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Club Bayview fades away quietly

By JACK MADDERN

Club Bayview has closed for good.

So too The Avenue, the louche replacement for the iconic nightclub that was for decades the centre of western suburb nocturnal activity.

The Claremont club’s fate was sealed when a deal was struck between the St Quentin Avenue building’s new owners and the GPs on Bayview medical clinic, who were searching for a new home.

Tens of thousands of young western suburb women and men got their taste for clubbing at what became the must-visit neighbourhood venue.

“Even if you were not a big fan of Clubba you knew that’s where your night out would always end up,” one Club Bayview veteran said.

It was a magnet for people from all over the metropolitan area but was to become notorious across Australia and the world in the mid 1990’s when several of its patrons fell victim to a serial killer.

The spinning mirror-ball, ﬂowing drinks and sweaty dance ﬂoor are soon to give way to a more sober atmosphere.

The former club will only serve medical shots from now on.

“Our current location is planned for redevelopment, so we have been looking around, and it was just fortuitous that the people who just bought the Club Bayview site knew one of our doctors,” GPs on Bayview co-founder Chris Swarts said.

“It all happened quickly.”

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PCC votes to sink Matilda Bay ferry

By LLOYD GORMAN

Hospital workers and visitors to QEII Medical Centre have been slugged with almost almost $270,000 in ﬁnes in two years for parking in nearby residential streets.

Close to 4000 ﬁnes have been issued since July 1, 2023.

The ﬁgure was revealed at Perth City Council on Tuesday night when David Lim from the City of Perth Western Residents Association asked how compliant hospital workers and university students had been in sticking to the new rules.

He was referring to new parking restrictions which came into effect after a trial.

Perth City Council this week became the latest opponent of a proposed ferry terminal in Matilda Bay.

After a debate lasting almost two hours on Tuesday night, every councillor bar one voted against a 140m-long jetty, terminal and charging station being built on the foreshore of the Crawley inlet.

The motion authorised acting Lord Mayor Bruce Reynolds to write to Premier Roger Cook outlining their position and asking for further consultation “on alternatives” to the project and for “full disclosure of the

business case against the JoJo’s location”.

The development application for the $27.7million terminal was recently referred to the City’s planners and on Thursday this week the plans went out for 21 days of public comment.

Councillor Steve Wellard –who is seeking re-election – said it was a major issue for the community and kept coming up as he campaigned for re-election in the area.

“In the election process you do a hell of a lot of door-knocking ... and every single person I met in that area is dead against Matilda Bay,” Mr Wellard said.

“Not just dead against it; they were angry that we hadn’t made a decision if we were for or against it.”

He said the project was “gaining momentum” and he was concerned that if the council did not decide the matter now

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The parking limit on the healthcare precinct’s Nedlands side was cut from two hours to one, Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm, and capped at four hours from 5pm to midnight on weekdays and at all times on weekends (QEII staff face parking clamp, POST, June 10, 2023).

General Manager Planning Maria Cooke confirmed the number of ﬁnes.

“Since the new conditions were introduced, the parking services team have undertaken the same regularity of daily patrols and since July 1, 2023 to date there have been 3842 infringements,” she said.

Perth City Council introduced the new restrictions after an electors’ AGM at which residents spoke about the problems posed by QEII staff parking outside their homes and in their streets.

A motion by locals Suzanne Mather and Jane Boxall was carried at the meeting (Silence, surprise over QEII trafﬁc chaos, POST, February 4, 2023).

The proposed jetty will extend 140m into Matilda Bay.

Another case of stinky planning

Once again the City of Nedlands commissioners have approved a “stink in planning”.

This time it’s for the area between Underwood Avenue and Karrakatta station, that could see as many as 6124 new dwellings built (New suburb tick for stink zone, POST, September 27).

Of course this relies on eliminating the stench from the Subiaco Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Where are all the children who are going to supposedly live in this stink-proof area going to be educated?

Let’s just once again ignore the lack of western suburb public schools in this area, and an empty high school structure in City Beach that could be used and ease the stink.

A. Beresford Waterway Court, Churchlands

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Feeling boxed in by Bunnings

It is astounding, and devastating to the aged residents of St Ives Subiaco, that an extension was granted (Bunnings build has COVID help, POST, September 27) to the recent expiry date when the Bunnings development in Hay Street could have been quashed.

And shame on Bunnings for this unconscionable imposition, of a development made possible by egregious lapses of circumspection and responsibility, from town planning scheme to later statutory approvals.

It beggars belief that the powers that be have made possible the location of a huge warehouse, of constant bustling activity, hard-

up against a prestige retirement village of 300 residents who have paid substantial money hoping for the quiet enjoyment of their later years in a tranquil and safe environment.

The traffic, noise, activity and dust during construction will pale against the endless succession of trafﬁc and associated hazards, and the relentless activity once trading commences between 6.30am and 9pm on weekdays and 7am to 7pm at weekends.

Bunnings’ current location is ideal and disturbs no one. Why not stay there?

Rodney Wells Hopetoun Terrace, Shenton Park

Artificial Intelligence – finding fault with assessments

John Barrington’s article (AI: Cheat tool or study guide? POST September 27) is far too polite for a subject that demands thunder, not whispering.

Framing AI as merely “cheat” or “guide” is like describing a hurricane as a stiff breeze.

Artiﬁcial intelligence is not a student scribbling notes in the back row; it is a juggernaut reshaping the foundations of learning.

Universities clutching Turnitin reports like rosary beads are already outﬂanked; AI can generate essays, solve equations and mimic academic

voices faster than a plagiarism committee can clear its throat.

And yet, to dismiss AI as mere villain is to miss its promise.

Curtin University’s AI-CEO experiment offers a glimpse of the future – stop rewarding rote regurgitation, start rewarding interrogation. The true measure of learning lies not in word-count but in the sharpness of the questions.

Here is my challenge to Mr Barrington: Your article glides over the true dangers. Where is the alarm over bias in AI outputs? Where is the warning on privacy as students upload coursework into opaque systems? Where is the recognition of inequality, as well-resourced

students race ahead with premium AI tools while others are left behind?

These are not footnotes, they are fault lines.

AI is no Jekyll and Hyde; it is an ampliﬁer. In the hands of the curious, it sharpens; in the hands of the lazy, it dulls.

Universities must not merely cope with AI – they must wrestle it, tame it, and wield it with courage.

Mr Barrington’s polite binary is the academic equivalent of bringing a teaspoon to a swordﬁght. Revolutions devour the timid.

Yours in artiﬁcial outrage Professor Emeritus Ignatius Cheatwell Bernard Street, Claremont ■ See report AI porn, page 20

Shark victim

By BRET CHRISTIAN

Geoffrey Church

were made to catch the circling shark.

The kiosk owner used a .303 riﬂe to shoot at the shark, and a revolver was also ﬁred at it with no evident effect.

Hooks with baits attached to drums were placed near the

New slow zone for highway

By JACK MADDERN

A section of Stirling Highway will become a 40kmh school zone under a raft of road safety measures for schools announced by Transport Minister Rita Safﬁoti in Parliament last week.

The extended school zone will run outside MLC and Christchurch in Claremont from next March.

Ms Safﬁoti also told Parliament that new electronic school signs would be installed this month along the same stretch of Stirling Highway.

The Town of Claremont has already said it supports the safety measures.

Stirling Highway is the most dangerous strip of road in the Town of Claremont.

In the past four years, the intersection has seen 38 crashes of which nine have needed medical attention for the people involved.

A review conducted by Main Roads in 2024 found the extended school zone and new electronic school signs would enhance children’s safety.

jetty that then extended into the sea from the foot of Forrest Street. It was hooked the next day by the local policeman. Simon was farewelled by Perth’s Jewish community at Karrakatta cemetery.

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Lawyer will fight rate bill

By JACK MADDERN

Prominent lawyer and former Cottesloe mayor John Hammond was so outraged by Mosman Park’s pursuit of a dying pensioner for unpaid rates that he has offered to act for her for free.

Mosman Park has demanded that Suzanne Lemmey, who has terminal cancer and will have her nose removed next week as part of her treatment, repay $11,250 in rates on a Glenn Avenue property she sold three years ago.

The council has admitted it made an error in 2022 when it told Ms Lemmey, the buyer and their settlement agents that no outstanding rates were owed on the property.

But it is adamant that Ms Lemmey must now clear the debt, a move Mr Hammond described as “immoral”.

“It’s immoral for the Town to be chasing her, given they have led her into error and she has reorganised her life accordingly,” he said.

“The correct thing to do, given it is a local government and not just a supplier of, say, swimming pool services, would be to withdraw.”

“Councils [can] exercise discretion when it comes to ﬁxing the rates and determining costs.”

Mr Hammond said Mosman Park was entitled to seek payment from Ms Lemmey but

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“It’s a move in the right direction,” he said.

“I wouldn’t want to lose one child’s life for the sake of 20kmh.”

Main Roads data from 2020 to 2024 shows that the intersection of Queenslea Drive and

Claremont mayor Jock Barker said he understood while it may be inconvenient for drivers during their daily commutes, he believed an extra minute or two of time was worth it for the safety of children.

Ms Saffioti also spoke to Parliament about the school crossing on Stirling Highway near Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Peppermint Grove.

“We are working very closely with Presbyterian Ladies’ College and the West Australian Police Force to heighten driver awareness and deter speeding through variable message signage at the school frontage,” she said.

Shark head to head to the US? Hugh Edwards with the stuffed culprit.

This section of Stirling Highway intersection is the most dangerous in Claremont. Photo: Paul McGovern

Sea snake rescue causes a stir at City Beach

Two young girls who noticed an unusual snake at City Beach last week called in an expert, who identified it as dangerously venomous.

Its striking colours and beautifully patterned paddle tail identified it as a juvenile yellow belly sea snake.

Tessa Esparon, a licensed reptile relocator and rehabilitator, got the call from the girls who had seen the snake on the sand after it was washed up in rough weather.

“They were lovely and cared enough to call after they got my number from WA Wildlife Helpline,” Tessa said.

“You could see straight away, with the size of the

Subiaco Oval was once the centrepiece of WA football but could not draw enough fans last weekend to host an AFL Grand Final event.

Subiaco council’s promotion arm See Subiaco hoped to match the 2024 grand final when hundreds of people went to the ground

to watch the footy on massive screens, listen to live DJs, enjoy bars and food trucks and carnival rides.

But poor ticket sales forced event organiser Bar Pop to cancel a few days before Brisbane overcame Geelong in the last match of the season.

It was in contrast to the sold-out event at Perth Stadium which drew more than 2000 fans.

Subiaco Mayor David McMullen put on a brave face but said the Subi Oval event had had all the ingredients to be a great success.

“We recognise that from time to time, circumstances change, economic drivers take hold, and it was unfortunately not viable for the event to proceed,” he said.

Galah family stops tree lopping

When loppers came knocking at Wembley Golf Course they discovered a family of galahs nesting in a tree that was marked for removal.

The large tuart had dropped a 30m limb in August, creating a hazard on the seventh fairway.

The tree was inspected and its removal scheduled.

However, during the lopping process, a nesting hole was discovered when a galah popped out its pink and grey head. Lopping stopped, and the tree will be inspected again after nesting season is over.

Is this Perth’s coolest canine? A POST reader spotted the begoggled french bulldog ridin’ dirty on West Coast Highway last week, along with its cooperative human.

Galahs have made a nest in a trimmed tree at Wembley Golf course.

Grand Final flop at Subiaco Oval

Subiaco mayor David McMullen

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Cott short-stay bonanza

By BRET CHRISTIAN

Cottesloe home owners cashing in on their suburb’s soaring attraction for tourists face more regulation.

Tourists are being charged between $300 and $1500 a night to stay in scores of privatelyowned homes, most bunched within a block of Cottesloe and North Cottesloe beaches.

The council has signed up to state rules that require it to regulate the booming private online short-term accommoda-

tion trade such as Airbnb.

The new rules it recently passed affect all WA councils, including others in the western suburbs where short-stays are popular, and in the past have led to complaints about noisy parties and street parking hogs.

One Cottesloe owner told the council he installed noise detectors in his house to make sure that no more people stayed in his house than the numbers booked.

A rule requiring all short-stay properties to be registered

with the state government from this year has revealed that Cottesloe has 161 short-stays.

Most are what are called unhosted, where guests have access to the entire home.

Hosted stays are when the owner or occupier lives on the property.

About 60% of unhosted stays are between Broome, Grant and Forrest streets and the ocean, staff told a council meeting last month.

They revealed that Tourism WA says 150,000 external na-

tional and international visitors ﬂock to Cottesloe each year.

This is despite the substandard beach toilets, rusty beach railings and hot, black bitumen beach paths.

The online booking platform Airbnb said tourism to Cottesloe supports 326 jobs and ensures residents earn extra income.

Airbnb extolled the economic beneﬁts of its business to “world renowned Cottesloe beach” when it responded to ads from the council seeking public comment after councillors endorsed short-stay plans in April.

Stingrays spike three swimmers

By JEN REWELL

Beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the weeds at Leighton.

Lifesavers there say they have treated three people for stingray-related injuries in the past few weeks, where weedy shores have provided the creatures with the perfect hiding spot.

Fremantle Surf Lifesaving Club general manager Javier Mogollon said three men aged between 14 and 51 years had been injured.

The 51-year-old was taken to hospital for stitches and a

full wound clean to remove potential stingray barbs.

“This is common at this time of year, as seaweed along the beach creates ideal conditions for stingrays,” he said.

He offered a good tip for preventing a stingray injury.

“Shuffle your feet when walking through murky water, seaweed, or areas where you can’t see the bottom,” he said.

“This movement alerts stingrays and cobblers so they can swim away before you step on them.”

A cobbler is a type of Australian catﬁsh which has a soft, scaleless body and sharp

venomous spines for defence. Stingrays and cobblers are bottom feeders that hide under sand or seaweed and will sting in self-defence if they are trodden on.

Stingrays have a sharp, ﬁnely serrated barb at the end of their tail which is raised like that of a scorpion.

Stingray barb injuries are considered extraordinarily painful but fatalities are rare – fewer than 20 deaths have been recorded worldwide since 1945.

Television wildlife personality Steve Irwin was killed

Airbnb said it had safety and behaviour policies to deter parties, adding that it had a global ban on parties.

Poor and nuisance behaviours are not tolerated on the platform, it said.

One short-stay owner agreed that Cottesloe needs to encourage tourism, as well as provide accommodation for business people, family reunions and local people whose homes were sold or having renovations or emergency repairs.

But other respondents to the council request for comment either wanted no short-stay on land zoned for residential, or robust complaint systems for nuisance tenants and parking problems.

“Ninety-nine per cent of tenants

Cottesloe has 161 short-stay properties.

are on holiday and invite friends to visit, creating issues including loud music, alcohol and many staying overnight,” wrote one Curtin Avenue resident.

Council staff replied that the Town was required by the state’s 2023 reforms to allow short-stays. Complaint systems were in place and neighbours could complain direct to their council, staff said. Properties must provide guest parking on-site or an alternative plan that does not involve street or verge parking.

“Well-equipped, professionally managed short-term rental accommodation provides important accommodation option beneﬁtting visitors, locals and the economy that available hotel accommodation cannot provide,” council staff said.

The new rules, passed by the council last month, are in three parts, replacing current deﬁnitions of bed and breakfast, motel, serviced apartment and short stay accommodation.

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A little shuffle goes a long ray … Fremantle Surf Lifesaving Club’s Javier Mogollon says lifesavers have treated three men injured by stingrays. Photo: Paul McGovern

By BEN DICKINSON

Jacob Byrne has earned a long lie down.

The QEII researcher ran his 30th marathon in 30 days on Tuesday, capping a gruelling physical challenge that has raised more than $89,000 for childhood brain cancer research.

“I don’t usually cry much, but I was crying a lot during the runs,” Jacob told the POST this week, after crossing the ﬁnish line on Perth Children’s Hospital’s Kids’ Bridge.

“The ﬁrst week was hell, essentially.”

Jacob battled blisters, tendonitis, “grinding” joints, splintered toenails, severe muscle pain and intense fatigue throughout his 1266km ordeal, all while working his full-time job and raising twin daughters.

“I used about half a kilo of Vaseline on my feet,” he said.

“My immune system pretty much shut down.

“I’ve had these ulcers popping up in my mouth that just aren’t healing.”

Physio Tom Papathanassiou helped keep Jacob moving, but the runner said even the best treatment was “like putting out a house ﬁre with a garden hose”.

“I made a decision early on that I would go to any sort of length apart from dying,” he said.

“I thought I might have to run slower, but there was never a thought that I’m going to have to stop.”

That resolve was tested halfway through his 17th marathon when Jacob started feeling a sharp pain in his chest that “felt

heart-related”.

He drove himself to the emergency department, where blood tests cleared him of cardiac troubles.

The pain came from the muscles between his ribs, his intercostals, which had been damaged by the extreme exertion.

“I ran the other half late at night when I got discharged,”

Jacob said.

“[The doctor] didn’t tell me not to do it, but he told me: ‘If you want to keep running, you’re an idiot’.”

Despite the onslaught of physical pain, Jacob said it was the mental strain of the challenge that hit the hardest.

“The brain wants to stay in a state of homeostasis – it doesn’t want to run for six hours a day,” he said.

He battled dark thoughts and intense emotions for the ﬁrst week, and said he began to dread the task ahead of him.

But his brain adjusted to the new normal, and he broke through the mental barrier on Day 8.

“It just became like brushing my teeth every day,” he said.

“It was so dramatic, I’ve never felt more joy in my life.”

Jacob lost only two kilograms over the challenge, thanks to a steady diet of NutriGrain, full-sugar Gatorade, chocolate milk and instant noodles that replaced most of the 183,000 calories he burned.

Much of it was delivered by his wife, Sarah, who acted as a one-person support crew for many of his runs.

He walked across the Kids’ Bridge on Monday ﬂanked by survivors of childhood brain cancer, some of whom live with the severe side-effects of their treatments.

They include mobility issues, cognitive impairment and blindness.

Jacob and his team at The Kids Institute are working to ﬁnd less harmful ways to treat the disease, which is usually the result of genetic bad luck.

“It kills more Australian children than any other disease,” he said.

A ﬂood of donations on the ﬁnal day pushed the fundraiser over $89,000, within striking distance of the $100,000 target.

“It couldn’t have gone better in my eyes,” Jacob said.

“It was harder than I thought but also more satisfying than I thought it would be.”

To donate, search “Big Run for Little Brains”.

“She carried a burden that people didn’t see,” Jacob said.

The POST reported Jacob Byrne’s marathon attempt last

Photo: Paul McGovern

Hole lot of trouble

By JEN REWELL

A sandy hole in Tamala Road, City Beach, is causing sleepless nights for neighbours.

Earthworks for a new house being built on Tamala Road have required deep excavations, which have cut into the steep hill.

Neighbour Colin Stanley said the steep drop-off from his property has wrecked his reticulation, cracked his pool grout, and caused other damage.

Mr Stanley, who inherited the house from his parents and has lived there for 61 years, is in poor health and has been to hospital several times during the past month.

He said the boundary excavations had caused him sleepless nights and exacerbated his anxiety.

“My pool area was cracking apart and sinking so I had a grouter in to protect it, which cost me $2860,” he said.

The designer of the new home, Shane Le Roy, said he hoped to have all the issues sorted by the end of the year.

Mr Le Roy is a designer known for his luxury home constructions.

“Our intention is that once the retaining walls are ﬁnished, we will ﬁx Colin’s side straight away,” he said.

He had been talking regularly with Mr Stanley, and personally helped ﬁx the pool cover that was blown off in a recent storm.

While some construction delays had been caused by rain and a lack of tradesman availability, until a new retaining wall was built, it would not be possible to build a new fence.

Mr Le Roy said the existing limestone retaining walls were built when standards were not as stringent, and needed to be rebuilt to meet modern standards.

Tower gets reluctant OK

By JEN REWELL

Cambridge council has approved a controversial City Beach viewing tower, despite community objections and misgivings from councillors.

The six-storey tower at the old Ocean Village Shopping Centre will be a marketing tool for the 23-storey Ocean Grand apartments project to be built on the site.

The council had rejected the proposed tower several times, and its refusal has been assessed by the State Administrative Tribunal.

An image of the Ocean Village viewing tower

Lawyer Alex McGlue, representing developer Blackburne, said it was unusual for the SAT to ask council to reconsider a recommendation more than once.

“If the Town ignores the ofﬁcer recommendation, refuses this development application again and proceeds to a SAT hearing without

a proper basis for refusal, the Town risks adverse cost orders being made against it by the SAT,” he said.

“Another refusal decision would therefore stand as a waste of ratepayer funds and potentially risks reputational damage to the Town.” Councillors voted to approve the tower, with some expressing “regret” in doing so.

“I am disappointed at where this has got to,” deputy mayor Ben Mayers said.

“I know that members of the community are disappointed at the WAPC decision (to build the apartments) and they will be similarly disappointed in council’s decision tonight, but I’m also mindful that we must not spend ratepayer funds irresponsibly.”

The vote was passed 8-1 with Susan Kennerly the only councillor to vote against.

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How low can you go? Rosemary Stewart is one of the neighbours concerned about the sand excavation on a property in City Beach. Photo: Paul McGovern

Limb crashes on sisters

By BEN DICKINSON

Two young women are lucky to be alive after a falling tree limb crushed their car in Dalkeith last week.

They were driving along Birdwood Parade, near Sunset Hospital.

Beatrice Road resident Richard Warren said his 22-year-old daughter Samantha required emergency hand surgery after the branch fell on her car about 8pm on September 24.

“The neighbours rushed out and were able to prise open

the doors,” he said. Samantha and her younger sister, Hannah, were following their parents home from a dinner when the freak accident occurred.

UWA student Nicholas Cardaci was travelling a few seconds behind the young women, and saw the limb come down.

“We drove up and I heard screaming,” he said.

“It was only then that I thought shit, there’s a car underneath this thing’.”

“Thank goodness I took a piss before I left otherwise it could have been us.”

Samantha’s mother rushed her to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, where doctors operated on her hand.

Hannah suffered only minor bruising.

The Mazda was damaged beyond repair.

Dr Warren said he was concerned about the health of the stand of mature trees, which were inspected by an arborist after the incident.

“Most of the trunk is rotten” on one tree, Dr Warren said. Another had evidence of “some sort of fungal infection”.

Morgan blasts light-spill threat

By BRET CHRISTIAN

Cottesloe mayoral candidate Kevin Morgan says council mistakes could lead to 4km of beachfront being saddled with light poles and all-night lighting that nobody wants.

Mr Morgan’s election material for the October 18 election about the path has been challenged by current mayor Lorraine Young, who is vacating the job and has nominated for a seat on the council.

Ms Young has said that the proposed work will not convert the cliff-top beach path into a principal shared path which regulations require to have light poles and all-night lighting.

“Lighting will be low-level and safety-focused, using bollards wherever possible, with poles only at intersections.,” Ms Young said (Beach path danger fear, POST September 27).

“It will be demand-responsive, as is the case in similar foreshore projects.”

But Mr Morgan said his examination of three years of council minutes and decisions showed a proposal for a PSP.

He said Cottesloe staff’s community engagement report called it a PSP, “a primary route similar to the Perth to Fremantle path along Curtin Avenue”.

People who responded to the invitation to comment were given no information about lights and bollards, he said.

“People did not know what

they were voting on,” he said. His inquiries with the Department of Transport showed that a PSP would require 200 poles ﬁve to seven metres high, 22m apart and burning all night. (Letter page 18).

A PSP had a speed limit of 25kmh for bikes and e-rideables that would present a danger to walkers, the disabled and people pushing prams.

Mr Morgan said the path should be designated a footpath, which would have a speed limit of 10kmh.

PSPs generally needed to be 4m wide and paved with red bitumen, he said. The current path is mostly 3m wide or less. It was unclear whether the $4million federal footpath grant could be applied to a shared path deﬁned as a footpath, or needed to be a PSP to ﬁt in with the cycle network.

Mr Morgan’s opponent in the election is Cottesloe deputy mayor Melissa Harkins.

Former mayor Kevin Morgan Lorraine Young

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Swanbourne cafe a ‘daytime nightclub’

By JACK MADDERN

Swanbourne residents affected by the busy Side Piece Deli, which they say is breaching development plans, have been accused of bad behaviour by a friend of the owner.

Lindsay Martin, who lives near Sam Kaye’s other cafe Daisies in Cottesloe, noticed a Side Piece neighbour “sit on their horn” and raise a middle ﬁnger to people blocking their driveway.

And he said a Side Piece staff member told him a neighbour had used a hose to spray people off their verge.

“It’s pretty unacceptable be-

haviour by anyone,” Mr Martin said.

“Rather than an entitled cafe, I think it’s an entitled homeowner.

“There are worse things going on, so why are you so wrapped up in a deli making great pastries and complaining about fresh bread?”

But Claremont Mayor Jock Barker said that parking had become an issue at the new Shenton Road cafe and the council might have been misled over the volume of trafﬁc likely to be created.

“It seems as though there are a hell of a lot more people going there [by car] than we were led to believe,” he said.

“We only know what we are told, and from a Town survey, most of the residents who responded were in favour of it.”

Resident Ian Satchwell did not endorse bad behaviour but said that neighbours’ legitimate concerns had not been addressed.

“Smells of burning meat and cooking ﬁsh from Side Piece Deli pervade our garden and house for several hours most days,” he said.

“That is unacceptable, particularly in a residential zone.”

Mr Satchwell said the previous Choux Cafe was a commercial business run the right way in a residential area.

“The

Mayor Barker fears election loss

By JACK MADDERN

A pessimistic Jock Barker has downplayed his chances of being re-elected as Claremont mayor after 16 years in the post.

“I’m not sure that I have any chance of surviving this election,” he told the Claremont council meeting this week. It came as his opponent Peter Telford urged the Government to introduce eight-year maximum terms for mayors.

“I think [Local Government Minister] Hannah Beazley needs to put in a maximum of eight years, two terms as mayor,” he said.

“It is time for someone young, with fresh ideas and active leadership to steer the Town.”

The two candidates have experienced rocky starts to their campaigns.

Mr Barker was asked to explain his recent trip to Brisbane after declaring on the council gift register that he had received

two nights’ accommodation and airfares for a total of $1842 from Arthur Dubov.

“It was an event arranged by one of the Gold Coast mayors who had invited around 200 people to attend,” he said.

“It wasn’t council-related but was an event held for the ﬁrst time in Australia’s history to get community leaders to address antisemitism and racism in the country.

“I went in my own right, but because I am the mayor of

Claremont, I thought it was incumbent on me to declare they paid for some of the airfare and accommodation, while I did pay the rest.”

Mr Telford also ran into a technical issue when he attempted to use in his campaign material an ofﬁcial photograph taken when he was a councillor.

He was informed less than a day before the close of nominations that it was prohibited to use Town property in election material.

“I got a call from an election officer saying: ‘Mate, I have never heard of this before, but have you heard from the Town? They are claiming you are using council property for your election’,” he said.

WA Electoral Commission policy requires candidates to submit a recent passport-size photograph.

“If I hadn’t resubmitted another photo, all documents would have gone out without a photo attached,” Mr Telford said.

people coming down [to the deli] aren’t local” … cafe neighbour John Burridge. Photo: Paul McGovern

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Road rage incident worries corruption watchdog

One of the state’s most senior corruption watchdogs says he is “troubled” by the police force’s decision to not charge an officer accused of choking a man in a City Beach road rage incident.

Parliamentary Inspector Matthew Zilko, who oversees the Corruption and Crime Commission, wrote in his annual report to Parliament that it was “difﬁcult to understand” the police decision to not lay charges against Sergeant Glen Morey last year.

Sean Beasley was driving his daughter home from school in February last year when he honked at a car that he said had cut in front of him.

The other driver got out of his car at a trafﬁ light and confronted Mr Beasley, then allegedly grabbed him by the neck and choked him.

Mr Beasley’s teenage daughter took photos of the incident.

Mr Beasley immediately drove to Scarborough police station to report the alleged assault, unaware that the man he was accusing was an off-duty police ofﬁcer.

The incident was investigated by the police Internal Affairs Unit, which found there was “insufﬁcient evidence to prefer criminal charges” because it would be “difﬁcult to overcome”

But Mr Zilko reported that he “strongly disagreed with the Commission’s conclusion”.

“The rationale for not charging the sergeant seemed, frankly, misconceived,” he wrote.

The CCC changed its view after Mr Zilko raised his concerns with the agency.

“The Commission advised that in its opinion, there was a prima facie case for offences of aggravated assault occasioning bodily harm … and suffocation and strangulation,”

this conclusion was difﬁ

Descent into thievery

Licence plates were stolen from a Ford Ranger in Mosman Park’s Goonan Lane last weekend.

The custom Avon Descent plates, reading “32 AD”, were stolen sometime between noon on Friday, September 26 and 11am on Sunday,

Cop attacker pleads guilty

A 37-year-old man who assaulted a police ofﬁ in Mt Claremont was due to be sentenced this week for a string of violent offences last year.

Casuarina Prison inmate Elwyn-Roger Colbung appeared in the dock at Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday, where he admitted assaulting ofﬁcer Anthony Booker on December 20.

Colbung was due to face trial that morning on two counts of assaulting a public ofﬁcer and one of obstructing public ofﬁ but changed his pleas after one of the assault charges

sufﬁ magistrate, rather than the [Internal Affairs Unit], to determine whether an offence had been committed.”

Mr Zilko reported that he could do no more about the matter, but “remain[ed] troubled about the way in which this matter was dealt with by WA Police, including after the Commission had drawn its attention to ﬂaws in its investigation”.

He had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to 19 other offences from around the same time, including twice assaulting and choking a person in Mt Claremont on December 20 and 21, and 14 counts of breaching a family violence restraining order.

He was due to be sentenced on Tuesday, but defence counsel Yassamin Olson asked for a three-day on the case.

Police prosecutor Dean Turner said he would apply to have Colbung declared a serial family violence offender. That would make him subject to electronic monitoring after his release, and make it more difﬁcult for him to get bail if he offended again.

His sentencing on all 21 charges was rescheduled to Friday, after the POST went to press.

Culleton faces jail for lying on nomination form

Former One Nation

Senator Rod Culleton faces up to a year in prison after being found guilty of lying on his nomination papers for the 2022 federal election.

It is the latest legal drama for Culleton, a self-described “Senator in Exile”, who is yet to be tried for allegedly committing the same offence earlier this year.

“I respectfully submit

that this prosecution is void,” he told magistrate Melissa McEwen at trial last week.

“To proceed would be to invite a profound erosion of public conﬁdence in the administration of justice.”

Culleton, who has aligned himself with the “sovereign citizen” movement, had his electorate ofﬁce in West Perth during his six-month stint as

a senator in 2016. He was expelled from the Senate in January 2017 after he was made bankrupt by a Federal Court ruling. He renominated for the Senate in 2022, declaring on his form that he was not an undischarged bankrupt.

He continues to deny he is bankrupt, telling last

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Sergeant Glen Morey was photographed during an incident with another driver in City Beach.

The stolen number plate.

Free fun as hefty entry fee cuts crowds

By JEN REWELL

Free entertainment was the name of the game at the Perth Royal Show for crowds who headed to Claremont this week.

While the noise and lights of sideshow alley were a drawcard, adults in charge of the purse strings were already feeling the pinch after paying $50 for entry.

Children under 15 and concession card holders were subsidised by the state government and were half-price at $14.

Children were free and adults half-price last year when the show attracted almost 440,000 attendees across eight days.

Attendance numbers will be released after the last day and are expected to be down on last year.

People looking for free entertainment watched woodchopping and horse-riding competitions, visited cattle, sheep pens and fowl cages, and applauded canine efforts at the dog trials.

The fresh food and cookery sections were a drawcard: artistic icing excellence was showcased in delicately ﬂ wedding cakes, towering fruit cakes and perfectly round rum balls were kept behind glass to repel temptation.

Jessica Straven’s expressive bust of the character Sharon Strzelecki, made famous by comedian Magda Szubanski, won ﬁrst prize in the decorated sculptured cakes section.

A new layout of the animal nursery section was a big success, allowing people to get up close to alpacas, sheep, poultry and rabbits.

lay slumbering.

Peahens and guinea fowl retreated from the crowds and perched on overhead lights.

After dark, families gathered around the Showground oval to watch motorbike jump displays and a Dolly Parton tribute singer who performed while being driven around on the back of a tractor.

International diving troupe Flying Fools performed their circus-like diving show, which involved acrobats diving into a

RESPONSIBILITY

a 25m platform into the shallow water, impressing the crowd, and another was spectacularly set alight before diving into the pool in a blaze of ﬂame.

An illuminated drone show lit up shapes of the Show as the crowd guessed which shape was being revealed in an oversized aerial game of charades.

The drones buzzed into place to reveal shapes like a woodchopper, cow, motorbike and (a favourite) twirling potato spiral.

I seek your support to Keep Claremont in safe hands.

The position of Mayor requires a leader with local experience, transparency and unwavering commitment to the Claremont Community. Using this approach has seen your council evolve to be the highest rated local government organization in Western Australia.

COMMUNICATION

Great things are only achievable when there is harmony and a collective sense of working together with common goals. I am proud of the way your council team works for you.

local roads and trains were packed with Showgoers who were easily spotted with their enormous stuffed animal prizes, face-paint and showbag haul.

Dog owners in Claremont shared tips online on how to comfort their scared dogs.

“It’s only eight days,” they told each other.

Jock BARKER

TOWN OF CLAREMONT

It has been an honour to serve as your Mayor and I am seeking your support to continue to serve the Claremont Community.

VOTE 1 Jock BARKER for Mayor

COMMUNITY FIRST

My priority has always been to listen, plan and execute in the best interests of our community– supporting local business – supporting sporting groups – supporting community events and supporting environmental initiatives.

INFASTRUCTURE

Significant projects like Underground Power, Drainage, new Pavilions, Museum renovation, Bayview Community Centre and Library and Aquatic Centre upgrades are some of the many successes of your council under my leadership.

VOTING – Only a small percentage of ratepayers exercise their right to vote, and I urge you to be involved and work with us to continue the good work of your council.

Horsing around … Perth Royal Show meant a week of performances for the Outback Adventure entertainment team.

ABOVE: A border collie shows off its tricks in the sheep pens. BELOW: Is it cake? A Sharon Strzelecki bust won a blue ribbon for cake artist Jessica Straven.

RIGHT: Cocks and combs were on show in the poultry pavilion.

No reason to continue large-scale immigration

Any suggestion that Australia’s economy or its social services delivery would collapse without immigrants is misguided.

It rests on a false premise that native-born Australians are somehow less capable of becoming doctors, nurses, dentists, or hairdressers, so we need more people who were born overseas to take up those roles.

Unsurprisingly, many of the ﬁve million migrants who arrived in Australia’s over the past 25 years, and their subsequent children, play a vital part in the economy.

Since 50% of Australia’s current population were either born

overseas or have at least one parent who was, it would be astonishing to discover that many vital services in Australia were not provided by immigrants. But this is not a valid reason to suggest that immigration-fed population growth is needed or indeed good for Australia’s long-term resilience and sustainability in the face of rapidly evolving climate change.

Peter Strachan Florence Street, Cottesloe

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Breaking Ground. Changing Lives.

At Western Australia’s Perron Institute, dedicated and internationally recognised teams are breaking ground and changing lives.

Through research and clinical trials, scientists and clinicians are working to unlock medical mysteries and create the future of personalised, precision therapies to revolutionise treatment for neurological disorders.

This means tailoring treatments for groups and individuals, based on their speciﬁc needs.

An example is Perron Institute researchers who are continuing to recruit people living with Parkinson’s to participate in a quality-of-life study for people with this diagnosis.

The study, developed in the UK, is titled Trajectories of Outcome in Neurological Conditions, or TONiC. It is led in WA by Professor Sulev Kõks, MD PhD, who heads Genetic Epidemiology Research at the Perron Institute and holds a joint appointment with the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics at Murdoch University.

“Parkinson’s is not the same for every patient. People will progress at different rates, or experience certain symptoms that affect their day-to-day life more than those same symptoms affect others with the disease,” Professor Kõks said.

“These differences can change the way people cope with disease progression, as can a patient’s personal characteristics or social context.

“Identifying factors that inﬂuence patient quality-of-life opens opportunities to expand and improve health services and support, as well as working towards more personalised care.

“An individual’s genetic makeup can also inﬂuence social, psychological and biological responses. We are investigating this as part of the TONiC study for the purpose of early intervention with care plans and treatments.

“By investigating genetic factors that inﬂuence and contribute to Parkinson’s, it is possible eventually

to create targeted treatments and predict disease progression.”

Last year, Parkinson’s WA provided additional funding for a genetic component of the MSWA-funded study. Western Australia is the ﬁrst site outside the UK to implement the TONiC study.

The study team is contributing TONiC Parkinson’s data to the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program, part of the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s initiative. This enables data to be analysed in greater detail and increases Western Australia’s contribution to large-scale international genetic investigations. For this study, participants can expect an annual questionnaire, and provide a saliva sample for DNA analysis. The study team is also looking for control subjects who do not have Parkinson’s. If you would like to be involved, or know someone who may be interested, please email tonic@perron.uwa.edu.au.

Perception, and secrecy, over beach path

Outgoing Cottesloe mayor Lorraine Young says her letter (Mayor’s view of Marine Parade shared path, POST, September 27) is to “correct misleading claims”.

Whose claims, her own? The mayor and Cottesloe councillors personally vetted what the community was told when consulted about turning the foreshore path into a cycleway, but nothing was said about lights and poles now revealed for the ﬁrst time in the mayor’s letter, and even this was only after my mayoral campaign exposed this secrecy.

As a primary route for cycling (the other already built as a Principal Shared Path beside Curtin Avenue), the new foreshore cycleway (if built to that same PSP standard) may be expected to bring nearly 200 poles along 4km, ﬁve to seven metres high, 22m apart, each with all-night lighting, a minimum path width plus a half-metre clearance each side and a metre for poles.

The mayor however now says “It’s a shared path, not a principal shared path”, it’s not like the Curtin Avenue path.

Quite frankly I don’t believe her, given that three years of council minutes record coucillors and council staff saying it will be a PSP.

They approved it based on a community engagement report it would be a PSP, and when asked said it will be “a primary route similar to the Perth to Fremantle path along Curtin Avenue”.

The mayor ﬁnally admits that e-rideables will be entitled to go at 25kmh, after earlier denying this.

Upgrading the path as a “footpath” (as I contend), not a shared path, will not only avoid the lights and poles; it will also reduce the speed limit from 25 to 10kmh, and a local law could limit bikes.

This is cheaper and simpler than council’s plan to instead slow them by “rumble strips”, and even better it will not disrupt other users (such as sleeping babies in prams).

Kevin Morgan mayoral candidate Pearse Street, Cottesloe

Failed forest rehab

I’m not sure how observant Brian Povey was of forest rehabilitation by Alcoa (Greener than you think, Letters, September 27), but despite claims of starting rehabilitation on 75% of the 280sq. km of forest so far mined, not one square kilometre has been completed.

Furthermore, a peer-reviewed scientiﬁc study has concluded the results “substandard” and on a “poor to declining trajectory”.

Yes, forests are renewable, but it is clear that the intention of “returning jarrah marri forest” as claimed by Alcoa, is far from being achieved.

This forest is unique, its timbers unmatched, and we are the poorer for any loss.

Bruce Mackintosh

Crowded path ... Bikes, scooters, dog-walkers and casual chatters – the Cottesloe beachfront path is a hive of activity. Photo: Paul McGovern

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Each year for the past 20 years, local residents have been enjoying the spring-time ﬂowers of remnant bushland areas traversed by the Whadjuk Walking Trails network in Perth’s western suburbs.

This year’s walk followed the 15km Bush to Beach trail from Kings Park to Cottesloe beach via Lake Jualbup, Shenton Bushland, Bold Park in City Beach and Swanbourne’s Melon Hill.

This photo shows participants on the Norn Bidi section of the trail, linking Melon Hill to Swanbourne Beach between the WA Bridge Club and the children’s hospice now under construction.

Daniel Boase-Jelinek Derby Road, Shenton Park Friends of Shenton Bushland Inc.

The application can be viewed at haveyoursay.dplh.wa.gov.au/ ferryterminal-matildabay or in person by appointment at the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, Level 2, 140 William Street, Perth. Contact metrocentralnorthconsultation@dplh.wa.gov.au or 6551 8002 for an appointment.

Submissions can be made online or posted to: Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, Metro Central North team, Locked Bag 2506, Perth WA 6001.

Submissions close 23 October 2025

Late submissions may not be accepted.

New suburb: That sinking feeling

The main problem with the Mt Claremont master plan (New suburb tick for stink zone, POST, September 27, 2025) is not the odour from the sewage plant but what has been omitted from the scheme.

While the published diagram is conﬁned to a simpliﬁed concept outline, the major road system ( River tunnel option must be retained, POST, August 10, 2024) planned for that area should be shown because the proposed 100,000 vehicles a day roadways from Gugeri Street in Claremont up to Scarborough Beach Road in Innaloo will have a massive impact on the suburbs it traverses.

An additional problem is that planners have not included Metronet to effectively support urban density.

Much of the new road network is planned to be underground via the “cut and cover” tunnel system (already proven in Subiaco, Joondalup and the

Graham Farmer Freeway under Northbridge) so the inclusion of a Metronet line does not pose construction problems.

The under-river tunnel probably will not be a goer for many years, but it would make sense to proceed now with a Metronet line from Loch Street through to Stirling with stations at Mt Claremont, Floreat, Churchlands, Woodlands and Innaloo.

The importance of this is that Perth is soon to be the third largest city in Australia, and mass-transit systems in advanced cities are now as essential as connections to other basic utilities such as power, water and telecommunications.

Local residents need to mount an organised ﬁght to ensure their suburbs get an underground Metronet service, and not one on an elevated set of tracks like the apparition foisted on Victoria Park.

Kevin McQuoid Hay Street, Jolimont

If you want a good mayor, consider this

In my view, the mayor of a local government in WA has two primary roles:

First, the mayor must ensure that the councillor team operates cooperatively and within the rules set by the regulations.

Second, it is the mayor, and only the mayor, who has the right to communicate with the CEO on day-to-day matters.

So there are a series of questions I would want answered when deciding if a candidate would make a good mayor.

How well do they understand my council area, and what things are important and must be kept? Do they have a clear set of values I can endorse? What do they want to do? What are their pet projects? Are they sensible according to my views?

Date: Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Time: 5.30 pm

Venue: Council Chambers, 1 Leake Street Peppermint Grove has been cancelled. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, 14th October 2025 at 5.30 pm at the same venue, unless otherwise advertised. For further information, please contact Mr Joel Gajic, A/CEO admin@peppermintgrove.wa.gov.au.

Then there is a second series of questions about how they as mayor will interact with a CEO. This relationship is critical. The mayor does not have executive power to direct the CEO, or to hire and ﬁre them. What managerial experience does the candidate have?

The role of mayor needs someone who is much more than a councillor. The mayor must be able to earn (not demand) the respect of the councillors.

This is all tough to ﬁgure out. And as electors, we only ever have a couple of choices, a couple of mayoral candidates.

Often we have to make the best out of what we have to choose from. The only way around this is to work well before the election on getting people that match our own views to stand as mayor. It is not easy.

Serving as mayor can be almost a full-time role, without the level of remuneration that would apply if the same role was in the private sector, or the public sector.

Good luck.

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60 years of wee tank and ‘US style’

By JEN REWELL

“The people of Floreat Park and neighbouring suburbs will have one of Australia’s ﬁnest shopping and community centres.”

Such was the boast of the developers Hammerson Group when Floreat Forum opened in September 1965.

It was the ﬁrst “American style” mall in Perth, offering “enclosed boutique shopping” and two department stores.

“It was considered to be very ﬂash,” one local said.

A shaded centre courtyard was a stand-out feature of the design.

The “special requirements” of the two main tenants, department stores Moores and Woolworths, informed the design of the mall, which had a £437,000 price tag and included the shops, a hotel, a community centre with a library, a ballroom and parking for 600 cars.

The 40 original tenants included Weirs butchers, Dewsnaps Cakes, Mac’s Food Centre, Leslies, Walshs, Chalet Coffee Lounge and the furniture store Zimpels.

Three of the original tenants are still there – Ad Astra Dry Cleaning, Sussans and Woolworths.

Floreat Forum was ofﬁcially opened by then-Premier David Brand in September 1965 and celebrated its 60th anniversary last week.

Shane McLean, centre manager, said the anniversary was a chance to celebrate shared memories while look-

ing ahead.

“For six decades, Floreat Forum has been more than just a place to shop – it has been a community gathering place, complete with memorable features including the tank, the fountain and the big top,” he said.

A Staghound armoured car – known as “the tank” – was installed in a sandpit as a playground feature and was a favourite hangout for children while their mothers did their weekly shopping.

The turret rotated when it was ﬁrst installed but was welded into a ﬁxed position after a child got his head stuck.

One man who lived in Wembley said he played on the tank every week when he was a child.

“Despite the perpetual smell of wee, the unavoidable danger of banging your head, and the scorching heat of the metal in summertime, you couldn’t keep me off it,” he said.

Locals who remember the tank said it was originally green, but was later painted pink … or maybe yellow.

It was the source of many a childhood injury: memories abound of cuts, twisted ankles and broken arms.

The overwhelming memory of many locals is that the tank stank of urine.

Churchlands MP Basil Zempilas said one of his favourite childhood memories was running to the Candy Cabin lolly shop, where he went almost every day after school.

Cambridge’s first CEO dies

A local government stalwart whose leadership and mentorship inspired many local government officers has died.

Graham Partridge, pictured, began his local government career with the City of Perth in the early 1960s before becoming Peppermint Grove CEO for 16 years. He became the ﬁrst CEO of the newly established Town of Cambridge in 1994 following the restructure of the City of Perth.

Current CEO Lisa Clack said

Mr Partridge’s leadership and vision had laid the foundations for the Town.

“His impact is still felt today in the culture, services, and community spirit he helped build,”

Mr Partridge was president of the Sea View Golf Club, chairman of VenuesWest and the WA Sports Centre Trust, executive director of the Australia Day Council and contributed to several WA Local Government Association committees. A funeral service will be held on Monday.

RIGHT: Tanks for the memories… The coloured armoured car was a playground favourite.

ABOVE: The modern layout of Floreat Forum was a major drawcard for many shoppers.

The Leeuwin bounces back

By JEN REWELL

STS Leeuwin II is just three weeks away from returning to the water.

The tall ship is due to be taken out of dry dock and motor back to B Berth in Fremantle on October 24.

The 1850s-style barquentine was moored at Fremantle Port last September when a container ship struck it.

She has been a feature on WA waters since 1986 and had trained more than 50,000 young West Australians.

She was damaged in gusty conditions last year when the bow of the Maersk Shekou swept over her deck..

Three masts snapped and the nightwatch crew ran for their lives through the falling splinters and twisted web of strained ropes.

After a year of repairs in Henderson, the Leeuwin’s three steel mast supports were lowered into place last week.

The vessel is now being prepped for sandblasting and painting before returning to Fremantle Port.

Lawson Dixon, chief executive of the Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation, said work would continue on the ship’s masts and spars so the sails could be mounted and rerigged.

“There’s still a lot of work to do,” he said.

Jane Edwards, from Fremantle Ports, said the Leeuwin was an icon of Victoria Quay and people were looking forward to welcoming her back.

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“We are working with STS Leeuwin to provide safe viewing for the public, as well as family activities on the day, such as face painting and an ice-cream truck,” she said.

Mr Dixon said experienced WA craftsmen were working on the masts, rigging, and hundreds of parts that had to be custom made.

One of the major stumbling blocks for the reﬁt was the time required to prepare the masts, which are made from Canadian oregon pine that had to be felled and cut to exact speciﬁcations.

A rigger who worked on the original masts said that if a bit broke it was made again, “bigger and thicker”.

At that time, more than 180 drawings were made to detail masts and spars, standing

and running rigging, pin and ﬁfe rails, and ﬁttings.

The original plans were lost but had been redrawn from memory.

Mr Dixon said the repairs were being covered by insurance, but extra funds were needed because other work was being done while the ship was in dry dock.

Equipment such as air conditioners, freezers, water tanks and water makers needed to be “100% reliable” to ensure the longevity of the vessel, he said.

“There are parts of the vessel that we haven’t opened up for nearly 40 years,” he said. When parts of the ship were opened up by welders to inspect the hidden interiors, there were some choice words in traditional shipbuilding vernacular about what they found.

A web of strained ropes and splintered masts after the early morning calamity last September.

High and dry … The Leeuwin has been re-masted and is ready for a repaint.

Four Years at the Top in Mosman Park

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Notice to all owners and occupiers of land in the following local Authorities – City of Nedlands, Town of Mosman Park, Town of Claremont, Town of Cottesloe and the Shire of Peppermint Grove

To prevent the outbreak, spread or extension of a bush fire which may occur, all owners and occupiers of land within the districts of the above local Authorities are required to undertake the following work on or before the 30th day of November 2025, or within 14 days of becoming an owner or occupier after that date:

Residential Land – Slash all grass and clear all inflammable matter on the land to a heigh no greater than 50mm and to maintain all grass and all inflammable matter on the land at a height no greater than 50mm up to and including the 31st day of March 2026.

All Other Land – Create a fire break that is clear of all inflammable matter on the land to a height no greater than 50mm and for width of no less than three metres from immediately inside the external boundaries of the property. Where there are trees in the fire break they must be trimmed back to provide a vertical clearance of a minimum three and a half metres to allow fire appliances to drive along the fire break. If it is impracticable for any reason to clear firebreaks or take measures in accordance with this notice, you may apply in writing to your Council before the 15th day of November 2025 for permission to implement alternative measures to prevent the outbreak or spread of a bush fire. If permission is not granted in writing by your Council, you shall comply with the requirements of this notice.

Pursuant to the powers contained in the Bush Fires Act 1954, burning garden refuse and lighting fires in the open air is prohibited without a permit.

An owner or occupier of the land who fails or neglects to comply with this notice given pursuant to section 33 of the Bush Fires Act 1954 within the time specified in this notice, commits an offence and is liable to pay a penalty up to $5,000. A person in default is also liable, whether prosecuted or not, to pay the cost of performing the work directed in this notice if it is not carried out by the owner or occupier by the date required by this notice.

Verge Maintenance – Your Council principally relies on residents for the improvement and maintenance of nature strips. Council encourages nature strips to be maintained by the adjacent owner/occupier in support of the Bush Fires Act requirements under this notice.

Additional Works to Reduce Hazards – Regardless of land size and location, the Local Government may require a property owner to undertake additional works on their property to improve access and/or undertake further works where in the opinion of the Local Government, these works would be condusive to preventing the outbreak and/or spread or extension of a bushfire.

Mum-in-law inspired City Beach build

By JEN REWELL

Sometimes, the best ideas come from keeping your mother-in-law happy.

Property developer Jarrad Sizer was looking for a downsizer for his mother-in-law and could not ﬁnd anything suitable in the POST area – so he decided to build it himself.

Jarrad and friend Brad Kelly had done four projects together for their company Bode, having previously worked on property developments under

Paul Blackburne.

The project was approved by a WA Planning Commission’s panel, DAP, in May, and Bode launched the 31-apartment project “Zamia” this week.

“People that live in City Beach, Floreat, and Wembley Downs have lived in the area for a long time, the kids have grown up, the house is either no longer suitable for them, or they are no longer in love with the house, but they do not want to leave the area,” Brad said.

He and Brad had negotiated

with not-for-proﬁt lifestyle village Ocean Gardens, City Beach to buy the plot of land which abuts the over-55s village. Brad said the buildings were designed to take in views to the north and east. However, the ocean views that can be seen from the top of the viewing scaffold tower would be built out by the proposed Ocean Gardens expansion.

Construction is due to begin in January and expected to be complete towards the end of 2027.

Subiaco street fight drags on

A decision in the three-year legal stoush between Subiaco council and Hay Street developer Sanur has been pushed back to December.

The State Administrative Tribunal has been arbitrating the dispute over a rejected application to demolish a strip of Hay Street shops.

The tribunal was due to decide in March after three days of evidence given by engineers for both sides at a hearing last year.

The March decision then became June but that deadline was pushed back to September, each time without explanation.

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It was expected to hand down its ruling last month.

But Subiaco announced this week that the tribunal had postponed its decision until December.

It is the third time this year the deadline for a ruling has been delayed.

The seven shops and blue former cinema when a dispute closed traffic in Hay Street.

The ﬁght dates to October 2022 when Subiaco refused Sanur a permit to knock down the historic shopfronts at 424-436 and 440 Hay Street.

Sanur claimed the strip of century-old shops were unsafe, in danger of collapse and needed to be torn down urgently.

Sanur boss Barrie Le Pley has had a succession of plans and development applications to redevelop the site dating back to 2012.

Property developer Brad Kelly is thrilled with the views from his City Beach tower. Photo: Paul McGovern

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By Order Town of Claremont Liz Ledger Chief Executive Officer

By Order Town of Cottesloe Mark Newman, Chief Executive Officer

By Order Town of Peppermint Grove Don Burnett, Chief Executive Officer By Order Town of Mosman Park Natalie Martin Goode, Chief Executive Officer

Winton: Why kids educate adults

By SARAH McNEILL

“I have hope,” author Tim Winton said. “Every time I meet a 10-year-old they are more educated and literate than any cabinet minister.

“Kids know what needs to be done. And they see it not being done over and over again.”

It’s appropriate, that Tim’s latest book is aimed at children who can take positive action.

After 25 years of defending WA’s remarkable Ningaloo region, he has collaborated with Perth artist Cindy Lane to produce a beautiful and informative picture book for young people.

It is the ﬁrst non-ﬁction reference book for children about Ningaloo, and one that Tim initially had been asked to contribute to by Fremantle Press.

“The problem is that people in power are not as well educated or as informed as their children,” he said.

“They have 20th century ideas in a 21st Century world.

“I want to arm children with the science, and they need to see what community action looks like.

“Governments alone will not solve the problem. It is the community pushing them and children are the future decision makers.”

It is only in the last 15 years that Ningaloo has had some protection from what Tim calls “rent seekers” – money-focussed corporations that want to industrialise the area.

In 2011 the reef was added to the World Heritage List. The campaign to turn Exmouth Gulf into a protected marine park is under way.

The 260km reef supports 300 types of coral and more than 700 species of ﬁsh.

The weather-protected gulf

is a nursery and refuge for humpback whales and endangered species such as dugongs, sawﬁsh and sea snakes.

But Tim pointed out that Ningaloo was still being affected by climate change even if it was protected from industrialisation.

“In November last year, I got into the water at the reef and it was 36 degrees,” he said.

“I knew we were in trouble. The coral was as bleached as our bones after death, and 30,000 ﬁsh died.

“I have met a lot of angry children. They are furious, but I don’t want it to tip over into uncontrollable rage. This book illustrates what can be done in a positive way.”

Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton and illustrator Cindy Lane is published by Fremantle Press, $30.

Mangled saplings under power lines

By JACK MADDERN

Mosman Park residents say it was “stupid” for the Town to plant trees underneath powerlines only for them to be butchered when they mature.

The Town has planted a record number of 652 trees this year and 113 have been planted beneath power lines.

“Sadly, the state of this ‘pruning’ has given the trees weird shapes, and it’s so sad to see beautiful trees reduced to such an unsightly condition,” a local resident said.

“To add to this, the council have gone ahead with urban forest tree planting of sydney red gums that grow in height to 25 metres and 12 metres wide along the verges throughout the suburb under the power lines.

“One can only imagine in a few years’ time what a strange distortion of destructive pruning will do visually to the landscape.”

The woman said the trees along Wellington Street and Owston Street East, past the Mosman Park Golf Club, were the worst hit for pruning because they were planted under power lines.

A spokeswoman for the Town said it was aware of the future maintenance that would be required when it planted trees under the power lines.

She said it cost around $150

to prune a tree, and the service could be needed annually. However, the pruning costs were justified by the benefits a tree canopy provided, she said. “About three quarters of our streets have overhead powerlines and it is essential for these streets to still have canopy coverage on both sides of the street, even though the side with power lines will have a canopy managed to a height that avoids the power lines,” the Town spokeswoman said. “Trees under powerlines still provide a range of valuable benefits that are considered by the Town worth the additional cost of maintaining them.”

Artist Cindy Lane paints dugongs living in the grass meadows of Ningaloo Reef for Tim Winton’s new children’s reference book.

Tim Winton

A mature verge tree trimmed into an awkward shape to avoid overhead power lines.

Art auction for Gaza medical aid

The Holmes a Court Gallery at No.10 in West Perth is holding a special evening on October 25 to raise money for medical and humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Works donated by nearly 200 local, national and internationally renowned artists will be available for purchase, with all funds going to Perth Doctors Medical Aid for Palestine.

All proceeds go to PDMAP, a group of Perth anaesthetists, surgeons, paediatricians and physicians who work directly with humanitarian and medical teams on the ground in Gaza.

Artists who have donated works include Abdul-Rahman

Abdullah, Brendon Darby, Bronwen Newbury, Emma Buswell, Emma Flaherty, Erin Coates, Ian de Souza, Jacky Cheng, Jo Darbyshire, Jo Darvall, John Ned Kelly, Jon Tarry, Jordy Hewitt, Jos Myers, Judith Forrest, Julia Freiseisen, Robert van Koesveld, and Tania Ferrier.

Gallery owner Janet Holmes a Court said the gallery was proud to support the Art for Aid: Fundraiser for Medical and Humanitarian Aid event.

“The response from the arts community has been deeply moving,” she said.

Intensivist and anaesthetist Dr Mairead Heaney said: “We are hearing from colleagues that they are performing amputations

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without pain relief and trying to provide basic healthcare in the most unsanitary and dangerous conditions”.

“Gaza is now home to the greatest number of child amputees in the world. Over 4000 children have lost at least one limb over the course of this war.”

The Art for Aid: Fundraiser for Medical and Humanitarian Aid will be on Saturday, October 25 from 6 to 9pm. The dress code is cocktail.

Tickets cost $150 and can be purchased by going to humanitix.com and searching “Art for Aid: Fundraiser for Medical and Humanitarian Aid”.

The Holmes a Court Gallery is at 10 Douglas Street West Perth.

Join our Nobel Laureate for anniversary event

Celebrate 20 years since Emeritus Professor Barry Marshall was named a Nobel Laureate, with an event at the University of Western Australia on Monday October 13.

The Marshall Centre at UWA invites members of the public to enjoy afternoon tea with the Nobel Prize winner.

Guests will hear about his journey to winning the Nobel Prize, the latest research at the Marshall Centre, and learn how to be part of the centre’s ongoing work.

Prof. Marshall and the late Prof. J. Robin Warren were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005.

This was for their discovery

terium and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease, which transformed the understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal health worldwide.

The afternoon tea will be 2.15 for a 2.30pm start at Forrest Hall, 21 Hackett Drive, Crawley. Register by 4pm on Thursday October 9. Email Liz Fu liz.fu@ uwa.edu.au or Vanessa Chong vanessa.chong@uwa.edu.au, or phone 6457 4815 between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Feel the feels

The Emotion Research Institute in Subiaco is inviting all to a public lecture about the impact emotions can have on your life.

Emotion Research Institute founding chair Sharon Faye Hear will discuss the importance of being aware of emotion, and how she used emotion to turn her life from adversity to accomplishment. Her talk will be at 6pm on Wednesday October 22, at the University Club of Western Australia.

Tickets $40 are available by going to humanitix.com and searching “Emotion Research Institute”.

For more information visit emotionresearch.com.au.

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Ian de Souza is among the artists donating works to support aid in Gaza.

Emeritus Professor Barry Marshall.

It’s panto time at Wembley Theatre

Take all the family to experience the fun of pantomime when Wembley Theatre stages

The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods from October 18.

Pantomime is a traditional form of comic British theatre for families.

Audiences are expected to take part by calling out in answer to what’s happening on stage.

Director Bryce Manning, who lives in Wembley, said the show was written by Tony Nicholls and amounted to two hours of pure joy.

“Tony maintains the traditional elements of pantomime while at the same time infusing the play with a stream of very funny jokes, fascinating largerthan-life characters, adorable songs and entertainment everyone of any age will appreciate and enjoy,” he said.

Everyone would come out with a smile on their face.

“It’s a cleansing experience,” he said about The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods.

“It cleans away all the negativity that we face every day.

“It is two hours of pure unadulterated escapism into a beautiful world where the end is so happy and all the problems are resolved.”

Bryce said the acting troupe consisted of actors aged from 11 years through to their 60s.

Some were students at John Curtin Performing Arts School, where he teaches.

Costumes and sets would be made by Suzie Croston, whose son was the lighting designer.

The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods will be performed at Wembley Community Centre from October 18 through to Sunday November 9.

Tickets will be on sale at the door or can be purchased in advance by going to Trybooking. com and searching “Sleeping Beauty in the Woods”.

For more information go to thewembleytheatrecompany.yolasite.com, email wembleytheatrecompany@gmail. com or phone Bryce Manning on 0417 179 485.

Calling St Louis class of 1975

Were you in the graduating class of 1975 at St Louis School in Claremont?

A group of former students have organised a 50-year school reunion for 6.30pm on Saturday October 25 at Cottesloe Golf Club.

One of the organisers, City Beach resident Robert Mazza, said the group had been meeting over the past 18 months to organise the event.

“We have had only one other reunion in 50 years, so this is very special for us,” Rob said.

“People are coming from over-

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seas, interstate and around WA.

“St Louis was a Jesuit school that educated boys in small and modest buildings on Stirling Highway from 1938 to 1976.

“It was a school that academically punched way above its weight.”

Boys who left in Year 10 or 11, are welcome too.

St Louis amalgamated with girls school Loreto to form John XXIII College in 1977.

For more information, and to RSVP, email robert.mazza@ me.com by October 10.

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The class of 1975 at St Louis School in Claremont, pictured, is having a 50-year reunion.

Wembley Theatre rehearsing The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods. Photo: Paul McGovern

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Scientists identify new kangaroo paw species

A study that involved field work on four continents over ﬁve decades has unearthed new species of kangaroo paw.

Professor Stephen Hopper, from the University of Western Australia’s School of Biological Sciences, was lead author of the study, which has been published in the WA Herbarium’s Nuytsia journal.

The study examined the Haemodorum and Conostylis species of kangaroo paw collected from 1973 to the present from sites in Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Americas and South Africa.

Prof. Hopper said Haemodorum is of great cultural signiﬁcance to Aboriginal people.

“Several species in the South-West of WA have edible bulbs and in the tropical north of Australia it is used for dyes in basketmaking,” he said.

Researchers recorded the shape and size of the ﬂowers and analysed genetic data to determine the species’ evolutionary relationships.

Their work identiﬁed new varieties in Australia, the Americas and South Africa.

“The new species of kangaroo paw included four of red and green colouration found on the south coast of WA between Denmark and Cape Arid National Park,” Prof. Hopper said.

“This was surprising for such a well-known and studied group and highlighted how much more

we have to learn about wildﬂowers in the South-West region, which has 8500 native species currently recorded, half of them found nowhere else on Earth.

“This study provides a foundation to understanding biodiversity and evolution around the world.”

A view of China via social media

What social media in China reveals about the country is the topic of a presentation to be given in Crawley on Tuesday October 14.

Associate Professor Maggie Ying Jiang will give a talk titled “Through the Digital Looking Glass: Understanding China via its Platforms” for the Australian Institute of International Affairs WA.

An AIIAWA spokesman said China was the world’s largest social media market, with more than a billion internet users.

ly shaped by what is commonly called the “Great Firewall”. Platforms such as WeChat, Douyin, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu serve as spaces for communication and entertainment and as gateways for payments, shopping, government services, and news.

Dr Jiang is a tenured Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Western Australia.

Its digital ecosystem is unique-

She says examining these platforms provides a lens through which we can understand how Chinese society is navigating modernity, commerce, and state power – alongside different waves of online nationalism – in ways that differ from Western digital experiences.

Her talk will be in The Ashburton Room at Forrest Hall, 21 Hackett Drive, Crawley from 6 to 8pm.

Tickets $10 for AIIAWA members and $20 non-members. Search online for “Through the Digital Looking Glass: Understanding China via its Platforms”.

For more information about AIIAWA go to internationalaffairs.org.au and click on the Western Australia tab.

Hearing help and police work

Carol Fender and Bronwen St John-Stephens will discuss their personal experiences with cochlear implants during the University of the Third Age western suburbs branch meeting at the Grove Library on Monday, October 6.

Their presentation will be at 1pm.

At 2.30pm former assistant

police commissioner and Yokine MLA Bob Kucera will chat about his experiences in his 34 years in WA Police.

Visitors are welcome and there is a $3 charge. The Grove is at 1 Leake Street, Peppermint Grove. For more information about the U3A western suburbs branch phone Sath Moodley 0413 212 513 or email sath.moodley@gmail.com.

Analysing China’s social media can reveal much about the country today.

A long-term worldwide study has identified new kangaroo paw species. Above photo: Stephen Hopper. Below: Dissected flowers of the Haemodorum spicatum. Photo: Nuytsia journal

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Tennis

The players at Onslow Park

Tennis Club Shenton Park plan to enjoy themselves even more than usual in coming weeks, with an open day on October 18 and a gala ball on November 7.

Members are celebrating 100 years of hits at the club, which has four lit grass courts among the many reasons for its popularity.

Club president Ian Singleton even says his love for the club is the reason he calls Perth home.

He joined the club in 2008 before returning to the UK, but two years later he was back.

“We were initially here on a secondment in Perth and were planning to return to the UK permanently, but one of the things we really missed was the tennis scene in WA – along with the sunshine and coffee,” he said.

can still swing my old Borg Pro Donnay tennis racquet without breaking my wrist.”

“Onslow Park is a very friendly club with members from all walks of life and all abilities.

“Our four lit grass courts are unique in Perth and offer the chance to play on grass in the relative cool of the summer evenings.”

The club will celebrate its centenary with a series of events.

“We are inviting members past and present, friends and neighbours, opportunities to reconnect and enjoy the clubs’ facilities,” Ian said.

“There will be an open day for all, a gala ball and a 1920s themed day when I can see if I

All are welcome to the centenary open day from 2pm on Saturday October 18, to see the club and have a game of social tennis.

“It’s a chance to reconnect, reminisce, and rally together in the spirit of the game,” Ian said.

The gala ball on November

7 would be an elegant evening of 1920s-themed dining, dancing and storytelling, and the 1920s-themed tennis day will be on December 6.

Onslow Park Tennis Club is at 85 Onslow Road, Shenton Park. For more information email info@onslowparktennisclub. com or go to onslowparktennisclub.com and click on the events calendar.

Move all over the joint

Learn tips and techniques to take good care of your joints at a talk called Moving Freely on October 17.

Physiotherapist Andy Austin will suggest ways to manage common joint pain associated with growing older. Her talk, presented by Hollywood Subiaco Learners’ Club, will be at Hollywood

Subiaco Bowling Club, 42 Smyth Road Nedlands, from 3 to 4pm. Register at 2.45pm. Cost is $5 for members and $10 for non-members, cash only. RSVP is essential by emailing donarosa49@gmail.com. For more information look up Hollywood Subiaco Learners on Facebook.

A wide range of plants at bargain prices will be available at the UWA Friends of the Grounds sale on Wednesday and Thursday October 15 and 16.

Plants for sale will include native and exotic species, indoor plants and ground covers.

The sale will be from 9.30am to 1.30pm both days, in the Taxonomic Garden at UWA.

Shoppers are asked to bring a box or carry bag, and payment can be by cash or credit card.

The annual sale raises money to be spent on the UWA grounds, or to help fund grounds-related scholarships.

For more information go to alumni.uwa.edu.au/friendsofthegrounds or look up Friends of the Grounds UWA on Facebook.

The old club house at Onslow Park Tennis Club in Shenton Park.

The sale includes indoor, native and exotic plants.

The grass courts lit up at night for evening play.

Past and present students, teachers and parents of Churchlands Primary School are invited to help celebrate its 60th birthday.

The school will open its doors to the community on Tuesday October 21, from 4.30 to 7.30pm.

Look inside the open classrooms, buy a rafﬂe ticket and take part in the silent art

auction.

Families are also invited to bring a rug for a picnic dinner on the school oval, with food available from food trucks on site.

There will also be a display of memorabilia such as old school uniforms, report cards, photos and merit certiﬁcates. Anyone with memorabilia they’d like to offer for the display is invited to contact

the school in advance.

A school spokeswoman said: “Come along to the event to see how the school has changed over time.

“It will be a fantastic local community evening with music and both past and present CPS families in attendance.”

Churchlands Primary School is on Cromarty Road in Floreat. For more information phone 9253 9450.

Music club shy of a century

The Royal Schools Music Club will celebrate its 99th birthday on October 12 with performances by young pianists vying for the Geoffrey Lancaster Keyboard Prize.

Each competitor will perform one or two pieces from the 18th and 19th Centuries, at the UWA Department of Music’s Eileen Joyce Studio.

Pieces will be by composers including Beethoven, Chopin, Faure, Liszt, MacDowell, Mozart, Ries, Saint-Saens, Scarlatti and Tchaikovsky, and performances will be adjudicated by organist, harpsichordist and pianist Jangoo Chapkhana.

This is the fourth time the club has offered the prize, thanks to the generosity of its president, Dr Andrew Lu.

Performances start at 2.30pm.

Refreshments and birthday cake will be served at interval.

Tickets $25 include a program.

Full-time students $5.

To book tickets go to trybooking.com and search “RSMC 99th Birthday Concert”.

For more information email rsmc@rsmc.info or phone 0419 930 624.

Here’s to good mental health

Free events will be held in Subiaco during WA Mental Health Week, beginning this weekend.

Those caring for a loved one with dementia are invited to a free talk about respite services on Friday, October 10, from 10am to noon at Subiaco Library.

To register go to Eventbrite. com.au and search “Dementia Series Part Two – Exploring Respite”.

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Churchlands PS Year 6 student councillors Lachlan Paradiss, 12, and Allegra Georgiadis, 11, with school memorabilia to be displayed.

The Royal Schools Music Club is celebrating 99 years with cake and the Geoffrey Lancaster Keyboard Prize to be adjudicated by Jangoo Chapkhana, above.

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Cynthia serves a winner for women’s tennis

Girls aged eight to 12 years are invited to try out tennis at Onslow Park Tennis Club on Sunday October 12.

The open morning will be 10 to 11.30am, for girls to experience tennis in a fun, social and welcoming way.

It is being organised by club member Cynthia Jiang, of Shenton Park, and will include racquet mini games and morning tea.

Cynthia said the event was open to everyone regardless of ability or experience, and all equipment will be provided.

The open day is part of the Serving Up Smiles program Cynthia created after undertaking youth leadership training with Tennis West.

Serving Up Smiles is to encourage women to play tennis for fun and without fear of competition.

In July, Cynthia was one of 12 young WA women chosen to take part in Tennis Australia’s “Learn 2 Lead” program which is to equip girls aged 14 to 18 years with the skills and the conﬁdence to lead change in their local tennis communities.

The eight-week program finished with a graduation ceremony at the State Tennis Centre on September 21.

Cynthia said it was important to create opportunities for girls to feel encouraged and supported in sport without the pressure of competition.

“Not enough girls are picking up a racquet or sticking with the sport and I wanted to do something to change that,” she said.

“I’ve been playing tennis for several years, including pennants, and it’s given me friendships, resilience and a strong sense of community.

“I want girls to discover that tennis can be more than just a sport – it can be a place to grow and belong.

“I look up to players like Aryna Sabalenka, who shows strength, determination, and conﬁdence every time she steps on court.

“That’s the kind of energy I want to share with Serving Up Smiles.”

Onslow Park Tennis Club president Ian Singleton said: “We are very proud to have such a positive young woman as a junior member.

“The confidence and enthusiasm Cynthia has shown in completing the program and implementing a new event for girls is a real asset to our club.”

For more information about the Serving up Smiles open morning email Cynthia on info@onslowparktennisclub.com.

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Growing cricket club has room for more

Cricket is thriving in City Beach.

In recent months City Beach Green Range Cricket Club has signed up enough new, young players to ﬁeld a third team.

Club member Shane Attard said Perth Swan Cricket Association’s new season will kick off next Saturday, October 11.

“CBGRCC is a small, social but competitive group of cricket players with varying level of skills,” he said.

“Players are aged from 14 years to more than 60 and new members

of all ages and experience are welcome.

“We currently have a few fathers playing with their sons in the lower grades.

“The club is still looking for a few more players to ﬁll the teams before the start of the season.”

Shane said the recent growth in young players had allowed the club to make better use of its two picturesque ovals near the beach, at the intersection of West Coast Highway and Oceanic Drive.

“The club plays in the association’s One-Day grades (40 overs each), with a more competitive team in D Grade, and more social teams in H and I grades,” he said.

“City Beach has been practising for some weeks and is now training regularly at the standard Tuesday and Thursday net sessions from 4.30 to 6pm.”

For more information email cbgrcc@gmail.com, look them up on Facebook, or just turn up on a Tuesday or Thursday evening.

Rotarians bring daffodil sunshine

Bright smiles, yellow daffodils and big hearts were on show recently when members of the Rotary Club of Dalkeith supported Cancer Council WA’s Daffodil Day.

Club members including Jill Elias and Bethwyn Miller sold fresh daffodils at Bunnings stores in Wembley and Claremont.

Jason van Straalen from the club said the volunteers raised more than $11,000 in two days.

“This was almost double the amount they raised last year,” he said.

“Thanks to volunteers

like Jill and Bethwyn, and the generosity of locals, every bunch of daffodils sold helps give hope for a cancer-free future.”

Daffodil Day is Cancer Council WA’s signature fundraising event, held each August.

The daffodil is the ﬂower of hope – a symbol of strength, resilience and optimism for everyone affected by cancer.

Funds raised through the sale of daffodils, pins and merchandise help fund life-saving cancer research, support services for families, and cancer research.

Bowling

Wednesday September 24: 1st David Heath, Jay Medhat, Dae Miller and Ann Ruzich; 2nd Zoe Hewitt-Dutton, Cliff Racey, Paula Poynter and Marilyn Boss.

Friday September 26: 1st Denise Davis, Ken Alford and Dae Miller; 2nd Gavin Arrow and Paula Poynter.

Saturday September 27: 1st Rob Stevenson and Ted Delaney +5; tied 2nd with a +1 Geoff Parker and Ted Delaney, and Frank Honey, Geoff Boyd and Colin Herring.

Our next Wednesday lunch will be curry and rice and sweets in October.

Ladies, look at the notice board and put down your names if you wish to play in the club competitions.

Ladies will have a practice game against Innaloo on March 7 at 9.30am.

Also, for your diaries: the ladies Drawn Fours will be played on October 8, 15 and 22 so names are needed post-haste.

Warm weather on Thursday September 25 saw 56 bowlers take part in Pennants practice.

The best team was John Pole, Gordon Wilson, John Shaw and Tony Payne with a 14-shot margin.

Second, with a nine-shot margin, were Gof Bowles, Lesley Cross, Chris Osborne and Tom James.

Third Alan Davisdon, Celia Bakker, David Mildenhall and Pauline Kelly +4.

Other winners: Darren Redeckis, Rob Moran, David Fitzgerald and Rob Kelly +2; Fran Farrell, George Klug, Jan Steinberg and Bill Chellew +2; Rick Mapley,

Richard Verco, Ivor Davies and Ian Freedman +1; and Ron Stapleton, Ross MacKenzie, David Broadfoot and Jeff Irwin +1.

There were no bowls on Saturday September 27 due to the AFL Grand Final.

In three bowl triples on Thursday September 25

Alan Evans, Mike Basford and Rob Campbell held off a fast-ﬁnishing Mark Petterso, David Allport and Mike Hatch 14-12. Bill Grice (a visitor from NSW) and Glen Morey defeated John Horsfall, Richard Keeves and Jim West 22-11.

Saturday play was set aside for the AFL Grand Final viewing and in Sunday Scroungers Glen Morey defeated Milton Byass 29-22.

The ladies had their opening day on Wednesday September 26 with bowling and lunch to discuss the new season. The Thursday pennant

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bowlers men and open gender practised together and the winners were Ian Lilly, Mel Kouzinas, Jeff Simper and Bob Becker. There was no practice on Saturday due to the AFL Grand Final. The club had a big social gathering to watch the match with much eating, drinking, and noise! Dinner is available at the club on Monday evenings. Book at the ofﬁce. Mahjong is played at the club on Thursdays, 9 to 11am. Players require only a social membership of the club.

The club held a day of social petanque in the sunshine last Saturday.. There will be another round of the Presidents Cup this Saturday, and the club will hold the Wright/ Gridley Doubles Trophy for gents and ladies doubles next Saturday, October 11. Visitors are welcome on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Consult our website, petanquesubiaco.com for details.

Subiaco Pétanque

Cynthia Jiang and Tennis West vice-president Joanne Quinn at the Learn 2 Lead graduation ceremony on September 21.

Social but competitive … City Beach Green Range Cricket Club’s Clive Tilbrook bowling at Hillcrest Reserve.

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Atlas Building a ‘labour of love’

By Claire Tyrrell

Restoring the Atlas Building in Perth was a labour of love for its owner James del Piano.

The Perth dealmaker spent about $3.6million restoring 8 The Esplanade, engaging heritage specialists Palassis Architects to design the refurbishment.

The building was constructed in 1930 and initially used as the headquarters of insurance company Atlas Assurance.

Mr del Piano and two partners bought it for $360,000 in 1978.

He was 29 at the time and 8 The Esplanade was his ﬁrst major commercial property investment.

“We had a legal practice [McLeod and Del Piano] and I saw the building and basically we managed to ultimately get our offer accepted,” he said.

“I then went into our bank manager and I said to him ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.

“He said ‘what’s the good news?’ I said ‘we bought a building’, and then he said ‘what’s bad news’, I said ‘we can’t pay for it’.”

The vendor, Phoenix Assurance Company, loaned Mr del Piano and his business partners 65 per cent of the purchase price, and the bank agreed to lend them the rest.

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Mr del Piano has since bought out his partners and said the choice to restore the building stemmed from his own passion rather than being a commercial decision.

“The reality is if you were acting purely commercially you would’ve sold it to someone who could have a unique ofﬁce, but the reality is for me it’s something I wanted to do.

“It’s a labour of love.”

CBRE is running a leasing campaign for the refurbished building.

The ﬁrst tenant for the building, interior design ﬁrm Axiom, has recently taken 171sq.m on the

ground ﬂoor.

Andrew Denny, senior leasing director at CBRE in Perth, said he expected to attract creative industries and high net worth family ofﬁces into the building.

Mr del Piano expressed his frustration with the approvals process.

“Approvals were a nightmare,” he said.

“It took a long time to get through the heritage [permissions] and through council.”

It took just over one year for Aurora Project Group to restore the building, which

came after a two-year planning process.

The building’s historic entrance on Sherwood Court has been fully restored, along with copper stair rails, brass ﬁttings, 1920s tiles, and the original art deco lift.

For the ﬁrst 40 years of its life, the building was adorned with a two-tonne statue depicting the Greek mythology figure Atlas holding a large globe.

This was removed as Phoenix superseded Atlas, but Palassis Architects are considering bringing it back into the building.

Subi firm does US antimony deal

By Justin Fris

Subiaco-based EV Resources has increased its antimony footprint in the US as it aims to become a fast-to-market supplier of the prized mineral.

The Shane Menerechaired junior told the market last week it had acquired the Milton antimony project in Nevada.

Antimony is a grey met-

alloid used to harden lead in batteries.

EV will secure the project by way of acquiring Strategic Minerals.

The deal includes a nonrefundable cash payment of $150,000 and a $350,000 scrip-based consideration. It follows the company’s acquisition of the Dollar antimony project from Strategic Minerals last month for a $US50,000

refund of administration and staking fees, along with a 2% net smelter royalty.

Both projects, situated in Nye county near the state’s centre, are not far from the US military’s Hawthorne critical minerals storage facility.

Mr Menere said the acquisition was another telling moment for the junior.

“Our strategy is to

become a fast-to-market supplier of antimony concentrate into the US –supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and allied industries,” he said.

“This acquisition further cements EV’s position as one of the very few companies outside of China building a near-term, integrated antimony supply chain.”

Palmerston to build West Leed care hub

By Ella Longragan

Palmerston Association will build a new integrated care hub at Oxford House in West Leederville to provide medical and counselling services for vulnerable people.

A $3.3million Lotterywest grant will assist the ﬁt out, furnishings, IT and solar infrastructure.

Palmerston paid $2.55million last year for the 17 Oxford Close property with 786sq.m lettable area and 21 car bays.

The alcohol and drug support provider has partnered with Uniting Smiles to include a dental clinic in the hub, addressing a gap in oral health services for vulnerable people.

Palmerston chief executive Emma Jarvis said the project represents a new era for the not-for-proﬁt’s services and comes after client and staff feedback, and a strategic review of the organisation.

“This is more than a building – it’s about rethinking how care is delivered,” she said.

“By bringing services together under one roof, we can offer a truly integrated care model that meets people where they are, strengthens recovery, and builds healthier communities.”

Perth-based construction and refurbishment company Veritruss has been contracted for the ﬁt out.

The hub is due for completion next year after beginning construction this month.

As part of its efforts to provide integrated care, Palmerston recently signed a merger agreement with Sussex Street Community Law Service. The union will offer a range of services in one place, including drug and alcohol services, family domestic violence and family law assistance, financial counselling, housing support, and disability services.

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A proposed version of 8 The Esplanade. Image: Palassis Architects/CBRE

Uniting Smiles chair Sean Archibald, left, Health Minister Meredith Hammat and Emma Jarvis. Photo: Palmerston Association

Top headliners for jazz festival

SARAH McNEILL

“It is truly remarkable to have Grammy Awardwinning artists like Bill Frisell, Samara Joy, Gregory Porter and Hiromi come to this year’s Perth International Jazz Festival,” said festival director Mace Francis.

“Having headliners of this calibre was unthinkable a few years ago, but the fact that they are all coming at once is an amazing coup.

“Gregory Porter alone is a once-in-a-generation performer.”

After a few format iterations, the festival is now set to run across 10 days in October and November, in line with other jazz festivals including Brisbane,

Load up on snacks, get a comfy recliner, and brace yourselves for 170 minutes of some of the year’s best cinema.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling comedy-actiondrama is a subversive, boisterous, laser-sharp commentary on contemporary America that becomes funnier and more over-the-top as it unfurls.

Like his ﬁlm Inherent

Vice (2015), it’s based loosely on a Thomas Pynchon novel, Vineland, which Anderson has updated from Reaganera California to Trump’s tyrannical present day. Leave it to Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn to embody an ageing revolutionary and a white supremacist military man respectively. Penn’s performance particularly is a stroke of abhorrent, ticriddled genius.

DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a scruffy radical whose French 75 activist

comrades – including his kick-ass partner Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) – fight the ideological fights of the title, most recently liberating detainees from a Mexican border detention centre.

Behind its walls, Perﬁdia restrains Colonel Steven Lockjaw (Penn), who is visibly aroused by his captor. It’s a weakness she exploits, and when she is captured and the group disperse, Bob is left to raise her baby daughter.

Fifteen years later, Bob is both a protective father and a couch-dwelling, pot-smoking fugitive. His daughter Willa (Chase Inﬁniti) is turning out

I am employed by a dentist who has a Jekyll and Hyde personality. He is generous in many ways, but we have had to learn to deal with his unreasonable behaviour, if not accept it. We are told to take an unpaid hour off for lunch, but we are expected to answer the phone and deal with his interruptions. We are grateful to be employed, but at the same time we are frustrated by a lack of respect. When we try to talk to him on

Wangaratta (Vic), Sydney’s Women’s Jazz Festival and Wellington in New Zealand.

“Aligning it with other festivals allows us to negotiate nationally with international artists,” Mace said.

Established in 2012, PIJF was the brainchild of the late Graham Wood. In 2022 it received extra funding to allow Richard Evans to join as general manager. He brought over jazz artists from America from his 20 years in New York.

With Richard’s contract now ended, Mace now carries the mantle of festival and artistic director.

Earlier this year the festival won the prestigious WA Luminary Award at the annual Art Music Award, honouring the organisation for its signiﬁcant contribution and impact on the

Australian art music scene. PIJF will run from October 18 to November 2. It launches on October 18 at Brookﬁeld Place with sessions from 4pm. Gregory Porter, Samara Joy and Bill Frisell will perform at the Regal Theatre, and Camelot in Mosman Park will screen the ﬁlm Bill Frisell: A Portrait, with Bill available for a Q&A.

Jazz pianist Hiromi performs at Octagon Theatre, UWA, and Liberty Theatre will host late-night underground shows with tickets from just $15. Free events include Jazz Picnic in the Park on October 25 and Courtyard Club at State Theatre Centre on October 31.

■ Check out the full program at perthjazzfest. com.

much like her mother, learning martial arts under Sensei Sergio St Carlos (Benicio del Toro), who operates an underground railroad on the sly.

Willa soon ﬁnds herself thrust into the world she’s only ever heard her dad try to prepare her for when

■ Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a radical activist in contemporary America.

issues, we are reminded of our place, with a you-can-move-on-if-youwant reply. How do we approach an unequal situation?

Tabitha Tabitha, people love to explain behaviour in ethical, economic or social terms, but behaviour comes down to a simple matter of power. Your boss has power

Lockjaw, making a bid to join a secretive society of neo-Nazis, has reason to track her down.

Jonny Greenwood’s nervy percussion and piano score is an earworm to keep you alert, while Anderson and cinematographer Michael Bauman

and a sense of entitlement in the workplace. Someone like you, in a subordinate position, can make inroads only by being creative. In a weak position, you must act like a martial artist. You can step to one side or use your opponent’s leverage against him, but a direct counterattack will not work.

(Licorice Pizza) deliver a rollercoaster car chase that is sure to be rated high among the classics. Anderson has delivered a masterful movie for the times. The title doesn’t roll off the tongue, but conversation will after you’ve seen it.

Together, ﬁnd ways to minimise the lunch interruptions. On Monday one person might handle the phones; on Tuesday someone else. If one of you is disturbed at lunchtime, ﬁnd ways to lessen that day’s burden on her. Supporting and caring for one another will lessen the stress of the job. Since your boss has a generous side, try assaulting him with kindness. That often defuses people who are carrying an emotional load they cannot discharge. Even small actions will make you feel better. You know where your boss sits, you know where the law sits, now look for the parries and countermoves that work for you and the rest of the staff.

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■ Five-time Grammy Award winner Samara Joy, 25, has been hailed as “a classic jazz singer from a new generation”.

Welcome to Nonnaland

Nella Fitzgerald grew up with stories about her Nonna, who left her small Italian village for America and became a bootlegger and boarding-house madam. “La Americana” was the subject of much family gossip.

Nella’s own mother, Angela Vallenari, arrived in Fremantle in 1952, one of the estimated 39,000 Italians who ﬂed post-war Europe to make a new life in Australia.

“My parents met in Perth on a blind date,” Nella said. “Dad was just about to return to Italy, thinking that life was too hard here, until he met my mother. They were married six months later.”

Nella is the guest curator

of a new exhibition, From Nonna With Love, showing at the Maritime Museum in Fremantle.

Full of stories and memorabilia – suitcases and a wedding gown, an authentic kitchen ﬁlled with endless platters of food, a tomato press for an authentic sauce – the exhibition pays tribute to the courage, bravery and resilience of women who had a profound inﬂuence on WA and yet kept the spirit of their homeland alive.

One of them is Adele Forlani, who came to WA as an eager 21-year-old to marry her ﬁance, before moving north to Port Hedland. “It was so hard and such a shock,” said the still-heavily accented Nonna who attended the

bition. “I was alone while my husband worked at BHP, so I started my own coffee shop and several other businesses,” she said with a shrug.

Rosa Mendolia arrived from Sicily and survived by bartering the sardines her husband ﬁshed for, in

Masters of Clay

“True expression only begins when you move beyond technique and start taking creative risks,” said ceramic artist Jeff Mincham

Over time, he said, he’d learned to trust the clay, “to let it guide, rather than control every step”.

His latest creative work is part of Keramos, showing at Linton and Kay Cottesloe

Keramos is an ancient Greek word meaning earthenware, from which the word ceramics is derived.

Clay is the way we understand previous civilisations, when it was a craft essential for daily life. Today, artists such as Jeff take creative risks to push the boundaries of the ageold artform.

Keramos is part of this weekend’s 17th Australian Ceramic Triennale, Wedge 2025, with 14 artists responding to the exhibition’s title.

“Each artist uses earth, water and ﬁre in their own style, showing a strong engagement to the craftsmanship of the past while pushing the boundaries beyond function and tradition,” said curator Miranda Brown.

Ceramics range from Fleur Schell’s wide-eyed porcelain animals and

■ Petals in the Wind by Viviana Maier.

Viviana Maier’s delicate porcelain reﬂections on botanicals and Cathy Franzi’s connection to WA plants, to Pippin Drysdale’s striking colours of earth and Warrick Palmateer’s vessels inspired by the coastline. The exhibition is on show until October 19 and includes a series of artist talks and a performance by Lit Live Perth.

■ ■ ■

The Ceramics Triennale brings together more than 100 artists from Australia, India, Canada, Ireland, Belgium and Brazil in Edge of the Wedge.

Fremantle’s Old Customs House will be awash with ceramics in the international group exhibition featuring the International Academy of Ceramics founded in 1952, and The Indian Ceramic Art Foundation on show

her back garden. It was the beginning of the Fremantle Sardine Company and Mendolia Seafoods.

Other well-known faces featured in the exhibition include the migrant parents

“They left behind everything they knew for the hope of a better future,” said Nella of the tough migrant women.

“They arrived in a land that felt unfamiliar in every multicultural cities in the country.”

■ From

until Sunday.

Under Fire: Clay from the Western Edge turns the spotlight on local WA artists with18 WA artists and more than 200 ceramic works, presented by the Ceramic Arts Association of WA, showing at Fremantle Arts Centre Mud Market Ceramics Fair, from 1 to 4pm on Sunday, will feature ceramic art by more than 45 artists.

Other exhibitions and talks can be found at australianceramics triennale.com.au

MATES

Nonna With Love: Stories of Tradition and Triumph, celebrates Italian migrant women

■ Above: A young Adele Forlani with her mother ... “She encouraged me to follow my dreams.” Right: Anne Ferrari working with her mother Maria Re in the Re Store ﬁrst opened by her parents in 1936.

SARAH McNEILL

■ Sap Rising by Pippin Drysdale.

■ XXX by Jeffrey Mincham.

Rodmusic Productions Presents

A WWII Musical about Love, Mateship and War (based on a true story)

From humble beginnings ...

South City Beach is one of the most expensive coastal pockets in WA, but in the early 1960s it was regarded as the poorer cousin to central City Beach and Cottesloe.

There was little appetite for the land between West Coast Highway and the beach because it was seen as a sandy patch with bush and snakes.

The local council, the

City of Perth, held an auction in 1961 to sell land for housing but there were no takers for some of the blocks, according to Brenda Coyle who has lived in this house since 1962.

“My husband Martin and I bought our block at the auction for £725, which was a lot of money for us at the time,” Brenda said.

“All the other blocks to the north of us in Launceston Avenue were passed in.”

The newlyweds commissioned an emerging architect, Graham Hatton, to design their three-bed-

room and one-bathroom house.

In what would be a shock to many people building nowadays, it took just three months to complete it.

But plenty of care was taken when building the house on a hill.

An Italian stonemason built the ﬁreplace with rocks hand-picked from a Kelmscott quarry and the textured bricks on the bar came from a Midland

The 1962 house with cork ﬂoor tiles, big picture windows and mid-century light ﬁttings was seen innovative for the time.

It featured in a Sunday Times article, which is on display along with the architect’s original watercolour plans.

Martin, an electrician, made built-in cabinets and furniture, while Brenda did a six-week YWCA course to learn how to upholster the furniture he had made.

As their family grew, so did the house.

The most recent addition was a beach-inspired kitchen installed four years ago.

The sea-green glass splashback and sandcoloured benchtops are a nod to the nearby ocean.

One of the minor bedrooms at the front has its own access which is ideal for young adults.

$940,000 NORTH FREMANTLE

3 Pearse Street

The new owner, a builder, plans to transform Albert Hall which was gutted by ﬁre.

AGENT: Sarah Bourke, Ray White Dalkeith Claremont.

$1.05million DAGLISH

35 Selby Street

This renovated 2x1 duplex is in the name of a company, and the director is a Cottesloe woman aged 20.

AGENT: Janelle Laretive, Abel Property.

“It’s where the kids used to put all their sports gear,” Brenda said.

A small shed in the back yard is where something very big happened:

Martin invented a groundbreaking safety device that is used on conveyor belts around the world.

Agent Dee Elmahdy, of Space Real Estate, said the home captured everything that made the mid-century era so enduring and sought-after.

“It has clean architectural lines, natural textures and a layout that celebrates light, space and connection,” Dee said.

The light-ﬁlled room with a teardrop pendant light is near what the family call “the mystery sports cupboard.”

$3.675million SUBIACO

4 Redfern Street

Behind the character exterior is a modern twostorey addition with a 400-bottle cellar, acoustic ceiling panels and a pool.

AGENT: John Hunter, William Porteous Properties International.

$3.885million MOSMAN PARK

8 Riversea View

With six bedrooms and three bathrooms, there is plenty of room to spread out in this 829sq.m property near Swansea Park.

AGENT: Richard Young, Caporn Young.

Brick kiln.

■ Brenda Coyle is closing the door to her much-loved home of 63 years.

■ The house was surrounded by sand in 1962. Pictured out the front is a Vauxhall Velox owned by Brenda’s father. “My Fiat 500 was in the carport,” she said.

Love at ﬁrst sight costs $1.82million

Families wanting to be near John XXIII College missed out on buying a Mt Claremont house at auction last weekend. “I feel very sad for all the people who missed out,” agent Mareena Weston of Haiven Property said. “Finding a 4x2 family home under $2million in this pocket is really difficult.” Bidding opened at $1.4million for 7 Cobea Court, which was knocked down to $1.82million. The buyer had not seen the four-bedroom and twobathroom house until the day of the auction. The 1990s house is on a 406sq.m site in in a cul-de-sac.

Move-in ready is a drawing card

Art captures attention and adds personality to a home – which is

why a Peppermint Grove home sold for $7million after its first home open. The artist-owner created beautiful pieces especially for her renovated home at 45 Leake Street “The art and her own styling made all the difference,” agent Peter Burns said. A young couple from Subiaco bought the five-bedroom and three-bathroom house at the river end of the street. A recent renovation by Peppermint Grove firm MAEK breathed new life into the home on an 890sq.m site. Among the features was a new double garage with a multi-purpose studio that could be used as an office, retreat or for guests. Mr Burns said the quick sale showed the demand for “move-in ready” homes in the western suburbs. “There are a lot of people looking but there is very little to buy,” he said.

Cashing in on a trend

When a “sold” sign goes up in the street, it can have a knockon effect in the neighbourhood. This happened when 4 Megalong Street, Nedlands, sold in August for $1.9million. The sale of the three-bedroom and one-bathroom character home set a record for the street near Kings Park and UWA student accommodation. A month later, the record was broken again with the sale of No.5 for $2million

■ The driftwood and crystal chandeliers from Trilogy furniture store in Claremont were among the many stylish elements in this Peppermint Grove home that sold quickly.

Agent Jake Polce, of DUET Property Group, handled both sales. “The owners of No.5 wanted to capitalise on the activity in the pocket, which is attracting a lot of growth,” Mr Polce said. RP Data shows separate investors bought the 490sq.m properties, which are advertised for rent at around $1000 a week.

Grow your own black gold Trufﬂes are called black gold or diamonds for a reason – they can

sell for up to $3500 a kilogram, according to an ABC report. On the market near Margaret River is a farm with a 4ha truffiere of French and English oak trees which are a few years away from production. Once in production, yields can reach up to 1kg per tree, translating into hundreds of kilos of black truffle, agent Mark Murray said. As well as the truffiere, Dragonﬂy Escape has a renovated settler’s cottage that is rented out for shortstay accommodation. “This is not just a farm,” Mr Murray said. “It could end up like The Farm in Byron Bay, where families walk the orchards, learn where their food comes from and enjoy a hands-on connection with nature.” The seller engaged Dr Nicholas Malajczuk, the pioneering scientist behind Australia’s truffle industry, to design the 4ha truffiere. The 20ha property at 256 Osmington, Bramley is priced at $3.4million. For more details, phone Mark Murray 0427 030 301.

■ When this Nedlands house sold for $1.9million, it prompted the neighbour across the road to sell too.

■ The day of the auction was the first time the buyer had seen this Mt Claremont home.

■ Dr Nicholas Malajczuk, the pioneering scientist behind Australia’s truffle industry, designed the 4ha truffiere on this farm near Margaret River. a week.

COTTESLOE

6 Perth Street

Auction October 4, 12.30pm

You could almost do without a car if you buy this two-storey home at auction this Saturday. It takes around 10 minutes to walk to the nearest train station, Albion Hotel, Vans Restaurant and the Napoleon Street shopping strip.

The move-in ready house between Railway Street and Stirling Highway could appeal to those looking to get their foot in the door of the beachside suburb – without paying the mega prices on the other side of the railway. The designer packed a lot into the 4x2 house on a compact, 278sq.m block. The 1997 home has three separate living areas, a study nook and under-stair storage.

Scotland meets Australia in this holiday house called Marribrae after the towering marri trees on the hilly site and the Scottish word “brae” which means hillside.

When the owners ﬁrst drove down the long, treelined driveway dotted with kangaroos they knew they had found “the one”.

“The setting in Gunyulgup Valley, with its undulating landscape, shimmering dam and towering gums, felt like a sanctuary from the moment we arrived,” they said.

“We loved the idea of a home that blended

modern comfort with the natural beauty of Yallingup – a place where we could laugh, talk, decompress and truly reconnect as a family.”

The 2009 home constructed by Down South Building Company blends in with its natural surroundings thanks to an earthy palette, timber ﬁnishes and a generous use of granite.

“With soaring ceilings, a beautiful granite ﬁreplace and glass doors opening to the view of the valley and dam, this is a space that feels uplifting, light, bright and connected to nature,” they said.

“We often while away mornings with a coffee in hand, watching and listening to the kookaburras, or seeing ducks diving into

18/2 Tasker Place

Offers

Selling their large old house to downsize to a penthouse in the same neighbourhood was a big decision for the sellers – and they have never looked back. “Living in our apartment gives us so much freedom to lock and leave,” they said. The couple also feel part of a community where people look out for each other. “Other residents are happy to keep an eye on things for us while we are away,” they said. “People are very friendly; we have regular get-togethers in the garden.” A pool, gym and sauna are among the communal facilities in the Taskers Regents complex.

the dam.”

The layout with the bedrooms at one end and the eating, entertaining and relaxation zones at the other end is ideal for big family gatherings or short-stay accommodation.

Marribrae is described as “country grandeur in the heart of Yallingup” on the Private Properties website where it was advertised at $4315 for a three-night stay in low season.

There is potential to add value, according to agent Louis De Chiera, who said there was WA Planning Commission approval to

erty into two lots.

“The approval provides the new owner with the options to sell off surplus land, develop a new home on the newly created lot and retain the original house and dam,” Mr De Chiera said.

“Alternatively, you can leave the property as it is and continue to enjoy the entire property as your private estate.”

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Stingrays

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in 2006 when a shorttail stingray’s barb pierced his chest, hitting his heart and causing trauma and internal bleeding.

The club has said that if a person is stung, the barb should be removed if possible and any bleeding controlled.

“If you cannot remove the barb, seek medical attention immediately –surgical removal may be required,” the club advised.

The pain can last for hours or days.

Pain may be relieved by immersing the affected area in the hottest water that can be tolerated, after testing the temperature with an unaffected limb.

Call 000 if pain is unmanageable or if bleeding can’t be controlled.

Volunteer beach patrols begin on Sunday.

Fremantle SLSC teams will patrol the coast from Port Beach to Mosman Beach.

The Woodside Nippers program also kicks off on November 2, with registrations open and age groups ﬁlling fast.

The Surf Lifesaving Endurance Championships will be at Leighton Beach from 8am on October 11.

week’s trial that he was “absolutely immune” to being served bankruptcy papers while he was ﬁghting a High Court battle over his eligibility in 2016.

“If it’s made void ad initio the order was never in effect,” he said.

Culleton claims to be an authority on constitutional law, but appeared not to know that the Australian Electoral Commission and the WA Electoral Commission were different agencies.

“Are you employed at state level or federal level for the Australian Electoral Commission?” he asked witness Jocelyn Chapman, who processed his nomination for the AEC.

Prosecutor Fiona Lester repeatedly objected to Culleton’s questioning of witnesses, calling it “unduly annoying”.

Culleton has a history of clashing with the judiciary.

In 2017, he threw his spectacles towards Magistrate Dianne Scaddan during a trial on a stealing charge. In 2023, during a trial on a charge of breaching COVID border restrictions, he refused to identify himself and asked Magistrate Kevin Taverner to take a sobriety test. He appeared more circumspect at last week’s trial, urging his supporters in a Facebook post for “paramount respect to the court and silence be conducted at all times”.

Ms McEwen found him guilty at the second day of the trial but put off a sentencing hearing to October 24.

That hearing will also set a date for his trial on a charge of committing exactly the same offence at the next election.

He appeared on the ballot for the Great Australian Party at both elections after the AEC said it did not have the power to reject nominations.

Cott short-stay bonanza

From page 5

The new rules do not apply to speciﬁc zones such as hotel, foreshore and town centre.

The three new categories which, depending on the number of bedrooms, allow a maximum number of eight guests, excluding young children. They are:

• Hosted short-stays, where properties must be registered but no development approval is needed. Platforms such as Airbnb require proof of registration.

• A 90-nights-per year maximum short-stay system for unhosted homes. These cater for people such as those who want to rent their homes out while the owners are on holidays. These also do not require a DA. Bookings trigger an alarm at 80 bookings or when stays go over 90 nights.

• A separate system when unhosted homes are rented for more than 90 nights a year. These require development approval by the local council under its planning scheme. All three require management plans.

The council accepted Airbnb’s submission that development approval should attach to the property, not the owner, so that the approval remains after an owner has left.

Club Bayview fades away quietly

The arrival of the West Coast Eagles in 1987, many of whom were regulars in the days before mobile phone cameras curtailed off-ﬁeld activities, coincided with its rise as the hottest club in Perth.

It rebranded to The Avenue a decade ago, becoming a hit with UWA students looking to unwind after exams.

Its doors closed again this year, with an online notice stating that it would only be temporary, but the POST can conﬁrm that the former club

will now be far more sedate.

Doctors, clinicians and pharmacists from the medical hub on Bay View Terrace will exchange bar stools for exam tables and pint glasses for test tubes.

“My doctors were pretty excited when I told them we were moving into the old Club Bayview,” Mr Swarts said.

“We had launch drinks there, celebrating the new location, and some of them went around the rooms recalling what it was they got up here back in their day.”

While Club Bayview and everpresent doorman Choi Lee might have let in pretty girls for free, less-fashionable would-be clubbers were deterred with the message: “Please do not be offended, but rather fade away quietly only to return another night, dressed to kill and looking very, very mature.”

regulars were also murdered after leaving central Claremont venues.

Their tragedies became synonymous with the club and served as a cautionary tale of safety for future generations of clubgoers.

Bradley Robert Edwards, who used his Telstra technician’s vehicles to pick up women leaving the Claremont entertainment district, is serving a life sentence for two of the murders. He was convicted in 2020.

Club Bayview made headlines again in 2016 when Town of Claremont ofﬁcers raided the premises for several safety breaches.

What is left of the club is now undergoing extensive renovations to transform the former nightclub into a sterile clinical environment, Mr Swarts said.

As the club’s reputation grew, so did its crowds as it drew people from across the state,

A patron at the time said: “A bomb would have to go off in the place to stop people from the western suburbs going

It continued to boom even after the disappearance of Sarah Spiers, who was last seen by people who knew her leaving Club Bayview in the early hours in January 1996.

Those familiar with her case speculate she was the unfortunate ﬁrst victim of the Claremont serial killer.

Two other Club Bayview

Interior walls have been demolished, and the ceiling and ﬂoors have been taken back to the slab.

Design plans have yet to be ﬁnalised, with a chance that some remnants of the old Club Bayview may remain.

That includes the old club doors that will be repurposed for the staff room.

“We don’t know if we will keep any of the old memorabilia,” Mr Swarts said.

“Some of it, like some of the couches, is in really bad shape.

“I think the old grand piano with a perspex top is still there and is currently being played by the foreman every Friday.”

Cafe a ‘daytime nightclub’

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Lawyer will fight rate bill

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warned that the new owner could be liable for the debt if she was unable to pay.

“Even though the Town has made a mistake, it is entitled to pursue Ms Lemmey for the rates as long as it does so within six years, per a High Court decision,” he said.

Ms Lemmey has been battling cancer for three decades but this year discovered it was terminal.

She returned to hospital on Thursday and will have surgery next week to remove half her nose.

“My oncologist is furious, saying this whole thing is really bad for my health,” she said.

Mosman Park mayor Paul Shaw said the council had not changed its position after issuing a demand notice to Ms Lemmey last month.

“In the time that I’ve been on council, which is coming up to eight years, all ratepayers are required to pay their rates,” he said.

Mr Shaw was responding to a question from Swanbourne resident Penny Oldﬁeld at the council meeting this week.

“I’m not a ratepayer of the Town of Mosman Park, but I certainly have concerns, which I’ve discussed with other ratepayers of Mosman Park,” she said.

“What is the council’s criteria for who pays and who doesn’t?”

He said residents had compiled extensive reports documenting truck deliveries blocking right-of-way access, deli footpath and verge incursions, odour and noise intrusion, and monitored street parking and disability compliance.

They have sent these reports to the Town.

“The responses so far have been grossly inadequate and reﬂect the low capacity of the administration,” Mr Satchwell said.

John Burridge, who has a military antique shop next to the cafe, has been a strident critic of the newcomer which he described as a “daytime nightclub”.

“This is not a local amenity cafe, the people coming down

aren’t local and they are walking there alright, from their bloody cars,” he said.

“It’s a daytime nightclub with young people from as far as Whitfords coming all the way here for a coffee.”

He said he had had to ask Side Piece to remove ﬁxtures and plants they installed in his wall.

“They didn’t ask me about any of it, and it is my wall,” he said.

He said Side Piece had asked him to stop his dog urinating in his backyard and he was angered that a cafe security camera was pointed into his property.

He complained to Claremont about the camera, which has since been removed.

Mr Satchwell said Mr Burridge’s wall dispute was an unfortunate outcome of poor planning.

extended to include Claisebrook, Perth Stadium and Fremantle.

“The message is loud and clear,” he said.

“The pristine waters of Matilda Bay do not need a 140m jetty right through the middle.

“The main reason given has been to allow more convenient access to university students. But I can say, as the father of a ﬁrst-year UWA student who is studying psychology, if ever there was a time in my son’s life I wanted him to walk an extra 400m it is now.

Councillor Catherine Lezer said she was concerned at the way the issue had been brought to the council for a vote.

“Frankly this motion feels like a political manoeuvre,” she said. “However, I cannot allow process concerns to drown out the clear and uniﬁed voice of the community.

“The community’s message is clear: They support the ferry network but strongly oppose the

She said Matilda Bay failed on “transport logic” and the community strongly favoured the Nedlands public jetty beside JoJo’s.

Councillor David Goncalves tried to defer a decision on the motion but did not get support.

He said he struggled with the fact they were being asked “to adopt a formal ‘no’ position” on the spot while the administration was considering the DA.

“Our job tonight is to properly consider items not engage in last-minute election campaigning,” he said.

At the start of the meeting Megan Bagworth from Safety on Swan – a coalition of 10 Matilda Bay based clubs and groups –and David Lim from the City of Perth Western Residents Association urged council to take a position on the issue.

“The pristine beauty of Matilda Bay has made it a mecca for all the people of WA as well as tourists,” Mr Lim said.

Shark victim honoured

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Geoffrey says his father never went back into the ocean and he spoke only reluctantly of the tragic event.

Simon, aged 55 when he died, had travelled the world, joining the Victorian gold rush then the rush to the Coolgardie goldﬁelds before moving to Perth.

He worked there as a bookmaker’s clerk and lived at the Metropole Hotel, which was owned by Geoffrey Church’s grandfather.

The shark was put on show at the surf club to raise money,

The POST targets 112,000 local people each week.

Revolution comes to an end

THE Sporting

AShenton Park sporting institution is about to close and tens of thousands of sport lovers will be poorer for its loss.

Revolution Sports has been a western suburb landmark for 21 years.

It has been a second home for Test cricketers and junior schoolers, West Coast Eagles

and creaky social netballers.

It was also the birthplace of Revo Fitness, the gym chain that is going gangbusters around the country.

Thousands of parents have dropped off their kids to play indoor cricket or ﬂoorball in the cavernous Revo warehouse; countless budding athletes have used the gym facilities or nets or courts to hone their skills and bolster their dreams.

Established in 2004 by prominent local cricket coach Neil Holder and his family, Revo has survived commercial challenges, changing sporting tastes and COVID.

But it cannot survive a change

of plans by its landlord.

WaterCorp owns the Lemnos Street building and now wants it back to store equipment.

It informed Revo just months ago that the lease would not be renewed when it expired at the end of August.

A short extension was granted but operations will cease next month and the building must be restored to the condition it was in 2004. Cobwebs are optional.

Revo estimate that 7000 people use the facility every week, but got nowhere when they asked the landlord where they should go.

Indoor cricket used to be the boom product, but that has been supplanted by ﬂoorball, a version of hockey played with plastic sticks. It is remarkably popular among local schools.

Coverama winds up home season

surfing

with cameron bedford-brown

Cottesloe Board Riders sent off the local surf season in style, running their fourth and ﬁnal comp for the year out at Cove and Seconds.

About 38 frothing groms turned up to trade blows in the fun little reef curlers with the onshore wind only adding to the raw, gritty feel of the day.

Club president Tele Ventouras reckons it has been a milestone season for the club, which has been growing like a local swell fed by a bombing cold front.

“It’s been a godsend having Cove and Seconds ﬁring, because Cott Main’s been as ﬂat as a pancake this year, hardly a grain of sand on the bank,” Tele said.

“Despite the chill of a light southerly breeze, the energy on the beach was pure ﬁre, with groms charging lefts and rights all day, putting it all on the line in front of a buzzing crew of parents, mates and salty old locals.

“To run four comps this season is huge for us.

“That’s the benchmark for a solid end to the season. And next year we’re only looking to push it bigger, better and heavier.”

One of the highlights was the record turnout of young women stepping up in the Under-17s.

“I was properly stoked to see 11 girls in that division,” Tele said.

“Two decades ago, we hardly had a single female surﬁng for the club.

“Now they’re turning up in

force, ripping and setting the tone for the next generation.”

Next on the horizon, CBR have lined up a coaching session with WA powerhouse Emma Cattlin at Trigg this month.

“This is an epic chance for the kids to sharpen their turns and polish their heat strategy,”

Tele said.”

Looking further ahead, the club has its eyes on a Lancelin strike mission next year, and thanks to a fresh grant from the Town of Cottesloe they’ll be putting on their ﬁrst ofﬁcial hometown comp in 2026.

Tele gave a big shout-out to the local businesses and crew backing the club.

“Without the support we get, we’d still be blowing car horns to start heats and scribbling scores on scrap paper,” he said.

“The community has really stepped up and that’s what keeps this thing alive.

“If Huey decides to throw down one last freak swell before summer, you never know, if it happens, we’ll be on for one last season comp, so watch this space.”

Cott Board Riders Coverama

Under 17 boys: 1 Jayden Phillips, 2 Harry Heath.

Under 17 girls: 1 Mischa Wise, 2 Emilie Spring, 3 Cam MacKellar, 4 Eleonora Mahoney

Under 13 boys: 1 Harry Heath, 2 Teddy Luttrell, 3 Raphael Scott, 4 Archie Fullwood, 5 Louis Angliss

Under 13 girls: 1 Indie Atkinson, Stella Boranga, 3 Emilie Spring, 4 Rose Waldeck

Open: 1 Blaine Watson, 2 Jarrah Calder, 3 Dan Fullwood

Revo will work with those schools to use their facilities for the sport, but the loss of the cricket nets will have a bigger impact on the hundreds of schools and clubs and individuals who use them.

Walk into Revo at any time of the day or night and the cricket nets are sure to be occupied, whether by household names tuning up for an Ashes series, visiting English county players ﬁlling their days or youngsters with stars in their eyes and a parent happy to feed balls into the bowling machines.

As genuine and genial as anyone I have met in cricket, Hughes said he was happy to have a chat over a coffee once he had ﬁnished his batting session.

Pounding

150kmh deliveries into his rib cage

“They can use the WACA nets,” Revo was told, as if a central city location at a highperformance venue with limited parking and restricted access could replicate a magnetic suburban hot spot with decades of history and an international reputation.

I have been to Revo numerous times, to use the nets, interview players, buy yet another piece of essential sporting equipment from the crowded shop on the mezzanine or simply chat about cricket, footy and other essential matters with “Noddy” Holder and his passing parade of sporting identities.

Two visits a month apart in 2010 stand out as the most memorable trips amid countless excursions to Revo over two decades.

West Coast were struggling midway through their 24th season, having just lost seven matches in a row on their way to their ﬁrst wooden spoon.

They were due to play Essendon under the roof at Docklands that weekend and while it made sense to do indoor drills at Revo rather than train at rainy Subiaco Oval, the sharpness, precision and boisterous body language I observed was in stark contrast to their woeful recent form.

Setting the standard was Mark LeCras, whose outstanding yield against Essendon just a few days later came as little surprise given his effervescent display on the wooden ﬂoor in Shenton Park.

LeCras kicked the first five goals for his team, had 10 by the last change and finished with 12 as the buoyant Eagles took their training approach into the game.

Another random visit to Revo a month later produced a golden return, from a journalistic sense at least.

A familiar face was feeding balls into the bowling machine and as I wandered over to watch then Australian batting coach Justin Langer in action, it became apparent who was at the other end.

Recent Test batsman Phil Hughes was charting a way back into the Australian team and had turned to Langer for assistance.

He then explained that he had paid his own way to Perth, was staying with the coach and his family, and was elated but sore after three gruelling days that tested his physical and emotional limits.

The challenges included dawn boxing sessions and beach running, multiple net sessions against a bowling machine pounding 150kmh deliveries into his rib cage, Langer’s old favourite of a century of 20m sprints, and then nights spent at the dinner table where philosophies of life and cricket were dissected by player, coach and family.

“It was pretty hard work, much

harder than I anticipated,” Hughes said as his face split into the biggest grin in the game.

“I worked on some speciﬁc things and just general batting but it was also just great to spend three days with Justin and talk about everyday life.

“For every question I asked him, he asked me one back.

“He also reinforced how important it was to have a good balance off the field. It was not just about scoring runs but having respect for the game and respect for your opposition.”

The session must have worked, because Hughes soon regained a Test place, then lost it again, and was set for yet another comeback in 2014 when he died after being felled during a Shefﬁeld Shield match at the SCG.

That conversation at Revo remains with me to this day. Life moves on but it will be poorer without Revo and its place in the local sporting landscape.

ball at South Fremantle and deployed the driest wit as a WACA selector, board member and tour manager, has died at 85.

Christened in memory of Ronald Doig, the WA cricketer and South Fremantle star who died in 1932 after being kicked in the head by an East Perth opponent, R.D. Bowe matched his famous uncle’s representative endeavours.

into the WA rooms, but it took a resolute contribution from the newcomer to make the prediction come true.

“Skull” Bowe made 86 in 5½ hours, putting on 199 with John Inverarity, but ever after relished telling the story of the verbal buffeting he received, particularly from Victorian wicketkeeper Ray “Slug” Jordon.

He played 58 games for South and won an A-Grade cricket premiership at University, but had his greatest moment on the MCG in 1968 when WA won their second Shefﬁeld Shield. Needing to beat Victoria on the ﬁrst innings to secure the trophy, the debutant was in action early when Bill Lawry sent WA in on a stinking hot

“I hit three fours in all that time and got booed by Bay 13 from start to ﬁnish,” he said. “And Slug called me a c*** after every delivery. I faced a lot of deliveries so I heard it a lot.

“Every time he said it, I was determined to remain out there for at least one more ball so he had to say it again.”

Phil Hughes and Justin Langer talk about batting during a session at Revo in 2010.

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Revo’s MCG replica scoreboard is a conversation starter and recognition of Noddy Holder’s favourite cricketers.

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Vast range of ideas

a watermelon cat, a multi-coloured bird and a French-speaking alien were just some of the wonderfully inventive ideas you had this this week.

Our two main winners exhibited two different styles that drew my attention.

Naomi Fong, 9, from Nedlands, shows a strong style with her egg

Q. What do ducks eat for a snack?

A. Cheese and quackers!

Q. When does Thursday come before Wednesday?

A. In the dictionary!

Q. What kind of rabbit can jump higher than a house?

A. Any kind – houses can’t jump!

Q. What do you call a bull when it’s asleep?

A. A bulldozer!

Lawrence Pan, 8, from Floreat, has drawn a complex storytelling picture of a huge rock falling off a hill and about to land on a rescue car. There are even people watching the drama from rooftops. It’s busy and interesting. I love the joint work by Zara Dennis and Saskia Carle who will have to share an ice-cream voucher for a drawing with a title that made me laugh: “An alien on the moon arguing that US took their territory”. The aliens are not alone!

Q. What starts with T, ends with T and has T in it?

A. A teapot!

Q. How do you make varnish disappear?

A. Take out the “r”!

B’SPOKE is a unique show created and performed by CircusWA’s youth academy with five young people living with disabilities.

Almost two years in the making, the young performers use circus skills, improvisation and live music to reflect the strengths and ambitions of five disabled creatives.

The work is woven together by a composition by Shenzo Gregorio, a

flying violinist who performs in a stunt orchestra and GOM (Gravity and Other Myths) in Adelaide.

Shenzo plays the viola with Jude Iddison on violin and young singer songwriter Maia Harcourt adding percussion, voice and lyrics to the compositions.

“We decided the musicians should be included in the show so they could respond and communicate with the performers to support them to shift

and change as needed,” said director Natano Fa’anana.

Among the performers is Jack Pike, 15, from North Fremantle.

Jack, who is home-schooled, started in parkour and is new to circus which he said was “freeing and exciting”. He is also new to working with people with disability.