
Father Nades lived and worked in the Queensland town of Biloela from 2013, married there and had two children. They were happily settled in
Biloela until one night in 2018 they were ripped from their beds and flown to Melbourne detention, where they stayed for 17 months, then transferred to Christmas Island detention centre.
Barnaby Joyce, Julie Bishop and Alan Jones spoke up for them, but not Peter Dutton. They were returned to Biloela after the 2022 election.
In the UK at the time it was illegal to detain children for more than 72 hours; there were children in detention on Nauru for years. Under Dutton’s watch. Hundreds of refugee children really suffered on Nauru; they witnessed suicides, immolation, lip-stitching.
In 2016 Four Corners did a revealing program The Forgotten Children, which shocked the public, and got publicity. But NO action from immigration minister Dutton.
Doctors and teachers spoke up against the cruelty and were
threatened with two years jail if they went public.
It was only the very public Kids Off Nauru campaign that got them off in late 2018, into community detention in Australia. Credit is due to MPs Kerryn Phelps, Andrew Wilkie and other decent parliamentarians, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Amnesty, and many advocacy groups including Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children (est.2014).
I like it that Tom White’s material is pretty much free of the negativity and vitriol of some political promotions, but this is a claim too far.
In parliament Peter Dutton consistently voted to keep children in detention. It was people power that forced the release of children from detention, both onshore and offshore.
Betty McGeever George Street, Cottesloe (member, Grandmothers for Refugees)
Earthwise vital for community
I volunteer at Earthwise in the garden busy bee on Friday mornings. I have a background in horticulture, was looking to share and learn more about permaculture and since its main principle is connection to community, I felt the need to join one. The moment I walked into this space, it had a profound effect on me. The peaceful beautiful gardens are a respite and an oasis in the middle of suburban Subiaco.
Then there are the wonderful social aspects of this community. I felt right at home straight away, the people always help me with any questions I have.
I also found the group gettogether for lunch a beautiful space to discuss what we had been doing that day which really brings a strong connection within this community.
I have been involved in community groups before but I have
never found one that works so hard to practise what they preach, especially organiser Peg Davies who is very passionate about her role as a mentor and educator.
The gardens are set up as an educational space promoting the principles of permaculture, are accessible to everyone and display the vital aspects of the service which is to promote sustainablity, community and organic gardening, and very importantly to educate people so they take responsibility for their environment.
Losing the unique and special service that only Earthwise provides in Perth would be detrimental to the social and environmental needs not just of its members but of the wider community as a whole.
Pauline Roberts Colin Road, Scarborough
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100m SEAWALL to be built on Smiths Beach!-EPA
In August 2024 the EPA revealed that the developer of Smiths Beach is proposing a concrete and rock armored seawall on the sandy beach that was not detailed in their planning application. This seawall is proposed at an astonishing 2900m2 in area, it will be over 100m long, 22m wide and 5m in height.
The developer has provided NO design details, No erosion modeling has been completed, NO longterm assessments undertaken, NO sand movement modeling carried out, yet the EPA is to somehow decide if it can be approved.
Independent advice provided to the Smiths Beach Action Group the beach and provide “no effective protection to public assets”.
Regardless of your opinion of the development or the developer, do YOU think that in 2025 we should be concreting 2900m2 of fragile coastal beach environment so that a development can extend their development size 44% over the approved area?
Are YOU concerned? If so get your submissions into the EPA by the 10th February, 2025. Go to www.savesmithsbeach.org/epa
The view of the development if it proceeds as proposed




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Worldwide investing in renewables
Proponents of nuclear energy argue that Australia is looking isolated in not adopting nuclear, citing 31 other countries that have agreed to triple global nuclear power by 2050.
In using this argument to help justify why Australia should adopt nuclear, they fail to mention that at COP28 and very recently at COP29 almost 120 countries, including Australia, pledged to triple global renewable energy by 2030.
This is a much more significant pledge to be achieved 20 years earlier.
The 2050 nuclear pledge by only 31 countries is too little too late to deal with the climate crisis in a timely manner.
The strong global focus on renewables is evidenced by global renewable energy investments reaching $US771billion in 2024, compared with the $US80billion spent on nuclear energy and other clean power technologies.
These figures are from the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest report: “World Energy Investment 2024”.
Craig
Carter Bulimba Road, Nedlands


YouTube video “These stupid trucks are literally killing us” discusses the need for reduced speed limits on urban roads.
Get to grips with disappearing groundwater
According to reports in the POST ( Who saved the lake? January 18) Labor and Liberal politicians have lined up to take credit for returning water to Jackadder Lake in Woodlands.
But policies of successive Labor and Liberal governments contributed to the falls in groundwater levels that are harming our natural lakes in the first place.
This includes Jualbup in my electorate of Nedlands (Botulism battle starts at Jualbup, POST,
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After 18 years of work by successive WA governments, the Cook government dropped water reform bills that would have returned water to the environment. No explanation was given other than ‘stakeholder feedback’. The Liberals and Nationals have not committed to reintroducing these reforms if elected.
Households and the community are making sacrifices to protect our precious groundwater. However, I’m not confident the government is ensuring that industry is making similar sacrifices – or even paying a reasonable amount for the water they extract from the ground. Many of us were appalled to learn that soft-drink bottlers
were potentially extracting hundreds of thousands of litres of groundwater a week – for free! – to bottle and sell for a profit.
To be clear, this isn’t illegal, but we don’t know how much water has been extracted, or will be in the future, because this is commercial-in-confidence.
There needs to be a better balance between business and the environment in WA.
If elected, I will advocate for better monitoring and protection of WA’s groundwater.
Let’s send a message to the major parties on March 8 that we will no longer tolerate mismanagement of our precious resources.
Rosemarie de Vries Daglish independent candidate for Nedlands
Slow down and save lives
Worldwide research provides ample evidence that urban areas should have a maximum speed of 50kmh and residential areas only 30kmh. There is a general perception that car drivers are entitled to own the streets, which belong to everyone.
People need to feel safe to participate in traffic.
The higher the speed the more deadly the impact if a vehicle hits a pedestrian.
In WA with the large number of 4WDs and SUVs, lower speeds are even more important (Subi makes haste to cut speed, POST, January 18).
The attached image shows how many kids can sit in front of a typical SUV without being seen by the driver.
As humans we make mistakes in traffic. It is up to governments to make sure that any impact of these errors on our street are minimal.
Street design should show that duty of care, which means at least have lower speeds limits.
It is likely to mean that WA’s traffic engineers need to be brought into the 21st Century, but lowering speed limits would be a good start.
Road, Floreat
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Humphrey Boogaerdt Sunnyside

Size matters in urban bird
wars
I read that some cockatoos “can damage roost trees with (their) excessive pruning”.
Well, over the road from me in Rochdale Road there’s a beautiful big gum tree which is seasonally monstered by what must be God’s most destructive feathered creation.
Not only do they chomp their way through impressively large branches, they also sadly destroy or displace the nests of smaller birds.
I found this nest (and delicate and fragile work of art), pictured, in the middle of the road on Tuesday morning this week. Obviously, there was no sign of tiny eggs or occupants. The avian marauders – a protected species – higher up the food chain sadly evicted the innocent occupants.
It reads like an unfortunate metaphor of today’s society, in which the big and strong often displace the weak and vulnerable.
Roy Stall Rochdale Road, Mt Claremont
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Dementia should be considered as qualifying under VAD law
As we head into our state election and see the usual promises and money being handed around, how about politicians committing to something serious?
Voluntary assisted dying legislation needs to be amended to include people with dementia. This is not something I am suggesting without knowledge or experience. My mother is 84 and in late-stage dementia, 10 years on from showing the first signs.
Hills development plans raise frightening prospects
R.D. Walsh (Keep Hills alive with the sounds of nature, Letters, January 18) rightly highlights the alarming consequences of Nigel Satterley’s proposal to bulldoze native bushland in the Perth Hills for development.
This plan is not just reckless environmental vandalism; it’s dangerous.
The proposed site lies in an extreme bushfire zone. With the haunting images of California’s catastrophic wildfires still fresh, our own escalating heatwaves, soaring insurance premiums, and the grim reality of a warming climate, how can we justify proceeding with such a “buildto-burn” development?
We are in the midst of a climate and biodiversity crisis. This is not just a local issue for the Perth Hills but a wake-up call for all West Australians who care about the environ-


ment, climate stability, and the future health and wellbeing of our children. With both state and federal elections approaching, we must demand action.
Our politicians need to hear
us loud and clear: Developments that sacrifice nature, worsen climate change and jeopardise community safety have no place in our future.
Richard Yin Commercial Road, Shenton Park
Fast tracks to Fremantle
Recent letters to the POST have queried why trains from Perth airport terminate at Claremont station, and trains from the Ellenbrook line terminate at Daglish.
If those trains continued to Fremantle, in addition to solving the noise and nuisance problems they would increase the value of the Fremantle line to the surrounding population.
When there is a clean, fast and affordable train every five minutes to get to the city or
airport, it becomes the easy choice.
More frequent trains might hold up traffic at railway crossings between Cottesloe and Fremantle.
This would be a further inducement to use the trains rather than drive.
It would also justify a new traffic and pedestrian bridge at the most congested crossing, near Mosman Park station.
David Miller John Street, Cottesloe


She may be breathing, but she certainly isn’t living, and for me and my siblings this is not how we want to remember our mother.
She hasn’t known who we are, or who our father was, for more than five years and they were married for 64 years.
Last year, our father succumbed to rapid cancer that spread into his brain. We were able to put him in the same care facility as our mother in time for him to celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary and his 83rd birthday.
Even with brain cancer he was still able to understand what was happening, but our mother had no clue at all.
He passed away peacefully without suffering but with help; she would die from embarrassment with what she does and goes through every day, if she was aware, but she isn’t.
The person with dementia has no idea or capability to understand and make decisions. If the closest family members (spouse or parent and children) all agree, they should be able to seek a humane end to the life of a loved one under VAD. Believe me, this is not easy, but when you experience a loved one with this terrible disease at these late stages, it is very inhumane and ignorant of reality to let this go on. End it now is what she would say.

Jonathan Wood Colonial Circle, Gnangara
Kate Mitchell, Study for Idea Induction (Highway Driving), (detail) 2024, courtesy of the artist
Dianne Jones, At Newport (detail), 2003, digital print, courtesy of the artist
Mervyn Street, Out in the Stockcamp (detail), acrylic on canvas, 120 x 60cm, courtesy of the artist and Mangkaja Arts

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Something rotten off our northern beaches
Brown stuff is floating up to the ocean surface from the Ocean Reef effluent outlets.
Those outlets often make an oily surface slick, and lots of dead fish washed up on Mullaloo Beach in December.
Ocean Reef beach water makes swimmers sick.
The badly treated effluent is dumped far too close to our beach. The effluent needs to be properly treated, and the effluent pipes need to be extended to 6.3km offshore, past the rim of our shallow lagoon.
If any private company caused such an environmental disaster by continuously dumping badly treated effluent into a marine park they would be shut down and heavily fined.
Environment minister Reece Whitby, please do your job and stop this polluting of our marine park lagoon.

Make more cents of a recycling opportunity
I have noticed recently an increase in people going through the bins in our Subiaco laneway, looking for 10c cans and cartons – a sign of how many people are doing it tough and in need of some extra cash.
Rather than force people to suffer rifling through our hot, stinky bins, I have started leaving 10c recyclables in a box separate from the bin, so people can more easily access them.
This approach may offer a little more dignity to people who are struggling, as they will no longer have to go through the rubbish to earn some extra money.
I’m hoping the idea might take off in the neighbourhood. If you don’t trade your 10c recyclables, how about making life easier for someone who does?
Emma Cahill Hamersley Road, Subiaco
Keep Earthwise going, for community’s sake
As volunteers at Earthwise for more than 10 years we clearly understand the value to the community of all the Earthwise operations.
Many residents from within the local Subiaco community and numerous other inner city surrounding suburbs appreciate what Earthwise provides. We have first-hand knowledge of how the people support and get involved in the op shop, the garden activities, the food donations and the Thursday
Cambridge trees – the long-term view
nedlands.wa.gov.au
The City of Nedlands wishes to advise that, during the months of February to April 2025, the City will be undertaking chemical treatment for control of the turf insect pest “Ground Pearl” at the following sports grounds & ornamental parks:
•Allen Park, Swanbourne Oval, Mt Claremont Oval, College Park, Highview Park and Peace Memorial Rose Garden Park.
Due to the unpredictable nature of weather conditions, exact dates for spraying cannot be licensed contractors and will be monitored Health (Pesticides) Regulations 2016, appropriate safety
The City asks the public not to enter onto the treatment area whilst the signage is clearly treated areas have been irrigated and the turf removed, the public can safely enter onto treated City staff in attendance during and after treatment will be able to assist the public with any questions
The following products will be applied as part of a 2–3-month control program, consisting of the active ingredient(s):
• (early February)
• (late February/early March)
•250 g/L Thiamethoxam (late March/early April)
•116 g/L Clothianidin, 83 g/L Clofentezine, 13 g/L Abamectin (February & March)
The product(s) will be applied in accordance with the
Further details may be obtained by contacting: Manager Urban Landscapes and Conservation City of Nedlands
T: E: W: Keri Shannon
Carol Kagi (Cambridge tree policy – incentives needed, Letters, January 18) is correct in that there is a cost to maintaining significant trees in an urban area and if we wish to encourage tree retention incentives are needed.
However, an extra green bin will not go very far in dealing with the larger bits of tree.
I suggest allocating extra Verge Valet green waste collections to those with significant trees.
For our own block we need four a year, although an alternative would be on-site chipping. Perhaps Cambridge could provide a chipper service to custodians of significant trees.
A good start, but doing little towards increasing the tree cover of the town.
Indeed, with natural attrition and no incentive to plant new trees there will
Notice of Intention to Make a Local Law
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon the City of Stirling by the Local Government Act 1995, of the intention of the local government to make the following local law:
City of Stirling Shopping Trolleys Local Law 2025
Purpose:
This Local Law intends to:
a. Regulate the removal of shopping trolleys from shopping precincts;
b. Require retailers providing shopping trolleys to ensure their prompt collection and return;
c. Provide the local government with powers to impound shopping trolleys that are left in contravention of this local law; and
d. of this Local Law.
This Local Law applies to all land in the local government.
This local law may be inspected and copies obtained Street, Stirling or from www.stirling.wa.gov.au.
Submissions must be made online at www.stirling. wa.gov.au/trolleyslocallaw or in writing by 5.00pm, Thursday 13 March 2025 to:
City of Stirling 25 Cedric Street
Stirling WA 6021
Facsimile: (08) 9205 8822
Email: corporate.compliance@stirling.wa.gov.au
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be a continued decline.
In fact, when planting a new tree it will be many years until extra green waste service is either fair or of benefit. Incentives are needed for property owners and developers to plan and plant significant trees.
I don’t know enough about the building or planning process to suggest what these incentives might be – fee relief, planning concessions or something else – but without some incentive we will continue to see boundary-to-boundary building and soulless gardens of succulents and low shrubs.
Martin Chambers Boscastle Avenue, City Beach
nedlands.wa.gov.au PUBLIC NOTICE
Development Application Available for Inspection
Proposed Amendment to Development Approval (Commercial Development) at 129-133 Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith
The City has received a development application for the above.
during business hours you may contact the City’s Urban Planning Team on (08) 9273 3500 or email planning@nedlands.wa.gov.au.
meals on offer.
Many supporters rely on Earthwise for a social outlet to meet up with friends they initially met at one of the opportunities Earthwise has provided for them.
Most of these supporters are retired or for whatever reason do not work. With the cost of living, anything that Earthwise offers is clearly appreciated.
Employees from local businesses also frequent the Earthwise activities, and at times the children at the neighbouring pre-school have been able to get involved.
Consequently, we were extremely concerned when we heard that the Uniting Church, as landlord, is considering other options for the property that could lead to ending Earthwise operations.
The value to the local and wider communities should not be underestimated. Please keep Earthwise going.
Stephen Lind Hortus Way, Jolimont
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hours to review plans and discuss the proposal in the City’s Council Chambers on 30 January 2025 between 4pm and 6pm, by appointment only.
To view the plans and make a submission, please visit yourvoice.nedlands.wa.gov.au
Submissions close 5pm, 14 February 2025.
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Cott Cat signs removed
By BONNIE CHRISTIAN
Misleading signs advertising a regular shuttle service to the beach have been removed from Cottesloe train station.
The move comes after the POST reported that tourists were waiting in vain for the shuttle buses.
“Council some time ago decided that patronage levels outside the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition were too low to warrant running the service over the summer and that it would be run only during the exhibition,” mayor Lorraine Young said.
“As the exhibition won’t be coming to Cottesloe this year, the signage has been removed and a new sign will be prepared for 2026, when the exhibition returns.”
At least four signs advertised the Cott Cat shuttle service at the northern end of the station until they were removed last week.
A painted stamp at the foot of the bus stop remains.
Sandra Brewer, the Liberal candidate for Cottesloe, told the POST this month she had often seen tourists patiently

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main sign advertising the non-existent Cott Cat was removed but a sticker a the shelter
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YEAR OF THE SNAKE
Celebrated by millions around the world, this is a time for cultural traditions, family reunions, and hopes for good fortune in the coming year.
As we move from the energetic and dynamic Year of the Dragon, 2025 brings the Snake’s wise and intuitive energy.
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Prime Movers keep on moving
On a 34-degree morning this week a group of smiling women dutifully showed up outside Mosman Park’s Alf Adams Pavilion for their weekly move-to-music session.
They are an offshoot of the Prime Movers exercise class, which runs almost year-round except for an eight-week break over December and January.
“My daughter has coined us the Prime Petunias,” said Annie Kailis, who with friend Susie Phillips organised to continue the sessions during
the break.
“We just sprouted up over the summer.
“We didn’t want to lose momentum, and there’s the social side of it as well, connecting with our friends.”
Annie reckons about a dozen have shown up each week during the break.
Former councillor Zenda Johnson is the instructor for the formal classes, which have been running since mid-2023 inside the air-conditioned pavilion hall.
“I think it’s testimony to how much this was needed
in Mosman Park, a group for seniors who want to move for an hour,” Zenda said.
The women’s ages range from 60 to 90 years old, and one rides her bike from Crawley each week to take part.
It’s not gender-exclusive, either, men are welcome and two of them attend regularly.
“As we get older, we lose muscle and we lose energy and we lose strength very quickly,” Zenda said.
“Working on our balance is going to help protect us against falls.
“It helps us stay on our feet.”
Cambridge throws more light on beaches
By JEN REWELL
A project to keep beach lovers safer has been completed at City Beach and Floreat.
The Town of Cambridge spent $1.35million on the two-stage project to install light towers and CCTV cameras in carparks and walkways.
Mayor Gary Mack said safety was the Town’s top priority.
“These improvements are part of our ongoing efforts to maintain and enhance the City Beach precinct, ensuring it remains a top destination for our community,” Mr Mack said.
Two million people visited City Beach and Floreat during 2024, according to Surf Life Saving WA figures.
The mast tower lighting was upgraded to energy-efficient LED technology, which is intended to reduce energy consumption by 40% and cut maintenance costs.
“The upgraded lighting and CCTV improves visibility and safety while also supporting sustainability by reducing energy consumption,” Mr Mack said.
Last summer there were several reports of assaults in the area, and some business owners said staff did not feel safe walking to their cars at night.

A crane lowers the new LED light tower into place earlier this summer.
Annie Kailis leads an exercising group of “Prime Petunias” outside the Alf Adams Pavilion in Mosman Park. Photo: Paul McGovern

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China Green precinct, next to Lord’s Recreation centre.
A block of land at the redeveloped Wembley Ware factory site has been vacant and earmarked for social and affordable housing for more than 15 years.
A 350-unit development at Court Place, next to Bob Hawke College, was announced two years ago, and is “progressing”, according to DWA.
DWA will build the complexes “with successful community housing providers to benefit from 25 years of operational funding support provided by Housing Australia”.
They will be one and twobedroom apartment complexes, ranging from three to nine storeys, with landscaped courtyards or communal spaces close to existing amenities and public transport.
Community Housing Limited –
which manages 13,000 properties across Australia -- opened an office in Subiaco last February.
It is likely to make a bid for the new federal and state housing drive.
“Community housing providers, like CHL, stand ready to respond to opportunities like this to provide additional housing for Western Australia’s most vulnerable tenants,” CEO Danny Dracic said.
“CHL is excited at the opportunity to again partner with the Albanese and Cook Labor governments in the provision of further social and affordable housing, particularly well located along key transport infrastructure, such as Metronet.”
CHL has already started construction on 109 social and affordable flats on the site of the former Stirling Towers in Highgate, which will be the government’s first build-to-rent project in WA.
Climate suffragette defends protest
• From page 3
“eco-fanatics” in successive front-page splashes.
Ms Lane-Rose had worked in the newspaper’s advertising department.
“It is upsetting that people will see their reporting and take it as face value,” she said.
“There has been this absolute media storm over me, a 19-yearold girl at the time, going to the CEO’s home and staging what was ultimately a failed protest.
“I didn’t even make it onto her property [because] there were six counter-terrorism police officers lying in wait.”
The West Australian’s majority shareholder, Seven Group

Holdings, once had a $100million stake in Woodside, and now owns a 30% share of fellow gas producer Beach Energy.
Two other defendants who were not at Ms O’Neill’s house, Tahlia Stolarski and Joanna Partyka, have pleaded not guilty to criminal conspiracy charges and are due to go to trial in September.
They were arrested after police seized footage from an ABC camera crew shadowing the protesters.
The presence of the ABC crew, who were filming a Four Corners documentary, was heavily criticised by Woodside, The West Australian, and the state government at the time.
Subi has been training for 130 years
By LLOYD GORMAN
This photograph of Subiaco train station circa 1894/95 has been shared by the State Library of Western Australia.
The Fremantle line opened in 1881 and a Subiaco platform was built two years later, but not in the location of the current station. It stood about 200m east of the station, close to the site of the Axon Street bridge, “two miles and 26 chains” along the track west of the City station, according to Ken Spillman’s
Subiaco history Identity Prized.
The image was taken by prominent architect and keen photographer Alfred Robert Linus Wright.
Originally from Wales, Wright came to Western Australia in 1894 with his wife Maria and daughter.
He worked at the Public Works Department for nearly 30 years during which time he worked on many projects in Subiaco where he lived.
He designed an underground latrine for Rokeby Road, and
more significantly, in 1935, the now heritage-listed Subiaco Oval entrance gates.
The Royal Institute of Architects of Western Australia honoured him with a dinner on his 76th birthday and described him as the “father of the Institute”.
Mr Wright died at home in Barker Road, Subiaco in April 1939, aged 77.
He left behind a large collection of photographs of the Perth he knew in his lifetime.







A colourised version of Alfred Wright’s original black and white photo of Subiaco station. Passengers would have to ask the driver in advance to get off there or wave the train down. Photo State Library of WA [009643D]
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Artistic Swimming
Discover the beauty and strength of Artistic Swimming. This dynamic sport combines elements of swimming, dance, and gymnastics, offering a unique way to build fitness, coordination, and teamwork. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned athlete, Artistic Swimming offers opportunities for all ages and skill levels. Join a supportive and passionate community, improve flexibility and endurance, and enjoy the thrill of synchronised movement in water. Dive into something new and exciting, experience the elegance and athleticism of Artistic Swimming today. Find a club near you and make a splash in WA’s growing aquatic community.
Nedlands Piano Studio
Nedlands Piano Studio offers piano tuition using Simply Music, a remarkable program developed in Australia that has students of all ages playing great-sounding music from the very first lesson.
In the same way we all learn to speak years before we learn to read and spell, Simply Music temporarily delays music reading and immerses students in the experience of playing immediately. Pieces are learned quickly and effortlessly, providing students with the affirming experience that learning piano is easy and fun. It is suitable for all ages from seven upwards. Adults and seniors are welcome. Book a free introductory session today. Contact through nedlandspianostudio.com.au or call 0439 330 857.
Helene Gowers Ballet
Feel the joy, hear the laughter, see the smiles. With fun, wonderful ideas and beautiful music, children will feel like a little princess or hero and build confidence in a caring, nurturing environment.
Movement with music classes for tiny tots, aged from three to five years, engage young minds with novel and playful learning, creating a lifelong love of dance. Through careful instruction, the teachers at HG Ballet ensure each child’s physical and emotional wellbeing, developing self-esteem and healthy and strong bodies.
HG Ballet offers the highest standards for future dancers. Classes are held in Subiaco, South Perth, Armadale, Mt Lawley and Victoria Park. For details email hgballet@hotmail.com, call 0438 344 383 or go to hgballet.com.au.

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Stars of the past
SARAH McNEILL
Sixty years ago this month, Joan Pope began her first holiday-time Festival for Children in Dalkeith as part of CATS –Children’s Activities Time Society.
Joan turns 90 this year, but has lost none of her passion for the arts and for teaching children.
“I’m like a Wettex,” she said, cheerfully. “When I’m squeezed, drama, music and movement just pour out of me.”
In 1960, Joan and her bassoonist husband Brian started CATS because she felt there wasn’t enough for very young children to do.
“My favourite age to teach was 18 months,” she said. “They just absorb everything like a sponge.”
With her enthusiastic support, reaching out to mothers in country towns and remote communities, CATS spread with music, drama and movement workshops, and then she began the summer school holiday performance festival in 1965.

who might remember their childhood attendance.
“It would be great to have a few recollections,” she said.
“Soon the school holidays in May and August, as well as summer, saw many other suburban and regional centres from Carnarvon to Esperance, enjoy these arts programs for young children,” Joan said.
Now she wants to compile a booklet about its history from l965 until 2000 when CATS closed.
She hopes there are some local arts lovers now probably aged 65 to 70
Joan grew up in Claremont with a strong sense of musicality and dance from a very early age.
In 1952 her parents took the 17-year-old with them to spend a year in London. Her mother enrolled her in the newly opened London Dalcroze school, telling her she “may as well do something useful”.
The Dalcroze method of refining musicality through rhythm was developed in
1886 by Swiss composer Emile Jaques-Dalcroze.
Back in Perth, Joan enrolled in an arts degree at UWA, and pursued her desire to act by joining the University Dramatic Society, going on to perform at the Playhouse Theatre with some of Perth’s best known theatre veterans including Edgar Metcalf, Rosemary Barr and James Beatty.
She married bassoonist Brian Pope in 1955 and after a year in Hobart, where Brian was in the orchestra and Joan taught music and movement to blind children, they







returned to Claremont where she began teaching at Claremont Kindergarten Training College.
Joan is a member of the UWA Historical Society, continues to lecture and give talks at various clubs, is a Dalcroze examiner and works with seniors to keep memories alive through storytelling.
“The best thing is not the past, but the future,” she said.
■ If you have any recollections or photos of CATS classes over the past 60 years, email Joan on popejoan@westnet. com.au.

■ One of the many Child Drama sessions run by Joan Pope, top left. Joan wants to know if anyone recognises themself or someone else in the photo.
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At the Cottesloe branch, the school has introduced Drama and Triple Threat classes, designed to inspire confi creativity and self-expression in both boys and girls. Silhouette is dedicated to fostering each dancer’s journey with care and encouragement, helping them grow into confident performers while enjoying the joy of dance and the arts.
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“Learning something new is one thing, but revising and remembering it into the future is a whole other skill set,” said Janice McGuire of NumberWorks’n’Words in Subiaco.
Effective study habits make all the difference for success in assessments through high school and beyond.
NumberWorks’n’Words academic study skills course will give students the tools to approach studying and exams with confidence. The course covers time management, motivation, skills and techniques to make study time happen, and be effective.
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Movie music magic
There is no better way to experience the joy, passion and thrill of orchestral music than hearing WA Symphony Orchestra perform classic scores live to the screening of films.
conductor Jessica Gethin and will feature almost 100 musicians on stage.
In June WASO and conductor Nicholas Buc perform music from films including ET, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Star Wars and Superman.



In March, relive the thrill of Jurassic Park projected in HD with its visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects at Riverside Theatre, with WASO performing John Williams’s iconic score live to film.










The concert will be hosted by popular podcasters from Art of the Score, Dan Golding and Andrew Pogson.
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In July WASO will present Star Wars: The Last Jedi, brought to life by composer John Williams’s Grammy Award-nominated score performed live to film. The concert will be led by renowned Australian
The orchestra will continue to work with secondary students through education concerts and open rehearsals, and classroom learning by delving deep into the ATAR set works.












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■ WA Symphony Orchestra will perform the live score to Star Wars: The Last Jedi in July.

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Out of the mouths of children
Children are genuinely stars of Barking Gecko Arts and Whiskey Boots’ unique verbatim theatre performance The Quadrangle.
In this production, actors present live interviews with children and relay the words exactly as they hear them, without any embellishment. Raw, heartfelt, candid and entertaining, it relays children’s thoughts about themselves and their families, their views on life, the world, and their dreams for the future.
Barking Gecko Arts collaborates for the first time with local company Whiskey & Boots, which makes headphone verbatim performance work. Using storytelling with live music, they take real stories gathered from a community and share them publicly, illuminating moments that are familiar, expose common challenges and secret fears, reminding audiences that we are all complex, ugly, beautiful, brave, funny, flawed and vulnerable.
The Quadrangle captures the inspiring thoughts of children. It reminds children that they are not alone and reminds adults of children’s profound wisdom.
■ The Quadrangle performs at the State Theatre this Saturday, January 25, at 2.30pm with Auslan interpretation, and from Thursday January 30 to Saturday February 1, at 6.30pm.

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Eye contact, greetings, everyday chit-chat and full sentences are such important skills but with technology crowding our lives, it’s easy to see why children are losing the art of conversation.
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Charlesworth Ballet School
Start your journey here!
Charlesworth Ballet School, established in 1960, has been introducing children to the world of ballet for 65
years and we are excited to announce our new branch in Mosman Park. Join us in exploring movement through theme-based classes, while developing friendships in a positive and fun environment. Our professional and passionate staff are dedicated to nurturing young dancers and encouraging creativity and imagination.
Enrolments are now open. To celebrate our new location, we will be offering discounted classes for Term 1. For more information visit charlesworthballet.com.au or call 9475 0320.

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■ Whiskey and Boots artists interview children and relay their words directly in a moving and funny verbatim performance.
Disability no bar to surfing fun
Are you on holiday in WA’s South-West and have time on your hands to volunteer?
Give Ant Pursell a call.
Ant is president of the Disabled Surfers Association of Australia’s southwest branch.
On February 16 and March 8, the association will offer free surfing fun in Bunker Bay to people with a disability.
Ant is calling on western suburb locals on summer holidays in the area to volun-
teer their help for the sessions – or bring along a loved one to take part.
“We use special surfboards with handles on them,” he said.
The sessions start at 9.30am. Meet at the end of Farm Break Lane near the Bunker Beach Cafe.
For more information phone Ant on 0401 626 803 or visit disabledsurfers.org/ wa-south-west.
Can you trust driverless cars?
The University of Western Australia’s business school has conducted research into what it will take for people to trust autonomous – or driverless – vehicles.
Those research results will be the topic of discussion at the WA Self Funded Retirees meeting on February 14, when researcher and lecturer Doina Olaru will be guest speaker. Driverless trains and trucks have been operating in the Pilbara for sev-

eral years and the RAC has trialled a driverless bus along the foreshore in South Perth.
The meeting starts at 10am on Friday February 14 at the Cambridge Bowling Club, Chandler Avenue, Floreat.Thespeaker’s presentation will commence at 11am.
An entry fee is not required, and parking is available onsite.
For more information contact Ron de Gruchy on 9447 1313 or Margaret Harris on 0417 991 947.


Listen up – Subiaco to host Aussie hearing first
The Ear Science Institute Australia in Subiaco has announced it will head up the country’s first “biobank” to develop genetic therapies for childhood and adult hearing loss.
In a statement the institute, which is in Salvado Road, said the Australasian Hearing Registry and Biobank would be based in WA, the rst of its kind in Australia. It would involve the collaboration of scientists at various organisations in WA and around Australia.
The Aussie Ear Bank, as it will be known, would “store tissue related to genetic-associated hearing loss with the goal of advancing personalised care and new treatments”.
Ear Science founder Marcus Atlas said emerging research showed genetics was the big new factor in hearing loss among people middleaged and older.
“This is not what we thought before, and it is a game-changing finding because it is potentially
treatable,” Professor Atlas said.
A total of 155 genes are known to be linked to hearing loss. Gene therapy for hearing loss involves replacing faulty genes with functioning ones.
The institute said the Aussie Ear Bank would allow increased access to genetic samples by linking to national and international registries. It would be funded in part by Gift of Hearing donations, a $500,000 Future Health Research and Innovation grant from the
WA Health Department, and a $150,000 grant from the Ian Potter Foundation in Victoria.
Hearing loss affects more than 1.5billion people around the world, expected to rise to 2.5billion by 2050.
About 13% of adults aged 60 years and about 60% of those aged 90, have disabling hearing loss. Permanent hearing loss is estimated to affect up to two in every 1000 babies at birth, and three in 1000 children aged 9 to 16 years.

A gromit at Bunker Bay with volunteers from the Disabled Surfers Association of Australia.










































































Camelot film to support kids in Gaza
There may be a ceasefire in place in Gaza, but a group of Perth doctors is working to raise money for medical care, food and warm clothing for children still in need in the beleaguered territory.
On February 16 the doctors will hold another charity screening of the documentary Where Olive Trees Weep, at the Camelot outdoor cinema in Mosman Park.
And on March 22 they will hold a fundraising quiz night at South Fremantle Football Club.
Dr Mairead Heaney said: “The recent ceasefire, while extremely welcomed and overdue, is fragile and leaves many families grieving what they have lost and trying to rebuild what remains.
“The work done by charities in Palestine will be ongoing for years to support vulnerable children and their families, and to help the healthcare and education systems return to full capacity.”
Dr Heaney said that so far the Perth doctors’ group had raised more than $80,000 for medical care, food and clothing for children and families in Gaza.
In January they sent $9000 to the Children Not Numbers charity to buy warm clothing, and $8000 to buy food packages for families.
To buy tickets for the Camelot screening of Where Olive Trees Weep on February 16 go to trybooking.com and search “Camelot”.
For more information or to donate direct go to gofundme.com and search “Mairead Heaney”, email perthdoctorsmedicalaid@gmail.com, or follow the perth_doctors_for_palestine account on Instagram.


work and school to rest and spend time with family and Yet for others, it can be an especially difficult time, perhaps nancial pressures, strained relationships or the loss of a loved one.
Beyond Blue, a non-profit organisation that works to improve mental health, urges anyone feeling down to phone
CEO Georgie Harman said Beyond Blue offers trained counsellors over the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the service is free dential.
She said the holidays could amplify people’s feelings of isolation and loneliness.
“So regardless of what you’re


While acknowledging it was very common for distressed people to put off seeking help when they couldn’t find the right words to describe their needs, she said: “When you contact Beyond Blue you don’t have to know what to say.
“Our skilled counsellors will meet you where you’re at and guide you towards where you need to be.”
Georgie said Beyond Blue operated wholly on donations, and she thanked all who had donated to the organisation. Phone the Beyond Blue Support Service on 1300 22 46 36 or chat online to a counsellor at beyondblue.org.au/get-support. For more information about Beyond Blue go to beyondblue. org.au.



representative from the Children Not Numbers charity giving a child in Gaza warm clothes funded by the Perth doctors.




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Predators make native animals more resilient
A study by the University of Western Australia has found that the presence of predators in havens for native fauna can help the animals survive when they are re-released into the wild.
Native fauna in havens without predators may lose their ability to know how to protect themselves, making them more vulnerable when they were re-released.
Dr Natasha Harrison, from UWA’s School of Biological Sciences, led the study in collaboration with the department of biodiversity, conservation, and attractions.
The results were published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
be established to recover threatened fauna,” Dr Harrison said.
“An unintended consequence is that havened populations can lose anti-predator traits, making them poorly suited for reintroduction into landscapes that contain predators.”
The study reintroduced two groups of woylies into Dryandra Woodland National Park, southeast of Perth.
Some woylies in their havens had been isolated from invasive predators but exposed to chuditch, or western quoll.
Researchers monitored the woylies’ survival, reproduction and anti-predator traits before their release, and for 10 months


Half a tonne of clothing saved
Subiaco residents helped save a total of 541kg of clothing from going to the tip in 2024.
The City of Subiaco said the result was due to five workshops held to encourage local residents to find alternatives to throwing out unwanted clothes.
The Western Metropolitan Regional Council hosted five
clothing-swap sessions. Subiaco residents were invited to bring along gently used items of unwanted clothing to exchange for others. Residents swapped a total of 307.3kg of used clothing with each other, and 65.3kg of poor quality clothing was sent to the textile recycling company Upparrel, the City said in a statement.
The remaining 168.4kg of clothing was saved for future clothing swaps or donated to local charities.
In November Subiaco residents took part in the first textile trail, learning how to mend, style or reuse pre-loved clothing fabric to reduce environmental impact.







Hazel Law, right, from The Curated Wardrobe on Subiaco’s first textile trail.









Celebrate a decade of dancing
Parkinson’s WA has been offering dance classes for men and women with Parkinson’s disease in WA for 10 years, and at 2.30pm on February 1 will celebrate with a special event in Nedlands.
All who have been involved in the Dance for Parkinson’s program in the past decade – either as dancer, teacher, volunteer or supporter –are welcome.
There will be a screening of Capturing Grace, a one-hour documentary from Dance for Parkinson’s Disease in New York, presentations by past and current dancers, messages of congratulations from around the world, and afternoon tea for all.
The celebration will be Parkinson’s WA in The Niche, on the corner of Aberdare Road and Hospital Avenue.
Dance for Parkinson’s Australia offers classes to those living with Parkinson’s disease, their partners, carers, friends and the broader community of seniors.
Perth classes began at WA Ballet Studios in 2015 after the organisation began training dance teachers in partnership with Ausdance WA and Parkinson’s WA, led by Dr Erica Rose Jeffrey.
More than 330 classes in WA in 2024 taught Dance for Parkinson’s to 9,500 people.
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The program has research-backed benefits for people who attend class, for members of the Parkinson’s community, their families and carers. Regular sessions are at a range
of venues including Vincent Community Centre in Leederville and Dalkeith Hall in Nedlands. For more information go to danceforparkinsonsaustralia.org, email lifespan.dance@gmail.com

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Cambridge
Well done, ladies, picking up four pennant points last week.
Wednesday: Winners Derek Gadsden, Gavin Arrow, Elizabeth Arrow, Rebecca Clemons. Runners up Di Gilbert, Cliff Racey, Ann Strack, Elizabeth Morrissey.
Friday: Winners Paula Poynton, Dae Miller, Dina Shah. Runners up Gavin Arrow, Faye Peake, Audrey Belotte.
Saturday January 11: First C. Henning, G. Boyd; second T. Delaney, P. Kanganas; third G. Savage, J. Sweeney, R. Stevenson. Saturday January 18: First Steve Parsons and Andy Jenkins; second Brian Dick and Jim Sweeney; third Ted Delaney and Rob Stevenson.
Ladies pairs are now being played. Goodwill pairs on February 12 open Ladies are now played. Goodwil pairs on February 12 open to all

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Bowling
Four teams of Dalkeith ladies participated in the gala day at Mosman Park on Friday January 17, with Leigh Richardson, Maureen Davison, Gwenda McIntosh and Wendy O’Meehan taking out the major prize. Well done ladies.
Ladies’ Tuesday results last week were mixed, with First Division victorious taking 5.5 of the points on offer and putting them in fifth place. Wendy Ireland, Cheryl Brown, Pauline Kelly and Margi Jordan won with a 24shot margin, while Third Division were defeated by 19 shots. On Saturday the First Division took three of the four points while Second Division were soundly defeated by top side Osborne Park.
With the resumption of Men’s Pennants on Thursday January 16 First Division beat Sorrento in their home game by 13 shots, Second Division were beaten in their away game at Warwick by
Sing for fun and good health too
The Voiceworks community show choir is about to begin rehearsals for 2025 and anyone who would like to join in is welcome.
Membership coordinator Phil Sykes said: “Voiceworks is an ‘open arms’ community choir.
All members of the community are welcome, with no audition necessary.
“We believe everyone can sing and we can all improve with guidance, practice and the support of fellow choir members.
“There is lots of evidence that singing, particularly in a group setting, is fantastic for our physical and mental wellbeing. It is also great fun.”
Voiceworks is led by musical director Jackson Griggs, and this year will welcome a new artistic director, Chris Dodson. Both have extensive experience directing choral and musical theatre productions.
“Voiceworks shows are not just choral recital,” Phil said.
“We choose a repertoire of popular songs from a range of genres and across the decades that audiences will know.
“The main thing we look for is that they fit with the theme of the show and are great fun to sing.
“While we aim to reach a high standard of vocal presentation, the shows also include getting up in costumes, simple choreography and staging to deliver entertaining performances that fit with the theme of the production.”
Weekly rehearsals start on Tuesday February 4 from 7 to 9.30pm at the Shenton Park Community Centre, 240 Onslow Road, in preparation for performances in June.
For more information about Voiceworks or joining the choir, visit voiceworks.org.au or call Phil Sykes on 0468 853 025.
Scramble for Scrabble
Are you free on Tuesday mornings and have a love of words?
Nedlands Scrabble Club invites fans of the popular word game to come along once a week for three games.
A spokesman said the club was a friendly, welcoming group of people who meet on Tuesday mornings in Dalkeith for “amicably competitive” Scrabble, and new members were
On Saturday January 18

welcome. Each session is $5 but the first one is free. Morning tea is provided. For more information phone Chris on 0428 846 325.
the day before.
18 shots. Third Division produced the best result of the day, winning their home game against Mt Lawley by 39 shots with Peter Hopper, Neil Davis, David Henry and Ron Day victorious by 23 shots. In the Saturday games First Division could manage only one point while Third Division beat Joondalup in their home game by 26 shots and managed seven points. Fifth Division continued on their merry way taking all six points from top side Cambridge by a margin of 31 shots. Best performed were Doug Cross, Rick Mapley, Tony Payne and Chris Biris with a 14-shot margin.
On the resumption of Pennants 2Gold visited Merriwa where Peter Hiatt, Milton Byass, George Sterpini and Tony Byrne lost 18-23; Brian Marsland, Chris Litchfield, Mike Hatch and Rob Campbell lost 19-28; and Paul Scales, Jim West, Peter Imms and Glen Morey lost 18-25.
2Gold hosted Joondalup. Dave Rankin, Jim West, Peter Imms and Glen Morey lost 18-20; Vern Jones, Stuart Porter, Mike Hatch and Rob Campbell cruised home 29-8; David Allport, Chris Litchfield, George Sterpini and Tony Byrne lost 15-19; and Billy Gerlach, Mark Wilde, Milton Byass and Dan Byrne won 21-19.
5Purple hosted Gwelup. Jack Wara, David Leeson, Ray Fells and Wally Graham lost 21-23; Brian Marsland, Ron Palmer, Dot Leeson and Jannette Middleton won 30-15; and Mick Canci, Paul Scales, Betsy Tapley and Beck Byrne did not have a good day.
Last week was very busy, with pennants starting again for both ladies and men.
Wednesday January 15 saw the final of the ladies’ pairs championship.
The winners were Jenny Parker and Denise Kelly, who defeated Cathie Smith and Klaire Hughes. We saw some great bowling during the match.
On Friday the ladies ran their annual gala day, lucky with the weather because the temperature dropped to a nice warm level not overly hot like
The winning teams were Dalkeith bowling ladies and the runners-up were the Sorrento bowling ladies.
Members are reminded that the Australia Day match Australia v ROW is on again this year, but names must be on the board as soon as possible. Play will begin at 3pm. Mahjong is held on Thursday mornings from 9am.
Subiaco Petanque Club held an evening twilight fun competition last Friday night, January 17. Players from Subiaco welcomed visitors from other Perth clubs and the competition was played with great camaraderie. Rama Sanyasi was the eventual overall winner. The club opened again on Saturday, January 18, for social play when we were joined by visitors from France and South America.
This Saturday, January 25, the club will hold another round of the President’s Cup. Visitors are welcome on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Consult the website petanque-subiaco. com or Facebook pages for details.
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Voiceworks singers in costume for their Space Jam concert dress rehearsal last June.
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Located in the sought after rural residential enclave of Quedjinup, this stunning 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom residence offers some of the region’s most captivating views. Under two years old, this near new home features a thoughtfully designed layout with contemporary finishes that harmonise with the surrounding natural environment. Spanning an impressive 1.26 hectares (approx), the property boasts sweeping ocean vistas and rows of thriving fruit trees, creating a picturesque backdrop from multiple elevated viewing spaces. In this serene setting, where the gentle sounds of birdsong fill the air, the home feels miles away, yet it is conveniently located just minutes from the vibrant Dunsborough town centre and the iconic Yallingup coastline.
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An incredible opportunity awaits to secure 2.59 acres (approx) vacant land parcel to create your dream permanent residence or holiday retreat amid towering native timbers. Elevated in the stunning Quindalup Hills, this site offers picturesque scenery and ocean glimpses of Geographe Bay from a potential second storey. The location and lifestyle this property provides are truly unparalleled. Experience complete seclusion while being less than 10 minutes from the vibrant community and amenities of Dunsborough. Enjoy a short drive to the stunning Yallingup coastline, spend slow mornings at the neighbouring Goanna Bush Café or savour leisurely afternoon strolls along local nature trails.
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Located only steps away from the turquoise waters of Geographe Bay, this custom built 4 bedroom 2 bathroom, 3 level home with views over the Bay offers luxury beachside living with the convenience of being only minutes’ walk to the Dunsborough café strip, restaurants & retail shopping precinct with the added advantage of short stay approval. The ground floor features a large spacious living area & 3 queen size bedrooms with direct access to the leafy courtyard/alfresco with outdoor shower, perfect for washing off sandy feet after a beach swim. The second level features views to the northeast over the bay & provides a spacious open plan kitchen/dining/living area with large balcony & private resort style master suite. The third level rooftop terrace provides you with yet another vantage point to take in the view. With the Bunbury Bypass now open Perth is closer than ever, and with Sydney and Melbourne now just a 4 hour flight away via the Busselton Margaret River airport, it is little wonder that so many people are making the move to the Southwest.
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Enveloped by native flora in a serene beachside cul-de-sac, this enchanting two-storey home on 521m2 offers 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Showcasing both contemporary finishes and natural charm, you’ll discover an expansive, light-filled open-plan living area, a stylish kitchen, and a stunning bay window that invites the beauty of the native gardens indoors. The upstairs retreat offers a peaceful escape, while the spacious backyard features a delightful deck - perfect for entertaining friends or soaking up the sun. Enjoy leisurely strolls along picturesque nature trails that lead you to the beach, boat ramp, parks, and barbecue facilities, or venture into town to explore the vibrant local bars, restaurants, and café strip. Offers Presented By 5pm 29/01/2025 (Unless Sold Prior)
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BUSINESS

H-U submits $110m Elders Wool Stores plan
By Nadia BudihardjoandIsabel Vieira
Adrian Fini-led Human Urban has lodged a $110million plan to redevelop the heritage-listed Elders Wool Stores building in Fremantle into a residential and hospitality project.
The major development project for the long-vacant asset will be led by Mr Fini and Kyle Jeavons, directors of property development firm Human Urban (H-U) spun out of Hesperia last year.
The historic 1927 building and facades of the 1950s structure which make up the Elders Wool Stores will be largely retained and restored under the recently submitted development application.
Under the proposal, three levels would be added to the 1927 fourstorey building stretching between Cantonment Street and Elder Place in the West End of Fremantle.
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The residential, hospitality and commercial development would comprise 33 boutique apartments, including three penthouses, and 174 co-living modelled units.
The co-living model incorporates communal zones including kitchens, dining areas and work-from-home spaces and would offer more flexible leases, H-U said.
A tavern, cafe, restaurant and small retail outlets are proposed for the ground floor of the heritage structure. About 6600 square metres
of commercial space has also been incorporated into the plan.
H-U estimates construction will start in the first quarter of 2026 with the project to be completed mid-2028, pending approvals and contracting a builder.
H-U said the hospitality and retail tenancies would be a similar model to its former redevelopment project, the State Buildings in the Perth CBD.
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Forrest letter ramps up plastics pitch

McGowan firm Bondi lobbying for Alcoa
By Jack McGinn
A consultancy firm which employs former premier Mark McGowan as a strategic adviser is lobbying on behalf of Alcoa ahead of the 2025 state election.
Founded by former federal treasurer Joe Hockey, Bondi Partners revealed Alcoa was one of its clients in an update to the Western Australian lobbying register published earlier this month.
Mr McGowan joined Bondi shortly after his shock resignation in May

2023 and is the firm’s highest profile local employee. At the time of his employment by Bondi, Mr McGowan was blocked from registering as a lobbyist under the state’s Integrity (Lobbyists) Act 2016 – which prevents former parliamentarians from signing up to lobby for 12 months after they leave office.
While now eligible, Mr McGowan is not listed as a registered lobbyist.
Bondi lists three east
coast-based lobbyists – adviser Georgette Abernethy, Australian government relations director Phillip Hudson and senior adviser Tom O’Farrell – on the WA register.
Business News followed up reports of links between Alcoa and Mr McGowan late last year, which Alcoa did not confirm. The miner was not listed as a client of Bondi at the time.
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the ministerial diaries of environment minister Reece Whitby and mines minister David Michael did not show any meetings with Mr McGowan from January 1 until October last year.
Premier Roger Cook met with Mr McGowan twice over the same period.
Alcoa also engages Dixie Marshall-chaired GRA Partners to lobby on its behalf in WA. Business News understands GRA was aware of Bondi’s involvement with Alcoa.
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“It was widely reported that lobbyists sponsored by companies from the fossil fuel and chemical industry, like yourselves, maintained a disproportionate presence at [the] INC-5 [meeting], both disclosed and in stealth,” Dr Forrest wrote, citing a report by the Center for International Environmental Law.
“These brazenly partisan industry lobbyists comprised the largest delegation at INC- 5.
“These powerful stakeholders leveraged their influence to stifle critical discussions, contributing to its collapse without
meaningful progress.”
Dr Forrest’s letter suggested he did not attend the event, but said representatives he spoke to told him the influence of lobbyists meant the goal of setting a global standard for plastic pollution was now at risk.
“As a businessman and philanthropist who has over many years devoted substantial personal resources to address the current plastics crisis, this alarms me,” he wrote.
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A render of what the re-development of the Elders Wool Stores building in Fremantle would look like.
Former WA Premier Mark McGowan. Photo: Tom Zaunmayr
Andrew Forrest.
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Subi goes all out on the Fringe
Dungeons, dragons, space-ships, nerf nerds, galaxy battles and gangsters will all be gathering at Subiaco Arts Centre this weekend.
The arts centre is the hub of Subiaco’s Subilicious Fringe program and Improv RPG are going all out with a three-show adventure.
The popular tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons comes to life with a new adventure each night; and in Nerf Herders three scoundrels face off against Imperial forces. These are both on this Friday and Saturday, January 24 and 25, followed by Call of Cthulhu on January 30 and February 1, in which the RPG nerds travel back to the 1920s and dive into H.P. Lovecraft’s twisted mythos of Cthulhu for a new tale of improvised terror. If improvising nerds is not your thing, try some serious drama. This Is Our Youth, by Kenneth

Lonergan, is set against the backdrop of 1980s excess performing on January 30 and February 1.
Playing Ashley is a gripping one-man show that explores what happens when a husband’s secret infidelities through the Ashley Madison dating app are exposed. It performs on February 7 and 8.
Lady Velvet Cabaret’s Red Velvet Revue (February 8) celebrates classic burlesque with vintage vibes. Lady Velvet has a new director,
Melbourne singer and musician Rachel Rose, who plans to introduce more live music to the classic burlesque shows.
In dance, Dear Alice (February 5 to 7) tumbles down the rabbit hole into Wonderland as a cast of dancers dive into the psychological nuances of Lewis Carroll’s beloved story. Also inspired by literature, Grass with a Capital G (February 6 to 7), based on Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is an exploration


of human’s disconnection from nature.
At the Regal Theatre on February 1, The 60 Four tribute quartet perform the biggest hits of the 60s and 70s in a Vegas-style production.
As part of Fringe, the Subi Night Market is on every Saturday night throughout the festival at Market Square Park, where local distillery Spirit of Little Things will serve up seasonal cocktails at the pop-up bar, with a program of live entertainment.
January 24 to February 2
to Friday 10am to 3pm
& Sunday 10am to 4pm
■ Subi Night Market keeps the festival vibe going with live entertainment.
Above: Improv RPG have a threeshow adventure of gaming and
The 60 Four come to the Regal as part of a national
Braniff
Let’s Go Ballooning
Don’t Look Back
La Vie en Rose
Ascending from the fringes
SARAH McNEILL
Women composers have long been on the fringes of classical composition and even more underrepresented in classical guitar, says Jonathan Fitzgerald.
“The guitar and percussion genre is an area in which gender diverse composers are significantly under-represented, with works by male composers outnumbering those by female composers 15 to one,” Jonathan said.
He has redressed some of that imbalance by commissioning four new works by award-winning Australian composers Maria Grenfell, Alice Humphries, Kate Milligan and Kathy Potter for a Fringe performance, Ascendent Messages.
He chose those four composers for their diverse styles. “We didn’t give them any brief, we just knew each work would be distinctly different,” said Jonathan, who will perform with Perth Symphony’s principal percussionist Paul Tanner.
Kate Milligan’s work Red Earth Mine is a soundscape for the iron
while in Space Junk, Kathy Potter explores a fragmented piece full of musical “debris”.
Alice Humphries’s piece Ascendant Messages explores how trees communicate, and Maria Grenfell’s Promenade follows more classic lines of musical perambulations.
American-born
Jonathan, who is head of guitar studies at UWA’s Conservatorium, has a strong history of delivering innovative performances and commissioning new works from Australian composers.
He said he and Paul were often the quiet instruments as part of orchestral concerts, but this commissioned concert was a chance for them to perform substantial works.
He likes to stage new and challenging classical concerts for Fringe because they attract a new audience that wouldn’t normally go to a classic concert.
■ Ascendent Messages performs in Callaway Auditorium at UWA’s Conservatorium of Music in Crawley at 7pm on


The A to Z of R.A.Z.
The last time James Mangold knocked the socks of music fans (and the Oscars) was in 2005 with his Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.
Now, get ready for Timothee Chalamet’s mesmerising portrait of a young Bob Dylan. Not only does he capture Dylan’s brooding troubadour spirit through a period of thrilling transformation, but it’s Chalamet doing the singing – live.
Springboarding from Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!,
Mangold, co-writing with Jay Cocks, focuses on the period between 1961 (when 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman hitched from Minnesota to Greenwich Village, New York) and 1965, when he fairly blew up the decorous Newport Folk Festival by plugging in his electric guitar.
It starts out with a pivotal meeting. Dylan’s first stop is the New Jersey hospital where his hero Woodie Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) is dying, and

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where folk music legend Pete Seeger (a brilliant Ed Norton) happens to be visiting. Both are floored when he sings for them.
Elle Fanning plays his first New York muse, who he meets at a church folk concert and at his request is given the pseudonym Sylvie Russo (it was actually the late Suze Rotolo), and the already famous Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), who knows he’s the real deal when he sings her Blowin’ in the Wind.
I can’t believe I’m sending this off, but I need to ask for your opinion as well, although I know my friends and family love me and I’m smart enough to realise they are just trying to help.
I am a 27-year-old professional woman. I have bachelor’s and master’s degrees in my chosen field. I work for a public company and deal with stressful deadlines and tense situations all the time. I met a married man, 25, with three children. He is going through a divorce, but he has no education, no real plan in life and, frankly, no future.
He’s not done much besides fathering kids. Still I think there is a chance this person and I could be happy together, and he’s the one to start
The beauty of Mangold’s film is that, while unashamedly mainstream, it’s a music biopic that really zeroes in on the music, including legendary moments such as how a rookie Al Kooper’s (Charlie Tahan) iconic organ riff ends up opening Like a Rolling Stone. It’s a joy to behold. Chalamet is electric as the renegade, stillrelevant Dylan, a rock’n’roll harbinger who realised times really were a-changin’.
a life and family with. Candace
Candace, why did you write to us? Because your family and friends are not giving you the green light to go ahead and do this. We aren’t, either. Otherwise, our column would be called “How to Mess Up Your Life.” You describe an intense, demanding, responsible job where your top performance is essential. How could you keep up your work performance with this man, his children, and his ex-wife in your life?
You want marriage and a family, but it must be with the right man, a man who can without question support his wife in every way.
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■ Timothee Chalamet embraces the art and musicianship of a young Bob Dylan, performing his songs live.
■ Percussionist Paul Tanner and classical guitarist Jonathan Fitzgerald collaborate on new works.

Janette Drysdale’s distinctive pop art oil paintings feature in Gallows Gallery’s summer season.
Stemming from an early career in desktop publishing and Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator, Janette developed a graphic, pop-art style of realism that uses strong shapes, colour, light and perspective to give life to simple scenes.
She says the stories in her work can often be illuminated by a detailed placement of people, birds or objects within the scene.
“I’m inspired by the shapes and colours I see
in everyday life,” she said. “I love surreal images that take me to another place in my mind. I love to capture light, shadow and perspective. Mostly I love the joy of watching a painting idea unfold on the canvas.”
Janette was part of Gallows’ group Christmas show and now returns to the gallery with a collection of new work titled Don’t Look Back, showing until February 2.
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Derek Schapper’s art springs from the greatest designer of all – nature.
“The choice of timber is part of the design process,”
Mel McGlensey promotes herself as part woman, part boat, full clown.
“Do you know what motorboating is?” she asked innocently. This is a Fringe show, so there has to be a more subversive answer than the obvious.
It is, she explained, when someone buries their face in an ample bosom and purrs like an engine. “And I can







said Derek of his delicately carved timber wall art. “I generally use WA’s unique timbers, especially jarrah. Eucalyptus has colours ranging from deep red to creamy white. Banksia, casuarina and melaleuca add further possibilities in texture, grain and colour.”
In a new exhibition, Modernism: Another View, Derek’s modernist and minimalist work ranges from birds and fish to formal Italian gardens, seascapes and ancient rocky gorges.
“Modernism is a broad term which encompasses many different ways of effecting strong simple designs with minimal ornamentation,” he said.
Derek, who is married to former politician Alannah MacTiernan, is holding a solo exhibition of wall art at Earlywork Gallery, South Fremantle, from February 12 to March 3.
■ Seabirds by Derek Schapper
Mel M puts her best bits forward AROUND THE galleries hanging
do my own motorboating,”
Mel proclaimed proudly.
“I’m well-endowed in the ‘boat’ department.”
Born out of an exercise of exploring weird body talents at clowning school Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, Motorboat is full of improvised comedy, burlesque and clowning.
She performs in The Pleasure Garden from February 1 to 16.




Leeuwin shines as a leading light
Building on the work and wine passion of Margaret River’s three founding wine loving medicos Tom Cullity, Bill and Sandra Pannell and Kevin and Di Cullen, the lateral thinking Tricia and Denis Horgan had a unique international vision when they established Leeuwin Estate in 1972, planting its initial 87ha vineyard – then the state’s largest.
Leeuwin Estate’s architecture, winery, awardwinning restaurant, art gallery and grounds became a tourism success story.

■ Mel is well-endowed in the ‘boat’ department
In 1985, Leeuwin Estate hosted the world’s first winery concert weekend. Attracting international performers, it quickly became an outstanding annual event. Typically drawing 10,000 guests to the natural outdoor amphitheatre, the concert became the region’s largest annual financial windfall.
The Estate’s Art Series labels require the commissioning of five paintings a year from Australia’s finest artists –and the winery now has its



Denis, an accountant, was the key person in Perth’s extensive Barrack House Group of companies as well as the creator of QV1 built in 1991, then Perth’s most architecturally innovative skyscraper.
The Horgans were also heavily involved in the financial organisation and planning of the large allencompassing Margaret River Catholic Church, with its separate chapels, and large community meeting spaces, as well as the church’s aged-care homes at Augusta, Margaret River and elsewhere.
Denis was the first chancellor of Notre Dame University in Fremantle.
In the 1980s the Horgans joined Len Evans and Brian Crozer, two of the industry’s finest thinkers, in Australia’s

leading technology-oriented winery, Petaluma.
But central to all this is Leeuwin Estate’s reason for being - the Art Series Chardonnay. For 40 years, this has been Australia’s most consistent fine white wine.
For decades, many of the world’s finest magazines have reviewed it as amongst the planet’s finest.
James Halliday, Australia’s most respected wine critic for 40 years, has since 2002 rated the chardonnay as the nation’s first, or equal first, on 11 occasions – and second or equal second five times.
The next generation siblings, Simone Furlong and Justin Horgan, are quietly and confidently adding to their family’s imposing Perth and Leeuwin Estate Margaret River footprints.










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■ The Leeuwin team: Co-CEO Justin Horgan, winemaker Phil Hutchison, co-CEO Simone Furlong, senior winemaker Tim Lovett, and viticulturist David Winstanley
■ Lady in Black by Janette Drysdale.

Tranquil setting behind stone walls

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n the busy and bustling beachside suburb of Cottesloe there is still an opportunity to find peace and tranquillity.
Sitting on the crest of quiet Clarendon Street, this well-designed family home is discreetly protected behind high limestone walls.
Even in the front courtyard garden, it is possible to relax with a cup of tea and survey the ocean without being seen from the street and, more importantly, without being battered by the afternoon sea breeze.

Designed by David Howe in 2004, the home sits solidly on the front 498sq.m of a huge subdivided block. With its limestone walls, French terracotta floor tiles and white louvred windows it has a cool Mediterranean feel.
Every
‘Spectacular views across the Cottesloe pines to the ocean. ‘
The two ground-floor bedrooms both have front and back courtyard access.

The small rear courtyard is a north-facing sun trap.
The upstairs parents’ retreat features a small lounge between bedroom and bathroom that takes in spectacular views across the Cottesloe pines to the ocean. It is a retreat that parents would find it hard to tear themselves away from.
There is a double garage halfway up the shared driveway, and a second driveway on the side for another car plus a secure workshop, storage or wine cellar.
Agent Chris Shellabear said Clarendon was one of the best streets in Cottesloe for its minimal traffic and its elevated position. – SARAH McNEILL

Elevated position Mediterranean design Quiet and protected CONTACT: Chris Shellabear 0418 910 065. Things you will love

The front courtyard is protected by a high wall.
■ French terracotta tiles and white louvres give the home a cool Mediterranean feel.
■ The view from the upstairs parent’s retreat is captivating.
■ There is still a pocket of peace and quiet in busy Cottesloe.
Retreat to a bushland paradise

You’ll hardly need to leave this beautiful home nestled among pristine bushland.
The four-bedroom house is on a 1.87ha block and comes complete with 21 solar panels and two water tanks – one for drinking water and the other for watering the garden.
When you’re not working from home in one of the four bedrooms now set up as a study, you’ll be busy tending to your homegrown crop in the vegetable garden or tinkering with tools in the powered shed.
When family and friends pop in, feed them homegrown vegies at the dining table on your front veranda with views to the natural surrounds.
Or while away the day with creative pursuits in the bedroom set up for

music and art activities – with its own sink for cleaning up with hot or cold water.
But if you do feel the need to venture out, downtown Margaret River and Prevelly Beach are just 8km up the road.
Current owners Fred and Margaret Affleck said they bought the block in 1998 and built eight years later, first for use as a weekender or summer get-away. They spent most of their weekends there from 2013, relocating there in 2015. The house was custom
built by builder Gary Wightman, with a 2015 extension by Gordon Temby.
“We chose the location for its profusion of almost untouched native vegetation including many large marri and jarrah trees, with a dense understorey of grass trees and native flowers, all now generously viewed from inside the house and from the elevated rear deck,” they said.
“Two large rainwater tanks make the property self-sufficient for water supply and sewage disposal.


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rounded by a system of fire protection sprinklers and two fire hoses, supported by an independent petroldriven pump.”
They created a large, enclosed vegetable garden and built a “very ample” work, storage and garden shed.
“We have especially enjoyed the views of untouched native bush with

growing wildflowers, including orchids,” they said.
“And we enjoyed the many walking trails and very easy access to the town and the beach.”
Last but not least the couple said they have enjoyed being part of the friendly and socially active communities at nearby Kilcarnup and Margaret River.
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Traffic threat to infant lives
• From page 1
“Surgery was needed straight after birth to siphon the organs back inside the body.
“To get surgery, our New Year’s Eve bundle of joy would be the final newborn transferred from King Edward Memorial Hospital to Perth Children’s Hospital in 2024.
“Some conditions demand surgery within 30 minutes of birth. The best children’s hospital in the US, which uses a ‘world’s-best-practice’ colocation model of care, recommends avoiding transport altogether due to the risk of foetal stress and fluid loss.
“This recommendation is mirrored in local fears of poorer clinical outcomes for neonates; Labor’s decision to build maternity services in Murdoch, 20km south, was made despite pleas from WA’s medical fraternity.
“As one told me: ‘You can’t gamble the life of a newborn on how good the traffic is that day.’”

Free showers back on the road
• From page 7
“We’ve also customised the shower-room interiors so that people can feel a bit special rather than using just another austere, impersonal and institutional service space.”
The truck frequents Wellington Square, the Moore Street services hub near McIver train station, and Victoria Park.
Mr Mellor said it was not always welcomed by councils, which sometimes made it hard to provide services to the homeless.
“You can’t just go set up on the side of the street without getting moved on,” he said.
“It requires the cooperation of local councils and they’re often not enthusiastic about it.”
Mr Huston said the new women and babies hospital should be close to PCH and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
“Everything, all in one place, tri-location, that’s the gold standard,” he said. Clinicians and medicos have been resolute in their opposition to the state government’s sudden decision last year – made without consultation – to dump the site north of SCGH announced in February 2022 and move the proposed $1.8billion maternity hospital to a site alongside Fiona Stanley Hospital at Murdoch.
An 80-bed Murdoch medihotel built by WA developer Hesperia, founded by Adrian Fini and Ben Lisle, opened in July.
The cost to run the concept, first announced in 2017, has blown out by $44million to $98.6million. Mr Huston said the “time trial” videos had been watched by hundreds of thousands of people on social media and was “very topical” while he was out door knocking.
Drug saviour seeks new approach
• From page 11
of staff, and the Mental Health Commission remains in discussions with Fresh Start about other funding requests made by the organisation.
“This year MHC will provide more than $3million to Fresh Start to continue to deliver a 20-bed residential treatment service in Northam, as well as specialist alcohol and drug counselling and support services in Subiaco.”
The sticking point appears to be that while the government assists Fresh Start with services, it does not help fund the naltrexone treatments.
“I have handled this by covering the not-for-profit by $700,000 so patients are treated,” Dr O’Neil said.
“I am recommending that the premier meet me in a public meeting here in Subiaco.
“There are 57,000 Australians are trapped on long term opioids such as methadone and buprenorphine.
“They are dying early as opioid maintenance causes diabetes and lung disease and stops you giving up cigarettes by about 700% difference, with smoking rates of people on methadone at 87-95% .
“Give Australians the chance to stop opioids when you vote. We do not want to make families addicted with government money.”
The Fresh Start charity was going
backwards. Having lost its board and CEO it now urgently needing funds to rebuild and help untreated patients.
There was a 100% success rate with Naltrexone after six months, but some addicts relapsed.
They could take three or more years and multiple treatments to come off the drugs – in rare cases up to 20 years, but they remained alive.
Six new storeys
• From page 1
remained undeveloped for years, demonstrating the infeasibility of development under the existing restrictive guidelines,” they wrote.
Cambridge council became embroiled in a legal battle with the thenowner of the other apartment site, Mike Frawley, after councillors refused his plans for a 31-apartment complex at Lot 501 Omaroo Terrace in 2017.
The council later paid Mr Frawley $944,000 to walk away from the project and bought it back from him for $600,000 more than he paid for it.
Mr Yujnovich said Cambridge had strictly enforced the guidelines on freehold lot owners, going so far as to threaten legal action against one resident who built a noncompliant solid front fence.
He said the mid-density estate, which already suffers from parking problems, would not be able to handle the traffic generated by a six-storey development.
Mr Sizer said the tallest part of the development would be at the back, away from Balandi Way.
“With surrounding neighbours in mind, the complex has been intentionally split into two separate buildings of four and six storeys respectively to maximise light and ventilation and reduce bulk,” he said.
“Bringing the first freehold title apartments to City Beach, our development will offer more choice for those who prefer a low-maintenance, easy-care lifestyle at any stage of life.”
The WAPC is accepting public comments until February 17.
one of only two WA seats to vote Yes in the Voice to Parliament referendum and the only WA electorate to vote for a republic in 1999.
She has been an ardent critic of “the net zero obsession”, “indigenous separatism” and other “woke” policies.
“In high income electorates feeling good about saving the planet might matter more than keeping the cost of living down,” Ms Credlin wrote in the Daily Telegraph in 2017.
Mr White hit back at Ms Chaney’s criticism, saying it confirmed “what we’ve known for a long time – a vote for Kate Chaney is a vote for Anthony Albanese”.
“Peta Credlin has received one of Australia’s highest public honours, an AO, for ‘distinguished service to
parliament and politics, to policy development, and to the executive function of government’,” he said.
“For someone who says she wants to increase the representation of women in politics it’s surprising Kate Chaney objects to a highly successful woman with experience at the pinnacle of public life meeting members of the local community.
“The fact we’ve been overwhelmed with registrations suggests the local community might be surprised by their Teal MP’s comments too.
“I think people are tired of lazy tropes being used to denigrate political opponents. So much for ‘doing politics differently’.”
Opposition leader Peter Dutton will officially launch Mr White’s campaign at a separate event on Monday night.


ABOVE: Novak
Djokovic

Djoker serves ace to fuel rise to top
THE Sporting

Novak Djokovic is the most implacable and calculating athlete of the modern era.
He leaves nothing to chance.
Not his diet, not his preparation and training regimes, not his body language, certainly not his tactical finesse nor the strategic manoeuvring that got a full workout this week in his quest to win his 11th Australian Open, his 25th major and his 100th tournament victory.
An unquenchable spirit driving a steel trap mind in a body honed to an exquisite edge over years and decades.
“I gave every day of my life to reaching my goal,” Djokovic said in his book Serve to Win, which examines the nexus between diet and mental and physical excellence. No surprise that he is a big fan of quinoa and lentils.
That goal, first identified at the age of six, was to become the greatest tennis player the game had seen.
“I watched Pete Sampras win Wimbledon and I knew: One day that would be me,” he wrote. It was an imposing mission statement but one that has
Net flick is compulsive viewing
Disturbing imagery in the Netflix documentary Envoy Shark Cull, of a baby dolphin tangled in a shark net and its mother crying out in anguish as she tries to keep its head above water so it can breathe, is emotive stuff.
The film-makers said it was illegal to free the animal and face a possible fine over $60,000 and none were “officially” helped during the making of the documentary.
I fact-checked and found that the maximum fine for interfering with a shark net was closer to $30,000.
That aside, the documentary is well worth viewing for anyone still on the fence about the ethics and effects of drum lines and shark netting.
WA features in it, with news footage of the Cottesloe protest against the government catch and kill policy as well as compelling interviews with Australia surfing greats Layne Beachley and Tom Carroll.
“I completely understand that the minute I immerse myself in the water I’m immersing myself in their domain and you have to accept that they are a predator,” Beachley said.
“I feel that mentality is widely accepted around the world by surfers.”
As yet there is little scientific evidence that baiting drumlines or netting sharks along with the by-catch they ensnare and kill make beaches any safer

from shark attacks.
There is, however, theory that they actually make them less safe by attracting sharks that feed on the trapped animals. Unlike NSW and more so Queensland which has expanded its drum-line and netting program, here in the West we have by far the more sensible and humane approach to the issue of shark mitigation. I myself have only ever seen a shark once while surfing. I did get into a tugging match with something at Dutch Inn at dusk that became entangled with my leg rope and spooked

manifested in his willingness to use every tool at his disposal to get an advantage on the court. It was the same approach that Don Bradman, the most implacable and calculating athlete of his – and maybe any – era employed with unimaginable impact on and off the cricket field.
Like Bradman, and other sporting stars, Djokovic is not averse to orchestrating an apparent slight in a bid to provide more fuel for the motivational fire burning within him.
How else to explain the surely confected outrage over Channel 9 commentator Tony Jones’s clumsy but harmless comments about Djokovic and his Serbian fans during a live cross.
They would have passed without notice, other than with the many sports watchers having their long-standing Jones opinion confirmed with his latest gaffe, until Djokovic usurped on-court interviewer Jim Courier to draw attention to the issue.
Courier, by the way, is one of those rare sport commentators who actually adds to the coverage with his insights and analysis. A reverse Matthew Hayden, if you like.
As Richie Benaud said to me once, the job of the commentator is to “enhance the vision with your words … or your silence”.
There is little ego in Courier’s presentation, just as there were no histrionics or false bravado when Djokovic demanded the microphone from him to start the Jones strategy.
And that clinical approach was clear: Force the tennis world to take sides and then use the energy generated by that division to both sharpen his focus while benefiting from the support that would surely come his way.
It is an age-old approach.
Have you noticed how almost every player interviewed after a win this tournament has praised the crowd?
They all want the noise of affirmation next time they walk on court, and demonstrate little subtlety in their quest.
me, but I can’t be certain it was a shark.
I agree with Beachley that I take responsibility for myself when I enter the ocean and understand the risks.
Former elite Australian navy diver Paul de Gelder, who lost an arm and a leg in a horrific attack in Sydney Harbour, does not harbour ill-feeling towards sharks. He has found a new career as a conservationist working to protect them and his comments in the program carry a lot of weight, considering his experience.
Danielle Collins is about the only player who has gone the other way, but her approach of wanting the world against her is as transparent as any of the sycophants seeking crowd adulation.
Does anyone seriously think that Djokovic, maybe the greatest tennis player ever, his country’s most famous person, an athlete worth half a billion dollars with two decades of international experience, would be affected by a ham-fisted line or two from an inept television presenter? Jones didn’t try to kiss him, for heaven’s sake.
Motivation comes from many sources but for a great of the
game, armed with the most resilient temperament and unmatched mental powers, a perceived public slight might just provide the extra needle required to bring out his best.
Former Australian wicketkeeper and one-Test captain Barry Jarman once told me a story about a near 40-year-old Bradman playing in Adelaide club cricket.
A brain-dead fast bowler suggested to the great batsman at lunch that he no longer possessed the range of shots he once displayed. Bradman bided his time and when the quick finally came on, immediately struck him through point for four, then cover, then mid-off, then straight down the ground, then mid-on, midwicket, square leg and around the clock until he was back where he started. Eight balls, eight fours.
“That enough shots for you?” Bradman asked the crestfallen bowler.
Don versus the world yet again as the game’s greatest batsman found a way to keep time at bay for yet one more innings.
Mike Atherton once wrote of how Steve Waugh found a way to combat England’s bid to quell his competitive edge by refusing to engage in the verbal exchanges that the Australian scrapper sought in a bid to inspire himself.
“We felt he revelled in a hostile atmosphere and sledging merely fuelled his adrenalin,” Atherton wrote of England’s silent tactics at Old Trafford in 1997.
“He arrived at the crease and soon realised this.
“‘Okay, you’re not talking to me, are you? Well, I’ll talk to myself then.’ And he did, for 240 minutes in the first innings, and 382 minutes in the second.”
Tugga versus the world. Or at least the Poms.
Djokovic said after his epic quarter-final win over Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday that the match was so absorbing it deserved to be the final itself, rather than a staging post on the way to the pinnacle of the tournament.
He was right. It was a brilliant contest between two extraordinary athletes.
Djokovic’s ability to change gears, to become more attacking midway through the second set when his defensive set-up was being besieged by the younger man’s speed and potent offence, was just one of the remarkable features of the match.
The question remains, though: Was the win sufficient to overcome the terrible insult Djokovic suffered at the hands of a television goose, or will he need more fuel to power his rise to the top of the tennis world?
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Djokovic wrested the microphone from interviewer Jim Courier to make his point about television presenter Tony Jones.
Djokovic was exhausted but ecstatic after a gruelling quarter-final win kept him on track for an 11th Australian Open title.
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RIFFING on the classic coin-behindthe-ear trick, Sam Hume and Justin Williams pulled coins from the tops of heads, behind ears, up noses, under armpits and out of shoes.
Tate Stephens, 5, stood at the front with the two magicians as they pulled coins from everywhere, including his bum!
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The magicians and producers of The Greatest Magic Show had just performed 15 shows over the first three days of Fringe, but they still made time to go to Perth Children’s Hospital to entertain sick children, their siblings and parents. They were joined by juggler Ricardo Desperado in entertaining the children
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The artists may have props built in Vegas, but when it comes to entertaining children in a small room in a hospital, the two performers relied on good old back-to-basics magic, playing with coins, juggling balls and balloons.
Joseph Humphries, 6, was invited to perform with Justin and Sam and used his magic wand to create a balloon dog. Each child was given a magic wand and Justin taught each of them how to use it properly to make magic.

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