POST Newspapers 23 August 2025

‘Guilty, your honour’

By BEN DICKINSON

Dalkeith obstetrician Rhys Bellinge has admitted killing UWA student Elizabeth Pearce and seriously wounding Uber driver Muhammad Usman in a horrific Dalkeith drink-driving incident in February.

Appearing in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court via video link from Casuarina Prison on Wednesday, Dr Bellinge wore a glum expression, closed his eyes and shook his head as Magistrate Brendyn Nelson read out his manslaughter charge.

“You are charged on the 15th of February, 2025 in Dalkeith, you unlawfully killed Elizabeth Mary Pearce in such circumstances as not to constitute murder,” Mr Nelson said.

“Do you understand that charge?”

“Yes, your honour,” Dr Bellinge replied.

coma after the crash and spent nearly a month recovering in the Major Trauma Unit at Royal

Dr Bellinge also pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the amended driving charge of causing grievous bodily harm to Mr Usman by driving “under the influence of alcohol to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of the vehicle.”

Prosecutor Justin Whalley discontinued a third charge of uence, telling the court it was “subsumed” by the upgraded grievous bodily

Data from the Jaguar’s computer shows Dr Bellinge was driving at 130kmh in the 50kmh zone moments before the crash. He returned a blood alcohol

Police have told earlier court hearings that the Jaguar’s inbuilt

Squatters on the move

By LLOYD GORMAN

The couple who squatted rent-free in a $2million Shenton Park house were defended this week by a man helping them to move out.

“They have never been asked to leave,” he said.

There were reports on Wednesday evening of activity at the house in Keightley Road, some of the first signs of life since the POST revealed the secret of its occupants, couple Jeremy Hubbard and Rachel Savage and their child ($2m squatters, POST, August 9).

The POST had tried numerous times to speak to the couple about their occupation.

TV cameras filmed removalists at the house last Friday,

An older man was carrying household items from the porch and front garden to the back of a ute when POST reporter Lloyd Gorman arrived at the scene on Wednesday.

Lloyd approached the man at his car and introduced himself, presenting his Press card.

The man said: “So you wrote the article saying that they refused to leave? They have never been asked to leave.

“I have no comment for you after what was put in [the report].”

He then walked back into the property, muttering. Asked to repeat what he had just said, he said: “I used to love the POST!”

Asked if he was related to the couple he responded: “I have no comment and I don’t mean

Woman bashed on Bay View

By POST REPORTERS

A woman was punched in the face by a “ranting” stranger after she tried to protect boys on Bay View Terrace on Tuesday afternoon.

Her husband and a horrified witness chased the man to Claremont Station.

“This guy, not tall but stocky and weighing about 100 kilos, was outside Stand In Room coffee shop screaming and yelling, shouting abuse at people for about half an hour,” Justin BrentWhite said.

“He started screaming at a group of boys, and this lady stood up for them.

“Suddenly I heard all this commotion by the corner of the post

thing else he would like to say.

“A lot but I’m not going to say it to you,” he said, before continuing to load the car.

Rachel told Lloyd last year: “We’re renting.”

Greg Preston, the nephew of 81-year-old Marilyn Watson who owns the property, visited the house earlier on Wednesday, accompanied by a woman who lives in the area.

He said they went to the back of the house and saw a young woman and a man packing up.

“I motioned for them to come out but they wouldn’t,” he said.

He said he had been asking the couple for the keys by text.

Police

Marilyn Watson confirmed to POST editor Bret Christian last week that she did not know the couple and said they had been living in the house without her permission or knowledge.

Ms Watson moved out of the house in 2010 after it was damaged in a hailstorm, intending to return, but never did. She left behind antique furniture and personal belongings, including identifying documents and titles to other valuable assets. She became unable to drive and was apparently overwhelmed by paperwork, continuing to live comfortably in another home she owns in a regional city.

LEFT: Flowers at the scene of the fatal crash. MIDDLE: Bruce Bellinge leaves court with lawyer Karen Espiner.

RIGHT: Rhys Bellinge, who has grown a beard while in Casuarina Prison.

A man carried items from the house and put them in the back of a ute on Wednesday.

Photo: Paul McGovern

Dream about a better beach life

I’m writing this from a beach club in Portugal, right on the sand, drinks in hand, feet in the water, and all I can think is: Why can’t Perth do this?

I can swim, towel off, and enjoy a cold drink without trekking barefoot across hot bitumen.

Suggest something similar at Cottesloe and the “Keep Cott Low” brigade would be chaining themselves to the nearest norfolk island pine. If they’d been around in the 1800s, they’d probably have opposed Fremantle Harbour – or the Kalgoorlie Pipeline (Oh, wait …).

Right now, our beaches are treated as training grounds for the next generation of “junior G-men”.

Some of us just want to sit in a proper chair and not be fined for having a drink. Instead, the anti-fun police deliver the lowest-common-denominator version of public space – safe, tightly controlled, and stripped of fun, while backpackers rave and defecate in the dunes.

This isn’t about replicating the Gold Coast. It’s about trusting people to enjoy what we have. Throughout Europe, smallscale, temporary beach clubs flourish under seasonal licences.

Even Cottesloe’s own foreshore master plan talks about “day and night activation”, alfresco dining, and civic plazas. But activation is about people, not just replacing carparks with grassy terraces and concrete boardwalks. Without life and licence, it risks being as dull as a Bunnings doormat.

Allowing seasonal, well-managed beach clubs would deliver exactly what the plan promises – life, safety, and charm on the coast.

Perth could adopt the same through popups, summer permits, and careful design that protects our dunes while letting people actually relax on the beach.

Europe proves it can be done without losing charm. So why can’t we?

Andrew Smith Johnston Street, Peppermint Grove

Planning probe needs direction

It is great that the Liberals and Greens have aligned to create an Upper House Select Committee to look at the planning mess we have. It has 12 months to report.

In many ways, a Select Committee seems to be like a Royal Commission, but the Royal Commission has so much more teeth. Royal Commissioners are highly skilled and have a large staff to assist. Many of the meetings are in public.

In 2019 there was a Legislative Council Select Committee to look at local government. It took around 15 months for the final report which had 60 Findings and 36 Recommendations.

There were five committee members and two staff. They received 276 submissions and held 20 meetings, none of which seems to have been open to the public. Do you remember it?

We have major problems in the planning system. David Caddy,

now chief commissioner at City of Nedlands and previously chair of the WA Planning Commission, has repeated that he was opposed to the DAP-approved Chellingworth proposal in February 2021.

And yet only one commissioner voted against the recently WAPC approved Station Street Cottesloe development. The WAPC also just approved a 23-storey tower in City Beach surrounded by one and two storey housing.

The lesson is that to make change you need to be involved and take charge of your own destiny. Otherwise, you get what you allow and what you deserve.

The Select Committee on Planning is great. We just need to make sure it is properly staffed and directed to achieve changes that protect property rights, and provide a regulatory environment that gives developers confidence.

Ken Perry Dalkeith Road, Nedlands

Questions remain about those appointments

How can David Caddy, the former chair of the WA Planning Commission and a previous deputy mayor at City of Nedlands now be Nedlands’ chief commissioner?

He has dismissed questions about his councillor role in the 1990s, stating that was 30 years ago. He is conflicted on many fronts and was part of the walkout back then. It can’t now be buried. Want to know more? Go to friendsofallenparkswanbourne.com/about. Simple reading in two clicks.

How can Dan Caddy, MLC and son of David Caddy, be one of the two Government members on the newly formed Select Committee on WA Planning? (High-rise under intense scrutiny, POST, August 16). Another conflict of interest in my view.  David Caddy is quoted in the POST as saying his son is a 52-year-old making his own way in the world and they don’t discuss local government. Really.

Reclassification and redevelopment of A-Class reserves is an abuse of power. Previously protected land has fallen into hands of private entities. Decision-makers tick boxes. Very little debate under commissioners; just the rubber stamp.

Ill-conceived ferry plan

It is incomprehensible that the State Government wants to bring river ferries into beautiful, historic Matilda Bay. Since time immemorial this has been a peaceful relaxing place with nature at its best, enjoyed by thousands of Perth residents for family picnics, boating, and water activities.

Very importantly, too, is its fostering of native wildlife, swans, ducks, pelicans, dolphins et al.

To totally disrupt and destroy this magnificent bay, by introducing ferries, a huge jetty, a massive battery installation, and all the associated traffic, must be one of the most ill-conceived plans ever.

Why not use the jetty and access at JoJo’s, at the end of Broadway. Basic facilities are already there and could be updated at less expense! Even at this stage, can the powers that be think long and hard over their decision? They cannot destroy this beautiful bay. D.E. Allen Victoria Avenue, Dalkeith ■ See report page 9

Local democracy under threat?

Contrary to Jack Walsh’s assertions (Secrets and vested interests threaten local democracy, Letters, August 9) Cottesloe council’s unanimous decision to support the long overdue redevelopment of the Anderson Pavilion was made in an open meeting in May 2021, five months before the council election.

The later decision, in September 2021, was to award the tender so that the approved work could start ahead of the 2022 football season.

None of the councillors involved in the Anderson Pavilion decisions were members of the clubs that benefit from the redevelopment.

Voter turnout in Cottesloe is typically 42 to 52% and has not changed much since Mr Walsh’s days on the council.

What has changed is that a wider range of people are taking an interest in the council’s work, what amenities are offered and how the council deals with their concerns.

Local school parents and club members are mobilised to take an interest in matters that are important to them, and we now have a diverse range of views on council. That’s a positive thing, not a threat.

Lorraine Young Mayor, Town of Cottesloe

Rebecca Coghlan  Bulimba Road, Nedlands

Shops win reprieve , apology

By JACK MADDERN

A dozen small Cottesloe businesses on the site of a Station Street high-rise tower project have been granted an extension of their tenancies after fighting to remain open for Christmas.

Shop-owners at 7 and 11 Station Street were relieved after being told this month they could stay open until next May.

“It’s a wonderful relief, a really good relief,” said Claremont Drapers owner Mary Gatica-Evans.

The extended leases come after they were initially told to leave by December 1 to make way for Sirona Urban’s 15 and 17 storey high-rise development.

“The new lease provides them with the stability to operate

Shops miss Christmas

through the critical, upcoming retail periods and to capitalise on these peak trading times with greater certainty,” Sirona managing director Matthew McNeilly said.

The December deadline raised the ire of the shop-owners because it would have denied them valuable Christmas trade.

They delivered a petition to Sirona last month in a bid to remain at their premises.

Ms Gatica-Evans was overjoyed at the extension.

“We were just glad to get from the first of December to

Christmas,” she said.

“To then see another five months was just a bonus, really.”

She was pleased her store’s century-long legacy would survive into another year but admitted finding a new place was proving difficult, and that, at 79, the challenges of relocating were overwhelming.

“[But] if I’m well and healthy, I don’t want to stop,” she said.

The landlords through an agent, also apologised to the retailers for confusion and lack of certainty about the project.

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Scores donate to POST printer fund

Western suburb people have flocked to support the POST Printer Piggy Bank initiated by a reader who wanted to support a new press installed by the newspaper. They have made scores of donations to the piggy bank account, many accompanied by positive comments:

“WA’s best newspaper”

was the most recent received on Thursday, following on from “Support the POST”; “In appreciation for printing the POST”; and “Save Our POST”.

Others noted: “We love our POST newspaper”; “Thanks for 48 years of top quality”: and “Go the POST –love everything you do.” Most donors asked to remain

anonymous. There are familiar names among them so we will not publish any names.

Readers appreciated the delivery of a free POST each week.

Two people walked into the office of the POST and handed over banknotes for the piggy bank.

It’s still open for donations at: BSB 066-125, account 10314277, Account Post Newspapers Pty Ltd.

Quenda quandary causes a flap

The Lake Claremont quenda population is booming and the little mammals are now ranging far and wide. Swanbourne man Peter Randell encountered this quenda at his Fern Street home and found it was causing quite a stir among other visitors. “This little fellow has been digging around in our garden for a few weeks now,” he said. “As well as inciting curiosity from our local magpies he now seems to have provoked our parochial avian friends into a few full-flaps and landing-gear down strafing runs. Well done to the quenda rehabilitation team.”

Cott votes for Jan 26

Cottesloe people have voted to hold the Town’s Australia Day functions on January 26 each year, after being given the option of changing the date.

The council conducted a poll last month, and when the votes were counted 59% of respondents voted for the date of citizenship ceremonies and other cel-

ebrations to be held on the actual day.

The federal Government has given councils the option of going three days either side of January 26.

A total of 150 people responded to the online poll.

The nearest Saturday or Sunday to January 26 was favoured by 39%. The rest had no preference.

All smiles … Mary Gatica-Evans, left, Krista Parolo and Mahesh Kuriarkose got a big win for their small businesses.

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Karena Holden, right, and her friend Nicki Powers went to Kuta Beach to release turtles. RIGHT: Turtle man Agung helped set up the hatchling release program.

All agog about Agung’s turtle adventures

Agung is the turtle man of Bali’s Kuta Beach.

He deals with the hundreds of Australians who flock to Kuta each August to help endangered olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings make their way into the water.

Shenton Park worker Karena Holden shared her copy of the POST with Agung during a recent trip to help the Bali Sea Turtle

“Local government is an interesting beast,” Stirling mayor Mark Irwin said. He was referring to some of his staff winning customer service awards.

Society.

The society estimates that only one hatchling in every 1000 eggs laid will reach adulthood.

It coordinates volunteers who transport the Kuta hatchlings to the sea to give them a chance at life.

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When One was Once a footy oval THE listening

Former Subiaco mayor Tony Costa has got his dander up about the One Oval development that is about to tower over Subiaco Oval. He wants it renamed On(c)e Oval to reflect the dramatic changes to the historic football precinct.

“It is not often that the customers are ringing local government to say they really appreciate giving them a rates bill or picking up their bin,” he said.

“You are normally dealing with someone who isn’t having a great day with the challenges that they face either interacting with our services or their neighbours.”

He said he was very proud of the achievements of the staff, who had won state awards in three categories of the customer service awards.

A family embroiled in a legal dispute have thrashed it out with the help of Cambridge’s mayor.

Mayor Gary Mack, who is also president of the WA Law Society, chaired the mediation in the Family Court.

“Being president of the Law Society I need a practising certificate, so I’ve got to do a little bit of legal work,” he said.

Mr Mack, who specialised in children’s law before his election as mayor in 2023, said he took on a job about once every two months.

Now chairman of the Save Subiaco Action Group, which is a thorn in the side of the government

departments and politicians involved in the half-billiondollar project, Mr Costa is on the warpath.

“The developers’ use of One Oval in naming their project is a gross disrespect-

ful misnomer,” he thundered to a host of targets.

“To name it this way is both politically and factually incorrect.

“It must be corrected to On(c)e [Subiaco] Oval.”

South Cottesloe gets seal of approval

This magnificent seal was spotted by artist Valerie Glover early this week, taking a breather on south Cottesloe beach.

“It was so amazing to see such a beautiful sight early in the day,” Valerie said of her surprise encounter as she walked along the southern end of Cottesloe beach.

According to the Department of Parks and Wildlife, it is not uncommon for seals to rest up on the sand at this time of year.

People are reminded that the seals need to be left alone to rest and save some energy before returning to the ocean.

The One Oval display suite at Subiaco Oval has just opened for business.

Mack back in court

Staff put in Stirling effort

Grove gardens to star

Peppermint Grove’s leafy-green credentials feature heavily in an auction for a limited edition of car number plates being held by the local council.

Shire president Karen Farley, left, tried one of the new plates for size on her own car this week.

“Local residents readily identify with their shire’s gardens and tree canopy,” she said.

“Retention of trees is extremely important to them.”

The online auction began this week with a chance to pick up duplicated or unique numbers, including 1 to 100, 111, 222, 333 etc up to 999.

The council has already received a bid of $1000 for a special number.

The auction closes at 3pm on Monday, August 25, after which sets of unsold numbers will be available for purchase at $440 from August 28.

The reserve price for the auctioned plates is $440 including GST.

Bidders are asked to email the council with their preferred plate number.

Details of the auction are available on the Shire’s website.

McMullen to go again

By LLOYD GORMAN

Subiaco was a ship that “needed to be righted” when David McMullen was elected mayor in 2021.

Now it is a council with a “trajectory of improvement” that he intends to steer “better and more efficiently and effectively”.

Mr McMullen is the only

candidate so far to declare their intention to run for mayor after confirming this week he would seek a second term.

Nominations open on Thursday but Mr McMullen deliberately kept his intentions to himself to avoid distractions to the council.

He was not aware of any challengers but predicted they would face a tough task

to build momentum before the October election.

“It wouldn’t bother me if it was to be a race,” he said.

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Honey out of the race

An election showdown between David Honey, the former Liberal member for Cottesloe, and Cottesloe deputy mayor Melissa Harkins is off the table.

“I’m not going to put my hand up for the position of mayor,” Dr Honey told the POST this week.

“It’s a time-consuming job and I have realised I do not have the time to commit to do it properly.”

Dr Honey had been sounding out local people, including councillors, before deciding whether to nominate for the

Family violence a local plague

By BEN DICKINSON

Domestic violence is more common in Claremont and Dalkeith than in Gosnells or Cannington, new police data suggests.

Claremont recorded 37 assaults by family members last financial year, and violence restraining orders were breached 59 times.

Dalkeith recorded 17 family assaults and one VRO breach.

A WAToday analysis of those figures found the rates of domestic violence offences in Claremont (5.2 per 1000 people) and Dalkeith (5) were higher than the lessaffluent suburbs of Gosnells (4.3) and Cannington (2.4), but all four were dwarfed by Koondoola (29.3), Girrawheen (17.7) and Balga (14.2).

Edith Cowan University research fellow Louise Fischer said that though poverty was a risk factor, family, domestic and sexual

violence (FDSV) was ubiquitous across income brackets.

“It is not isolated to … wealth, education, culture or faith,” she said. “Many perpetrators are educated and affluent.”

ECU’s Maladjiny Research Centre, WA Police and the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing are conducting a joint online survey of women about their FDSV experiences, that will inform a research project on how women access support services and report offences.

“The survey findings will be used to identify gaps in how services, including the police, provide support for victim-survivors and to argue for steps to make existing services better able to help people experiencing family, domestic and/ or sexual violence,” the centre said.

To access and complete the survey, visit tinyurl.com/fdsvwa by September 12.

Debt Restructuring

Tailored Strategies to minimise the

October mayoral election. He attended two full council meetings and was impressed with the way Cottesloe council was performing.

He said the meetings were well-run and councillors appeared dedicated to doing a

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‘Friends’ friendship repaid by RFDS

By JEN REWELL

Mark Westlake is a man of adventure who has motorcycled across three continents and ridden out cyclones on boats. He has had six very close calls over the years, and credits his survival to “unbelievable good luck”. But as well as luck, it was the

service the Flying Doctor provides to people in remote areas.

The Cottesloe resident never thought he would need the services of the RFDS himself but has had more than his fair share of life-threatening adventures.

“I survived Cyclone Tracy on a prawn trawler, when seven of my crew-mates drowned, and I

He and Veronica were more

“He saw me drop and thought, ‘Mark must have tripped … he’s not moving …’ and he couldn’t detect any pulse.”

The man immediately started CPR and was soon joined by other helpers who were “more

“They brought me back to life six times,” Mark said.

“I’d come back and go, ‘What’s going on?’ then I’d bloody die

“He’d just about given up and on the sixth try I stayed semiconscious.”

A Mayday call had reached a

tiny two-seater helicopter which was able to land on a small strip of low-tide sand.

Mark was flown straight to Derby, where he was loaded into the RFDS aircraft and rushed to the emergency department in Darwin.

“That’s the only reason I’m alive today,” he said.

His trip back to Perth was in an RFDS jet, in case he needed medical assistance on the journey.

Traffic conditions in Hay Street, East Perth have changed.

From 2pm Sunday 31 August 2025, traffic will flow in both directions on Hay Street between Victoria Avenue and Bennett Street, and on Victoria Avenue between St Georges Terrace and Hay Street. All road users are urged to take note of the new traffic conditions.

He found out later that his new medication had “heart failure” listed as a side effect.

“It took me three months to get over the pain from the broken ribs,” he said.

He is planning on going to more Friends of the RFDS events, including a sundowner at the Cottesloe Tennis Club.

But he will keep boating, and riding motorbikes.

“That’s the risk you take,” he said.

info@cityofperth.wa.gov.au

Mark Westlake recounts his adventures and thanks the RFDS for saving his life.Photo: Paul McGovern

Helen Burke

By JACK MADDERN

Scones were the tasty recipe for an unlikely alliance between the Country Women’s Association and Claremont’s Men’s Shed for this year’s Perth Royal Show.

The groups met at last year’s show, when the CWA was selling scones and tea from a stall in Centenary Pavilion, and the Men’s Shed was playing host to thousands of showgoers visiting their home base.

Michael Henderson was looking at the local produce and went in for a scone at the CWA stall.

“I immediately thought we could make better scones than this,” he said.

“[CWA CEO] Trish Langdon and I knew each other, and we would bump into each other from time to time in Subi, and so I said we could probably make your scones for you. What do you think?”

Michael was no ordinary showgoer – the retired lawyer was second-in-charge of the Men’s Shed’s commercial-grade kitchen.

The men at the shed regularly put down the power tools to pick up the whisk and now pump out 120 scones every Thursday for members’ morning tea.

Their recipe was the result of trial and error under the supervision of former petrochemical engineer turned head chef Werner Rubil, but has produced superior scones.

Scones are us, men say Cambridge counts tornado cost

By JEN REWELL

“Scones are us,” Michael said.

“But it’s not just scones. We’re doing monthly lunches, we cook for the homeless and I do cooking classes for men.

“There are guys who are widows, guys who are divorced, and guys who just like the companionship of coming in, standing around the table and cooking.”

The men will bake twice a day, and make 4600 scones in total for the Royal Show this year.

Preparations are under way for the Show, which is expected to bring a range of new attractions and performances.

Tickets for children aged four and older will cost $11.50 while those three and younger will get in for free.

Trish Langdon said the strong relationship between the CWA and the Men’s Shed meant the men could get away with a bit of cheek.

“We didn’t have a kitchen last year for the move down to Centenary, so we had the scones brought in from a bakery,” she said.

“Michael here said, ‘We make better scones’.

“We were invited to their Thursday morning tea and found that they are fantastic scones.”

An agreement was struck that the men would bake the scones and the women would sell them at their stall, in a gender role reversal that all parties found humorous.

The tornado that tore through City Beach in late July may cost the Town of Cambridge up to $80,000.

The storm crossed the coast about 5.30pm on July 23 and caused extensive damage to the neighbourhood, with lightning strikes, high winds and driving rain.

Carports and fences were destroyed, trees toppled, and roofs damaged. At least one tree was hit by lightning, and 46mm of rain was recorded at nearby Swanbourne.

Unfortunately for Cambridge ratepayers, the expenses incurred during the response do not meet the expenditure threshold for reimbursement under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements WA.

The Town has had to add an emergency response amount of $80,000 to the budget from the municipal fund.

Health comes to bus stops

By BRET CHRISTIAN

A ban on ads for alcohol, unhealthy food and drink, gambling and fossil fuels looks likely to be included in a new contract for bus shelter advertising controlled by Cottesloe council.

A Cancer Council survey shows that 64% of Perth schools are within 500m of the advertising, says its submission to Cottesloe Council.

The food ads negatively affect children’s food choice, and normalise consumption of unhealthy foods, it says.

“Such advertising increases the likelihood that they will start drinking earlier and drink at risky levels,” the submission said.

Such ads cannot be switched off or avoided.

“The alcohol and unhealthy food industries have written their own rules and voluntary

codes of practice, akin to putting the fox in charge of the henhouse,” it says.

“Their codes are weak and voluntary, not mandatory.”

Cottesloe council has advertised a 14-year bus-shelter advertising contract and is considering tenders from four suppliers of bus shelters carrying advertisements. (Grog, fast food ban, POST, July 19).

West Coast Highway, north of the Fred Burton Drive intersection.

Firefighters and SES crews were kept busy, and at 8pm the Department of Fire and Emergency Services district officer contacted the council’ s recovery coordinator to request that the Town activate its emergency response.

The first step was to clear the streets of branches and fallen trees.

Four contractors were mobilised to help with cleanups and collect debris from several backyards.

More than 100 properties were visited and cleaned up by contractors.

A special bulk waste and green waste collection picked up from more than 70 houses.

CEO Lisa Clack said she hoped the final expenses would not reach that amount.

Multiple trees were lost in Brookdale Street, Launceston Avenue, Callington Avenue and along the western side of

Council staff said a significant number of trees sustained damage, with many losing large limbs.

All of those trees will be replaced as part of the 2026 tree planting program, staff said.

Men from the Claremont Men’s Shed don the aprons and whisk to make fresh scones so good the women at the CWA will sell them at the Royal Show this year. Photo: Paul McGovern

The tornado approaches City Beach.

Ferry spells swan song for river birds

By LLOYD GORMAN

A large family of swans in Matilda Bay are headed for a direct collision with an expanded ferry service and terminal near UWA.

Cottesloe resident Greg Keamy takes international and out-of-state visitors to the picturesque bay so they can get holiday snaps with the iconic swans.

But the birds are facing eviction from their tranquil home on the foreshore because it is right where Transport Minister Rita Saffioti has decreed a 140m-long jetty and terminal are to be built.

A work barge capable of dredging and piling took up position recently close to the spot where the swans can usually be found (Ferry works start in Matilda Bay, POST, August 16).

“When I have visitors, we make a beeline here because this is the spot where they can get a shot with the black swans, they really love it,” Greg said.

“There’s about a dozen or so of them and they are at the back of the boat before you know it and it’s really a lovely thing for people to see.

“But right underneath the tree where they live is where the terminal will be. The

swans are not there right now because we are in the dead of winter, but that is their place.”

Greg has one of the moorings in Matilda Bay that will be moved to make way for the ferry, but he is more worried about the impact on the local wildlife.

“As well as the swans, there are a lot of ducks and even a pod of bottlenose dolphins that swim in the bay regularly,” he said. “What about them?

“Matilda Bay is a beautiful riverside area heavily used for recreation and sports by locals and visitors in summer

and winter alike.

“It’s a community friendly place with a beach in a sheltered and protected bay, exactly like the bay in Peppy Grove beside Royal Freshwater Yacht Club.

“Why would you put a ferry through here and a terminal and disrupt everything and everyone here?

“It doesn’t make sense, especially when you could easily avoid the bay altogether on a better route and use existing infrastructure.”

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Concert band survives shirtfront

By BEN DICKINSON

The College Park Sporting Association has lost a bid to push music groups out of the John Leckie Pavilion during girls’ football matches.

Nedlands council’s commissioners voted unanimously to knock back the takeover bid at a meeting on Wednesday night, minutes after the CPSA’s Brad Forbes unloaded on council CEO Keri Shannon, who he accused of mishandling a public consultation.

“The entire process has been a bit of a farce and the City administration are the ones to blame,” Mr Forbes told the meeting.

He named two council staff members.

“They’ve let all of us down –all of the groups – horrifically.”

The spray prompted an intervention from chief commissioner David Caddy.

“I don’t want you to point out

people in the room,”

Mr Caddy told Mr Forbes.

The CPSA, which represents the Claremont Junior Football Club and Western Suburbs Cricket Club, had sought to use the pavilion’s upper hall on 14 Friday nights a year when girls’ teams play under their home ground’s new lights. That would displace the 40-odd member Claremont Concert Band, which practises in the purposebuilt music hall every week.

“The music hall has been home to our band on a Friday night since the 1990s,” concert band president Liz Duncan told the commissioners.

Four light towers, installed last month, have allowed the girls sides to play at their home ground for the first time, after years of outsourcing “home”

TAX REFORM

games to other venues.

But football club vice president James Baker told commissioners that many parents were not coming to watch their girls play because there was nowhere they could watch out of the weather.

A public consultation organised by the council received a substantial 404 submissions, 73% of which objected to granting the sporting association a licence over the upper hall.

But Mr Forbes said Nedlands staff had misrepresented the CPSA’s position in “biased” consultation documents that contained “countless errors and mistruths”.

Mr Forbes pleaded with commissioners to put off a decision, but Mr Caddy said he had heard enough.

SHIFTING THE TAX BURDEN FROM EARNERS TO SPENDERS

In my column last month I discussed the need to reform our tax system so that younger Australians aren’t left bearing the tax burden for increasing national health and aged care costs.

In the lead-up to the Economic Reform Roundtable in Canberra this week, I proposed an idea that would help address this intergenerational inequity – shifting more of the tax burden from income earners to big spenders, through a progressive GST.

Why GST?

GST is an efficient way to raise tax revenue. It’s transparent, stable and unlike personal income tax, it doesn’t discourage additional work, so it has less negative impact on productivity.

Australia’s GST is relatively low – about half the OECD average - and relatively narrow.

The usual problem with GST is that it is regressive – it causes more pain to low income earners than high income earners, because they have to spend a higher proportion of their income.

But what if we change the GST to be better for lowand middle-income earners?

We could shift the burden away from personal income tax by increasing the rate of GST to 15% and removing current exemptions. This could raise $93bn/year.

If we used $69bn of this to pay every Australian adult a tax-free annual payment of $3,300, at least the lowest 60% of income earners would actually be better off, because they would pay less than $3,300 per year in additional GST.

What could we do with the savings?

We could also use the additional $24bn for personal income tax cuts or budget repair. For example, we could cut the top two personal income tax rates by5 percentage points each AND freeze income tax brackets to stop bracket creep AND still have $10bn left to balance the budget, so we are not borrowing from future generations

Why won’t the major parties talk about this?

The major parties don't want to talk about tax reform, because they're afraid of scare campaigns. And if neither raises it, both sides think they can keep hiding.

But ignoring the intergenerational unfairness in our tax system won't make it go away. It just kicks the can down the road.

We have nearly three years until the next election. Any party that wants to be taken seriously as a contender for government in 2028 must start building amandate for a tax plan that is fair, future-focused, andfit for the demographic changes ahead.

Australians are ready for courageous action to secure a prosperous future for our children.

Greg Keamy with his boat on the Nedlands jetty beside JoJo’s jetty, which he said is the logical location for the proposed terminal and ferry route. Photo: Paul McGovern

Black swans in Matilda Bay.

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Peace breaks out in Golf War

By BRET CHRISTIAN

The vexing problem of flying golf balls that endanger people on the sportsgrounds next door to Sea View Golf Club is closer to a solution.

Cottesloe council is considering agreeing to a compromise plan with the golf club to reduce the risks, including at the point where golfers are required to hit balls across a road.

The council and the club have been unable to agree on a solution since they began arguing over it in 2021, with the club refusing to agree to a council plan to shorten the tee next to Harvey Field from a par 4 to par 3.

Bus cafe wants to improve dustbowl

By JACK MADDERN

A Mosman Beach mobile cafe operator has urged the council to improve the parking dustbowl where they operate their summer service.

The Beach Bus owners Edith Janssen and Jeremy Lee have used an undeveloped patch of sand between two carparks for the past eight years.

They have plans to transform the area once used by Mosman Park council as a dumping ground.

“We asked the Town if we could put some fresh sand down,” Jeremy said.

“In 2022, we put some rough

plans in, saying can we improve the space more?”

Their nomadic operation,with the ability to take their bus anywhere in WA, has some disadvantages, such as needing to set up their furniture in the morning and pack it up that afternoon.

They started lobbying five years ago to revitalise the space by planting trees and installing concrete coffee tables as permanent fixtures.

Council indicated at an agenda forum on Tuesday that it was unlikely to contribute to the $60,000 price tag to improve the area but the couple hoped they would get permission to

start the process. Councillors went behind closed doors to debate granting the approval for the couple to begin work, with their decision to be revealed this Tuesday.

The club’s solution was to encourage golfers to tee off in a northwest direction, away from the sports fields, by creating a dog-leg in the straight 281m fairway.

But the council wanted to end the hole at the apex of the dogleg to avert the risk of golfers spraying balls in the direction of Harvey Field.

The next hole was also a problem for the council. Male golfers tee off across Jarrad Street, a sometimes-busy road that leads to the golf clubhouse.

The council and the club each got expert golf course designers involved, and fretted about insurance risks. But they could not agree on the solution.

At a meeting this week it appeared that the council, under its new CEO Mark Newman, is moving towards a compromise that may make the hole safer.

This would install the dog-leg in the 2/11 fairway, shortening

the tee shot to between 150 and 170m, plus other protective measures.

Those measures include eliminating one of the two raised tee boxes at the start of the fairway and lowering the other to the same level as the fairway.

A 30m-long fence would be built to catch any sliced balls before they fly into Harvey Field off the tee.

Trees would be planted along the eastern side of the fairway to direct shots away from the sports field.

A 1.2m-high fence would prevent people from accessing the fairway.

The high fence protecting the Anderson Pavilion at the other end of the fairway would be extended.

The dog-leg layout would mean the removal from the golf course of up to 25 trees, which would have to be replaced by 75 new ones, not necessarily on the course.

Mr Newman told a council meeting this week that if the golf club’s plan still resulted in balls being hit onto the sports fields, the tee would have to be shortened to a par 3.

At the next hole, where golfers tee off across Jarrad Street, the tee would also be lowered and a mound built in front to force golfers to loft their balls over passing cars.

The club resisted moving all golfers to the women’s tee on the north side of Jarrad Street, saying it would put the Sea View kindergarten and houses in Broome Street at risking from errant balls.

The council will make a final decision later this month.

Long, straight drives required from this tee too often end up on Harvey Field and Cottesloe Oval to the right, sometimes hitting people. Changes would mean the fairway would take a dog leg, requiring golfers to drive to the left of this picture.

The Beach Bus operates on a part of Mosman Beach once used as a rubbish dump.

Coastal views and development

I admire Mosman Park council (Million-dollar river views at risk, POST, August 16) for wanting significant landscape views to be protected.

I wish them well, and hope they can also work with Cottesloe to protect the McCall, Vlamingh and Mosman bushlands areas in a joint effort to conserve the nature break from the impending Cottesloe-Leighton-North Fremantle development strip.

From the Cottesloe groyne, the view south taking in the stunning beaches to the distant silhouettes of the port cranes needs protecting.

A covered trench sinking the railway might encourage lessdisruptive infill development away from the ocean, while at the same time levelling the rail crossings.

Having failed to protect the western view from the Civic Centre Gardens, Cottesloe, council is all set to further disrupt ocean views caused by its Car Park No.2 development plans –

Different view of Nedlands’ past

Your correspondents Susan Watson (Caddy’s policies destroy gardens, Letters, August 16) and Max Hipkins (Commissioner Caddy gets it wrong) have very different memories from mine of the City of Nedlands council.

I was an elected member before the 1995 dismissal, and more recently while Max Hipkins, Cilla de Lacey and Fiona Argyle were mayors.

The chair of the WA Planning Commission prior to David Caddy’s appointment in 2018 was Eric Lumsden.

I think it is fair to say that the council of that time ignored Mr Lumsden and the Department of Planning.

The major issue of the time was the Government’s revision of town planning law to achieve more consistency across the metropolitan region, especially the western suburbs, and ultimately to remove townplanning decisions from local government.

The new legislation was of course highly resented

Lake Jualbup surprise

Our former neighbour and renowned local photographer Clive Addison’s recently submitted photo of a full rainbow inspired me to submit a photograph of my own, shot on an iPhone at Lake Jualbup last week.

My wife and I have lived in Subiaco for many years, but until last year we had never seen one of Lake Jualbup’s famous long-necked turtles. So imagine my delight at seeing two at the same time.

We can thank the little jetty at the lake for allowing us this opportunity. Clive has always been generous with his help and advice so I hope my efforts will bring a smile to his face!

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No conflict? That’s an interesting point

Given the number of comments in this newspaper and elsewhere regarding the appointment of David Caddy as chief commissioner tasked with sorting out the “current mess which is the City of Nedlands”, it appears to me that Mr Caddy is most unsuitable for that role.

He says the City’s Local Planning Scheme No.3 should have been reviewed up to six times over the past 33 years and wasn’t.

One wonders why he didn’t push to start the review process some 30 years ago while he was a councillor. Time marches on and now we have an approved Chellingworth development of three huge towers on one side of Stirling Highway and two major shopping centre developments almost immediately opposite. With Stirling Highway regularly gridlocked and with no chance of any widening well into

the future, as a result of these developments approved under Mr Caddy’s chairmanship of the WA Planning Commission, there will be a nightmare with which to contend.

In spite of all that, Mr Caddy says he does not believe his appointment to head the council commission will be seen as presenting any perceived conflict of interest.

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Doc conducts a golden operation

By BEN DICKINSON

A paediatric gastroenterologist will travel from Canada to Nedlands next month to conduct a 40-piece band.

Tom Walters, who can play the euphonium and perform an oesophagogastroduodenoscopy, will conduct the Claremont Concert Band’s rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats for the band’s 50th anniversary concert on September 19.

He is one of a handful of past conductors of Claremont Concert Band who will be returning for the milestone event.

“We’re going to be playing a variety of sentimental music, plus some new music,” said band president Liz Duncan.

Inaugural conductor Brian Underwood, now 86, will be on stage, as will the band’s longestserving current member, flautist Lute Overmeire.

“As a teenager I came out from Belgium to Australia in 1982,” Lute said.

“Within weeks of arriving my father was ringing around trying to find somewhere for me and my three brothers to play.”

Lute met her husband through the band and has remained a playing member for 43 years.

“It’s just very enjoyable to play in a group,” she said.

The Claremont Concert Band started life in 1975, when it was founded by Dalkeith music teacher Helen Parkinson as the Nedlands Music Association. She was named Nedlands

Citizen of the Year in 1982 for her efforts in establishing the band.

A historical display on Helen Parkinson’s life will feature at the September 19 concert at the John Leckie Pavilion, which kicks off at 7pm.

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Found looks for room to grow

By LLOYD GORMAN

Subiaco brewery and tavern

Found wants to expand into a neighbouring building.

Found has operated at 397 Hay Street since November 2024 – following the closure of Golden West Brewing – and is now seeking permission to occupy and operate an empty shopfront at 391 Hay Street.

“It is the success of Found in this location that is driving this expansion proposal,” the owners said in their development application to Subiaco council.

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“The proposed expansion seeks to cater to patron demand, not only for additional general tavern space, but also to provide private dining and dedicated function space offerings, that are in demand but not currently provided by the open bar and beer garden spaces of the current venue.”

A new pergola roof in the existing beer garden is proposed and various modifications and upgrades are planned for the building it would occupy.

The application proposes opening from 9am to midnight

seven days a week, and 7am to 7pm for brewery operations.

The development applica-

tion is available on

council’s website for public comment until September

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Daffodil Daryl driven by mates

By JACK MADDERN

Three boys from WA farming towns joined the navy when they were 16.

Two have since died – from cancer, not naval misadventures – and the survivor dons a bright yellow suit at this time every year in memory of his mates.

Daryl Walton enlisted in 1981 and trained at HMAS Leeuwin

in East Fremantle where he met Steve Blasdale and Barry O’Neill.

Steve died in 2018 and Daryl got involved in the Cancer Council’s annual Daffodil Day in his memory. Barry died recently.

Daryl had his yellow suit custom-made in Bali, where it was considered so extravagant that he made their local newspapers. He found matching

shoes and hat and has been selling yellow daffodils to raise money for the Cancer Council since then.

All that is missing from his ensemble is painting his face yellow.

“I won’t dye my beard yellow as it’s a bit much,” he said.

“One year I was thinking about painting my face yellow, but my wife and daughters said

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Subi disputes credit card clip

By LLOYD GORMAN

Subiaco council has hit back at a “headline-grabbing” report by a public sector watchdog that questioned its credit card use.

CEO Colin Cameron wrote to Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley on July 31 to dispute elements of a performance audit of credit and corporate cards at six metropolitan councils, including Subiaco.

The Auditor General’s report gave examples of excessive spending on alcohol and meals, gifts and travel but did not identify the individual councils.

The examples included a $1026 dinner for councillors and staff, $990 spent on wine and spirits and $280 for four bottles of champagne for staff and elected members.

Mr Cameron said the public communication of the report obscured its finding that public funds had not been misused.

“We have concerns regarding the manner in which the findings have been publicly communicated,” he said.

“It seems there has been a ‘headline-grabbing’ approach which diminishes public trust, and the crucial conclusion – that there was no finding of misuse of public funds – has been obscured.”

The report said Subiaco had just two credit cards and spent less than $200,000 a year on a wide range of expenses.

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are important preventive controls to guide staff decisions when purchasing and reduce instances of unreasonable and excessive spending.

“The community has a right to expect that public money will be spent carefully and only for legitimate business purposes.”

Subiaco has since adopted protocols on hospitality spending in line with ATO guidelines.

Mr Cameron told the minister the audit process “was professionally conducted overall”.

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Bar ban broken, say police

Officers from the Gang Crime Squad arrested a man at Lake Monger last week after he allegedly flouted barring notices at two licensed venues – the second just a day after he was charged with the first.

Police searched the house of the 58-yearold Karrinyup man on August 12, after receiving information that he had entered a licensed venue he was barred from in Cockburn on August 8. He was charged with entering premises contrary to a barring notice.

Police say that the next day, August 13, they received information that the man had entered licensed premises in Leederville where he was also barred.

“Gang Crime Squad and

A 58-year-old man allegedly breached a barring notice at a Leederville licensed venue just a day after he was charged with the same offence.

Licensing Enforcement Unit officers stopped the man a short time later [at] Lake Monger where he was arrested,” police said. He was taken to Perth Watch House and granted

police bail. The man is due to face the Leederville charge in Perth Magistrates Court on August 29 and the Cockburn charge in Fremantle Magistrates Court on September 12.

Unrequited desire disturbs Wandana for six hours

A woman demanded sex from a Wandana resident during a six-hour disturbance that drew police, ambulances and the fire brigade to the Subiaco complex.

The woman, in her 30s,was detained after a self-harm incident and taken to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital for a mental health assessment.

A resident said the incident confirmed why Wandana needed increased security and CCTV.

Residents said the woman does not live at the Department of Housing complex on Thomas Street but started hanging around at 4pm on August 13.

garden area and then sat outside a man’s fl banging on his door asking to come in.

resident said the woman followed him to his fl where he said she barged in and used his toilet.

Disrupt Burrup ‘conspiracy’ charge dropped ahead of trial date

Police have dropped a conspiracy charge against a Disrupt Burrup Hub member who they accused of organising a protest at the City Beach home of Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill.

Four activists planned to throw paint at Ms O’Neill’s house and lock themselves to a gate on the morning of August 1, 2023, but were foiled by police lying in wait for them.

Jesse Noakes, Gerard

Mazza, Emil Davey and Matilda Lane-Rose all pleaded guilty and were fined in January in a plea deal that saw them admit to charges of trespassing and attempted unlawful damage.

Two other Disrupt Burrup members who were not at the protest, Joanna Partyka and Thalia Stolarski, were charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence after the ABC was ordered

to hand over unedited footage of the group’s activities recorded by a Four Corners camera crew.

But the charge against Ms Partyka, 40, was abruptly dropped this week, two months before she was due to stand trial.

“Last week I got a call from my lawyer telling me that they were going to discontinue the conspiracy charge against me,” Ms Partyka said.

“I was fully prepared to

take this to trial.

was incredibly fl not been shown the ABC footage, but believed it only showed her delivering pizza to a gathering of Disrupt Burrup members before the City Beach protest.

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“When she came out she had her strides down and said we are going to have sex,” he said.

“I said ‘Oh no we’re not, get out’.”

The man said she started banging on his door and then the doors of his neighbours and other flats.

“That went on from about 4pm to 10pm when she set off the fire alarm,” he said.

“Two cops knocked on

“We badly need security and CCTV at Wandana.

“People are living in fear and afraid to come out of their flats at night.

“It’s the only thing that might help.”

Wembley Senior Sergeant Craig Wanstall confirmed officers responded to reports of yelling and banging on doors at the complex.

He said the woman was detained by police and conveyed to SCGH for a mental health assessment.

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services confirmed a fire alarm had been activated at 9.52pm and a fire crew attended while St John Ambulance confirmed a crew went to Wandana about 10.05pm to deal with a “self-harm

Joanna Partyka outside court.

The Department of Housing issued a notice to all Wandana residents this week, touching on a number of matters, includ-

“Tenants are advised that unknown persons are accessing the complex grounds,” the notice said.

“Tenants are reminded to secure their unit doors and windows as required to maintain the integrity of the units as a safe refuge for the wellbeing of themselves, householders

“Tenants are reminded to call police for any unauthorised access, including unauthorised access to balconies, antisocial and criminal activity.”

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Top dog good for business

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Border collies are renowned as workaholics but young Maggie Gregg is taking a modern approach to her career.

Maggie is a finalist in the Oztopdog competition, in the category of Top Office Dog.

Run by People2people Recruitment in partnership with Dogs Connect, the competition celebrates dogs that bring joy, comfort, and camaraderie to offices across the nation.

Maggie is the wellness officer at Subiaco real estate company Richard Noble and Co.

Niamh Arnold, one of Maggie’s human colleagues, said the calm canine naturally created opportunities for connection.

“When you are having one of those days where you have so much on, she comes and reminds you to have a breather,” she said.

“Maggie helps foster a more collaborative and supportive

environment, without even trying.”

Maggie has several tricks (including sit, roll and the classic paw shake) but her signature move is a head tilt when asked to examine a spreadsheet.

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINARY ELECTION CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Shire of Peppermint Grove

An Ordinary Postal Election will be held on Saturday, 18 October 2025 in the Shire of Peppermint Grove to fill the following vacancies: District 4 Councillors 4 year terms

Nominations Open on Thursday, 28 August 2025

Nominations Close at 4:00pm Thursday, 4 September 2025

Nominations must be lodged with the Returning Officer:

• at any time during the above period by arrangement; or

• between 2:00pm and 4:00pm Thursday, 4 September 2025 (close of nominations) at the Shire of Peppermint Grove, 1 Leake Street, PEPPERMINT GROVE.

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McGurk wants better-off artists

By SARAH McNEILL

“There is more work to do, there is no doubt about that,” acknowledged arts minister Simone McGurk, pictured, speaking about the state of arts and culture in WA.

The Member for Fremantle is now responsible for the newly-named portfolio Creative Industries and faces increasing challenges as funding gets diverted to sports, established arts companies close their doors and hospitality venues threaten to cancel live events.

The Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries was renamed the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport on July 1.

“Renaming the portfolio to Creative Industries leans into the idea that the Cook government wants to create more things in WA,” Ms McGurk said.

“We want people to grow their talent, to have career paths and attract audiences and more investment into WA.”

According to a Media, Art, and Entertainment Alliance survey conducted last year, the average professional artist across all disciplines earned a gross annual income of $23,200 – half the minimum wage – from their creative work.

support a new NRL team.

Creative Industries provides annual funding of around $10.3million to six state companies and $13.6million to share between 36 smaller companies.

Meanwhile two arts organisations were forced to close their doors.

After filling His Majesty’s Theatre for five years, Perth Cabaret Festival closed because the state government denied its request to reallocate the funding it had received to securing artists’ contracts, flights and equipment instead of hiring the state-owned venue to stage events.

Propel Youth Arts WA closed its doors in June after 22 years of supporting youth in the arts, citing funding shortfalls in core operational funding and policy neglect.

Ms McGurk said there has been no reduction in funding for those organisations and the closures were the decision of the respective boards.

It is all public money one way or another ‘ ’

“It is our ambition for artists to make a living from the arts,” Ms McGurk said. “My job is to attract more money, leverage with local and federal governments and philanthropic opportunities and advocate for people to support the arts.”

With an operating surplus of $2.4billion for this financial year – the seventh consecutive operating surplus – the state Budget for 2025-26 delivered in June committed $332million for upgrades to sports facilities and infrastructure, and $60million over seven years to

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“I am not going to guarantee that arts organisations should stay in place forever,” she said.

Ms McGurk said that the new film studio in Malaga, due to open next year, was a big investment in the industry at $233.5million.

“At the moment WA only produces 1% of Australia’s screen and TV and digital content,” she said. “We want to increase that 10-fold.”

She said she hoped there would be a balance between attracting outside work and projects and giving WA locals some of that work.

“We want investment from outside, interstate and overseas, but we will keep a close eye on it,” she said.

“We’ve invested a lot through TAFE vocational training, and we want to be able to tell WA stories.”

The state government is currently spending heavily on infrastructure.

Perth Concert Hall is undergoing a $150million redevelopment and is due to reopen in 2028. Perth Cultural Centre is undergoing a $55million rejuvenation and His Majesty’s Theatre has already undergone a $15million refurbishment.

Proposed Scheme Amendment No. 19 – Short-Term Rental Accommodation (STRA) and Draft Amended Local Planning Policy 2.2 –Short Term Accommodation

The City of Nedlands is seeking comment on proposed Amendment No. 19 to Local Planning Scheme No. 3 relating to short-term rental accommodation (STRA).The amendment seeks to align with the Planning and Development (Local Planning Schemes) Regulations 2015 (LPS Regulations).

for residential and commercial accommodation types and updating land-use permissibility in line with new statewide planning exemptions.

A supporting amended Local Planning Policy relating to certain STRA types will be advertised alongside the Scheme Amendment. Public comment is open until 5pm, Friday 3 October 2025.

Please visit yourvoice.nedlands.wa.gov.au to view documents and submit feedback.

Copies of the documents are also available at the City’s Administration Building located at 71 Stirling Highway, Nedlands, WA 6009.

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The long-needed refurbishments are vital for these old buildings, but the question then becomes who can afford to use them.

The state-owned venues, which include His Majesty’s, State Theatre Centre, the concert hall and Subiaco Arts Centre, are all too expensive for small or medium arts companies to use.

“I reject the perception that we are just investing in the infrastructure and not investing in the content,” Ms McGurk said.

“Is there more to do? Absolutely, but one of the challenges with state-owned venues is that we are either giving companies more money to stage a show or we are putting more money into subsidising the venue – it is all public money one way or another.”

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By SARAH McNEILL

More stories, more items and better displays are all part of Subiaco Museum’s latest displays.

The museum opened its doors last Saturday after five weeks of upgrading and refreshing its displays for better engagement with local historical stories.

Museum curator and coordinator Jessica Marantelli said that for the first time in its 50 years, the museum has formulated a style guide to coordinate its storytelling and displays.

“We have created more dynamic displays and created key themes for the stories of Subiaco,” she said.

The building that houses the museum at 239 Rokeby Road, Subiaco’s orginal power station, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2023, and the

museum celebrates its 50th in November.

Along with internal improvements, the museum is in line for a new independent power supply, separate from the old administration building, as part of its anniversary upgrades.

Now run by City of Subiaco, the museum has more than 12,000 physical items in the collection, with about 5% on display at any one time.

The new display cabinets in the main gallery allow for more items to be on show and for key documents to be displayed in pull-out drawers and its digital collection available on a new touch-screen kiosk.

The flexible design means display cabinets can be moved to allow for up to 25 people to attend talks and events.

The museum is open to the public from Wednesday to Saturday each week.

Royal Show tightens child safety checks

By JACK MADDERN

Drones, cows, fireworks and sweets, there is only one place that hosts such a chaotic mix each year, and that’s the Perth Royal Show.

However, last year’s Show had a nasty addition to the mix when it was revealed that a convicted paedophile had been working with children there..

Serious revisions to screening “working with children” checks, and promises of beefed-up security for this year’s event, damp-

ened the usual festive mood attached to the Show’s opening announcement last week..

Among the announcements was that the paedophile has been banned for life from the Show.

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CEO Robyn Sermon said it wouldn’t be feasible to check all the exhibitors, but it was mandatory for those who would be working primarily with children.

“Last year we did about three to four hundred checks, and this year it’s well over a thousand,” she said.

“I think we’ve taken a very

pragmatic approach. I think parents, when they come to the Show, are very good at supervising their own children. That’s a very big part of it, too.

“We work very closely with WA Police, and I am really confident about the safety of the Show.”

Agriculture and Food Minister Jackie Jarvis said she was confident the Show would be one of the safest places for families to be.

“Where checks are required by legislation, they are in place,”

A further 80 cameras, an emergency operations cers and 130 security guards will be on site to assist

Although still 35 days away from opening the gates, about 5000 volunteers, staff and businesses have begun work to get

With the mammoth turnout of last year, roughly 440,000 visitors in total, peaking at around 70,000 in just one day, putting on the

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What’s that in dog years?

It’s Saturday August 23, 2025, and Pluto, the black miniature poodle from Shenton Park, often seen walking at Lake Jualbup, is 16 years old today!

Bred by Anne and Phil Howell at Pudelian Poodles in Southern River, “Pudelian Splashdown on Pluto” was born in 2009.

His sire, “Splash Sudden Impact”, was a white miniature poodle imported from Sweden and won numerous prizes at Perth dog shows. The Howells bred his dam, “Pudelian Dioressence”.

Owned by John Overton and me, Pluto lives on Onslow Road and is well known to many in Shenton Park.

Still fit, though partially deaf, he is a bright and enthusiastic canine who loves the company of both other dogs and people.

Ever since he was a puppy he has been groomed regularly by Priscilla and Jess at Hip Dog Studio in Kirwan Street, Floreat.

Happy birthday, Pluto!

David Beaton Onslow Road, Shenton Park

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School crisis dates back decades

The situation at Bob Hawke College whereby 180 students are to be crossing Roberts Road to attend classes in the heritagelisted Subiaco Freemasons Hall, when the paint is barely dry on their new school, perpetuates a narrative with origins dating back to decision-making in the 1990s and early 2000s.

During that period the Local Area Education Planning process was used to justify closing several western suburb high schools and selling the land.

Another site was lost when Perth Modern School was reverted to an academic selection school in 2005.

The revenue raised from the sale of the land years ago is pitifully insignificant compared with the ongoing costs of building and then extending Shenton College and eventually Bob Hawke College, in conjunction

Terminal disease taking hold on Matilda Bay

I am appalled that drilling for the foundations of a ferry terminal have begun in peaceful, bird-filled Matilda Bay, less than a month after the Government announced the terminal’s location.

This needs further discussion, please!

This is a special reserve, an area of land where animals, birds and plants are officially protected.

It’s a precious, rare, indented pocket of splendour where swans live and breed (bringing their cygnets into the bay to fish and onto the lawns to peck

grass); where pelicans fish and children play in the protected waters.

It is a peaceful area for many a uni student studying, or overseas visitors taking in the views. Weddings and birthday picnics are popular. It is many things to many people Please, do not destroy this reserve with commercial. Move to a sensible location – the existing JoJo’s Jetty which actually juts out into the Swan River at the end of Broadway, rather than being inside our protected Matilda Bay.

with the massive and endless outlays to continually upgrade existing campuses which have evolved into “super-schools” of 2500 and more students. Yet students at Bob Hawke College, a new school built in desperation, are to be taught in a 96-year-old disused hall. Hopefully there’ll be some vacant warehouses in Subiaco for the next generation. P. Jeffery Dampier Avenue, City Beach

A surfeit of governments

Every State and Territory in Australia has three levels of government, federal, state and local. That is probably at least one more than we need. In WA, local government has been marginalised to the point of irrelevance. We should be asking:

• What do we need local government to do?

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• What agency does it have left to do what we want it to do?

• And how much local government do we really need for that?

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Getting on ... “Pudelian Splashdown on Pluto”, at home with owner David Beaton in Shenton Park this week. Photo: Paul McGovern

Idyll under threat ... Black swans making the most of peaceful Matilda Bay. Photo: M. Frankham

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All the world’s a stage for Shakespeare club

The Shakespeare Club of WA has begun a new chapter with the election of its new president, Glen Morgan, at its recent AGM.

Glen takes up the role after the 20-year reign of Frances Dharmalingam, of Nedlands, who recently stepped down as President.

Frances was presented with an inscribed pen as a token of appreciation for her service to the club, before she reflected on her admiration for William Shakespeare.

The playwright and poet sat at the centre of the Western canon against which other works were judged, she said

“I came to Shakespeare early in life, thanks to my mother and father,” Frances said.

“My mother was widely read in English literature with a wealth of Shakespearian quotations at her fingertips, and my father was a lecturer in speech and drama who loved Shakespeare; he would launch into soliloquies from the Bard’s plays at the dining table.

“Personally, Shakespeare means wonderful stories, engrossing characters, enduring universal themes and inspired language, much of which we use today, often unknowingly.

“After the Disney classics, Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet was

one of the first films I remember seeing. I thought the play and Olivier amazing.”

Frances said being a member of the Shakespeare Club of WA motivated her to analyse Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets more deeply.

Club members met regularly to read his works, which always resulted in finding a different point of view to discuss and learn from, she said.

Incoming president Glen Morgan said he looked forward in his new role to celebrating Shakespeare as well as other classical works.

The Shakespeare Club of WA meets every third Saturday at 2pm at Citiplace, at the Perth Railway Station.

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Pioneer career starts, and ends, in Paris

Former diplomat Penny Wensley will be a guest speaker at the Australian Institute of International Affairs WA on Thursday, August 28.

During her 40-year career in the diplomatic service she was Australia’s first woman in roles that included Consul General to Hong Kong, Ambassador to the United Nations, Permanent Representative to the UN in New

York, and High Commissioner to India.

Penny’s first junior diplomatic posting was to Paris in 1968, and her final posting was Ambassador to France from 2005 to 2008.

Penny also served as Governor of Queensland from 2008 to 2014 and is a prominent environmentalist.

At the institute meeting on

Thursday, she will reflect on her career and take questions from the audience.

The event will be 6.30 to 8.30pm in the Ashburton Room, Forrest Hall, 21 Hackett Drive, Crawley.

Tickets $20 and $10 members of AIIA WA.

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New Shakespeare Club of WA President Glen Morgan, centre, with Caroline Crowhurst, left, and Jeanette Richards.

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Two talks about the prospects of ending the Ukraine-Russia war will be presented by the West Coast Community Centre, Peppermint Grove, on August 26 and September 9. Associate Professor Alexey Muraviev will speak at 10am on each date.

Dr Muraviev is Associate Professor of National Security and Strategic Studies at Curtin University, founder and director of the university’s Strategic Flashlight Forum on National Security and Strategy, and was the Academic Lead of the Curtin Defence strategic initiative.

He will provide an overview of the war in Ukraine, consider possible courses of action major actors in the conflict might take, discuss Vladimir Putin’s political future, and draw preliminary conclusions on what may be learned from the war.

His one-hour talks will be in the Grove Library Precinct Community Room. Entry $34 for non-members, $24 for members. For more information go to westcoastcommunity.com.au/ and click on the program button.

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Loneliness is a high-risk business

A discussion about loneliness and wellbeing will be held at The Church of the Resurrection in Swanbourne on Thursday, August 28. The free talk will be presented by UWA academic and psychologist Professor Stephen Houghton.

Prof. Houghton is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

and Wellbeing at UWA. He will discuss the subjective, negative and unpleasant emotional experience of feeling lonely, outlining how it can be felt at any age, even in those who have lots of contacts they see face-to-face or online.

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Prof. Houghton will discuss the latest research, and answer questions.

He will also discuss other factors that can affect mental wellbeing, such as screen time, social media and the aftermath of COVID.

The talk will be 1.15 to 2.45pm in the church hall at 105 Shenton Road, Swanbourne.

The Queen of Hearts reigns on parade

The students and teachers at City Beach Primary School celebrated their favourite children’s books with a costume parade on Tuesday morning this week.

The colourful parade was in honour of Children’s Book Week, which deputy principal Alison Jenkins said was always a key highlight of the school calendar.

But this year was even more special, celebrating 80 years of Children’s Book Week

The students were invited to come to school on Tuesday dressed as their favourite character in a children’s book.

“The 2025 theme, Book an Adventure, invites young readers to embark on fantastical journeys, inspiring them to travel through the worlds that books open up,” Alison said.

Later in the week the students were to hear a visiting author share their experience on how to create and publish books, to inspire them to create their own imaginative adventures though language and literacy.

Children’s Book Week is run by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.

For more information go to cbca.org.au.

Principal Mari Dart, front, Deputy Principal Alison Jenkins, right, and City Beach PS students all dressed up for Children’s Book Week. Photo: Paul McGovern

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Impressions at the Grove Library

Six Perth artists are bringing their latest works to the Grove Library in Peppermint Grove in September, with a mix of local landscapes, international scenes and bold contemporary styles.

The exhibition, titled Impressions, runs September 7 to 20, with an official opening on Wednesday September 10 at 6pm.

Entry is free. The artists have exhibited together previously under the name DAG – which stands for Decentralised Art Gallery group.

Their work offers a rich variety of perspectives, created with oils, acrylics, pastels and mixed media.

Sue Cross captures the essence of WA’s natural world, while Brian Carew-Hopkins contributes seascapes, landscapes and abstracts paired with art videos.

George Schaefer brings cubist portraiture and Miles Humphreys presents vibrant abstract works.

Ian Bauert and Tim Sewell exhibit representational scenes inspired by Australian life and their travels abroad.

A selection of works from the Claremont Men’s Shed art group adds yet more variety.

The exhibition can be viewed Monday to Thursday 9am to 6pm, Friday 9am to 5pm, Saturday 10am to 4pm; and Sunday noon to 4pm.

The Grove Library is at 1 Leake Street, Peppermint Grove.

Can a GP help you live longer?

International studies have shown that people who have a regular family doctor live longer and better, according to a guest speaker at the U3A Western Suburbs branch meeting on August 25..

Max Kamien is Emeritus Professor of General Practice at UWA Medical School, and at the Grove Library Monday he will give a presentation about the doctor-patient relationship, outlining what patients can expect from their GP – and vice versa.

His presentation at 2.30pm will follow short talks from 1pm by U3A members. Topics will include expatriate life in Papua New Guinea, an art exhibition in Melbourne, and 40 years of U3A Perth.

Visitors are welcome and there is a $3 charge.

For more information phone Sath Moodley on 0413 212 513 or email sath.moodley@gmail.com.

The Grove Public Library is on the corner of Stirling Highway and Leake Street, Peppermint Grove.

Wadjemup sheds kilos of rubbish at Stark Bay

The coast at Stark Bay on Wadjemup/Rottnest was given the beauty treatment recently when students picked up almost 70kg of rubbish from the beach.

City Beach Primary School Year 5 students and Bob Hawke College students joined forces with Keep Australia Beautiful staff and employees from the SeaLink Rottnest Island ferry company, on August 8.

The group gathered as part of Keep Australia Beautiful Week and together picked up 67.5kg of marine debris including rope, floats, bait boxes and craypots which littered the beach.

The event was attended by Bateman MP Kim Giddens, who is Parliamentary Secretary to the Environment Minister and commended the students’

efforts and the importance of community-led environmental action.

The exercise helped to emphasise the importance of protecting natural spaces, and using items that are sustainable.

City Beach Primary School principal Alison Jenkins said the Wadjemup excursion had been funded by Keep Australia Beautiful WA.

It followed the school’s cleanup this year at City Beach oval and playground, and represented a positive shared activity for students at City Beach and Bob Hawke College.

“This was a great opportunity for students to help to remove debris, as well as audit waste for inclusion in the Australian Marine Debris Initiative Database,” she said.

Students from City Beach PS and Bob Hawke College collected marine waste littering Stark Bay at Wadjemup.

Artists from left George Schaefer, Brian Carew-Hopkins, and Sue Cross with artworks to be exhibited. Photo: Paul McGovern

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weed out or to leave in?

Volunteer weeders from Friends of Galup recently called in some expert help ahead of spring’s burst in vegetation growth.

On Sunday August 10 they invited botanist Vanda Longman to their regular weeding busy bee at the lake, to help them identify which plants to take out and which to keep.

Volunteer Robyn Walshe said spring brought a rapid growth in vegetation at Galup/ Lake Monger, and it could be tricky to know which plants needed to go.

“It can be challenging to identify what of that is valued,” she said.

“Our last busy bee at Galup was more about knowing what to weed out and what to leave to flourish.

“We had an expert to guide us.”

Robyn said Vanda shared her extensive knowledge with the volunteers and provided them with booklets she had created for the session – complete with drawings of plants with their botanical and common names.

“She helped us to target the worst offenders – those weeds that are the most invasive,” Robyn said.

The volunteers and Town

of Cambridge staff had added plants around the lake in recent years which filtered toxins from the water, so helping to protect the lake’s water quality.

“Weeds are the enemies here, as they smother the plants that do this helpful work,” Robyn said.

“But knowing what to dig out (and safely destroy) is the challenge.

“With the help of people like Vanda, we’ll know what to eliminate from our green lakeside areas.

“It will take time – and we’re

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aware that in many spots, the weeds might win.

“But armed with volunteers, the right knowledge, and weeding gear, we can make a difference.”

Robyn urged members of the public to join in the next busy bee at Galup.

“Help us fight these environmental intruders,” she said.

The next busy bee is on Sunday September 14 from 9 to 10.30am.

For more information go to the Friends of Galup/Lake Monger website at foglm.org.

If you’re considering putting yourself forward for the upcoming City of Subiaco Council election, nominations must be submitted between Thursday 28 August and 4pm Thursday 4 September 2025

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Visit the City’s website, www.subiaco.wa.gov.au, for more information.

Rhea applies her fine mind to brain science

A Perth Modern School student’s knowledge of and passion for neuroscience has won her the state’s top prize in the Western Australian Brain Bee Challenge.

Rhea Kewalram, aged 15, will represent WA in the National Brain Bee Challenge to be held online later this year.

She will also undertake work experience at the Perron Institute in Nedlands as part of

The Australian Brain Bee Challenge is a competition that tests students’ understanding of the brain and its functions.

It is designed to inspire the next generation of neurosci-

Rhea said she was driven by a deep curiosity about neuroscience and a commitment to learning.

“I have always been intrigued by neuroscience and I saw the Brain Bee Challenge as a great opportunity to expand my scientific knowledge,” she said.

“The human brain is incredibly complex, so there was a lot of content to cover.

“I focused on understanding rather than memorisation and gradually worked through all the concepts.”

The Brain Bee Challenge’s state final, at the University of Western Australia on June 27, offered students hands-on experience.

They examined real brain specimens and learned about the latest research.

Rhea said she found the exploration of neurodegenerative disease treatments particularly interesting.

Several other Perth Modern students took part in the Brain Bee Challenge, and Rhea said;

“We encouraged each other and clarified information together.

“Having such an intelligent and kind group around me helped a lot.”

Rhea said she was excited about the chance to do work experience at the Perron Institute.

“I’m looking forward to deepening my knowledge of the brain and engaging in real-world neuroscience research,” she said.

“This experience has strengthened my passion for understanding the human body, and I can definitely see neuroscience playing a role in my future career – possibly in neurology or research.”

For more information email abbc@cibf.edu.au.

a brush with good health

Staining the plaque on their own teeth and fun facts about dental floss were all part of a recent visit by a local dentist to Floreat Primary School.

Dr Rob Tyrrell chatted to Years 4 and 5 students as part of Dental Health Week, which was August 4 to 10.

“It’s not every day you hear a class of 10-year-olds erupt into laughter at the idea of 10 teaspoons of sugar lurking in a single glass of orange juice,” he said.

But Dr Tyrrell said that did indeed happen during his lively and interactive session to teach kids about the importance of dental health.

“Armed with dental props, a good dose of Dad humour and the knack of a sports coach for engaging the children, I guided the class through the essentials of how to have a healthy mouth,” he said.

These included brushing twice a day, how to floss, making the right choices when it comes to sugary treats – and eating them quickly – and why it was important to visit a dentist regularly.

Dr Tyrrell said he also shared fascinating facts about how the health of our mouth could affect our overall health and wellbeing.

Hear three health professionals give their perspective on how to age well.

A podiatrist, a physiotherapist and a physiologist will be guest speakers at the Hollywood Subiaco Learners’ Club.

physiologist David Beard will share the lessons he has learnt from eight years’ study at three universities on two continents, and the latest developments in ageing research.

On September 19 podiatrist Samuel Ong will talk about ways in which people can make their osteoarthritis worse – and how understanding that can make a difference to how they move, feel and stay active.

The September talk will be at Mt Claremont Community Centre, 105 Montgomery Avenue, in the Banksia Room.

On October 17 physiotherapist Andy Austin will offer tips and techniques to manage common joint pain. And on November 14

The other two will be at Hollywood Subiaco Bowling Club, 42 Smyth Road in Nedlands from 3 to 4pm. Register at 2.45pm. Costs are $5 cash for members and $10 for nonmembers. RSVP by email to donarosa49@gmail.com.

Dentist Rob Tyrrell with Fergal Tyrrell, rear left, and William Galluccio.

Botanist Vanda Longman helping Galup’s Weed Warriors learn which plants must come out, and which ones stay.

Rhea Kewalram with professors Jennifer Rodger and Charles Watson.

Naseem diagnoses a calm, healthy future

This year marks 25 years since local charity Breast Cancer Care WA started up to support people living with cancer and their families.

The Cottesloe charity is inviting members of the public to support its Purple Bra Day campaign to raise $500,000 for cancer services.

One of many patients and their families Breast Cancer Care WA has supported is Naseem Taheri-Lee, 34, of Claremont, who was diagnosed in August with the disease.

She had gone to the GP with pain in her right breast, and cancer was discovered after an ultrasound and biopsy.

“I was in complete disbelief,” Naseem said.

“We had just got married, just started planning our lives. It was a really scary time.”

She paid tribute to the support she received from Breast Cancer Care WA.

“Other than my husband, family and friends, my breast care nurse Leah has been incredible,” Naseem said.

“She was like a guardian angel, checking in, helping me through chemo. I could share symptoms and she gave me tips for everything.”

Naseem said she spoke to a counsellor at the charity and took part in an exercise program at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital for people undergoing chemotherapy.

“It gave me structure each week and helped me push through,” she said.

“Even on the hardest days, I’d feel better afterward — and it connected me with other women in similar situations.”

Now she is focused on slowing down and being present.

“We’re reducing our work schedules, figuring out how to create a life with more time, more calm,” she said.

“I don’t want to be busy all the time anymore.”

Purple Bra Day supporters are invited to hold their own fundraising event or to donate direct to Breast Cancer Care WA.

For more information go to purplebraday.com.au and for more information about Breast Cancer Care WA go to breastcancer.org.au.

Naseem Taheri-Lee, second from left, with from left her brother Justin, sister Shameem, and husband Daniel Hedemann.

Stop at All Saints to snack after City to Surf fun run

The City to Surf might close roads to allow its thousands of competitors to run, walk and roll safely to the finish line in City Beach.

But that doesn’t stop the friendly crowd at All Saints Floreat Uniting Church from being there to help out on the day.

While the road closures stopped some attendees from getting to their regular church

service, many who were still able to get there instead helped competitors recharge on their way home after the race.

Floreat All Saints attendee Marie Yuncken said the church had set up a stall of free refreshments for City to Surf competitors and their families for the past four years.

“They set up the barbecues and coffee urns on the street front and offer free sausages-

All Saints at Floreat is again offering free refreshments to City to Surf entrants.

in-a-bun, coffee and other goodies as people get off the buses at Floreat Forum,” Marie said.

“The cooking smells waft across the park as people

gather to chat and share their ‘run’ experience.”

All Saints Floreat Uniting Church is on the corner of Berkeley Crescent and Kirkdale Street, Floreat.

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Sports day all fun for all abilities

More than 350 athletes of all ages and abilities packed WA Athletics Stadium in Stephenson Avenue, Floreat, on Saturday for What Ability Day.

What Ability supports people living with disability and this was the third year the organisation took over the stadium for the day.

Participants enjoyed activities such as WACA’s inclusive cricket, Volleyball WA’s adaptive game, Blind Sports Association’s audible soccer, and Rugby WA’s inflatable throwing.

The Football Futures

Foundation’s inflatable football arena also encouraged attendees to learn new skills in a safe and fun environment.

The free day is to support healthier lifestyles for people living with a disability and their families, by bringing participants together to create a sense of community.

What Ability Day was supported by local athletes including Sean Darcy, Fremantle Docker Heath Chapman, Ebony Hoskin from Perth Scorchers, Nic Dolly, Justin Landman,

Papillon Sevele, and Alapeta Ngauamo from Western Force.

The day was also attended by elite athletes who represent Venues West –which owns and manages WA Athletics Stadium for the state government.

They included track cyclist and Paralympian Kane Perris, Olympian and swimmer Iona Anderson, Paralympian and javelin competitor Jackson Hamilton, decathlon athlete Jack Whiteside and West Coast Fever Reserves netballer Scarlet Jauncey.

Croquet neighbours join forces

Cambridge Croquet players may not have access to their normal greens while the Town of Cambridge installs new lights.

But they still have a place to play.

Ian Dang said Cambridge players were invited to use the greens at Ocean Gardens Retirement Village in City Beach in the meantime.

“While the Cambridge club undergoes an exciting upgrade, the community spirit at Ocean Gardens Retirement Village has swung into action,” he said.

“Ocean Gardens has a beautifully maintained croquet lawn that is very popular among the village residents.”

The Town of Cambridge is replacing the lights at Cambridge Croquet Club which have been there since the club moved in 20 years ago.

“The replacement lights use LED technology, which facility for players and spectators.”

The update is expected to cost $200,000.

A Town spokesman said the replacement would take about five weeks to complete.

“The new lighting is necessary because the old system has reached the end of its service life,” the spokesman said.

Trek the coast to walk blues away

Take a hike for good health with the annual Coastrek on Friday October 31, and help raise $500,000 for the Beyond Blue mental health support service.

Walkers are invited to sign up by September 21 for a 35km or 20km coastal walk along the stunning Cape to Cape track between Yallingup and Cape Naturaliste, finishing in Dunsborough.

Williams and Ziggy. Two-game winners: Bob Gauntlett and Les Snashall.

Coastrek founder Di Westaway said the event was good for the body and good for the mind.

“This region is a natural wonderland – the perfect backdrop for a mental and physical reset, and every step boosts your own wellbeing while raising funds and awareness for the incredible work of Beyond Blue,” she said.

Coastrek offers five events around Australia and this is the fourth year Coastrek Margaret River

has been offered.

The walk’s highlights include the Three Bears surf break, the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse at Geographe Bay, and Meelup Beach at Bunker Bay. More than 1200 are expected to take part, and teams undergo training before they begin.

A Coastrek spokeswoman said that in its 17-year history the event had raised $55million for Australian charities including the Fred Hollows Foundation, the Heart Foundation and Beyond Blue.

For more information go to coastrek.com.au.

Brush up on aged care

Residential aged care will be the topic of a presentation in Floreat on September 12.

Vanessa Fitzgerald will be guest speaker at the Western Australian Self Funded Retirees Association meeting at Cambridge Bowling Club.

Vanessa runs a business called Navigate Aged Care Solutions, and describes herself as an aged care placement consultant and counsellor.

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Wednesday August 13: 1st Mary Ann Hart, Phil Werrett and Marilyn Boss +3; Frank Honey, Cliff Racey and Paula Poynter v David Heath, Gavin Arrow and Elizabeth Morrissey 8-all tie; Derek Gadsden and Audrey Belotte v Di Gilbert, Jay Medhat and Audrey Belotte 15-all tie.

Saturday August 16: 1st Ted Delaney, and Geoff Boyd +17; 2nd Mark James and Bernie Yates +8; 3rd Geoff Parker, Yogi Shah and Rob Stevenson +3.

Dalkeith Nedlands

Fine weather on Thursday August 14 saw 29 players in Sets play. 1st Ric Camins, Peter Hopper, Celia Bakker and Andy McGlew, winning both sets and with a 9-shot margin. 2nd Ross MacKenzie, Rod Tilt and Kerry Chernoff 2 sets +5. 3rd Tod Allen, Gwenda McIntosh, George Klug and Ken Brooke 2

sets +5. Other Heather Hince, Alan Rowe and Pat Clohessy 1 set +2; Andrew Foster, Richard Verco and Fran Farrell 1 set –2.

Fine conditions again on Saturday saw 48 players in the Gadabout triples. Major winners John O’Meehan, Gwenda McIntosh and Wendy O’Meehan 2 wins +8. 2nd Heather Hince, Alan Rowe and David Broadfoot 2 wins +3. Plate Bob Rose, Gordon Wilson and Peter Hopper 1 win +25. Other teams with 2 wins were Jesse Brown, Matt Green and Peter Jeanes +3; and Martin Saunders, Kerry Chernoff and John Shaw +2.

The ladies played North Beach at Innaloo on Tuesday, August 12. Betsy Tapley, Margaret McHugh, Ron Palmer and Anne Ormsby led until the

last end, losing 19/20. Usha Nigam, Dot Leeson, Lesley Langley and Jeannine Millsteed lost 8/23.

Thursday three-bowl triples: Alan Evans, Ron Palmer and Craig Hirsch beat Kevin Morgan, Mark Paterson and Jim West 13-5; Richard Keeves and Glen Morey beat Mick Canci, John Horsfall and Wally Graham 15-9.

Saturday three-bowl triples: Kevin Morgan, David Allport and Rob Campbell beat Ron Palmer and Mark Wilde 21-7; Belinda Wade, Billy Gerlach and Glen Morey beat Mick Canci, Mike Basford and Jim West 15-13.

Sunday Scroungers: Milton Byass beat Glen Morey 12-10.

Wednesday August 13: 1st Ruth Lilly, Michael Hulbert, David Malkin. Runners-up Ian Lilly, Ron Hassall, Toby Roney,

She will outline government policy, the fee structure, and how accommodation is allocated.

Cambridge Bowling Club is in the Floreat Sporting Precinct at Chandler Avenue, Floreat.

Visitors are welcome and parking is available on site.

For more information phone Ron de Gruchy on 9447 1313 or Margaret Harris on 0417 991 947.

Dennis Mullenger. Friday : 1st Doug and Denise Kelly; Runnersup Ian thomas, Brendan O’Sullivan. WoL Bob Kershaw, Dennis Mullenger. Saturday 1st Ian Lilly, Sandra Ellis, Ron Hassall. Runners-up Dennis Mullenger, Toby Roney, Iris Newbold. Book at the office for evening meals on Mondays from 6pm.

Mahjong is played at the club on Thursdays at 9am. All that is needed is social membership of the bowling club.

The club held an all-day, informal doubles competition last Saturday, August 16. Players from other Perth petanque clubs and several French visitors joined Subiaco players for a fun day. Social players from Subiaco also played in the afternoon. There will be another round of the President’s Cup this Saturday. Visitors are welcome Saturdays and Wednesdays. For more information go to petanquesubiaco.com.

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Subiaco Pétanque

Cambridge Croquet players enjoying the City Beach welcome were from left Arthur Cunniffe, Lorraine Cunniffe, Christine Bunny, Rosemary Coleman, David Groves, Shirley Rintoul and Frank Coleman.

Cambridge Croquet players in action on the Ocean Gardens croquet green.

From left Kane Perris, Jackson Hamilton, Jack Whiteside, Iona Anderson, and Scarlet Jauncey with staff from What Ability on the day.

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UWA invests in OncoRes Medical

By Justin Fris

UWA has invested $1million in Nedlands medtech company

OncoRes as the first outlay in one of its 25 spinout companies.

OncoRes chief executive Katharine Giles said the investment would be welcomed as the company moves towards potential US Food and Drug Administration approval of its Elora precision cancer imaging technology.

The technology aims to detect and remove all cancerous tissue during the breast cancer surgery process, reducing surgical complications and costs.

“This transformative investment will be crucial as we enter the final stretch to reach our north star – the goal of commercialising this WAled technology so it can achieve the global impact it deserves,” Dr Giles said.

the FDA in preparation for our US trial in 2026.

securing regulatory approval and reimbursement coverage – fi the US and then globally.”

OncoRes’s quantitative microelastography technology over the past decade.

nation from the FDA in 2020, with potential clinical trials in Australia and the US over the next year.

UWA’s deputy vice-chancellor of research Anna Nowak said the investment was also important for the university.

“It reflects the growth and maturity of our own focus on translating ground-breaking research into commercial outcomes that are not only great for the state, but which generate valuable income that can

be reinvested in research,” Prof. Nowak said.

“For 20 years we’ve been creating strong and innovative spinout companies – including Orthocell, Argenica Therapeutics, Lixa and Dimerix – and increasingly engaging with industry, innovation and IP.”

Pilbara gallery to replace Subi bank

By Ella Loneragan

An Aboriginal art gallery will open in Subiaco next year after Juluwarlu Group paid $2.7million for the former Bankwest building on Rokeby Road.

Funding from Indigenous Business Australia and the National Bank will help Juluwarlu convert the site into an art and culture gallery.

The 488sq.m building was occupied by Commonwealth Bank subsidiary Bankwest until last year when the bank closed all of its 60 WA branches.

The Commonwealth

Bank sold the vacant property at 150 Rokeby Road to the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporationbacked body.

The sale was brokered by RWC WA’s Michael Milne and Luke Pavlos.

“We’re seeing an increasing number of astute buyers who recognise the uplift in Subiaco,” Mr Pavlos said.

“These buyers are prepared to invest substantial capital to modernise older stock, in line with the changing character of the precinct.”

Juluwarlu said the opening of the gallery would

be a “significant destination tourism feature for Perth and will open the doors to international sales and recognition”.

The space marks a major milestone as the first dedicated gallery for

the Pilbara’s Yindjibarndi people in Perth, according to Juluwarlu chief executive Lorraine Coppin.

The gallery is expected to host regular exhibitions, artist talks, workshops and community events.

Christ Church Grammar School has received approval for a $40million arts centre, after having to return to the drawing board amid building cost

The Metro Inner Development Assessment Panel unanimously approved the Claremont school’s plan to build a three-storey performing arts centre at its Queenslea

Existing music classrooms, chaplain’s residence and a preparatory school will be demolished to make way for the facility, initially estimated in November 22 to cost $29million.

The recently approved project is estimated to cost $39.3million, the DAP report shows.

Total Project Management director Edward Neville, on behalf of CCGS, confirmed the previous plan had been overhauled.

“The previous proposal was developed at a time when cost escalation was a major issue … so we did look at a redesign-type exercise,” he said at the meeting,

“But the school felt that the exercise wasn’t resulting in the right type of outcome so therefore we essentially started again.”

Dubbed CCGS Perform, the three-storey centre will include a 465-seat audi-

torium, classrooms and a basement level.

The approved centre has the same building height as the 2022 design but with reduced bulk.

TBB Planning senior consultant Melanie Cox, on behalf of the school, said the redesigned centre proposed less than what was previously approved in 2022 with increased setbacks to the Swan River foreshore.

“The current teaching and performance spaces at the school are no longer meeting the school’s developing curriculum and requirements for drama and music,” she said at the meeting.

“The new Perform building will enhance and cater for the school’s arts program and will provide learning and creative development opportunities for students in the decades to come.”

Claremont councillor and DAP member Ryan Brown said the centre would be a great asset to the school and the community.

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OncoRes chief executive Katharine Giles.

The 488sq.m building at 150 Rokeby Road.

A render of CCGS Perform. Image: KHA via DAP document.

Relay drops the baton in last leg

of an equally old-school espionage thriller.

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There’s a nifty device at the heart of Relay, that is gripping right up until its silly, last-minute plot twist.

The zippy corporate thriller from Scottish director David Mackenzie (Hell Or High Water) centres on a New York whistleblower intermediary, Ash (Riz Ahmed), a shadowy guardian angel who specialises in facilitating the return of documents to dodgy corporate bigwigs and protecting vulnerable underlings who have lost their nerve. For large sums of money, of course.

The fun bit? He communicates with clients via the Tri-State Relay Service, a service for the deaf and hard of hearing that uses an operator to read out typed messages. They are protected by strict privacy laws, a rare commodity since George W. Bush’s post-911 Patriot Act that allows Ash to operate under the cloak of anonymity.

It’s a novel premise that harnesses an old-school-

Ash’s latest client is Sarah (Lily James), a food industry scientist who stumbled on a damning food safety report at work and made a copy, vaguely intending to leak it. But after losing her job and being subjected to frightening intimidation (led by Sam Worthington), she just wants to give it back and start over.

Ahmed, who was nominated for an Oscar playing a drummer losing his hearing in 2019’s The Sound of Metal, is the kind of performer who doesn’t need dialogue to tell a story. Mackenzie knows it, zeroing in on him as he reveals the methodical nature of his work, all watchful big eyes and nimble footwork.

Meanwhile, James does a lot of the talking, and Mackenzie widens the shots, surveillance-style, to expose her vulnerabilities.

So it’s a shame screenwriter James Piasecki drops the baton in the final leg, stumbling into thriller movie tropes we’ve all seen done before, only better. Until then, it’s a whole lot

After four centuries, directors continue to plumb the depths of Shakespeare’s plays to uncover some new insight or interpretation of his writing.

The Tempest, believed to be Shakespeare’s last play, was written around 1610 and the magical powers of Prospero have been reimagined in numerous ways over the centuries.

Now, Class Act theatre company takes it into the universe of Star Trek, Star Wars or Lost in Space.

An unexpected ion storm causes a spaceship from the planet Milan to crash on a barren asteroid. Here the wrecked crew find a subjugated alien monster, Caliban, a freedom-seek-

ing computer-controlled android, Prospero, a bitter relic from their past thirsting for revenge and his daughter Miranda who meets other humans for the first time.

Class Act was established in 1994 and quickly became best known as a theatre-in-education company, producing more than 45 shows for theatres and schools.

But The Tempest is to be the company’s last production.

“After 31 years working in both mainstream theatre and in schools, this is Class Act Theatre’s swansong production,” said Angelique Pascoe (Malcolm), the company’s

artistic director and one of its founding members.

“As all good things must come to an end, what better way to depart than with a production that was Shakespeare’s own farewell to the stage?”

A decade ago I discovered a condom in my husband’s jacket pocket.

I confronted him and he admitted to having had sex with prostitutes.

He made me feel it was my fault we weren’t getting on. We didn’t have sex often, mostly because he was bossy and critical. Just when I had enough and threatened to leave, he would soften and things would settle down for a while.

But two years ago, I discovered I had genital herpes. He admitted to 15 years of sex addiction – sex with men in parks and public toilets, prostitutes, and an affair.

I should have left him, but I felt powerless. He went to see a psychiatrist the day after he told me, and I went for counselling. Now we are seeing a psychologist together who says we are both still healing.

Directed by Stephen Lee, The Tempest performs at Subiaco Arts Centre from September 3 to 13. To book, go to artsculturetrust.wa.gov.au, click on the three bars top right and search “The Tempest”.

I don’t think I am going to get over the betrayal. Though I have a great job, children who keep me busy, a grandchild, and good friends, I am in limbo.

Vanessa

Vanessa, your psychologist used the word “healing.” Is that a metaphor? What your psychologist calls healing sounds more like getting used to something distasteful. When we don’t live from our authentic self, occasionally our true desires break through. Your desire was for an honest, faithful, loving husband. His desire is to be who he really is, when no one is looking. Does counselling get you more caught up in his story? To go to counselling with your husband is to let others alter your perceptions. Ten years ago you were trying to decide whether to stay or go. Ten years later you are still trying to decide?

Wayne & Tamara

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mediary between corporate bigwigs and vulnerable workers.

happening what’s

The winter jazz festival JazzConnect Scarborough beach from August 29 to 31.

In a weekend of music curated by jazz guitarist Kristian Borring, 10 venues along the beachfront will feature 17 events ranging from free ones like Matt Cahill’s Swing Dance Party and James Flynn’s Ocean View Jazz, to family events like Jazz with Junior, to ticketed shows like Jazz through the Ages with Libby Hammer.

of Dolly helps him navigate life’s toughest moments, with her signature charm, wit and unforgettable soundtrack. It is on now until September 6 at Subiaco’s Regal Theatre.

Collection focuses on contemplation

A lawyer told artist Greg Baker that at the end of a busy day he liked nothing better than to sit in his study and look at Greg’s artwork as “a window to peace and calm”.

“It is the biggest satisfaction of my life to know that my work brings peace,” said Greg who is celebrating his 75th solo exhibition.

It is one of his largest exhibitions, with 41 paintings, and the Fremantle artist has called the new collection Oases: Places of Calm and Contemplation.

Now in his 70s, Greg feels his career has reached a place of peace.

After a successful career of painting portraits, gurative art and painting dancers including WA Ballet, seascapes and European cityscapes on his

Check the program at jazzconnect.com.au

Producer, director and choreographer Drew Anthony’s next production is the cult musical Little Shop of Horrors. Written by the Disney writing team of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman (Beauty and the Beast) inspired by a lowbudget 1960s B-movie, Drew’s reimagined production features a world-first. Instead of a puppet, man-eating plant Audrey II is portrayed on screen through Planet Royale’s in-house LED screen, interacting with the live performers. Drew Anthony Creative presents Little Shop of Horrors at Planet Royale, 12 Lake Street, Northbridge, from August 28 to September 14.

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Here You Come Again is a joyous musical comedy packed with Dolly Parton’s greatest hits.

Tricia Paoluccio plays Dolly in a story about a devoted fan whose fantasy version

Parton.

■ ■ ■ Noongar elder, artist, musician, and storyteller Dr Richard Walley takes the stage with Perth Symphony Orchestra to tell his story that began “bush hard” in Pinjarra to founding the Middar Aboriginal Group with Ernie Dingo, establishing the tradition of Welcome to Country, developing the Aboriginal legal and medical services and becoming director of Aboriginal Productions and Promotions. He tells his own story accompanied by chamber music, traditional Noongar song and archival imagery.

Next in its popular WA Stories series, PSO and Richard Walley are at WA Museum Boola Bardip on September 5 and 6.

Richard Walley

many travels, he has moved close to the ocean and takes daily walks on which he is inspired daily by the play of light on the water.

“It is important to keep looking at things until you see differently,” he said.

Oases features paintings in both oils and pastels that

reflect the WA coastline –Burns Beach, Cottesloe, Swan River, Fremantle, Coogee, Woodman Point and Rottnest.

“It is a world of the everyday translated into my own concept of intrigue and beauty,” Greg said.

It opens at Customs

House, 8 Phillimore Street, Fremantle, next Thursday, August 28, from 6.30pm with special guest artists sculptor Greg James and photographer

It will be on show daily from noon to 4pm until September 4.

Landscapes hit a record level for art show

The theme for the annual Perth Royal Art Prize is simply Landscape.

Since 1974 the Royal Agricultural Society of WA has held a visual art award for WA artists.

But in 2017, the theme of Landscape was introduced to the Art Prize when the society appointed Sandra Murray as its first professional art curator.

Sandra said her role was to elevate the stature and calibre of the prize in keeping with an increased prize pool, most significantly the $20,000 non-acquisitive first prize.

“Landscape can be real or imagined; rural or urban; of the country or the city,” Sandra said.

■ Last year’s Perth Royal Art Prize winner Hiroshi Kobayashi reimagined the notion of landscape with his acrylic-on-canvas work, The Night Above, The Sun Below.

“This allows for broad interpretations of what a landscape can be.

“The range of responses to the landscape theme demonstrates not only the depth of creativity in WA but also the importance of

celebrating and supporting our local arts community.”

From a record 288 submissions to the competition this year, 61 emerging, mid-career, and established WA artists have been shortlisted, for a prize pool of more than $23,000.

“This year’s finalists reflect a bold and innovative engagement with landscape in all its forms. The shortlisted works are imaginative and technically accomplished,” Sandra said.

Artists include previous winner Lori Pensini (2022), Lester finalist Ross Potter, floral artist Denise Pepper, contemporary artist Minaxxi May, and popular landscape painters Ric Burkitt, George Haynes, Vania Lawson, Jen Mellor, Julie Silvester, Geoffrey Wake and Kay Wood.

“As the only professionally curated prize in WA dedicated to landscape and solely for WA artists, the Perth Royal Art Prize is a prominent platform for artists,” Sandra said. First prize is $20,000 and there are two Highly Commended awards and an Emerging Artist award. The awards will be announced at the launch ceremony next Friday, August 30.

■ The exhibition is open from next Saturday to Sunday September 7 at the Wilkinson Gallery, Claremont Showground. At the front of the gallery will be a display of the history of the prize over the past 51 years.

Jason Mazur.

■ Libby Hammer will be singing Jazz through the Ages.

■ Audrey II ... ravenous.

■ Tricia Paoluccio channelling Dolly

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in storytelling mode.

■ Golden Light, Cottesloe … Greg Baker loves the play of light on the water.

Art and nature are in perfect harmony in this rammed-earth house designed by award-winning artist Giles Hohnen, a friend of the owners.

“The house is Giles’s vision,” one of the owners said.

“In every room there are design features that he decided on.”

The Indian-born artist is known for his bold, colourful paintings, but he took a more subdued approach with this house that feels anchored by its natural surroundings.

Earth from the site was used to make the walls, which have an artistic quality thanks to their distinctive colour and markings.

house cosy in winter and cool in summer.

As well as being beautiful to look at, the walls are also practical.

They provide excellent thermal mass, making the

The design of the 2003 home was also a personal project for the owner.

“At the time we built the house, I was in my final year of a fine arts degree at Curtin University,” she said.

The house has been a weekender for the couple and their family who have celebrated many birthdays and other milestones there.

The pizza oven on the north-facing terrace gets a workout when the house is full of guests.

One of their annual traditions is making wine with friends around Easter-time.

“Our garage is our

winery – hence the airconditioning,” she said. They have eight rows of shiraz vines, table grapes, 12 olive trees plus a wide range of citrus, stone fruit and nut trees in their mini orchard.

Extras include underfloor heating, 80 solar panels, a large study with

and a two-bedroom studio.

■ Artist and neighbour Geoff Overheu created the cattle grid artwork. “The silver balls regularly blow away and our grandchildren love to find them and bring them home,” the owner said. ■ Underfloor heating makes the living

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‘Exquisite residence’ listed for $12m-plus

A trophy home in one of Mosman Park’s most expensive streets has hit the market with a $12million to $15million price guide on realestate. com. The panoramic river views and secluded location near The Coombe attract high-net worth families with generational wealth. Landgate shows the five-bedroom and four-bathroom house at 31 Owston Street is in the name of Linda Louise Steinepreis. Ms Steinepreis paid $8.3million for two adjoining properties to create a large landholding of 1922sq.m. The house has been meticulously renovated, according to the Abode Real Estate website which described it as “exquisite residence”. It has a theatre room, a kids wing with four big bedrooms, an oversized home office, an infinity pool, spa and two alfresco areas. The most significant sale in the street was No.3 which sold off-market last year for $22million Arthur Marshall, described as a “self-made man”

with “old money” and his wife Jeanette bought that 3020sq.m property (Mosman Park house makes $22million, Changing Hands,

■ The seller of this resort-style house amalgamated two blocks to create a large landholding in the exclusive enclave between Mosman Park golf course and The Coombe Reserve.

■ There were five offers for the crumbling ruin of Albert Hall which will be rebuilt.

Razed heritage hall to be raised again Neighbours were horrified when Albert Hall went up in flames earlier this year. Now they will be delighted because a builder has come to the rescue to rebuild the heritage-listed building at 3 Pearse Street, North Fremantle. Agent Sarah Bourke, of Ray White Dalkeith Claremont, said the builder and his wife planned to live there once they had restored

it. “He has experience in heritage properties,” Ms Bourke said. There were five offers for the burnt-out building on a 432sq.m site. “One buyer had his own scaffolding company, and the rest were people in the construction industry,” she said. “The sellers are relieved this chapter will finally come to an end.”

Albert Hall is yet to settle, but the price guide was $3500/sq.m based on the land-value sale of 11 Staples Street for $1.2million. That modest, two-bedroom and one-bathroom house is on a 311sq.m site opposite Alfred Road Park.

Salvaris buys Wordsworth pile Commercial and property lawyer Alex Salvaris has emerged as the buyer of the Wordsworths’ riverfront home in Peppermint Grove which settled on August 1 for $15million. Publicly available documents show 8 The Esplanade

Pty Ltd and Mr Salvaris is the sole director of the company. Mr Salvaris is a principal at Fremantle firm WSR Law, a committee member at Claremont Yacht Club and a UWA graduate. The former partner of Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills) has expertise in a wide range of property transactions, including residential and development projects, according to his website.

Art deco restoration fetches $6.2million Kylemore, the beautifully-restored art deco mansion at 43 Jutland Parade,

The heritage-listed house with five bedrooms and five bathrooms had been on and off the market since June last year (Standout home on ‘Bookies Row’ POST, June 29, 2024). A previous owner said many tourists and admirers came to photograph the 1930s house opposite David Cruickshank Reserve. The house had been renovated from top to bottom in 2011. On the long list of improvements were new bedrooms, bathrooms, a study, upstairs entertainment area, pool and cellar. Agent William Porteous sold the 1007sq.m property on the corner of Wattle Avenue

■ Good things come to those who wait … This heritage-listed house in Dalkeith has sold after being on the market for more than a year.

Auctioneer with a magic touch

AUCTION results

Auctioneer Patrick Derrig expects curly questions at auctions but this was a first: “Where did you get your hammer?” a young girl asked.

The experienced auctioneer was quick off-themarket with his reply: “The magic hammer shop.”

This got plenty of laughs from the crowd at 40B Joseph Street, West Leederville.

Auctions can be quite tense, so the banter was a nice icebreaker, agent Tim Caporn, of Ray White Cottesloe Mosman Park, said.

Bidding kicked off at $1.95million for the architect-designed house on a 250sq.m site.

Three buyers competed for the 4x3, which was knocked down to a final bid of $2.35million.

The interest was from young, professional couples and downsizers.

In other results:

■ CLAREMONT

•403/40 St Quentin Avenue was passed in without a buyer’s bid. The penthouse looks out to Christ Church, the beautiful limestone church on the corner of Stirling Highway and Queenslea Drive. Property records show the 3x2 sold off-the-plan for $2.22million in 2007. Agent Thomas Wedge, of Ray White Dalkeith Claremont, said a couple of buyers pulled out before the auction because they had bought something else. •A “cheeky” opening bid of $1million for another Claremont apartment amused agent Adrian Loh, of Ray White Dalkeith Claremont. “You can’t blame them for trying,” Mr Loh said. The 3x2 at 105/2 Tiger was passed in for $1.85million but went under offer after the auction. Landgate records show the seller, who has eight properties, paid $1.47million for it in 2018.

■ FLOREAT

•36 Moray Avenue was sold before its auction for $3.1million. The 4x2 on a 1024sq.m corner site last changed hands in 2022, for $2.33million. Agent Vivien Yap, of Ray White Dalkeith Claremont, brokered the deal for the 2005 house.

NEDLANDS

•A phone bidder from the east coast and buyers on the ground competed for 77 Smyth , a block-value property on 1034sq.m. The 2x1 with a sleepout and a Hills Hoist in the backyard went to a local for $2.2million. Agent Mareena Weston, of Haiven Property, said the sellers had owned the 1940s house for 50 years.

Greek super-project to be marketed in Perth

Buying an old stone house on Kastellorizo was a bureaucratic nightmare for a legal heavyweight from Mosman Park whose family come from the idyllic Greek island.

So imagine what it was like for Lamda Development, the company behind the biggest property project Greece has ever seen.

It has taken more than 20 years, two contracts, different governments and numerous negotiations with archaeological and other groups to get the $14billion project started at an abandoned airport in Athens.

The Ellinikon project, designed by British architecture firm Foster + Partners, will have more than 9000 dwellings, a large coastal park, hotels, a marina, shops and medical

with views of either the ocean, mountains or a central park.

will have a chance to meet the people behind Greece’s biggest property development, Ellinikon. Renders show what the $14billion Athens project will look like when completed.

and education facilities.

Shenton Park resident

Dr Elena Limnios described it as Europe’s largest urban regeneration project, spanning an area three times the size of Monaco.

Dr Limnios, a licensed civil engineer with a PhD in sustainability and re-

silience metrics, is strategy director at Limnios Property Group, which is marketing the project in Australia.

“Ellinikon is a model for future cities,” Dr Limnios said.

Apartments in Europe are sold by the square

metre, and prices start from $13,000sq.m for offthe-plan apartments in the project’s five-storey Sunset Groves and Skyline Havens buildings in the “Little Athens” neighbourhood.

The one to four-bedroom apartments range in size from 60sq.m to 230sq.m,

Investors will have a chance to learn more about the project when a delegation from Lamda Development visits WA in October as part of an Australian Property Council conference at Crown Perth.

“It is a big deal for them to come to Perth,” Dr Limnios said.

“Greece has always been a holiday magnet for the

Greek diaspora and tourists but there is now a shift to people wanting to invest in projects like Ellinikon.”

Among the other guest speakers at The Property Congress are Dr Fiona Wood, Adam Gilchrist, Julie Bishop and Mark McGowan.

To register, go to propertycouncil.com.au.

To arrange a one-on-one meeting with the Ellinikon team, contact limnios@limnios.com or 0404 554 854.

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Daffodil Daryl driven by mates

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that would scare the kids.”

The three mates forged a brotherhood through years of shared mischief before things took a turn in 2017 when Steve was diagnosed with cancer and given three weeks left to live.

“He said to me they had done all the testing, and they had been in and talked to him and given him three weeks.

“We just both burst into tears.

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by local authorities and many of their ratepayers, but ultimately not surprising in a rapidly growing metropolis to ensure efficient use of extensive expensive community infrastructure.

“I could not believe that I was going to lose my best mate, and how (his wife) Trish and the kids were going to be.

“They said chemo wouldn’t work. He had five different lots of chemo and he ended up lasting another year.”

Daryl was at Bunnings in Subiaco last week and other stores this week, selling daffodils. The proceeds will go to the Cancer Council.

after 2018, were acting personally and maliciously to “destroy the enviable garden suburb we loved” is simply ludicrous and juvenile. Similarly, Max Hipkins’s memory is running on empty.

Disrupt Burrup ‘conspiracy’ charge dropped ahead of trial date

to bail conditions as a result of this charge,” she said.

“I think it’s pretty clear that [the fossil fuel industry] is weaponising these legal instruments like bail against peaceful climate protesters to silence us.”

Ms Partyka had been prohibited from going near Woodside’s headquarters, Ms O’Neill’s house or within a certain distance of “a pretty extensive list” of senior Woodside employees.

She is already serving a suspended seven-month

prison sentence for a protest at Woodside’s headquarters in June 2023, during which fellow activist Kristen Morrissey released a canister of stench gas that caused the building to be evacuated.

Disrupt Burrup Hub has called the Woodside project “a crime against humanity” that will destroy ancient rock art and pump more than six billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2070.

“It will be the largest and most polluting fossil fuel project in Australia,” Ms Partyka said.

“We’re all being sold this

fable that we rely on gas for our quality of life in WA … and that gas is part of the decarbonisation process.”

Woodside says gas from its Pilbara projects will help Australia and other countries decarbonise their economies as a lower-carbon alternative to coal.

“Extreme protests merely serve as a distraction from the global challenge of decarbonisation,” the company said in a statement.

Police have not amended the charge against Ms Stolarski, who is next due in court on October 7.

For Ms Watson to suggest that either Mr Lumsden, or Mr Caddy

dog good for business

• From page 24

finalists made their workplaces happier, healthier places.

She said the competition hoped to highlight the growing role of canine colleagues in reducing workplace stress, improving morale and combating isolation, at a time when more than 75% of Australians report moderate to very high stress levels.

Research shows that 14% of workplaces regularly have dogs, and many employees say they would consider a pay cut if they were able to bring their dog to work.

“These findings underscore how much dogs mean to employees’ wellbeing and work satisfaction,” said Ms Savova.

Voting on the people’s choice award closes at 7am on Wednesday on people2people. com.au/oztopdog.

Mr Hipkins did indeed lead an internal review of Nedlands’ town planning scheme in the 1990s. However, it was not done in accordance with the law of the day and therefore not accepted by the Department of Planning. Indeed, it is true that for more than 30 years the council refused to submit to the Government (and later the WAPC) an authentic acceptable TPS. (Note, however, all birds had a “treed flight path” from Kings Park to the coast at the expense of land taken from Aberdare Road ratepayers.)

Minister Saffioti finally resolved this Mexican standoff by imposing a new TPS on the City in 2016. It is also worthy of note that thenmayor Hipkins, in denial to the end, refused to sign off on the new TPS, resulting in a very reluctant deputy mayor Bill Hassell signing off under protest.

John Wetherall Dalkeith Road, Nedlands

• From page 12

view of Nedlands’ past Letter to the editor

‘Guilty, your honour’

recording system captured Dr Bellinge muttering obscenities about his estranged wife, from whom he had recently separated, while driving aggressively and erratically in the days leading up to the crash.

A police prosecutor at a bail hearing described Dr Bellinge as “a man of extreme wealth” whose actions were “arrogant, aggressive and intentional”.

Magistrate Clare Cullen refused him bail in February, saying he was suffering from severe emotional distress.

“It’s not just [about] his wife, it’s an aggression to the world at large,” she said.

Dr Bellinge pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed on Wednesday as his lawyer, Karen Espiner, told the court that several reports would have to be prepared before he could be sentenced.

“I anticipate that [sentencing] might take the best part of a day,” Ms Espiner said.

Mr Nelson listed a sentencing hearing for February 24, and remanded Dr Bellinge in custody until then.

His father said nothing to waiting media as he left court.

Rhys Bellinge appeared in Perth Magistrates Court the following morning, also via video link, to answer to four driving charges from six days before the fatal crash.

Police say dashcam footage from the Jaguar shows he drove dangerously in Kings Park and exceeded the speed limit by more than 45kmh in Subiaco, Nedlands and Dalkeith.

Ms Espiner told Magistrate Cullen that Dr Bellinge would apply to have those charges dealt with in the Supreme Court alongside his manslaughter charge.

If you or anyone you know is experiencing trauma after a road crash, contact Road Trauma Support WA on 1300 004 814.

Health comes to bus stops

• From page 7

Following a council debate, council staff have set out conditions of the advertising content in its invitation to tender.

It includes a restriction on advertising of unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, fossil fuels, tobacco products and gambling.

The bus shelter sites must also avoid visual pollution and foreshore advertising must optimise ocean views.

The Cancer Council says the WA government has removed alcohol ads from trains and buses, and is looking at the same for unhealthy foods and drinks.

It says overweight, obesity and poor diets are second only to tobacco use in contributing to preventable disease.

Cottesloe council is now going through the tender process and is scheduled to make a decision on the tenders at its November meeting.

Shops win reprieve

• From page 3

“The owners acknowledge and appreciate your patience over the past four years since the development was proposed,” read an email to shop-owners.

“They also acknowledge they could have done a better job at communicating the update after approval was received – they do apologise for this.

“We will do what we can to help you find a new location for your business through Porteous.”

Krista Parolo, from Scandi &

co, said the Christmas period accounted for a third of her sales for the year.

She said she had been more fortunate in finding a new location in North Fremantle, which will open next month, while remaining at Cottesloe until the end of the year.

“It gets so quiet here in January, and I wanted to leave on a high, so it’s nice,” she said.

“You get so much foot traffic in December that then I can also tell everyone where we are moving.”

Ferry spells swan song

• From page 9

All 10 water based groups and clubs in the bay that make up the Safety on Swan group recommended that the terminal and expanded ferry service be located further downriver at JoJo’s jetty in Nedlands.

Greg – who has a 45 metre boat – agrees that JoJo’s is the best site.

“Everybody would agree that an expanded ferry service is a good thing but just not where the government wants to build it,” he said.

“Beside JoJo’s jetty you have the Nedlands town jetty, which is a big solid concrete jetty in 5m of water that nobody uses and that you could easily put a roof over and expand.

“Attached to that you have carparks, a shopping precinct, Steve’s Hotel, all that lawned area and rugby fields along the foreshore and it’s at the busi-

Cott shines in Melbourne Cup

By JANE WISHAW

The golden glow of the 2025 Melbourne Cup outshone the famous beach sunset when it was out on show at North Cottesloe last week.

The famous trophy, made from Kalgoorlie gold and jarrah, is valued at $850,000.

Stunned patrons of the Ocean Beach Hotel and Longview restaurant learned that it was at the end of a trip through country WA, following

a world tour.

Along for the WA ride was former jockey JJ Miller, who as a 34-year-old won the 1966 cup riding Galilee.

“I’m now 92 years old,” he said. “It’s very special to think not only that the Cup is made from our WA gold, but also that the base which is just as important is made from WA jarrah.

“They have 100 years of jarrah to make future cups out of.”

■ Photo: Jane Wishaw

McMullen to go again

followed council to having a profile that could get me elected.

“There was a lot of work that had to be done.

“If I have to contest this election, nominations are quickly approaching and if anyone is going to put up their hand they would have to do a lot of work in a short period of time to build their profile.

ness end of UWA so it would be practical for students.”

He believes the Raffles in Applecross is a good location for the ferry on that side, but not Matilda Bay.

Choosing JoJo’s would also make more sense for the ferry route because it would be more direct and faster, considering there is an eight-knot (15kmh) speed limit for vessels over 10 metres.

“If it was located over at the existing jetty then one third of the journey would be at eight knots, but for two-thirds they could go fast,” he said.

“With Matilda Bay it’ll be eight knots all the way to Perth and this would be a sluggishly slow ferry service. You can jog at eight knots.

“Are they going to make an exemption for the ferry? I hope not!”

■ See letters, pages 2 and 28

“If I was to be returned unopposed I’d happily take on the four years.

“I won the previous election on two thirds of the vote so that was the endorsement I needed.”

Mr McMullen campaigned in 2021 on a platform of good governance, leadership and integrity and to be “a steady hand steering a leading council” following the turbulent term of

his predecessor Penny Taylor.

“There was a ship that needed to be righted and under my leadership council and staff were able to do that,” he said.

“That is one of my proudest achievements, the fact that we turned things around in such a rapid space of time and in a way I think people across Subiaco have noticed.”

He was also proud to have created a collegiate culture within the City, built strong relationships between council and staff, and earned the trust of the community.

Mr McMullen said he had worked flexibly to balance the demands of the mayoralty, his day job as a lawyer and as a father of three young children and husband to his wife Sally.

“I think there is still some more capacity to get out of myself and council,” he said.

Honey out of the race

good job for their community. Many local people had urged him to stand, he said.

Ms Harkins, who has been a councillor for eight years, said she would stand for the job when current mayor Lorraine Young retires to stands as a councillor (Cott mayor endorses deputy’s succession, POST August 2).

Dr Honey, a scientist, said he had fulfilled many public and voluntary roles since being on Guild Council at UWA and then the university Senate, then rising to president of the WA Liberal Party and being elected member for Cottesloe for seven years.

Nominations for council elections open on August 28.

In council staff news, Claremont’s CEO Liz Ledger is the latest moving piece in a shifting jigsaw of local government appointments across western suburb councils.

Ms Ledger will leave Claremont after 15 years to head South Perth council where she worked at the early stage of her career.

“I actually worked at the City [of South Perth] nearly 20 years ago, so returning now as CEO feels like coming full circle,” she said.

Ms Ledger’s period included closing the Claremont pool and the frustration from council meetings going digital through COVID, but also saw to fruition projects like the redevelopment of Claremont Oval and McKenzie Pavilion at Cresswell Park.

Her contribution was praised by Claremont mayor Jock Barker.

“Liz is an inspiring and capable leader, and she leaves this organisation in a strong position, and with my best wishes,” he said.

“I feel extremely proud of what this Town has achieved during this time.”

Ms Ledger will start at South Perth in December.

Mosman Park CEO Natalie Martin Goode has completed her six-month probation and could have her permanent tenure confirmed by the council on Tuesday.

Cambridge council will welcome former York acting CEO Lindon Mello to fill a director’s role left vacant by the departure of Kelton Hincks.

• From page 5

Ancient rivalry to relive 1977 glory

THE Sporting

John townsend

If you wander past Dalkeith Oval this Sunday afternoon and wonder why ambulances are lined up like in the ramping zone at Charlie Gairdner’s, look no further than the geriatrics kicking a football around.

Some will be a fraction beyond their ideal playing weight. Plenty will be showing signs of recent or even entrenched creakiness. Most will be apprehensive about whether ticker or sinew or bone will handle the load. Hence the meat wagons.

All will be harking back to their youth when they were part of a rivalry so intense that, almost half a century later, it still inspires extreme action.

The 1977 Christ Church and Aquinas First XVIIIs will play again at 3pm on Sunday when they relive the enthralling final fixture of the blockbuster Alcock Cup season that ended with both teams sharing the trophy.

Aquinas is a football powerhouse, a talent factory that regularly sends stars to the AFL and dominates school competition. It has won the Alcock Cup 31

times and is the current holder. Christ Church could hardly be more different. The Claremont school has

that glorious 1977 afternoon.

“We’re not a footy school anymore,” an old boy told me this week. “We’re academic.

Talalla draws WACA ballot benefit

Former Cricket Australia referee and sport administrator David Talalla has received a handy head-start in his bid to join the WACA board.

Talalla received the No.1 position on the ballot paper during this week’s draw for the 17 candidates. But he and most of the others seeking to fill the four vacancies are likely to find it difficult to get past the incumbents and a recent director.

Former Test players John Inverarity and Brad Hogg are

It is almost unprecedented for the WACA’s 7000 members to fail to elect well-known cricketers when they stand for the board. That leaves current directors Paul Collins, a divisive but critical figure in scrutinising the

Gritstone goddess on edge of destiny

Australian surfers Molly Picklum and Jack Robinson stand on the lip of destiny with the weight of their surfing dreams pressing down as Fiji’s Cloudbreak roars to life for the WSL finals day showdown.

The scent of salt spray hangs in the air like victory for these two Aussies at the ocean colosseum where champions will be crowned or broken.

Out there on that jagged reef, between Picklum’s fearless precision and Robinson’s predator’s patience, lies not just glory but the pressure of a nation, a reckoning where legends are made eternal or swallowed whole.

Cloudbreak eats the unworthy, but for Robinson, that danger is fuel.

For Picklum, it’s a canvas of courage and commitment.

Picklum attacks the waves with pitiless exactitude to carve lines sharp as coral and the world could be about to witness her unstoppable rise to the top.

One chance, two waves and the gritstone wave goddess will surf her way into the history books.

Her Teahupo’o win was a

Hunter, Felicity Boyd, Geoff Rosich, Michael Pailthorpe and Belinda Woods, engineer Chris Carman, Barmy Army representative Peter Hayward, radio presenter Oliver Peterson and Jarnail Singh.

ure partly explains the motivation to replay that final game, a concept that Christ Church old boy Howard Cearns conceived recently and soon found to have considerable support from the 65-year-olds he played with and against.

Romance is clearly not dead when it comes to reliving primeval glories.

“Why? It is a question that we are all struggling to answer,” Aquinas opponent Murray Ward said.

“They felt they had a better team than us and maybe they are trying to hold onto old glory.

“And once they came up with the idea, it was a matter of honour to run with it.”

For Cearns’s schoolmate Andy Haslam, who survived a heart attack three years ago and found his imminent retirement equally confronting, those challenges strengthened his bonds with the men who were once part of his school years.

“I was a boarder from Popanyinning,” he said. “I didn’t like school but I liked the people I came across. As you get older, those people become even more significant.”

That made the one-in, all-in decision easier to make, though the promise of slow-motion running, limited tackling and unlimited interchange added to the appeal.

It was not like that in 1977 when Aquinas won the first match of the season at Christ Church’s ground, then both teams beat every other school home and away to set up an effective grand final at Aquinas on the final day of the season.

“Our premiership was the result of a combination of dedication and skill,” Christ Church yearbook Mitre reported in 1977.

“We were not a team of champions – simply a champion team, where pride in our school and in ourselves, instilled in us by coach Watkins and the supporters who followed us through the year, was too much for any opposition side.

“Our tackling and chasing overpowered the surprised Aquinas team – resulting in a nine-goal victory for Christ Church and again a share in the Alcock Cup.”

Whether the game on Sunday is a tie-breaker for the shared result in 1977, or simply an excuse for a group of old blokes to run around and tell ancient war stories, it could be almost as memorable as the contest that inspired it.

And it might be a distraction from another match taking place the same afternoon at Docklands.

Simpson built career on WA foundation

Bob Simpson was Western Australia’s first regular Test cricketer and a player who produced one of the most remarkable seasons in the state’s history.

symphony of seapower and surfing precision.

But a new twist in the rules has sharpened the stakes.

As top seed she needs only to win her first heat to claim her maiden world title.

Jack Robinson isn’t just a surfer, he’s the tide turner and last set wave-slayer Hewn from granite and ocean spray, a living monolith of focus, hope and relentless hunger, it’s like he has got barnacles in his DNA.

As if the wave gods themselves anointed him at birth.

And if the gods help those who help themselves, Robinson could be surfing his way into the annals of surfing glory.

You can never, ever count Robinson out as we saw at Teahupo’o last week, but he faces another epic challenge as fourth seed.

Both surfers know that only perfection survives in Cloudbreak’s hollow tubes.

When the spray finally settles, Australia will know whether it has witnessed heartbreak or two legends written into the saltwater scriptures forever.

Most of the numerous tributes to Simpson, who has just died at 89, understandably focused on his decade as national coach that restored Australia’s cricket fortunes.

It was not a lone hand. His former WA opening partner Laurie Sawle proved an astute and far-sighted chairman of selectors charged with finding the talent for Simpson to cultivate, while the bloody-minded Allan Border was the perfect foil as a captain who never gave an inch.

Simpson was never everybody’s cup of tea though his rigid discipline and focus on fundamentals were the essential factors when he was appointed in 1986 to right a sinking ship. It was far greater in scope but not dissimilar in style to the job Justin Langer was required to do at WA and then Australia.

Fitness, fielding and batting technique – the staples of his own career – were the building blocks Simpson used to convert Australia from easy beats gutted by the Packer and South Africa rebels to a juggernaut that has rarely failed to excel over the past three decades.

Simpson was a precocious young player at NSW frustrated by that state’s host of Test stars blocking his ascent when he accepted an offer from Fremantle secretary Bob Ballantine to

pact on WA and Australian cricket.

move to Perth to try his luck. He got a job as a sport journalist at the Daily News and spent the next five years honing his cricket skills so successfully that he became WA’s inaugural first-choice Test player.

WA product Ernie Bromley played a couple of Bodyline Tests after moving to Melbourne in the 1930s to improve his selection chances, John Rutherford played one Test in 1956 as the first player picked from WA and, two years later, Keith Slater was the first born-and-bred West Australian to play a Test on home soil while representing his state. But Simpson, who would play 16 Tests before returning to Sydney after the 1961 Ashes tour, was WA’s only consistent homeand-away selection until the emergence of Graham McKenzie. That elevation was in no small part due to his phenomenal 1959-60 season when he batted six times for WA for two double centuries and another ton, a pair of 98s and a 79 that left him with an average of 300.67 for his 902 runs. No player has ever come close to such a return and it may never be approached.

The Gritstone Picklum Express, barrelling towards perfection and her first world title. Photo: WSL/Bielmann

surfing with cameron bedford-brown

Bob Simpson had a profound im-

Umpire Mark Paganin gets a training session under way as Howard Cearns, left, David Prendiville, Richard Simpson, Andy Haslam, Joe Fisher and Murray Ward prepare to relive their 1977 Alcock Cup rivalry.

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Canola oil to grease muffin tin

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Q: What has ears like a cat and a tail like a cat, but is not a cat?

Q: What do you get when you cross a cow with a trampoline?

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Straight and robot masters

Hi HiKidKids,

This week’s winners spread their creative works far and wide. Straight lines inspired race cars whizzing by to set new racetrack times and chefs cooking swine to fine dine.

I’m happy to report that my intensive survey of the gelati of Italy and the souvlaki of the Greek islands has been successfully completed. My conclusion is that they are both fantastic!

drawing a four-legged animal that has come out looking like the real deal.

Q: Where do sheep get their hair cut?

A: Because he ran out of juice.

Bligh’s afloat boat would certainly raise a sea captain’s brow at the ship’s starboard jagged bow. Fancying herself a budding grandmaster, Estelle has black beaten in her chess game drawing. I can’t imagine anything going wrong with Ilyssa’s Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Thank you to Sally for holding the fort here at the POST while I had my holiday, and for providing some really fun and interesting activities.

The folks here at the POST can vouch for this week’s muffin recipe, below left, so if you’re into savoury treats you may like to make them for your school lunch boxes.

This week’s main winner, Lyla Dallimore, 8, from Mosman Park, drew a horse jumping an obstacle with a chuffed jockey in the saddle. She has shown real artistic skill,

A: At the baa-baa shop.

Q: What’s a puppy’s favourite kind of pizza?

Q: Why can’t hippos ride bicycles?

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Q: Why are elephants wrinkled?

Our other main winner, Dante Valeri, 7, from Cottesloe, depicts a dystopian future in which robot overlords are demanding humans cook them dinner.

This week’s Doodlebug challenge was quite a tricky one.

Our first major winner, William Vardanega (10), from Mt Claremont, rose to the challenge with a drawing of a dinosaur with a particularly bad case of chicken pox.

This might be a sociological commentary on not taking our microwaves and ovens for granted. Another week and another reminder of all the talented artists across the suburbs. Keep the great work and creativity coming in.

James Nash (6), from City Beach, is our other big winner and his pink flamingo really is an eye-catcher. I like the way James has left some white there to show the wings and those staring eyes.

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