POST Newspapers 8 November 2025

Neds hopeful wants old guard gone

By BRET CHRISTIAN

resident Leonie

aims to be mayor of a refreshed local council run by a harmonious slate of entirely new councillors.

Ms Browner is the second local to declare she wants to stand as mayor of Nedlands when elections are held on March 28.

A frequent observer of the previous council in action, she saw it deteriorate into bitterly-divided factions before it dissolved when the government replaced it with three commissioners.

“I don’t think anyone’s been impressed,” she said.

of Nedlands clear air in order to move on.”

She watched from the public gallery as the old council “splintered into blocs” of voting groups and wants to see the end of factions and restore respect into debates.

“We actually need new people who will conduct themselves differently,” she said.

“Even before the council was dismissed, I was looking at running for council, just because I think we need good people putting themselves forward.”

They are entitled to run but I don’t think they should. ‘ ’

“If the City of Nedlands wants to take itself seriously, it can’t be conducting itself in that manner.

“My intention was to run last month if the council hadn’t been dismissed,” she said.

“I strongly feel that we need a completely fresh council in order for the City of Nedlands to move on. If some of [the previous councillors] are reelected, the same battles are going to be fought.

“Clearly they are entitled to run, but I don’t think they should.

“They need to take collective responsibility for their conduct and to allow the City

She believes her business, financial, community and leadership experience can help restore Nedlands’ tarnished reputation.

Her background is economics and public policy. She presents as measured and careful, fond of words such as balanced, focussed and sensible.

Asked what skills she would bring, she replied: “I listen a lot more than I talk.

“I actually bring three main skills. One is people leadership. Two is stakeholder engagement, and three is deep experience in government.”

She has also worked inside councils on performance audits.

Getting Nedlands back on

Please

Who’s been sleeping in our bed?

By BEN DICKINSON

A dogsitter covertly leased out a Swanbourne couple’s property for $500 a week while they were away on holiday last month.

Servetus Street residents Laurain McCaughan and Jackie Bolt said they arranged for their regular dogsitter, Jae Samra, to look after their groodle, Gus, while they were away in September and October.

They had found Mr Samra two years earlier through online platform Aussie House Sitters, where he describes himself as “the conscious carer” and a “holistic coach / investment banker”.

“He’s taken good care of Gus and kept the place spotless – until this time,” Ms McCaughan said.

The couple said they were surprised to find that Mr Samra, who told them he was a nondrinker, had filled their bin with empty beer cans.

Ms McCaughan said the house was a little untidy but Gus seemed to have been taken care of.

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Happier times … Dogsitter Jae Samra rented out a Swanbourne couple’s house while he was looking after their groodle, Gus.

Soon after, Ms Bolt said she was cleaning a self-contained unit at the back of the house – which the couple runs as council-approved short-stay accommodation – when she found

a copy of a signed, three-page rental agreement.

The document listed “Kony J Samra” as the lessor and a visiting Estonian man as the tenant.

“The lessee agrees to vacate the premises no later than 18th October 2025,” the agreement

It stipulated $1500 in rent would be paid for three weeks’ accommodation.

“I thought ‘Oh my god, you bastard’,” Ms Bolt said.

The couple contacted the tenant, who agreed to give them a written statement about his experience.

In it, the tenant said he was contacted by Mr Samra after posting on Facebook looking for accommodation.

“Jae gave me the impression he was the owner of the house and that the people he rented the apartment to have gone away on holiday,” he said.

“Jae was there for the first day that I moved in but then said he was going away for a week.

“When he came back there were three dogs with him.”

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Leonie Browner has been a regular attendee at Nedlands council meetings. Photo: Bret Christian

In praise of Chris Wilson

I was stunned to read the front page article about Chris Wilson, a Nedlands mayoral candidate.

I have known Chris for several years as a member of his fi studio and wanted to express my support for him.

Chris is an incredible member of the Nedlands community and would make an excellent mayor. He has been open and transparent about his past, accepted responsibility, made amends and is now doing only positive things for the community.

Chris supports his community as individuals, working with me when I broke my wrist to make sure I could keep coming to classes and stay healthy physically and mentally.

Chris supports his community as a group, with numerous free events for his fitness studio members.

Chris supports the community as a whole, by participating in the sleepout for the homeless and Telethon (a 24-hour rowing machine event), encouraging all

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Screentime babysitters

Here we are desperately trying to get our teenagers off social media and what do we see? Hundreds of advertisements promoting “little laptops to help your child read and learn about the world”.

Do you notice how many toddlers armed with a baby computer, being pushed along by mothers engrossed in their “ devices” ( forget the “ de” !!!)

Please stand up and be counted among the protesters !

My five brilliant daughters all achieved degrees without devices of any kind.

Diana Hewison Victoria Street, Mosman Park

Clean records, please

Given the dysfunction in, and supposed loss of $2million by the previous Nedlands council, surely the last thing we need is a mayor with a conviction for stealing as a servant (Neds mayor hopeful has theft record, POST November 1).

This is a serious charge which usually attracts a jail term.

I’m all for forgiving mistakes, but this was deliberate embezzlement, over a period of time, and only discovered by chance.

It reveals serious, sustained ethical failures and should preclude the perpetrator ever being in a position of trust in public office.

Anne Martis Minora Road, Dalkeith

Applaud positive change

I am thoroughly disappointed by last week’s Post headline, trumpeting mistakes of a young man in his early 20’s, who has now made positive changes, built a successful life and is an asset in our community.

Having worked in the rehabilitation area of the Justice Department, there are thousands of young men in that age group who make mistakes and find it a momentous turning point in their lives.

I’ve not met Chris Wilson, however, find him to be a great example of how a young man has learned from his mistakes and had the

courage and determination to make a good life and become an asset in our community. His resilience is admirable.

Of far greater concern to intelligent readers is the article, on page 3 (Zempilas reins in Huston)  which informs us of nuclear submarines in our local area.

I believe the editor would be wise to revise “muck raking” and headline  really important issues for our community.

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Helen Foley Selby Street, Floreat

Chris Wilson

Golfers see red over greens damage

Biker vandals

By JEN REWELL

Golfing greens damaged by reckless use of e-bikes will cost thousands to repair, according to members of the Sea View Golf Club.

Club president Jim Green said e-bike riders went beyond riding on the course by using tees and bunkers as jumps last weekend.

“They rode bikes onto greens, ripped out and stole pins, and broke rakes,” he said.

Parents needed to step up to stop the damaging behaviour.

“The vandalism has escalated and we need it to stop,” he said.

“We need parents of teenagers with e-bikes to speak to their young ones about the

issue, especially where bikes have been modified to facilitate increased speed.”

Mr Green said online dares led to damage being recorded and posted on social media.

Sea View’s undulating fairways are open to the public and are often used by dog walkers, kids on bikes, and golfers perfecting their swing.

A phalanx of young riders was recently pictured riding on the greens on a sunny evening (Electric Fairway, POST October 18).

Sea View member Garry Fletcher said e-bikes were powerful enough to damage golf greens if ridden recklessly.

“Last week, one of the riders decided to demonstrate his skills on the second green,

at night.

Claremont assault saga to reach third year

By BEN DICKINSON

A flamboyant former Claremont architect’s assault trial will drag into a fifth day and third year after again failing to reach a conclusion.

Louise St John Kennedy, 74, is accused of lunging with a knife at her 82-year-old neighbour, paediatric rheumatologist Prudence Manners, during an argument about a parking spot at their Chester Road townhouse complex on May 9 last year.

The trial has been stopping and starting since December last year as Ms Kennedy, who is representing herself, has exhaustively questioned Dr Manners and police officers who attended the scene.

“Are you dishonest?” Ms

Knife lunge alleged

Kennedy asked Dr Manners in Perth Magistrates Court this week.

“I beg your pardon?” Dr Manners replied.

Dr Manners appeared in the witness box over three days in April and November before finally wrapping up her evidence on Tuesday.

Just before she did, Ms Kennedy alleged that Dr Manners was being coached from the gallery by her daughter while answering questions from police prosecutor Wayne Gan.

“I put it you that you were looking at Sergeant Gan giving a lot of your evidence and from time to time changed your gaze and looked directly

at your daughter in the back of court,” Ms Kennedy said.

“Did your daughter nodding or shaking her head in the back of court, did that influence the answers you’ve given in the witness box?”

“No,” Dr Manners said.

“I barely see what’s happening in the back.”

A grainy video of the Chester Road incident, recorded by neighbour Penny Holmes, was again played to the court on Tuesday.

“Go on you dumb bitch!” Ms Kennedy could be heard yelling at Dr Manners.

The video appears to show Ms Kennedy wielding something as she moves towards Dr Manners.

Ms Kennedy contends the item was an angle finder ruler

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Teens injured in e-bike crash

Two teenage boys suffered serious injuries in City Beach on Wednesday afternoon when an electric motorcycle they were riding collided with a car.

The boys, whose ages have not been released, were riding the unregistered motorbike in Kingsland Avenue around 5.10pm when they hit the car.

Police say the rider was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital while the passenger was taken to Perth Children’s Hospital, both with “serious injuries”.

“The driver of the vehicle

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stopped at the scene and was uninjured,” a spokesperson said.

“Police are appealing for anyone with any information to report it to Crime Stoppers.”

Police said the bike was unregistered.

Groups of teenagers on electric dirt bikes have been a regular problem in City Beach.

A Kingsland Avenue resident said he was driving home at night recently when he narrowly avoided a teenager riding one with no helmet or lights at 50kmh.

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A rough day on the second green at Sea View Golf Club. LEFT: e-bikers ride out across Sea View golf links.

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Future film to fund garden shed

A film screening at the Boulevard Centre on Sunday November 9 at 4pm will help purchase a storage shed at the community garden in City Beach.

The film, Future Council, directed by Damon Gameau (2040, That Sugar Film), takes eight kids on a road trip across Europe to find solutions to ecological challenges and challenge powerful leaders.

After the screening there will be a Q and A session with the director via Zoom.

Tickets can be purchased for $20 by going to trybooking.com and searching “Future Council film screening”.

The Boulevard Centre is at 99 The Boulevard, Floreat.

Taking the hammer to Vulcan’s forge

Dodging sulphur fumes and eruption risks were all in a day’s fun for POST readers Bruce Coleman and Sheila Crawford.

The Shenton Park duo were on a bus tour of Sicily when they decided to free wheel their way through the nearby Aelioan islands of Vulcano and Stromboli which are home to two of Italy’s four live volcanoes.

The English word comes from the name of the tiny island which, the Romans believed, contained the forge of Vulcan, god of fire.

The yellow sulphur is plainly visible near the top of Vulcano though Bruce said Stromboli provided a more memorable nocturnal experience.

“Stromboli was more spectacular after dark with huge explosive sounds and eruptions,” he said.

“We returned, with headlamps, down the mountain to the town.”

RIGHT: Bruce Coleman and the POST get within reach of Vulcano’s eponymous main attraction.

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One direction –wrong way

erected and later removed from the north side of Hay Street in Subiaco.

apartment block at 5 Wunderlich Road in the China Green precinct, the direction sign identifies the area as Hay Street West and directs drivers to City Beach.

arrow is pointing away from City Beach and towards Subiaco, which can be seen in the background.

the road facing the other way and the sign would point in the right direction.

This Subiaco sign was heading east.

Decimal place a pricey mistake

wrong spot caused some angst for a Cambridge resident who accidentally paid $18,862 and 10 cents in rates rather than $1862

Give us a ring

grieving over the loss of this treasured wedding ring, which was lost in Mosman Park on October 16. It was missed after a visit to the Minim Cove adventure park.

If anyone has picked it up or finds it, please call the POST Monday to Thursday on 9381 3088.

and 10 cents.

The $17,020 and 92 cents refund was questioned by an eagle-eyed resident who spied the amount on documents tabled at the recent council meeting.

There were sympathetic chuckles from the gallery when the BPay mistake was explained by staff The overpayment was swiftly refunded.

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Mack blasts Forum high-rise verdict

By JEN REWELL

Cambridge mayor Gary Mack has urged the State government to “restore balance to planning” after WA planners voted unanimously to side with Floreat Forum developer APIL’s plan for the precinct.

The decision means Floreat Forum is to be surrounded by 12 to 20-storey high-rise apartments – “excessive” says Mr Mack.

Mr Mack said the decision represents a serious breach of trust between the State Government and the community.

The Statutory Planning Committee, part of the WA Planning Commission, sup-

ported APIL’s plan.

It claimed the controversial high-rise development would not go ahead if the council’s alternative plan was approved.

Cambridge prepared its own eight-storey structure plan which complied with planning laws. But the government planners rejected this in favour of the higher APIL scheme.

SPC chair Emma Cole said she wished the community consultation had been done on the “original” precinct structure plan, which was prepared by commercial property group APIL.

“The key issue … is that implementation is something that

the SPC cannot ignore,” she said.

“We have heard from APIL today that should the Town’s PSP be approved then they simply won’t redevelop.

“That has to be a critical issue.”

But Mr Mack issued a scathing response to the decision which he said had “over-ridden” local planning frameworks and reinforced the belief that

Chainsaw beat Neds’ tree policy

By BEN DICKINSON

Workers have cut down two mature gum trees on a Nedlands block after receiving permission from council staff that appeared to contradict the City’s tree retention policy.

Tyrell Street resident Sue Skull said she watched in horror as the towering eucalypts were felled on the site of a demolished California bungalow, along with a pair of large date palms, a mulberry tree, and a norfolk island pine.

“The block has been stripped of its trees,” she said.

“The house was being demolished over the past week and that’s when I started worrying about those two trees on the back fence.

“My neighbour said one was planted by a previous owner for the birth of a child … decades ago.

“This morning we watched kookaburras sitting on the bulldozer.”

Developer Ali Bazgard has applied to build four townhouses on the 1012sq.m block, which is 170m from Stirling Highway.

Plans for that development are being advertised for public feedback until November 17.

The R60 block is covered by Nedlands council’s tree protection policy, which requires a council permit to conduct “tree-damaging activity”.

A council spokesperson said the developer had a building permit that “allowed for the removal of the trees”, but did not answer questions about why it was granted.

Nedlands Tree Canopy Advocates president Rob Seggie said he was trying to ascertain whether the permit was issued before the tree policy’s adoption in May last year.

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developers were favoured over communities.

“[This] reinforces the perception that the State’s planning system favours expediency and developer interests over community-led planning,” he said.

“The department has elevated the views of the developers and commercial land owners, over the Town and community.

“[Cambridge] calls on the State Government to restore balance to the planning system by respecting endorsed local planning frameworks, and ensuring that decisions made by the WAPC are transparent,

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Wage theft adds to Ned woes

By BEN DICKINSON

Nedlands council is facing yet another financial headache after it was accused of underpaying staff over a six-year period.

Australian Services Union WA assistant secretary Jill Hugo said the council had failed to implement agreed pay increases in 2020 and then short-changed staff on every subsequent pay rise.

“We contacted the City in June 2025 and were advised at that time that it would be treated as a priority,” Ms Hugo said.

“The City’s new administration has acknowledged the issue and has been working with us to identify the extent of the underpayments.

“We welcome that cooperation, but the underpayments now need to be resolved as a matter of urgency.”

The POST understands Nedlands’ enterprise bargaining agreement stipulated that staff wages would rise in line with the Consumer Price Index for Perth

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Upcoming

APIL’s plan is for towers up to 20 storeys to surround Floreat Forum.

Distressing … One of the trees in the process of being chainsawed. Photo: Paul McGovern

By SARAH McNEILL

If you are a theatre-lover or a Swanbourne beach sunbaker, you would most likely have seen the ebullient, talented and always tanned Sally Sander-Ogden.

Sally died recently after a fall at her Leederville home.

A celebration of her life and achievements was held at His Majesty’s Theatre this week.

In traditional theatre style, Sally was given a farewell standing ovation after tributes, songs and memories from the Australia-wide theatre community, led by MC Michael Loney.

Sally stepped on to the stage of His Majesty’s in April to reminisce with theatre historian Ivan King about their early days.

Sally’s first role was at the age of 12, in the Perth Repertory Club amateur production of The Innocents, playing a young girl possessed by ghosts.

She was born in Cape Town, aged four when her parents migrated to Perth. They bought a house in Peppermint Grove so that Sally’s mother could take in lodgers while her father was studying.

She went to PLC but left

Lakeside’s hidden heroine

By EMMA BLADEN

Few people knew what was behind the front door of a previously-empty waterfront house in Shenton Park earlier this century.

Refugees who had just been released from detention slept in 10 donated beds, their new start in life testament to a remarkable Nedlands woman who died last month aged 97.

A lifetime of advocating for justice for refugees and Aboriginal people was remembered with love and pride when Gwenyth Graham was laid to rest.

She was described as an “indefatigable force for justice, refugees and First Nations people”, and her family and friends paid tribute to her remarkable life’s work at her service at Nedlands Uniting Church.

Her volunteer work continued until she retired at 93.

She sponsored about 30 refugees in her lifetime.

Standing ovation for Sally Sander

at 15 to be contracted at the Playhouse Theatre, playing ingénue roles or working backstage or in the props department.

She also modelled to earn enough money to go travelling around Europe, returning to Perth in her 20s to join Frank Baden Powell’s Old Time Music Hall, which starred her husband-to-be, Maurie Ogden.

In a six-decade-long career, Sally and her late husband

They also appeared in a string of local films and television series.

According to her close friend, director Jenny Davis, Sally was also “the most well-known hostess on the theatre scene.”

“She was a great cook and loved to entertain – and loved to joke and laugh,” she said.

Gwenyth is survived by her children James, Robin and Merrilyn and families.

Her daughter Merrilyn Watson said creating community was at the heart of everything her mum did.

“Bringing people together, providing a safe refuge, offering practical support, and loving every person who crossed her path, and particularly those who crossed our threshold,” she said.

Lakeside, as it was known, was in the early 2000s used to house refugees freshly released from Port Hedland immigration detention with Temporary Protection Visas.

Gwenyth was part of the St Matthew’s Anglican Church Refugee Support Group, and one of a band of hard-working locals who volunteered time and resources to help the new arrivals create new Australian lives in Perth.

She also joined the Coalition Assisting Refugees After Detention in 2000 after being active for many years in Amnesty International.

Shenton Park resident Nick Nicoli said the home was lent free of charge by its owners, Christopher and Christine Lawson-Smith, who were going to the UK to work.

Beds Plus kindly donated 10 beds for the refugee home, he said.

The first group, men from Afghanistan, arrived in Perth at the train station and were driven to Lakeside by John Broadbent.

I grew up in a home which welcomed all, and was full of strange and interesting people ‘ ’

Gwenyth, who was a nurse by profession, and her husband Peter, an eye surgeon, also spent time with their growing family as missionaries in West Timor in the 1950s and West Java in the 1960s.

Gwenyth’s son James said at the service that many of the refugee families she worked with became close and continuing friends.

“I grew up in a home which welcomed all, and was full of strange and interesting people – from Russian dissidents to indigenous brothers and sisters, to refugees and the lost, lonely and broken.

“All were welcome at our table.

“On another occasion some Aboriginal people were visiting from Mum’s beloved Mawanjam community and for some reason were being forced to return there when they didn’t want to.

“My utterly pragmatic mother put them, and me, in the car and drove around the suburbs.

“Eventually she looked at her watch and said, ‘It’s okay, the plane has left by now. We can go home’.”

Gwenyth’s life story is also interwoven with that of the home which once stood at 12 Lake Avenue, Shenton Park.

Emergence

His mother was frustrated by the loss of her driving licence later in life, but it wasn’t long before she chose a bright red mobility scooter.

“I would like to remember her at the end of her life, riding her fiery chariot,” he said.

Mr Nicoli, a retired English teacher from Shenton College, said he had a wealth of fond memories of Gwenyth.

“I valued her loyal friendship and steadfast, methodical networking skills through the traumatic years of the politicisation of the Afghan TPV arrivals and beyond,” he said.

“As a champion of refugees and those in need she is rightly a national treasure.”

A book written by Gwenyth about the story of the St Matthew’s Refugee Support Group, called “Lakeside and Beyond”, is available at local libraries.

Emergence

Gallery 360 presents Emergence, an exhibition of new artworks by Cher Van Schouwen.

Gallery 360 presents Emergence, an exhibition of new artworks by Cher Van Schouwen.

Cher’s latest exhibition explores the vitality of movement, emotion and memory surge beyond the canvas, to intimate portraits and evocative and an unshakable belief in the

Cher’s latest exhibition explores the vitality of movement, emotion and memory surge beyond the canvas, to intimate portraits and evocative and an unshakable belief in the

Gwenyth Graham and her dog Caleb with a refugee family on a picnic at Matilda Bay in 2009.

Maurie dominated the theatre scene at the Playhouse, Hole in the Wall Theatre, Effie Crump Theatre, His Majesty’s and Regal Theatre.

Sally Sander and her husband Maurie Ogden dominated the theatre scene for decades.

Subi still ‘owns’ ferry carpark

November 16 protest

By LLOYD GORMAN

Paint brushes and pencils will be at the ready to save Matilda Bay this weekend, to be followed by a giant rally the next Sunday.

The Perth Plein Air Painters are inviting as many people as possible to paint and sketch the picturesque foreshore in Crawley from 9.30am this Saturday, November 8.

“The current government wants to plonk a ferry terminal in the middle of this view,” organisers said.

machines.

The “administrative anomaly” was revealed at a Subiaco council meeting last week in response to a question from former Nedlands councillor Rebecca Coghlan.

A majority of Perth City Councillors last month supported a motion objecting to the ferry terminal location at Matilda Bay.

The community deserves a terminal location that truly works for the future

“This is our opportunity to paint and say don’t ruin this view of Perth, there are better locations for ferries.”

The paint protest comes as it emerged that land needed by the Public Transport Authority for the terminal is still legally tied to Subiaco.

A management order for the land, now used as a carpark, should have transferred to the City of Perth when it absorbed most of Subiaco’s south ward in 2016.

Perth runs the carpark and collects money from its ticket

A community action day involving a large number of local groups, clubs and people opposed to the plans for a ferry terminal in the middle of the bay is also being staged from 11am on Sunday, November 16.

The event will feature live music, speakers, sandcastle building for children and a visual demonstration illustrating the full scale of the proposed jetty, helping to show the size and impact of the terminal if it goes ahead.

“This cross-spectrum alliance is not opposing the ferry itself but pushing for the terminal to be moved round the corner to JoJo’s Nedlands jetty,” said Friends of Matilda Bay organiser Lauren Zagami.

“We respect the need for the ferry, but the community

deserves a terminal location that truly works for the future.

“Moving it to JoJo’s is the clear and superior option, there is already a jetty and a seawall in place, as well as committed foreshore development investment from the JoJo’s site owners.

“It’s a ready-made solution that makes sense environmentally, financially, and for the community.”

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The footprint of the proposed ferry terminal … Subiaco’s still ‘owns’ the Matilda Bay carpark it needs.

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Tutus ready for Galup gallop

By JEN REWELL

The first man over the finish line of the first ever Galup Parkrun is looking forward to celebrating the local event’s rst anniversary on November

That’s the day Parkrunners are invited to celebrate the anniversary by wearing a tutu

Wembley resident Hayden Brooke made an impression at the very first Galup Parkrun in November 2024 by running the 5km course in a striking suit featuring a child’s play streetmap.

Hayden’s best time is about 16m40s, but it was usually slower due to having the kids in a pram and dog with him, he said.

Cooper the dog’s best time is

Hayden, a dentist, said he and his wife Emily did Parkruns

SAT shoots down Shannon appeals

By BEN DICKINSON

Absent Nedlands CEO Keri Shannon has lost her bid to overturn five misconduct findings dating back to her time as Cambridge mayor.

In a decision handed down last week, State Administrative Tribunal member Timothy Carey upheld all five adverse findings made by the Local

Government Standards Panel in 2023. It is the latest bad news for Ms Shannon, who last month went on indefinite leave immediately after a confidential performance review.

Two of the findings related to Ms Shannon’s letters to the POST.

In one, she suggested that councillor Ian Everett was inherently conflicted by his links

to the development industry.

Mr Everett and Ms Shannon had repeatedly clashed over Ms Shannon’s criticisms of her own council’s staff, who she had publicly blasted for holding pre-lodgement meetings with developers.

“Mr Everett is an owner of a town planning firm and has a different view of the industry,” Ms Shannon wrote in a letter

to the POST. “I seek only to represent the interests of ratepayers.”

She suggested that planners and other development industry professionals be prohibited from running for council because of their “inherent conflict of interest”.

Ms Shannon blamed the POST in her appeal, arguing that edits

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when they travelled as it was a good way to meet new people and see new places.

They have done Parkruns in Osaka, Japan, and the River Torrens Parkrun in Adelaide.

“Parkrun is good because you can keep track of your progress and see how you rank against others your age and gender,” Hayden said.

Eddie Oldroyd, who is on the Galup Event Team, said the parkrun had been an instant success when it started last year.

“Every week there’s a group of volunteers,” he said.

“It is 100% community run and community led.”

In the past 12 months, 14,264 have done the Galup run, with an average time of 30m47s.

“On average we are seeing 285 participants each week.

However our current record is 394 participants, and we see an average of 15 people volunteering in different roles,” Eddie said.

There are more than 500 Parkruns in Australia every weekend – others in the western suburbs are at Perry Lakes, Lake Claremont, the University of WA, and Marine Parade, Cottesloe.

Across the world, Parkruns are free to register and noncompetitive – there is no time limit or winner.

“Some people aren’t in it for the run, they just walk, and there are a lot of prams,” Hayden said.

“A lot of people will travel to the Galup Parkrun as it is nice and flat.”

Hayden Brooke is ready to celebrate the Galup Parkrun’s first anniversary. Photo: Paul McGovern

Century and a dropped catch

By BEN DICKINSON

A Subiaco cricketer’s career-best on-field achievement has been soured by a falling tree limb during the same game.

Subiaco-Marist opening batsman Sandeepa Samaratunga scored 110 in a one-day match at College Park in Nedlands, lifting his side to a 17-run victory over hosts Western Suburbs.

But the feat – Mr Samaratunga’s second career ton – was overshadowed when a dead tree overhanging the oval carpark dropped a limb on his BMW sedan.

“We were fielding when I found out,” he said.

The limb left a hefty dent in the car’s bonnet, and Mr Samaratunga with a $700 insurance excess bill.

Nearby resident Bryan Cowan sOther residents have asked why the council had not removed the

Dead man’s lane headache

By JACK MADDERN

A Claremont election promise to solve deteriorating lanes has presented the new council with a long and pot-holed legal road.

Council candidates on the campaign trail said many residents told them the biggest issue they had within Claremont was the dilapidated state of their right-of-ways.

The dilemma is increasing because some lanes are privately owned, in one case by a man who died in 1880 and left no descendants, but deteriorating which makes the council

reluctant to buy them.

Other residents have made their own repairs but to the detriment of neighbours who suffer increased run-off.

“I think it’s incumbent on us to clearly explain to the residents what the legal process is,” Mayor Peter Telford said.

“The legal process might take two years, or we have to go to the Supreme Court, but then the council can say, okay, for a laneway like this, it might be $200,000.

“It will be a conversation we start with residents, on whether we have the money and where to prioritise first.

“Generally speaking, it might be a 10-year project, similar to how the Town is upkeeping the footpaths.”

Residents abutting lanes along Tapper and Cactus lanes, and the strip running between Langsford and Mary streets have been particularly vocal.

“Nobody in the world seems to know who owns these sections, and the council doesn’t want to claim it because they don’t think it is worth it,” a Claremont resident said.

“A lot of wear and tear has built up over the years, and the big drains are in need of repair and at risk of caving in.

“In the past, we had a temporary arrangement with the council that they would maintain these things, but a new policy introduced a few years back has changed that.”

Mike Newman, who has lived in Langsford Street since 2017, said the right-of-way next to his house were regularly used for public thoroughfares.

“There is a huge amount of traffic that flows through here during peak hour because the alley is a bit of a rat run,” he said.

“According to Claremont

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large tree, which was reported dead at least a year ago.

Then-mayor Fiona Argyle used her casting vote in March to ban the removal of dead trees on council land as a deterrent against neglect or sabotage by developers.

“Any dead tree will remain in-situ and exist as a habitat tree for the city’s local wild-life,” read Ms Argyle’s policy, which was revoked after the council was sacked in August.

“The only exceptions to this will be in the event a dead tree is infested with a prohibited species or poses a material public safety risk.”

The policy has since been reversed and a Nedlands spokesperson said the parks team was working through a backlog of dead trees scheduled for removal.

The council has since lodged an insurance claim to reimburse Mr Samaratunga.

Claremont mayor Peter Telford and Mike Newman with the cratered lane.

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Giant begging letter is art piece

By JEN REWELL

A select posse of people living in Cottesloe has received a limited edition artwork – a huge A1-sized poster in their mailboxes.

The poster had been folded into A4 size – which unfolded to reveal a plea of oversized proportions. It seeks a free house for 10 years.

While some people may have thought the letter was junk mail, each piece was part of a commissioned work by artist Alana Hunt.

Each poster was part of her artwork “A deceptively simple need”, which is currently showing at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

While the letter is part of her larger artwork, the plea was real.

Alana is looking for a patron to provide her with a house to live in for a decade, free of charge. “This might seem like an absurd proposition, but in many ways it is the most realistic path to stable housing that lies before me,” she said.

She is distributing letters nationally and internationally – she has just returned from presenting work at the Singapore Biennale, and is currently based in Sydney.

She printed 1000 A1 copies of the letter, packaged them into envelopes and stamped the front with the words “To the Owner (of multiple properties)” in red ink. They were hand-delivered to the most expensive postcodes in Sydney and Perth, in the hope that a patron might be found.

“You will in turn play a central role in an evolving artwork of profound social importance,

This might seem like an absurd proposition ‘ ’

while supporting an artist’s career,” she said.

“All the work I produce over the course of that decade-long lease will be credited: ‘This work has been supported by (insert your name here)’.”

The commissioned artwork reflects on Alana’s experience of housing insecurity and on the current housing crisis.

It offers a sensitive study of the injustices embedded in the basic need for a home within a settler-colonial system, she said.

One million houses stand empty in Australia, despite the universal need for secure tenure and an adequate standard

of living.

The 2021 census found that one in every seven homes in Cottesloe, Claremont, and Crawley were vacant.

Cottesloe had 475 unoccupied private dwellings out of a total of 1998 dwellings.

Claremont has 608 unoccupied private dwellings out of 3798.

The owner of a City Beach home which has been empty for 10 years, refused to allow Ukrainian refugees to use the home for accommodation.

A quote by former Victorian Supreme Court justice Kevin Bell is woven into a welcome mat at the door to the exhibition.

“In Australia, the origin of the idea that housing is to be valued primarily as a commodity for producing private wealth is colonisation,” it reads.

“It is part of our creation story.”

Huston honours ‘Dasher’ VC

Tickets are still available for a fascinating evening next Friday when the life of an Australian Vietnam war hero is examined.

Jonathan Huston, a former army major and Member for Nedlands, will share insights into the life, leadership and legacy of Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley VC at the Frederick Bell VC memorial lecture.

Wheatley’s selfless actions in 1965 saved a comrade’s life and earned him the nation’s highest military honour.

Mr Huston will explore both the man behind the medal,

and the meaning of courage in service to others.

The Town of Cottesloe supports the annual lecture, an event hosted by the Cottesloe RSL Sub-Branch to honour WA’s first Victoria Cross recipient, who lived in Cottesloe.

Friday’s lecture will be held in the War Memorial Town Hall at Cottesloe Civic Centre on 14 November at 6pm (for a 6.30pm start).

Ticket cost is $10 (includes refreshments) and are available at the door or online at eventbrite.

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Alana Hunt with part of her show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. ABOVE: Did you get one? The enormous poster was delivered to select homes in Cottesloe. Photo: Tristan McKenzie

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Trick no treat for residents

Around 100 people converged on an empty house in Mosman Park during an out-of-control Halloween party, police say.

Officers were dispatched to Saddington Crescent around 7.30pm on Saturday after neighbours reported the disturbance.

“A large number of people attended the residence after information was posted on social media,” a police spokeswoman said.

“Police dispersed partygoers from the area.”

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No bail for mother of starved 28kg ballerina

A Floreat mother convicted of starving her teenage daughter has been denied bail while she appeals her guilty verdict.

The 48-year-old woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her daughter, was sentenced to five years’ jail at her District Court trial in January, while her husband was sentenced to six-and-a-half years’ jail.

The couple came to the attention of child protection authorities in 2021 after their daughter’s ballet teachers raised concerns about her stunted growth and behaviour.

The girl, then aged 17, weighed just 28 kilograms when she was later admitted to Perth Children’s Hospital.

She was removed from the custody of her parents but returned to live with

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them after she turned 18.

In a scathing judgment, Judge Linda Black found both parents had infantilised their daughter and put their own beliefs ahead of her best interests.

“You have created a child who is not able to function as an independent adult at the age of more than 20 years old,” she said.

Both parents have appealed their convictions.

In her submissions to the Supreme Court, the mother argued she was denied justice because she suffered from a contagious gastrointestinal

Arrest follows car break-ins, shopping spree

Police have arrested and charged a Mosman Park man following a string of car break-ins on the weekend of October 25.

David Paul Benjafield, 35, is on remand in Hakea Prison after he was accused of breaking into cars in Broome Street and Beach Street, Cottesloe, and in Palmerston Street, Mosman Park, between 1am and 4am on the Saturday.

Mr Benjafield allegedly used stolen bank cards to

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make seven fraudulent purchases over the following 24 hours.

A police spokesperson said officers from Fremantle Detectives arrested Mr Benjafield near a Wellington Street unit complex on Sunday afternoon.

illness during her trial.

Judge Black had denied the mother’s request for an adjournment, instead allowing her to participate in the trial via video link from a remote room.

An adjournment would have delayed the testimony of social worker Denise McNab.

The mother told Judge Black through her lawyers that she was “kind of half dozing off” midway through Ms McNab’s testimony and was unable to follow the evidence.

Judge Black adjourned the rest of Ms McNab’s evidence to the following day, but when court resumed the mother asked for another delay.

“It is unfortunate that she is unwell but I do not consider that the unwellness is of such a state as to deprive her of a fair

trial,” Judge Black said.

In a decision delivered last week, Supreme Court Justice Robert Mazza denied the mother’s request to be let out on bail while she mounts her appeal.

“The appellant’s primary submission is that she ceased to have a fair trial as soon as the learned trial judge ruled that the trial should proceed in her physical absence,” Justice Mazza wrote.

“It is true, as the appellant argues, that it is unusual, to say the least, for a criminal trial in a superior court to proceed in the physical absence of the accused.”

But Justice Mazza found that the appeal did not have “such strong prospects of success as to amount to exceptional reasons for a grant of bail pending appeal”.

Mr Benjafield appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Monday charged with seven counts of fraud, three of stealing, and one each of possessing methamphetamine and cannabis, trespassing and burglary.

“Subsequent inquiries led police to execute a search warrant at a property connected to the man,” they said.

“It will be further alleged that officers recovered several items believed to be stolen.”

These rings and earrings were found in Mt

He was not required to enter a plea.

He will remain in custody until his next appearance on January 12.

Anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage from the areas around the time of the incidents is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.

The Town is inviting our community to share your feedback on two important proposals now open for community consultation:

Urban Greening: Proposed Local Planning Policy 43 (Scheme Amendment 12). Focused on protecting trees on private property and preserving our town’s leafy character.

Parking in Mosman Park Proposed Local Planning Policy 46 (Scheme Amendment 13). Aiming to improve how parking is managed.

Your feedback helps guide how we plan, protect and enhance our community. Have your say by visiting The Town's Your Say page.

Wembley Police are trying to find the owner of five diamond rings and a pair of gold earrings that were found on the ground in Mt Hawthorn. A member of the public spotted the jewellery on Scarborough Beach Road at around midday on Tuesday, October 28, and handed them in to police. Proof of ownership will be required to claim the jewellery. Call Wembley police station on 9214 7100.

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Unfair to all, or just to Suzanne?

At the Mosman Park council meeting last week, the mayor stated that the council could not accept ratepayers “not paying their rates” as it was “unfair” to other ratepayers, who might have to pay higher rates as a result.

This might mean a less than 0.5% increase per household if it was actually applied.

The facts of Suzanne Lemmey’s case, as I understand it, are that at the time of settlement the Town advised / declared / stated (however it was done) that either there were no outstanding rates due on the property or that there were some rates due, which were duly paid. (Pensioner to be chased beyond grave, POST November 1).

At that point the Town therefore effectively relinquished its claim on any other amounts owing, regardless as to whether they existed or not.

Though it was subsequently found that there were some deferred rates that were unpaid, this was overridden by the fact of the “statement” made at settlement.

If the community allows the Town to make inaccurate statements at this important stage and then to attempt to reverse them at a later date, then it totally negates the whole point of finalising unpaid rates at settlement, thus undermining a key component of house sales

Mosman Park told Suzanne Lemmey she owed no rates when she sold this house three years ago.

and purchases.

Settlement MUST be a time of closure else what is the point? Do you require the gate to remain open for decades?

I recognise that the Town had made several attempts to communicate with the particular ex- ratepayer, who, for reasons of her own, declined to respond.

That is her decision, which may be regrettable, but one that is not unusual – it has no bearing on the fundamental principle.

Mike Ansell Reservoir Close, Mosman Park

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Stirling: Virtue-signalling and woke

Further to the article by Jen Rewell, (Calls to cut Stirling landmarks, POST, November 1), I like most have had enough apologising for events some of which happened nearly 200 years ago, events no living person can be responsible for – ludicrous, grovelling, apologetic virtue signalling once again.  Instead of apologising how about dealing with the presentday issues that all Australians are having to face?

The events in Pinjarra are sad and shocking by today’s standard, 200 years ago it was

Mill death brought retaliation

The raid by Stirling and the settlers in 1834 at Pinjarra was a retaliation for an attack on a mill, the killing of a labourer and the wounding of two others – and threats to continue such attacks until Peel was killed.

Also three horses were speared and in 1834 horses were very valuable – it was only in 1832 that the punishment of execution of horse thieves was abolished.

So there are two sides to the story – the settlers were defending themselves – and need no apology.

At the recent event with the Governor did the aborigines present apologise for raiding the mill and killing the labourer and wounding the horses?

And no doubt there is a similar second side to the skirmish at Lake Monger (Galup).

Brian C Povey Lakeside Road, Churchlands

How long is too long on council?

One important issue that was not covered by the recent local government reforms is the total length of time an elected member can be on council.

This includes periods as a councillor and mayor.

I asked WA Local Government Association staff about the maximum tenure and was told the voters can sort this out. Should there be a limit?

I have followed the local government elections in the wider metropolitan area with great interest.

The voters in Fremantle East Fremantle and Rockingham elected new mayors and in Cockburn, WA’s longest serving Mayor Howlett, a councillor for eight years prior, has just won his fifth term by 360 votes.

Rebecca Coghlan Bulimba Road, Nedlands

about survival and growth of a new nation, not niceties.

I don’t believe anyone has apologised to me for massacring any of my relatives, the Roman Septimius Severus, Vikings or Normans.

As with the many other conflicts and wars around the world before or since, it is ‘history’ and current generations cannot be prisoners of it.

Let us also not forget there was always violent and consistent conflict in precolonial Australia. Australian archaeology contains some of the oldest evidence of human warfare.

An American scholar who visited Australia in 1840, Horatio Hale, wrote of four types of Aboriginal warfare: formal battles, ritual trials, raids for women and revenge attacks.

Renaming places to what apparently was Aboriginal names is just virtue signalling nonsense and other than the ‘government agenda’ very few would agree with it.

Any name changes should be by referendum, not government agenda.

However, absolutely, the Indigenous communities should have special funding and advantages

So stop the virtue signalling woke which only opens old wounds and actually creates division rather than harmony, and address current issues facing ALL Australians.

John Allen Juniperbank Way, Subiaco

Irish Club to be reborn as Irish pub

By LLOYD GORMAN

The Irish Club will become an Irish pub – called Queen Maeve’s – after its Subiaco headquarters were sold to a Perth hospitality operator.

The Irish Club has been based on Townshend Road for nearly 50 years but recently sold for $1.5million to a new operator understood to be ARK Group.

The once vibrant club, which now only operates one night a week, was put up for sale this year after a decline driven by COVID, the departure of football from neighbouring Subiaco Oval and a dwindling membership.

It also faced foreclosure action if it was not able to repay a loan due in January.

Irish Club president Alan O’Meara explained to members at the AGM last month that the $1.5million pub deal was the best of four offers for the site.

“It provided the club with a guaranteed settlement before

the January 1 deadline set by the club’s lender and to avoid any foreclosure action threatened by the said lender,” he said.

“The buyer was of good reputation in the hospitality industry having owned and operated several Irish themed pubs in Perth and the owner of Durty Nellies (in the Perth CBD).

“It was their intention to continue to operate the premises as a pub with an Irish theme which gave the club the option of still having a place to meet and socialise in familiar surroundings.”

rejected outright.

A development application for a change in the property’s use from club premises to tavern was advertised for public comment on the Subiaco council website. Feedback will close on Tuesday.

The buyer was of good reputation in the hospitality industry ‘ ’

The other offers included $1.8million from a Cloverdale church group and $1.4million from someone who wanted to turn it into a private residence.

Both were ruled out as not practical because they depended on other factors.

An offer for $1million was

“The premises will be known as Queen Maeve’s maintaining its strong Irish community history,” Hospitality Total Services said in the application, on behalf of an independent applicant whose identity was redacted in the DA documentation.

“The seamless transition from Club to Tavern (restricted) will maintain the venue’s established role while providing operational flexibility that better serves contemporary hospitality expectations…ensuring the Irish Club’s cultural legacy continues to contribute to Subiaco’s identity and vibrancy.

families and businesses.”

Meanwhile, another Irish pub is expected to open in Subiaco within a few weeks.

The former restaurant at 88 Rokeby Road – variously Pierre’s Garden Restaurant

Developer to pay $259k to boost Glyde Street

The propose Glyde Street tower.

By JACK MADDERN

Developers of an over-height 10-storey Mosman Park development will pay $259,000 towards the Glyde Street streetscape masterplan.

The rare council policy is designed to ensure that developers pay compensation for their community impact by contributing to specified infrastructure projects.

“This is very important in making sure that developers contribute to infrastructure within the

town,” Mayor Paul Shaw said.

“And I think that’s only appropriate, particularly when we look at the intensity of some of the development within Mossman Park and probably particularly within Glyde Street.

“If they are getting their approvals, and particularly if they are getting approvals beyond the primary controls, then they are facilitating more intense use of the Town’s infrastructure, and then it’s appropriate that they make a greater contribution to

that infrastructure.

“It’s making sure that those developers are paying their way.”

The plans for 48 Glyde Street have drawn community ire for exceeding plot ratio and being four storeys above the area’s height limit.

Residents questioned Mosman Park whether the contribution was appropriate.

“The benefit to the developer from the additional four floors of premium or penthouse residents is significantly greater than the $259,000 community contribution,”

local resident

He also asked whether this contribution would be a conflict of interest in providing adequate scrutiny to plans that exceeded height limits.

Kay Micke, who lives adjacent to the development, asked whether the funds would be better spent on longer-term benefits, such as road management or planting more trees.

Mosman Park said no infrastructure plans had been determined or finalised.

Trevor Ellis said.

and teams of workers have been converting it into a traditionalstyle Irish pub.

Dublin-born Robert McNally, who opened Roberts on Oxford in Leederville in 2020, is behind the new venture.

The Irish Club will become a pub called Queen Maeve’s.

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Two motor bikes or one Range Rover?

Cycle of life with a Rangy

The location is the Lapsley Road (Claremont) carpark, near the par three golf course. The time: a very busy Sunday morning, about 0930. Finding a parking spot was difficult for most, but obviously not for this entitled driver, totally ignoring the signs, clearly indicating it was for two motorcycles. Unfortunately, demonstrations of such selfishness and arrogance are all too frequent.

Roy Stall  Rochdale Road, Mt Claremont

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‘Boldly

learn not to burn’

The ‘Burn Bold Park’ hoary chestnut raises its ugly head again (‘Bold Park blaze fires up experts’, published on the front page of the POST, May 13, 2023).

Any wonder we feel so browned off by Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions “fire management research” when the same old burning bulldust arguments get recycled time and time again.

Surely Dr Russell Miller, a member of the Kings Park fire ecology research team, is aware of the research already conducted in Kings Park and Bold Park, in regard to “understand-

Bravo John T and Stumpy

John Townsend’s POST column is a wonderful visit down memory lane, and reminds us all of what sports journalism was once like.

His take on John Todd, pictured, plus Louis Carr’s letter to the editor on the recently departed Derek Chadwick were great reads in last week’s edition (Todd inspired 12 select years).

I would guess Mr Townsend is currently compiling his own piece to Chaddy as this is written.

In something like a segue, another person lauded in the latest column, Alan East, called his first born Chad, after the famous East

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Perth wingman.

I was there the day Alan East was christened ‘Stumpy’. Having come from the general subs desk to write football, Alan felt a little bit self-conscious and wanted to belong. The following conversation ensued:

“How come I haven’t got a nickname?” he said to chief football writer Geoff Christian. “You’re ‘Minna’, Gino’s ‘The Count’, Ken’s ‘Mouse, John’s ‘Matchy’ and Frank’s ‘The Mule’, why haven’t I got a nickname?” “Oh, but you have got a nickname,” Ken Casellas replied to the height-challenged East. “You’re ‘Stump’.”

East was Stumpy East from that day forward, a name etched deep into WA football folk history.

Francis (Frank) Wright Beach Street, Cottesloe

ing how fire and weeds interact to impact native vegetation condition” (Bold Park section set to burn, POST Nov 1).

As far back as 1939, Alison Baird, one of WA‘s first ecologists, mapped Kings Park bushland and commented that the deliberate use of fire was exacerbating the loss of trees as well as spreading weeds.

Professor Kingsley Dixon AO, foundation director of science at Kings Park and Botanic Garden for 32 years, and a former WA Scientist of the Year, said that “veldt grass is a highly flammable African weed that has overrun Bold Park.

What’s more, the evidence is clear, prescribed burning is responsible for its infestation, seriously increasing the fire hazard”.

Professor Dixon used an analogy to express his condemnation of the DBCA project. He said experimental burns in urban

bushland were tantamount to justifying the killing of whales by calling the slaughter “scientific whaling”.

Wake up DBCA! It’s well past time to take on board the latest science regarding the negative impacts of frequent prescribed burning, in comparison long-unburnt landscapes (Zylstra, Bradshaw & Lindenmayer published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, 2022 & 2024).

Contrary to the current inhouse, government funded marketing spiel, the peer reviewed research shows that so-called “fuel reduction burning” actually stimulates the growth of highly flammable understorey, which increases, rather than decreases, the probability of wildfire.

Done dune and rubbish dump

Blackburn developments would like to bulldoze the dune - part of a unique flora and fauna habitat - at the Ocean Village site in City Beach. This whole saga with the Labor government is déjà vu. Alan Bond owned the sandhill in question when he bulldozed the top of it. My home happens to be sitting where he bulldozed in the 1970s. Note the disgraceful amount of litter at the shopping centre already created.

Dr Carole Peters  Fire Forums Convenor  2021, 2023 & 2025

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Dina Dellit  Slalom Drive, Wembley Downs

Harry’s goals get him the golden boot

By JEN REWELL

Hours of extra training on Claremont’s grassy ovals has paid off for 17-year-old Harry Surtees.

Harry received the Golden Boot award for being the highest goal scorer in the U18 National Premier League.

Harry scored 26 goals in the league; in one game he scored four goals.

Harry attributed his high goal tally to his ability to take a shot quickly.

“When I see an opening, I shoot,” he said.

“A lot of people don’t take the shot, and when it’s there you’ve got to take it.

“If it doesn’t go in, then so be it.”

He was delighted to also win the NPL Troy Bernard Player of the Year trophy for U18s at a prestigious awards night last week.

Harry’s dad Craig is a former soccer player and his mum Benazir was a soloist at the Royal Ballet and WA Ballet.

His uncle Nasser Hussain captained England at cricket.

Craig said Harry’s awards were a great recognition of years of hard work.

“He trains here and on College Park almost every day, so a lot of the residents around here know that he’s put the effort in,” he said.

Harry started playing for UWA

Nedlands when he was about six years old, and in those early days would play for any team that would have him.

Last year Harry spent two months away from his family playing soccer in Argentina.

“They took it a lot more seriously than here,” Harry said.

Harry said the trip away

Neds sees need for trams

By BEN DICKINSON

A tram or rapid bus system along Stirling Highway is needed to soak up congestion from a looming spike in population, Nedlands council staff say.

The Department of Planning predicts the council’s area’s population will soar by more than 9000 people in the next 25 years, a 42% increase.

The influx, driven by infill housing developments, would follow more than 70 years of population stagnation.

The government’s powerful Statutory Planning Committee last month considered a report from council staff that called for “some form of mid-tier transit to support the commercial and residential densification of the Stirling Highway corridor”.

“This is seen as critical if the City of Nedlands together with other western suburb councils are required to increase population densities and commercial activity in the coming years,” council planners wrote.

Nedlands council staff say trams like these are needed to combat increased traffic congestion.

tions from hundreds of local residents.

Nedlands urban planning manager Sergio Famiano told Wednesday’s meeting that council staff wanted to work closely with the Department of Planning on the scheme review.

“We don’t want a repeat of what happened when the last scheme was reviewed,” he said.

The committee ruled out major changes to Nedlands’ planning framework, ordering the council to prepare an updated planning strategy with changes “limited to alignment with the state planning framework”.

taught him the South American style of soccer, which was more aggressive than the Australian style.

While there are many games ahead of him, he was taking things one goal at a time.

“I hope to play for Australia one day, and see how far I can get with it,” he said.

Staff are undertaking a mandatory review of Nedlands’ six-year-old planning scheme, which was controversially imposed on the City by the state government after a fight over high-rise development.

The scheme, written by WA Planning Commission officers, allowed for high-rise development along Stirling Highway and mid-rise development along Hampden Road, Broadway and Waratah Avenue, despite objec-

The strategy is expected to include proposals to expand the cycle and pedestrian network and to add a mid-tier transit route along Stirling Highway, although any such route would need state government support.

Staff also suggested a scheme amendment to ban new single houses on blocks zoned R100 or above.

The change would affect most lots within about half a street block of Stirling Highway, all houses on the west side of Broadway and Hampden Road, and the entire north side of Cooper Street.

Super striker … Harry Surtees was rewarded for being the highest goal scorer in the U18 National Premier

Much moor than allowed

By BEN DICKINSON

A boatie living rent-free in Freshwater Bay for more than two months could be moved on after a complaint from a Dalkeith resident.

Victoria Avenue resident

Aminder Singh said the boat had been tied to a public mooring in front of his house for about 10 weeks.

“He’s got a small canoe, he comes ashore to do his shopping,” Mr Singh said.

“The area is designated for use of jet-skis and he is basically an obstruction.”

The Department of Transport mooring, at the edge of the designated jet-ski zone, has a four-hour limit.

“The Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure is aware of the ongoing, unauthorised use of a recreational mooring which would ordinarily have a fourhour limit,” a spokesperson said.

“The department is continuing to investigate the matter.”

River regulations enforced by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions prohibit boat owners from staying overnight on their vessels for more than six nights at a time, or more than 10 nights out of every 30.

A DBCA spokesman said the department “will now investigate based on the information provided”.

Monster raffle price spreads the wealth

By JEN REWELL

The profits from a $3.5million Floreat home raffle will stay in WA, despite the organisation stepping up to help people with multiple sclerosis in other states.

The organisation has announced it will step into the gap created in South Australia and the Northern Territory, following the voluntary administration of MS Society SA & NT in September.

The MSWA Mega Home Lottery was drawn last week, with the Callan Road home won in a prize pool that included $500,000 cash, cars and overseas holidays.

MSWA CEO Melanie Kiely said the WA fundraising model had allowed the organisation to scale and grow, making it the strongest MS society in the country.

Its priority now was to ensure support for about 3000 people affected by MS in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

“When we saw the risk of vital services being lost, we felt it was essential to step in,” Ms Kiely said.

“Our experience, scale and

commitment mean that people will continue to receive the support they need.”

She said the challenges faced by the MS Society SA & NT were being replicated across the care sector, with increased funding and compliance pressure placed on providers.

“As costs increase and funding decreases, we are seeing a growing number of organisations entering insolvency,” she said.

“This is particularly sad when it is charities, as they often provide services that the private sector does not.”

She said the state and federal governments needed to provide sustainable funding for the disability and social care sector.

“Organisations providing higher-end specialist care need to be appropriately funded for their compliance and care costs,” she said.

“Without it, we risk losing more good organisations and creating uncertainty for the people who need us most.”

Funds raised in WA would continue to support WA clients and the wider neurological community.

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How to avoid travel trips

Travelling the world and visiting foreign countries is what so many retirees aspire to. But there are sometimes infectious diseases to be aware of.

The WA Self-Funded Retirees Association has invited Nick Beeching, Emeritus Professor of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, to be the guest speaker at the association’s last meeting for the year.

Dr Beeching’s topic is Travellers’ Tales: What to catch and when to catch it - How to

come back the way you left –Healthy.

In a light-hearted and informative way he will cover the best ways to avoid getting the worst of the diseases that persist in many areas and will offer practical information for a non-medical audience.

The meeting and talk is on Friday November 14, at the Cambridge Bowling Club in Chandler Avenue, Floreat, starting at 10am with Dr Beeching’s presentation, followed by an end of year celebration.

Visitors are welcome to attend the talk for free, but the cost of the celebratory meal is $15 for visitors and $10 for WASFR members. For catering purposes, book a place with Margaret Harris on 0417 991 947. Learn about healthy travelling.

The streets of Swanbourne will come alive on Sunday, November 16, when neighbours open their driveways, front yards and verges for the first-ever Community Garage Sale.

Led by Swanbourne resident Bridget Robertson, the initiative began as a simple idea: to bring Swanbourne together and showcase the heart of its community with a morning dedicated to connection and sustainability.

The suburb will transform into a walking trail of discovery from 7.30 to 11.30am, with locals hosting their own stalls at home selling new and pre-loved treasures, homewares, toys, plants and clothes.

“This is more than just a garage sale,” Bridget said. “Swanbourne has such a strong sense of community, this event gives everyone a reason to come outside, meet one another, and rediscover what makes our suburb so special.

“Our goal is to create an annual tradition – something Swanbourne families can look forward to each year.

“It’s grassroots, it’s positive, and it’s entirely community-led.”

The City of Nedlands has approved the event, and residents can register their home or interest in participating via the event’s dedicated page.

The event is free to take part but register in advance by going to humanitix.com/au and searching “Swanbourne Community Garage Sale”

Get an A Capella Go on the festive season

“November is the new December,” says choir member Judy Kozak of the annual end-of-year A Capella Go community choir concert.

Christmas is coming a little early this year as the community choir has decided to hold its final concert on Saturday, November 15 at the Scarborough Community Hub in Gildercliffe Street.

The Crowd Pleasers concert

will be an evening of popular music such as Bridge Over Troubled Water, Photograph, and Viva La Vida with some fun singalongs such as Doo Wah Diddy, and Feliz Navidad.

Rod Christian is musical director and Greg Schultz is the accompanist.

The concert will be set cabaret-style so people can take their own drinks, glasses and nibbles

and join a table or book a table of eight with friends and family. Beat the Christmas rush and book a seat or a table now for A Capella Go by going to tryboooking.com and searching “A Capella Go Crowd Pleasers”. The concert starts at 7pm. Tickets are $10 or $25. For more information about A Capella Go go to acappellago. info.

A Capella Go community choir will celebrate Christmas a little earlier this year.

LEFT: Bridget Robertson, left, and her neighbours are gearing up for a massive community garage sale. Photo: Paul McGovern

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Join us for a mat Pilates class led by Loop Yoga instructors Serena Revelins and Chloe Manford on the scenic lawns of Cottesloe Civic Centre, in support of Care Bags WA, a local initiative providing essential items to children entering care.

Enjoy a vibrant atmosphere with music by DJ Kylie Pearsall, free coffee from Roaming Rhythm, light refreshments, and participate in our on-the-day raffle featuring 10 exceptional prizes generously donated by local businesses.

All ticket and raffle proceeds will be donated to Care Bags WA.

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Flowers provide a fair view

The historic home Fairview frequently opens its doors for art and history tours, and now owner, art collector and heritage enthusiast Thomas Murrell holds the inaugural Fairview Festival of Flowers.

He will tell stories behind the beautiful gardens, historic stained glass and collection of women’s art at Fairview in Subiaco.

“Visitors will be able to walk through the gardens with roses and irises, then into the house via the stained-glass front entry featuring the same motifs and then down the flora walk with still life paintings of roses and irises by talented West Australian women artists hung gallery style in a grand hallway,” Mr Murrell said.

He will conduct four personal tours of the house and gardens

Music tunes into better brains

Many studies have proved that music has a powerful and positive effect on wellbeing. Alan Harvey has published a book, Music, Evolution and the Harmony of Souls (Oxford University Press, 2017) and will give a talk titled Music and Healthy Ageing at the Subiaco Probus Club this Monday, November 10.

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Professor Harvey will describe what is known about the brain circuits and neurochemistry

involved in processing music, its emotional responses and the beneficial impact that music and exercise has on brain structure, function, plasticity and memory, emphasising the positive effects on people as they age.

He is honorary senior research fellow in human sciences, involved with the Perron Institute, Lions Eye Institute and the Conservatorium of Music.  He lectures on the life-time benefits of music training, participation and therapy and sings with nu-

merous choirs at concerts as a solo artist or as a choir member. He currently sings with WASO Chorus and Perth Symphonic Chorus. His TedX Perth talk on music and the brain can be found on YouTube.

Visitors and new members are welcome to the Subiaco Probus meeting on Monday at St Edmund’s Anglican Church hall, 54 Pangbourne Street, Wembley. The meeting starts at 10am with the talk at 11am. The fee of $5 covers admittance, morning tea and a door prize ticket. To register, email Kerry Eivers on kerryeivers@yahoo.com.au or phone Gay Eivers on 9381 1306.

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Write for human rights

Western suburb residents are invited to put pen to paper for justice at Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights event, to be held from 6pm on Wednesday November 12, at Clancy’s Fish Pub in Fremantle. The evening is organised by the Amnesty Fremantle Action Group, which joins thousands of people worldwide each year to support individuals whose human rights are under threat. According to Amnesty, these collective actions can help free prisoners of conscience,

protect activists and hold authorities accountable. Now in its 24th year, Write for Rights encourages participants to write letters, sign petitions and share stories calling for fairness and compassion in cases of injustice across the globe.

Anyone can drop in, grab a pen, and enjoy some free snacks while contributing to a global movement that changes lives one letter at a time. For more information or to get involved, contact fremantleamnesty@gmail.com.

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Amazing women

and remarkable achievements

Amazing travels and amazing women are both on the agenda at the University of the Third Age Cambridge branch.

There will be two presentations on Thursday, November 13. Sandra Harris will talk on My Crazy Life and Times. Sandra will speak about her journey from South Perth to London and focus on the experiences she had with celebrities and world leaders who have had an influence on her life. Among other things, she climbed into bed with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and learned how to smoke a pipe with Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

Judith Amey’s topic is Amazing Women, exploring those women who are often overlooked by history or are subsumed by their husband’s role. Fatima Maximovna of Russia, Marguerite Bourgeois of Canada, Khin Kyhi of Burma and others have all left a permanent positive mark on history, but their names are hardly known.

The U3A meeting begins at 1.30pm at Ocean Gardens Retirement Village, Kalinda Drive, City Beach. Entry is $3 which includes afternoon tea. For details phone Jim Barns on 9448 6432 or email jnjbarns@ bigpond.com.

The case to end population growth

Sustainable Population Australia is an independent not-for-profit organisation which aims to protect the environment and Australian’s quality of life by ending population growth in Australia and globally.

Its mission is to establish Australia as a model of a sustainable environment that protects species and human wellbeing with an emphasis on population size.

The guest speaker at the

Rotary Club of Cambridge breakfast meeting on Wednesday November 12, is Dr Judith Odgaard, WA president of SPA. To hear about SPA’s concerns everyone is welcome to attend Dr Odgaard’s presentation at the Cambridge Bowling Club, Chandler Avenue, Floreat, at 7.15am on Wednesday. Reserve a seat by contacting Frank Nathan on 0448 906 624 or email frank_nathan@hotmail.com by Monday morning.

Variety the spice of Allegri

Virtuosic Variety is the title of Allegri Chamber Orchestra’s next performance and that is exactly what it promises to deliver.

The orchestra will bring a wide range of virtuosity to the stage with an elite quartet of young artists from WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program, and soloists Joshua Woods and Levi Yeo.

Violinist Josua Woods will perform Introduction and Tarantella by Spanish com-

poser Pablo De Sarasate.

Pianist Levi Yeo will play Bach’s elegant concerto no 1 in D and Liszt’s virtuosic La Campanella.

The guest string quartet from WAYACHAMP will play Looking Out by Iain Grandage, a WAYACHAMP commission for the young players.

“We are thrilled that our youth soloists are absolutely top-level players and that we can provide this opportunity to support them,” said Allegri Chamber Orchestra music di-

rector Grace Ah-quee.

The chamber orchestra will play one of its own commissions, Adios Astor, composed by Robert Schulz for Allegri in 2021, and music by KatzChernin,Vivaldi and Villa Lobos quartet.

Allegri Chamber Orchestra and guests perform at the Church of the Resurrection in Swanbourne on Sunday November 16 at 3pm. Tickets can be booked through trybooking.com or available at the door.

Allegri’s young musicians: WAYACHAMP quartet, Seth Cheah, Zachary Maden, Jinnry Zhuang and Kobe Wu.

Couture on the courts

Never mind the horses, Peppermint Grove Tennis Club members sported classy and classic tennis outfits for the club’s fundraising Melbourne Cup lunch. The fashionistas featured vintage racquets and gowns, head pieces and a lot of laughs. The charity lunch on Tuesday raised funds for Breast Cancer WA.

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Proposed Lane Closures –Shenton Road, Claremont

In accordance with section 3.50 of the Local Government Act 1995, the Town of Claremont hereby gives notice regarding proposed lane closures of a portion of Shenton Road, Claremont:

•2 Shenton Road – Specialist Medical Centre –1 December 2025 to 26 February 2027

Westbound left lane closure at the intersection of Davies Road and Shenton Road for the purpose of construction works. This includes closure of the southern footpath

•3 Shenton Road – The Terraces Residential – 1 December 2025 to 26 September 2027

Eastbound lane closure between Davies Road and Graylands Road for the purpose of construction works. This includes closure of the northern footpath

Plans of the proposed lane closures are available at claremont.wa.gov.au/community/communityconsultation (online) or at the Town’s Administration Building located at 308 Stirling Highway, Claremont, WA, 6010 (hard copy).

Submissions regarding the above are to be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer and emailed to toc@ claremont.wa.gov.au or posted to PO Box 54, Claremont WA 6910.

Submissions must be lodged in writing by no later than 5pm, Friday 21 November 2025. For more information, contact the Town of Claremont on 9285 4300 or toc@claremont.wa.gov.au.

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Pollen sleuth to reveal clues

Lynne Milne has cracked murder and rape cases with microscopic remnants of pollen clinging to a victim or suspect’s clothing, shoes, and at a crime scene.

She is a palynologist who specialises in pollen and spore morphology and she will give a presentation on the topic, How the Presence of Pollen Can Catch a Murderer.

Dr Milne will discuss her work in forensics helping police with murder, illegal drugs, rape and terrorism cases and highlight some of her high-profile successes and

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her journey to become Australia’s top pollen sleuth in her book, A Grain of Truth.

Dr Milne will be the guest speaker at the Wembley Downs Probus Club on Thursday November 20, at the Cambridge Bowling Club in Floreat.

Everyone is welcome and registration starts at 9.30am for a 10am start. The entry fee of $5 includes morning tea.  To reserve a seat contact Bob Bredemeyer on 0417 093696 or Rod Cohen on 0481 361415, or alternatively email bob wembleydownsprobusc@gmail. com.

Using poetry to solve a murder

When Quintus Huntley’s poetry collection The Ragged Claws of Ravensthorpe is found in the case of a gruesomely murdered violinist, Detectives Everest and Booth think Huntley did it.

But he’s innocent, and the best way to prove it is to find the killer himself.

Quintus Huntley: Botany is a new crime novel by Royce Leville, a pseudonym of Perth writer Campbell Jefferys.

The quirky crimecomedy is set in Perth, and for poet Huntley, the answers to a murder can be found in stanzas.

Jefferys is based in Hamburg, Germany and is the author of six books under his own name.

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“Rippple is the umbrella under which I put all my creative work, which in the last 20 years has included books, films, TV, content, branding, travel, music and workshops,” he said.

“I also ran the Perth Writers Salon during Fringe Festival in 2020.”

The latest Leville novel is to be the first in a series featuring Huntley, a washed-up poet who discovers he can solve crimes using poetry.

His first screenplay, Fadeaway is currently in pre-production in Germany. He also runs Rippple

Campbell will give a talk titled From Idea to Finished Book, and launch his new novel at Nedlands Library on Tuesday, November 11 from 10.30am. It is a free event but bookings are recommended through event. humanitix.com/quintus-huntleybotany/

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Campbell Jefferys will launch his new novel written under his pseudonym Royce Leville.

Lynne Milne will discuss her forensic journey to becoming a pollen sleuth.

Lawyers plunge in for medical research

A group of Perth lawyers are ditching the wigs and corporate suits and donning swimsuits and boardies for the Plunge challenge.

Eight lawyers from Panetta McGrath have formed a team called Habeas Porpoise for the Perkins Plunge – a 12-hour, overnight team relay swim to be held at Perth High Performance Centre to support medical research initiatives into the hardest to treat cancers, heart disease, diabetes and rare genetic diseases at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.

The group of lawyers want to encourage people to get off the sofa and slip into the pool, have some fun and raise money for vital research. It is the second year that Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research is asking people to swim for their lives and make a splash

for medical research on November 22 and 23.

Last year $237,795 was raised at this challenging event which sees teams of eight or more swimmers embark on a night of swimming laps in a relay format overnight

for 12 hours. There will also be entertainment, refreshments, and a shared sense of achievement.

“Participants pushing themselves in the pool symbolises the collective

Guns out at Cambridge croquet

Stephen Barnes returned from a short holiday to report that he found Cambridge Croquet had been extremely active, with a few successes as the new management settles in.

Jennifer Brand won the Janine McHardy Trophy with fellow member Robyn Cornish reaching the semi-final.

The winners of the George Elliot Cup featured a Guns and Roses theme: Shirley Rintoul came through as the Rose and Julian Clark as Top Gun.

The club held Trophy Day on October 25, celebrating many winners.

Trophy Day can sometimes be a flat occasion for many players as top seeds tend to dominate proceedings.

Mini tournaments are held on the first Saturday of the month to make it a more inclusive occasion for all members.

Partners are drawn and alternate Saturdays include handicaps.

These games offer a wide range of player ability with a chance to win and receive prize money on Trophy Day. There are many happy winners.

David Gould won the

club championship, Robyn Cornish won the President’s Medal, Basil Ladyman was association champion and Lary Hurt won the Vice President Medal. Congratulations go to these fine players. Pennant season started on October 28 with Cambridge entering teams in all divisions.

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Well done to the ladies’ pennant team who scored five points against Manning.

Wednesday winners were Derek Gadsden, Ann Strack and Elizabeth Morrissey.

Congratulations to Jay Medhat on being the 10week Wednesday Bowls winner with 36 points. Ann Strack came second with 32 points.

Friday winners were Denise Davis and Paula Poynter.

Saturday: First were Rob Stevenson, Cliff Racey and Steve Parsons. Geoff Parker and Yogi Shah and Ted Delaney, Jay Medhat and Brian Dick tied for second.

Triples draw is up.

Men start their club championships on November 16.

Bookings for Skyline Restaurant to be done through Ross Bolton.

Hollywood Subiaco

On Tuesday, both women’s teams competed at home. The match was fiercely contested, with the scores remaining tight from start to finish. In the end, Dot Leeson’s team narrowly beat Margaret McHugh’s team with a score of 16 to 15. On Thursday Gold travelled to Morley where on 5, Mike Basford, Craig Nirsch, Jim

There will be a home team playing every Wednesday evening. Visitors are welcome to come and see the teams in action and see our clubhouse facilities and new lights.

RIGHT: Winners are grinners: Club captain Amanda Hurt, club champion David Gould and president Mark Johnson.

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West and Mike Hatch lost 19-23; on 6, Ron Middleton, Milton Byass, Tony Byrne and Rob Campbell won 25-19, and on 7, George Savage, Wally Graham, George Sterpini and Glen Morey lost 13-17.

On Saturday, 2Gold travelled to Wanneroo, on 1, Craig Hirsch, Chris Litchfield, Tony Byrne and Dan Byrne won 23-15; on 2, Billy Gerlach, Mike Basfrod, Milton Byass and Mike Hatch lost 13-22; on 3 Ron Middleton, Mark Wilde, Stuart Porter and Rob Campbell won 23-18 and on 4, George Savage, Jim West, George Sterpini and Glen Morey lost their last end to lose 17-18.

At home, 5Gold hosted Warwick, on 3 Brian Marsland, David Leeson, Betsy Tapley and Beck Byrne lost 9-30, on 4 Mark Petterson, Alan Evans, Ron Palmer and Wally Graham lost 14-29 and on 5, Paul Scales, Dot Leeson, Ray Fells and Jannette Middleton won 21-14.

Lake Monger

Lake Monger Monsters can look back at an exciting and exhausting week of pennants. Thursday was great weather for a game

in the hope of funding life-saving discoveries and improve health outcomes,” said Perkins CEO Peter Leedman.

“Medical research is the only way we can turn

people we love.”

Individuals and teams can register now and kickstart their fundraising efforts. To join in on this night of laps to support the labs, sign up at https:// www.perkinsplunge.org.

of bowls, while Saturday was a fight against the elements as all games were affected by strong wind gusts. Sunday was another lovely day for outdoor sports.

Second Round: Thursday: 2nd division Lake Monger defeated Doubleview away with a difference of 20 shots making it a 5-1 win. B.Parker 27 to 10; B.Cranwick 22 to15; R.Ansett 17 to 21.

Thursday: 4th Division Lake Monger played away to defeat Joondalup by 13 shots, which gave The Monsters 5 points. P.Baggio 25 to 23; P.Hill 15 to 25; B.Woodland 28 to 7.

Saturday: 3rd Division Lake Monger played away and were defeated by North Beach and got 1 point. R.Taylor 16 lost 21; R.Ansett 27 to 15; B.Parker 19 lost 24; B.Cranswick 16 lost 23. Ron Ansett’s team managed an 8 shot end which earned him and his team the coveted 8 shot pin.

Saturday: 4th Division Lake Monger played at home against Mt Lawley. P.Hill 13 lost 36; P.Baggio 21 lost 26; G.Radalj 14 lost 29; T.Mahoney 23 won 14 This resulted in 1 point for Lake Monger.

As Lake Monger had a

double header last weekend, both 3rd division and 4th division played again on Sunday.

Third Round: Saturday: 3rd Division (played Sunday November2 ) Lake Monger defeated Sorrento by 11 shots, which meant Lake Monger got 7 points. B.Cranswick 26 won 21; G.Parker 24 won 19; G.Powell 27 won 15; R.Taylor 14 lost 25.

Saturday: 4th Division (played Sunday November 2) Lake Monger was defeated by Bedford. P.Baggio 21 lost 24; G.Radalj 13 lost 17; P.Hill 21 drew 21; B.Woodland 13 lost 20. Lake Monger got half a point.

Mosman Park

It was a busy weekend for bowls last weekend as it was a double header both Saturday and Sunday. This accounted for the final of the men’s 100Up being postponed for a week.

On Saturday, Ladies 1st division defeated Thornlie and collected 4 points. Midweek men’s 1st division Blue defeated Sorrento and gained 5 points.

Saturday O/G 1st division White gained 6.5 points by beating North Perth.

The ladies held the final of the Ladies Fours Championship on Wednesday. The winners were Lisa Featherby, Vicki Eva, Sheila Binns and Iris

Newbold. Because of a Melbourne Cup function on Tuesday, midweek pennants were held on Wednesday. It will be back to normal next week. Evening meals will be back to Monday night, with bookings through the office. Mahjong is held on Thursday mornings from 9 to11am. All that is required is to have social membership of the bowling club.

Subiaco Petanque Club was filled last weekend with competitors. On Saturday November 1, 29 members vied for points in the President’s Cup in glorious spring weather. Rob Dunlop won the day with Marion Meacock, Emma Isliker, Guy Soubeyran, Suren Appadoo and visitor, Matthieu from France, also prize winners. Sunday saw the club celebrate Guy Meunier, a founder of the club, with an Open Triples tournament. The trophy was won by the team of Ravin Parianen, Alain Migliore and Jacques Guyonnet in a close and exciting final. The club will have social play this Saturday, November 8. Visitors are welcome on Saturdays and Wednesdays. See our website, www.petanquesubiaco.com for details.

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Green light for $50m Spicers Hotel

By Nadia Budihardjo

Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s property arm Fiveight is one step closer to building a six-storey Spicers Hotel in the heart of Fremantle, after a panel approved its redesign.

Fiveight proposed to build a 150-room hotel on the old Spicers site, in an application for a project costing $50million that was unanimously approved by the Metro Inner Development Assessment Panel.

The site, opposite Fremantle Markets, previously housed the Spicers Australia building, built in 1899.

The panel approved Fiveight’s application for a six-storey hotel comprising 117 rooms on the site in 2022.

Despite the earlier approval being valid until 2026, Fiveight submitted new plans for the site earlier this year, increasing the proposed number of rooms to 150.

The estimated cost of the development has also leaped from $35million in 2022 to $50million, according to the DAP report.

DAP presiding member Dale Page said the current proposal was more

respectful to the nearby, heritagelisted Warders Cottage compared to the 2022 design.

“The development is a very highquality proposal for a site that is, in my view, has been crying out for development,” she said.

“Looking at the two different designs, this design is an improvement than the one previously approved both in terms of its scale and presentation to William and Henderson streets.”

The original four-storey Spicers building on the site was demolished in 1970.

Fiveight acquired the 10 Henderson Street site from Sirona Urban for $7.6million in 2018.

The revised proposal of Spicers Hotel included a public laneway with commercial tenancies dubbed Spicers Lane, a restaurant or cafe on the ground floor, gym, pool and courtyards.

Woods Bagot senior associate Mark Jeavons, on behalf of Fiveight, said the team’s vision for Spicers Hotel was to represent Fremantle.

“Spicers Lane is a key feature of the design, it continues Fremantle’s tradition of activating laneways,” he said.

DAP members debated the lack of parking on the hotel site and the six-storey height before approving the proposal.

Basement parking was proposed in the 2022 design but was dropped in the revised proposal, leading to community’s concerns that no on-site parking at the hotel would place more stress on existing public parking facilities.

But DAP member Clayton Higham said not bringing more cars to that part of Fremantle was a bonus for the city.

From parks to National Trust

By Ella Loneragan

Former Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority executive director Alan Barrett will replace Julian Donaldson as CEO of National Trust WA.

Mr Barrett had also worked in senior roles at the WA Art Gallery, WA Museum and the Public Sector Commission.

“He brings extensive experience in governance and operational management with a strong focus on community engagement, visitor services and commercial operations,” the

National Trust said.

“His work at Kings Park led to transformational change involving a more holistic approach to the role of the state’s premier botanic gardens and park as a community asset, requiring collaboration and input from indigenous communities, government agencies, tourism operators and community organisations.

“This approach led to gains in conservation science, Aboriginal cultural tourism, and community engagement.”

National Trust chair

Bob Kucera said he looked forward to Mr Barrett continuing the work of Mr Donaldson who retires in mid-January after 10 years in the post.

“Mr Donaldson’s tenure saw the National Trust undergo a period of remarkable growth and impact,” Mr Kucera said.

By Ella Loneragan

“Under his leadership, the trust expanded its heritage portfolio, secured significant project funding from the state government and Lotterywest, championed the application of cultural landscape planning principles, welcomed

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Mr Barrett will begin on December 15.

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immediately after the resignation of 15 board members from a prominent art gallery in the centre.

Mr Wyatt said the Festival was aware of the links suggested in the articles.

“Perth Festival undertook a thorough scene will benefit hugely from Marah’s leadership experience.”

Ms Braye was Biennale of Sydney CEO from 2006 to 2014, Fine Arts Press managing editor, and HarperCollins Publishers publishing manager and development editor.

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Mates rates as wartime musical

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Musician, choral conductor and composer

Rod Christian started talking to his mother, Yvonne about her wartime experiences 20 years ago, uncovering a moving story about love and friendship.

“I first started interviewing my mother in 2006 when she was 88-years-old,” Rod said. “Her memory was pretty good back then, so I recorded a series of interviews.”

Rod’s father, Ron, had died in 1989 at the age of 71, but rarely talked about his wartime experiences.

After his death, the family found a 1954 Channel 7 documentary about the war featuring Ron. It was tucked into the back of his wardrobe.

Rod retired as a full-

time music teacher in 2016, resurrected his notes and began to write a play about two best mates; Ron Christian and Bret Langridge who head off to war leaving behind the woman they were both in love with, Yvonne Antoine.

Over the next decade, the WWII story Mates was written, developed with the

help of playwright Jenny Davis, and evolved into a musical.

“Writing songs has always come naturally to me,” said Rod who has directed bands, choirs and ensembles for over 30 years.

“Some of the music came to me in the early hours of the morning. One of

the songs materialised on a flight to London. That’s when I decided to call it Mates: A WWII Musical.”

Rod had a showing of Mates with a few songs at the Grove Library in 2018, and produced a radio version of it in 2020.

“Mum died in 2021,” Rod said. “But she saw it before she died and she loved it. That is what has spurred me on.”

The story of the three mates begins in 1939 at West Australian Newspapers on St George’s Terrace, where Ron is a clerk in advertising and Yvonne, a pay clerk.

Bret and Ron are best friends and Bret’s sister Joan was Yvonne’s best friend.

The day before war is declared Ron proposed to Yvonne. Bret is upset but promises Ron that he will

Pulling strings to put poem to music

Fremantle poet Caitlin Maling has collaborated with Mirabilis composer and viola player Katherine Potter to create a new work for Mirabilis Collective.

The collective is a family ensemble of five women musicians who celebrate the contributions of female composers and artists across generations.

Katherine set to music a poem from Caitlin’s latest poetry collection, Spore or Seed, which explores the contradictions of motherhood, both the wonder and the fear.

Called Love, it will

have its world premiere at Southern Stars. The hour-long concert will also feature chamber works

of songs by Kate MillerHeidke, Stiff Gins and Angie McMahon.

by contemporary composers Elena Kats-Chernin, Melody Eötvös and Jessica Wells, and reimaginings

“Southern Stars is a celebration of our own musical landscape — the beauty, strength and creativity of Australian women composers,” said artistic director Stephanie Nicholls Southern Stars is the nal concert of Mirabilis Collective’s Unveiled Series, and performs on Sunday November 16 at 5pm in Callaway Music Auditorium, UWA Conservatorium of Music ■ Book through events. humanitix.com/ southern-stars.

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“Dad never got over Bret’s death,” Rod said. Ron and Yvonne name their eldest son Bret after their best mate. Bret is at the Old Mill Theatre in Mends Street, South Perth from November 27 to December 13. Book through www. trybooking.com

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Tourette tale one to swear by

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British warm-hearted, triumph-over-adversity stories are practically a standalone national export industry.

Writer-director Kirk Jones’s (Waking Ned Divine) I Swear is another polished addition to the genre, one that harnesses a conventional narrative arc to tell a true story that flies in the face of social convention – starting with a cry of “Fuck the Queen!” right in front of the late sovereign herself.

It’s the story of John Davidson (Robert Aramayo), a real-life Scottish educator and one of the film’s producers, who in 2019 was awarded

an MBE for raising awareness in the UK of Tourette syndrome, the neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics, compulsive behaviours, and involuntary outbursts of obscenities.

The investiture ceremony with Queen Elizabeth, who had clearly been briefed, frames Davidson’s story, thereby reassuring audiences his challenges will eventually be rewarded.

It then winds back to tell the story chronologically from John’s youth (Scott Ellis Watson) in small town Galashiels, where he is bullied and punished, not least by his own family (Shirley Henderson is his mum), who think he’s simply acting out. It isn’t until his friend’s mental health nurse mum

musical performance, Tales From the Orient.

The next Strings by the Sea concert is a celebration of Vivaldi in the Club Lounge at The Heritage Collective on Marine Parade, Cottesloe. Curators violinist Helen Kruger and Cottesloe soprano Prudence Sanders, with cellist Noeleen Wright, will celebrate the beauty of Vivaldi this Sunday, November 9 from 3pm.

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■ ■ The acclaimed Awakenings Ensemble embarks on a musical journey from Istanbul through Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Persia in a

The ensemble features Michael Pignéguy (percussion/piano), Steve Richter (vibraphone), Esfandiar Shamir (voice/ ney flute), Michael Edelby (oud), with special guests Jessica Beahan (clarinets), Emily Gelineau (violin), and Joe Powell (electric bass) and together they transcend borders through music. They perform at Camelot Arts Club, Lochee Street, Mosman Park, on Saturday, November 15 from 6pm. Book through trybooking.com.

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Dottie (Maxine Peake) takes him in, and her friend Tommy (Peter Mullan) takes a chance on him with a community centre job, that John (now Aramayo) starts to believe in himself.  Aramayo is wonderful as the good-natured John, who can sometimes explain his condition but occasionally ends up in a world of pain. The relentless nature of the condition is palpable.

Of course, the heartbreak is balanced with amusing hijinks which Jones shapes into the kind of c-bomb-laden comedy that makes you feel as if you’re laughing with John, rather than at him.

There is one delightful scene in which he meets a girl with Tourette, an explosive symphony of profanity that eventually

empty retail spaces for a pop-up exhibition at 83 Rokeby Road, Subiaco Her debut solo exhibition, Colloquia Visualia, is an abstract journey through memory and emotion. It is on show

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Perth Symphony Orchestra presents a musical tribute to Jon Sanders in the next

I am trying to help my best friend. She and her husband have been married four years, and they have two little boys. Her husband regularly goes on drinking binges and comes home with a nasty temper. Sometimes he’ll disappear for two or three days at a time and refuses to discuss his actions.

I offer a shoulder for her to cry on and advice knowing she has to take matters into her own hands.

But now I also fear for her two little boys. I was

■ It takes a mental health nurse mum Dottie (Maxine Peake) to recognise why John (Robert Aramayo) swears and acts out so badly.

settles into a passage of cathartic understanding.

It’s a story of humanity and compassion.

■  I Swear is screening as part of the British Film Festival.

chapter of WA Stories. From the Edge of The World to Symphony: The Story of WA’s Sailing Legend tells the story of the man who circumnavigated the globe 11 times, including a record-breaking, non-stop triple circumnavigation, and carved his name into maritime history with feats that remain unmatched.

The performance brings together orchestral music, cinematic visuals and compelling narration in a tribute to one of WA’s greats on November 14 and 15 at Boola Bardip museum. Book through https://events.humanitix. com/wa-stories-series-jonsanders

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called to her house the other night by her parents because her husband came home drunk, verbally abusive and shoved her. The police were called.

By the time I arrived, he had driven off, drunk. I learned he has driven drunk with the threeyear-old, and tried to feed the baby milk too hot for a newborn.

My friend needs to take a stand, but she’s afraid of being a single

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system of family and friends. She is trying to save her marriage and she thought children would change him.

Angie Angie, your friend chose this man, then she created children in a vain attempt to control him. She’s betting her kids’ lives that somehow this marriage will work out. It’s almost as if she put her children on a roulette table and asked, “How many spins can I get for these two?”

The optimistic scenario

control, but the likely scenario is he will never get treatment for alcoholism. The main question about the children is, will this be a quick tragedy like a car accident, or a slow tragedy like the production of two damaged adults? Her judgment is impaired, and impaired people don’t get to make decisions. She brought you harmful knowledge and made you an accessory. If no one else is willing to act, then you must.

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Dream team makeover

After years of neglect, heritage-listed Carbrakine House has been transformed by a “dream team” of Sydney and Perth designers.

The owners commissioned local architect Dimmity Walker to work with landscape designer Robert Finnie and Hare

+ Klein interior designers from the east coast to breathe new life into the 1898 house on the corner of View Street.

Marrying heritage features with contemporary living was the focus of the brief from the owners who told Belle Magazine: “We loved the idea of living in a house of stories and adding our own, but we didn’t know how to do it.”

They felt privileged to be the custodians of the house that Peppermint

Grove shire described as a “textbook example of the Federation Queen Anne style.”

Architect and WWI general Sir Joseph John Talbot Hobbs designed the mansion for Charles LeeSteere, a wealthy pastoralist who brought his family from the north of the state to the riverside suburb.

The two-storey home is in a prominent location across the road from Unalla, which was built

for influential and early Australian feminist Bessie Rischbieth and her husband Henry, and diagonally opposite Presbyterian Ladies’ College.

Peppermint Grove residents value their privacy, and this home has a high fence with an oversized black steel door that opens to the front garden.

The elegance of the Federation Queen Anne architecture is on show at the front of the house

which has a two-storey, wraparound veranda and pillow-faced limestone bricks.

Massive sliding doors in the living area open to a courtyard which has the best indoor-outdoor connection in Australia, according to House & Garden magazine.

The design by Robert Finnie took out the top prize in the awards announced in September.

A quirky feature of the

pool area is a light installation with these words: You must not cry you must try harder you must learn to share.

Agent Jody Fewster said they were installed by a previous owner.

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Sleepy hollow on the beach

Retired farmer and businessman Henty Money had the pick of houses to buy when he sold his beachfront house in Swanbourne for $12.1million in 2019.

He loved the neighbourhood so much he moved just 450m away to this house which is being sold on behalf of his estate.

Henty chose one of the most sought-after pockets in Swanbourne, with only five houses in a cul-de-sac around the corner from the beach, The Shorehouse restaurant and Allen Park.

Agent Nathan McIntosh described it as a sleepy little hollow with the same coastal amenities as Cottesloe but a lot quieter.

“It also has a rare northern aspect which a vast majority of Cottesloe houses don’t have,” Mr McIntosh said.

Buyers are prepared to pay a premium to live in the street judging by these recent sales: No.8 sold for $7.5million in 2023 and No.6 went for $8.7million last year.

The four-bedroom and three-bathroom house is on a 413sq.m, wedge-shaped block.

It has an upside-down design, with the main bedroom, kitchen and living area on the top floor.

An almost 36sq.m balcony off the living area looks out to the ocean, bush and norfolk island pine trees.

“It was designed on passive-solar principles, with an enviable north and north-west aspect to

maximise the view and the winter sun while still being protected from the sea breeze,” Mr McIntosh said.

Each of the two minor bedrooms on the ground floor has an ensuite and built-in robes.

Underfloor heating, remote-controlled curtains and a high-tech security system are among the many features.

Mr McIntosh said the property would suit a range of buyers, including downsizers looking for a low-maintenance lifestyle without moving to an apartment.

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■ Watch this space: the $3.31million sale of 22-26 Northwood Street, West Leederville, could lead to more development in the area.

Developer grabs West Leedy flower warehouse

Dalkeith developer and architect Gianpaolo Crugnale has paid $3.31million for a development site at 22-26 Northwood Street, West Leederville. Mr Crugnale and Fiona Cathryn Mackie bought it through their company Redvector Pty Ltd. Landgate records show the 1781sq.m property, which has an awkward shape with two connecting rectangles, settled on September 30. The marketing blurb from the Agora Property Group website said it had long-standing tenants with an annual holding income of $164,823. It is in Cambridge council’s “Special Control Area 3 - West Leederville Activity Centre” (SCA 3). Mr Crugnale is owner of G Living which has been involved in a range of award-winning projects, the website states. The company was given Development Assessment Panel for a “medi-hotel” at 24 Leura Street, Nedlands, in 2022 but the project did not go

ahead (Neds defers ‘medi-hotel’ application, POST October 22, 2022)

The last time the West Leederville property changed hands was in 1988 when Mia Posma Boshart paid $440,000 for it through her company EIT Fund Pty Ltd.

Desperate agents inflating sale appraisals

“Buying” or “winning” a listing by inflating a property’s expected sale price is becoming more widespread as agents become desperate to secure listings in a tight market. Listings for sale were 2793 at the end of October, compared with 4930 at the same time last year, REIWA figures show.

Local agent Greg Williams , of DUET Property Group, said “over appraising” was a real problem – and it is not just the agents who missed out. “Sellers get locked into lengthy listing contracts based on an inflated appraisal price that is unachievable,” Mr Williams said.

“They can then spend $10,000 on marketing, and the same again on property staging and feel backed into a corner when offers come in at prices well below what they were told when they listed.” Agents looking for more business are using other tactics too, including sending letters and flyers to residents with veiled criticisms of their competitors.

Hopping into Gwelup market garden history

When Don Arbuckle, 90, was a child he used to collect hops from the Swan Brewery in Crawley to use as fertiliser for his family’s market garden in Balcatta Don’s grandfather James was a pioneering farmer who built a limestone house on the property in 1919. Later, the suburb of Gwelup

sprung up around the market garden property. Don had a trip down memory lane recently when he visited the house which is on the market for the first time in 25 years.

The sellers gave Don a tour of the house they have renovated with a modern kitchen, vaulted skylight for star gazing and what they call a “showstopper” bathroom. The 4x1 is on an 809sq.m block that backs onto Zaccaria Park. The sellers said

the location was hard to beat. “We are central to the bush, beach and freeway,” they said. “At the end of our street is a circuit walk that takes you through the tuart bushland of Lake Gwelup Regional Open Space Reserve to Lake Karrinyup Golf Club.” Agent Scott Swingler of Shore Property is seeking offers by November 12 for the farmhouse which is not heritage listed. For more details, phone 0403 344 649.

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■ Don Arbuckle, inset, has fond memories of visiting his grandfather’s market garden. The 1919 limestone home at 43 Porter Street, Gwelup, is on the market for the first time in 25 years.

■ CLAREMONT

• 903/1 Airlie Street was passed in for $1.875million. The 3x2 apartment is on the ninth floor of the Oceanside building at The Grove. Agent Pauline Fermanis, of Ray White, said there were two bidders for the 244sq.m apartment with three car bays. Property records show it sold off-the-plan for $1.992million in 2021.

• 34A First Avenue was passed in for $1.1million but it went under offer on Monday night to a farmer for an undisclosed sum. The modest, 3x1 is on a 342sq.m battleaxe block around the corner from Vinnies Claremont and other shops in Ashton Avenue. Mareena Weston of Haiven Property brokered the deal for the 1980s house that had been in the same family for 35 years.

Intense battle for Claremont block

AUCTION results

Buyers were out in force at auctions last weekend, with six out of eight properties selling under the hammer for almost $19million.

The most intense auction was in Claremont where seven bidders battled it out for a land-value property at 13 Goldsmith Road.

The hammer fell at $3.85million in front of a crowd of 70.

The 1012sq.m property went to buyers from the east coast who plan to build a new home on the site with a north-facing rear and lane access.

The buyers, who are moving back to Perth, flew over for the auction.

“This property attracted strong interest from local and interstate buyers because it is the only land-value quarter acre block at the Claremont end of Riley and Goldsmith Roads,” agent Susan James, of DUET Property Group, said.

“All others are either heritage-listed homes or homes that are too valuable to demolish.

“For buyers wanting to build a bespoke home in this pocket, this was a rare opportunity.”

The late Mervyn Parry, an architect, bomber pilot and squadron leader, designed the 1960s house for his own family.

Mr Parry championed solar-passive design and other techniques in sync with Australian climate. It was one of 21 auctions

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‘All others are either heritagelisted homes or homes that are too valuable to demolish.’

■ DALKEITH

• 111 Circe Circle went under the hammer for $6.25million. The 2018 home has a Georgian-look in keeping with other houses in the neighbourhood. The fivebedroom and four-bathroom home is on a 1012sq.m site about 300m from Dalkeith Primary School. Ray White agent Vivien Yap sold the Giorgi-built home.

■ MOSMAN PARK

• 6 Lochee Street was knocked down to $2.2million. Five bidders threw their hats into the ring for the 544sq.m property opposite Mosman Park Shopping Centre. Ray White agent Jody Fewster said the sellers, who were moving interstate, were ecstatic with the result. “It was a short, sharp, and fantastic campaign,” Ms Fewster said.

■ MT CLAREMONT

• 20A Adderley Street went to an investor for $1.081million. Matthew Yap of Ray White said there was plenty of competition, with five bidders competing for the 3x1 duplex. Bidding kicked off at $750,000 for the property near the Mt Claremont Village shopping centre.

■ WEMBLEY

• 26 McKenzie Street was sold for $2.07million. Craig Gaspar, of DUET Property Group, said five bidders “fought it out” for the 3x1 character home on a 670sq.m site. There is potential to add value by renovating and extending the property with a big back yard.

■ WEST LEEDERVILLE

• 11 Tara Vista went under the hammer for $3.5million. Mr Gaspar said bidding opened at $2.9million for the 1988 house on an elevated 803sq.m site with views of Galup. There was competition from three bidders for 4x2 that had been advertised for rent at $1250 a week

■ Auctioneer Patrick Derrig, right, was kept on his toes during the auction of 6 Lochee Street, below, Mosman Park, which attracted bids from five buyers.

■ An east coast buyer outbid locals at the auction of 13 Goldsmith Road, Claremont, which went under the hammer for $3.85million.

■ The most expensive house to sell at auction last Saturday was 111 Circe Circle, Dalkeith, which went for $6.25million.

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that she regularly used on her building projects.

Dr Manners has been adamant that the object was a knife, telling an earlier hearing that she thought she was about to be stabbed to death.

“I thought it was going to be my last experience on this earth,” she said.

She told responding officers that the knife was about 18 inches long, according to a police report tendered on Tuesday.

Ms Kennedy told the court she owned no such “Crocodile Dundee” weapon.

A search of Ms Kennedy’s house after her arrest yielded “nil items of interest”, according to the police report.

Sergeant Gan played the court body-worn camera footage recorded by Constable Liam Burley, in which Ms Kennedy denied there was any physical confrontation.

“She’s leaving her car in the back and blocking my car from getting out. It’s gone on for a few months,” Ms Kennedy tells Const. Burley in the video.

“I did raise my voice this morning and said ‘move your goddamn car’ but she just seems to be completely thickskinned.”

Ms Kennedy said she later clarified that there was some “mutual pushing and shoving”.

The trial was adjourned to a fifth day on February 5 after again running out of time.

“This is a complex case

and I’ve worked hard on it,” Ms Kennedy told magistrate Lynette Dias. Ms Kennedy is charged with aggravated common assault and being armed or pretending to be armed in a way that may cause fear.

She was arrested again last month and spent the night in a police lockup after allegedly threatening to run over Dr Manners with her Ford Mustang on September 27, according to police evidence presented in court.

She will appear in court on three charges related to that alleged threat on November 27. She was acquitted in a trial in May of breaching a violence restraining order by walking too close to Dr Manners’ house.

Neds hopeful for mayor wants old guard gone

an even financial keel is crucial to all the other work it does, she said, adding that its long-term financial plan has not been updated since 2023.

“Finance is obviously a key task,” she said. “We need to be getting the basics right first, including with the right staffing resources.”

She said Nedlands was awash with talented people but they had hesitated to get involved with a faction-ridden council.

“I think a better functioning council kind of starts now with how we conduct ourselves within the campaign mode,” she said.

“I am trying to encourage decent, intelligent people to nominate.

“I don’t support preference deals and how-to-vote cards and blocs, but I do support camaraderie.”

Ms Browner was heavily involved in the Teal group that put up Subiaco council-

lor Rosemarie de Vries for the seat of Nedlands in March.

She said people from that campaign supported her “on a personal level”, but there had been no preselection process like there was for the state election.

Ms Browner, who lives in Tyrell Street, found the family home she shares with her husband and two high-school children was caught in the heritage survey that she believes was conjured as a pilot scheme across four streets to arrest development.

While supporting heritage, she was appalled by the way the survey was dealt with.

“I advocated against it, so, I want to make very clear, I’m not against heritage,” she said.

“I’m against bad public policy.”

She was a full-time policy advisor to the independent campaign in this year’s state election and would take on the mayor’s role full-time.

Vexed planning question are in her sights, including development of the highly-

controversial UWA-QEII scheme.

“There’s going to be some really big planning issues,” she said.

“We need a new local planning strategy, because the old one hasn’t been updated since 2019 so it’s overdue.

As a member of Nedlands Tree Canopy Advocates, she wants the street tree policy to be advertised for public comment and wants to see replacement trees for ones destroyed during development.

“I have some concerns about trees on development blocks,” she said. “Maybe we need to be looking at establishing a developer contribution scheme to fund new trees.”

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Who’s been sleeping in our bed?

• From page 1

One of the dogs was Gus, who Mr Samra had taken with him while he was away.

The tenant recorded a video of the other dogs, which Ms Bolt and Ms McCaughan said they did not recognise.

They wondered if they belonged to other people who also believed Mr Samra was staying at their houses.

“We just think people should know about this guy,” Ms McCaughan said.

“We’re going to have to get our locks changed.”

Ms Bolt and Ms McCaughan said they reported Mr Samra to Aussie House Sitters, which took down his profile this week.

Managing Director Nick Fuad said he would be banned for life if the allegation was proven.

“The allegations are horrendous,” he said.

“We will also do our best to extract some form of compensation from the sitter to pay the owner for this breach in trust.”

Mr Samra did not return the POST’s call.

Wage theft adds to woes

• From page 5

or another index published by consulting firm Mercer, whichever was higher.

Mercer did not publish a recommendation at the end of the 2019-20 financial year, which the council cited as its reason for freezing wages, but the CPI increase in Perth for the relevant period was 2.1%.

A council spokesperson said staff were “reviewing the implementation of the 2020 increase to establish the course of action that was undertaken”.

“We are committed to addressing any issues identified through the investigation and will take appropriate steps to rectify them,” they said.

Ms Hugo welcomed the commitment, but warned the union was running out of patience.

“While we’ve chosen to work collaboratively with the new administration to fix the mistakes of the past, if this matter is not resolved promptly, we will consider taking legal action on behalf of our members,” she said.

“At this stage, it’s unclear how many employees have been

affected, but the issue impacts both current and former staff.

“The City has a legal obligation to review and correct underpayments going back up to six years, and we expect that to occur without delay.”

Chief commissioner David Caddy on Wednesday called for a special meeting on November 12 to discuss the underpayment issue.

The news comes as auditors handed Nedlands a qualified opinion in its much-delayed 2024 audit – a modest improvement on last year’s disastrous disclaimer of opinion, but not a clean result.

Deputy Auditor General Sandra Labuschagne said in her published opinion that the lack of “complete and accurate underlying records” from the previous financial year made it impossible to fully verify the 2024 figures.

The council has recently removed from its website a report that assigned much of the blame for last year’s audit failure to former CEO Bill Parker.

Mr Parker has sued Nedlands for defamation over the report.

Dead man’s lane headache

• From page 11

council, who looked at it more than once for me, they said that when the Catholic Church divvied the land up, they didn’t put any lot numbers on the laneway.”

Mr Newman took it upon himself to fix the deep potholes forming on the lane he uses every day to get to and from his home.

Councillor Ryan Fernandes said legal complications included part of one lane being owned by a man who died in 1880 and whose estate has never been distributed.

“Cactus Lane is technically owned by some private guy who did the land development in 1880, who is deceased but still owns it,” he said.

“It’s degenerated quite a bit.

“Nobody knows who his descendants are, so it’s been sitting there in limbo.”

The Town said that, in accordance with the Local Government Act, it is not permitted to use ratepayer funds on privatelyowned land.

“The acquisition of private right-of-ways [laneways] must be fully considered by Council, ensuring it is in the best interest of the community and the Town,” a Town spokesperson said.

“Part of the consideration is that right-of-ways must also be constructed and maintained to the satisfaction of the Town, so that this does not cause undue financial burden for all ratepayers.”

The policy guiding laneway acquisition was adopted by the council last year.

High-rise verdict

• From page 5

accountable and are based on objective, unbiased and informative officer reports.

“Today that didn’t happen.”

The 2½-hour hearing received 10 verbal and nine written deputations from APIL, Cambridge council, parents from local primary schools, the ratepayers association, and local residents including Taryn Warburg, Gray Ralph and Ken Perry.

Mr Perry said the choice between the two planning frameworks was not a “coin toss”.

“You are looking at the role of local government versus the private sector,” he said.

“One is driven by economics and one is driven by genuine community consultation and planning issues.”

Local Pat Knott said the gravity of the decision was enormous.

“This could be the biggest decision in 60 years for this community,” he said.

The SPC meeting went for 30 minutes on other planning issues, before moving into a larger room to accommodate the crowd that had come to hear the Floreat decision.

“I do appreciate that this is something that has involved a lot of community feedback,” Ms Cole said.

“I only would have liked for

Floreat Forum fiasco

that feedback to be a bit more focused on the original PSP.”

The Cambridge council proposal was in response to community outrage when the APIL plan was released.

The two PSPs proposed similar dwelling yields and ranges of commercial activities, but there were significant differences in the height of proposed apartment towers and the redevelopment of the shopping centre.

The Cambridge plan had multiple eight-storey apartment towers, a pedestrian walkway from east to west and an upgraded shopping centre.

The APIL plan has a 20-storey tower on the north-west part of the site and another on the southern edge, and had few changes to the existing 60-yearold shopping centre.

“Height is not necessarily a bad outcome,” Ms Cole said.

The PSPs are planning documents which ensure development is coordinated and sustainable, but do not include specific plans.

Development applications will need to be approved through due planning processes, which, for projects of this size, are handled by the WAPC.

SAT shoots down Shannon appeals

made to her letter had twisted it into an attack on Mr Everett.

Mr Carey largely rejected that argument, finding that Ms Shannon was at least “recklessly indifferent to the detriment to councillor Everett’s reputation” when she submitted the letter.

“Taking Ms Shannon’s protestations that this was not her intention at face value, she must have been aware of such a possibility when she submitted the letter,” Mr Carey wrote.

Mr Carey found that one edit by the POST to the section about banning town planners from councils had sharpened the focus on Mr Everett, and that Ms Shannon therefore “cannot be answerable for it”.

But he upheld the overall finding that she had committed a minor breach of the council-

lor code of conduct by writing the letter.

Mr Carey also upheld a finding that Ms Shannon breached the code of conduct when she called male councillors “misogynists” in a May 2022 meeting.

“I am sick and tired of the misogynists in this room,” Ms Shannon said at the meeting, after clashing with councillors Rod Bradley and Gary Mack, who is now the mayor.

While giving evidence at the SAT, Ms Shannon contended that the word “misogynist” was not offensive or insulting.

“It can be more just to describe a behaviour,” she told the tribunal.

Mr Carey also upheld the standards panel’s findings that Ms Shannon breached the code of conduct when she publicly criticised a council decision to

approve a house in City Beach in 2021 and going beyond her powers by engaging a planning consultant in 2022.

She hired the consultant, Ken Adam, at short notice as the council was preparing to reject Christ Church Grammar School’s controversial bid to rezone some of its playing fields to allow them to be sold off to developers.

Then planning director Brett Cammell had tried and failed to find a consultant at one day’s notice, so Ms Shannon did it herself.

“It remained the task of the CEO to procure the advice necessary,” Mr Carey found.

Mr Carey will hand down sanctions for the five breaches – likely to include a public apology – after hearing submissions from Ms Shannon and the State Solicitor’s Office.

Chainsaw beat Neds’ tree policy

• From page 5

“If I’d have been at home, I would have been over there chaining myself to the trees,” he said.

“How can we protect our various species of black cockatoos, which are starving to death, if these sorts of developments are going to be approved?”

Plans show construction up to 1.5m from the block’s rear boundary, with 11 “new small trees” dotted around its edges.

Dr Skull said she took part in the Great Aussie Bird Count recently, which asked Australians to record the birds they could see in 20 minutes, and the location.

“There were masses of birds going between those two trees,” she said.

She said she had bought a home in that street because it was in a block that contained a high proportion of heritage homes compared to others in Nedlands, she said.

She said she had driven along every street in Nedlands to com-

These Tyrell Street trees on the rear boundary were down without warning.

pare the number of homes built in the 1920s and 1930s.

“I literally drove every block of Nedlands down to Claremont,” she said.

“We bought in that street because it was the most consistent street in Nedlands in terms of its 1920s architecture.

“Only one home that wasn’t built in the 1920s or 1930s.”

But since she moved in many heritage houses had been demolished, with mature trees at many addresses being cut down to make way for new homes, and more were slated for removal.

“The street has lost a huge number of trees to felling,” she said.

“It’s very sad. We’re losing a lot of amenity.”

Sue said she had recently received an anonymous flyer in the letterbox detailing all the trees that had been lost in their block of streets.

“It’s having a cumulative impact that’s incredibly distressing,” she said.

She said none of the residents in her street were informed that the trees were to be felled, and development plans only appeared on the council’s website after they were cut down.

“We could have argued for some minor modifications, but it’s too late,” she said.

The POST contacted Mr Bazgard for comment.

Gus and two other dogs in the backyard of the Swanbourne house rented out by a dogsitter.

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Bancroft ban mars Ashes selection

Cam Bancroft was guilty of the dumbest act in Test history when he walked onto a cricket field with a sheet of bright yellow sandpaper in his pocket and instructions from his captain and senior partner to use it on the ball.

“I was obviously nervous about it,” Bancroft said after being sprung.

“With thousands, hundreds of cameras around, [getting caught] is always the risk, isn’t it?”

Brain surgeon? Possibly not.

Bancroft and his co-conspirators Steve Smith and David Warner received draconian

penalties for their actions in Cape Town in 2018 though the punishment had more to do with protecting Cricket Australia’s image than a response to minor and ineffective cheating.

The ins and outs of what happened in the Newlands changerooms in the lead-up to Sandpapergate are not that relevant today, though it remains puzzling that the potential beneficiaries of Bancroft’s hamfisted actions have never faced serious scrutiny over the matter.

Neither, too, the Sheffield Shield match that season when a ball was confiscated by the umpires after its condition appeared to change in unorthodox fashion.

Bancroft could not have been blamed for that event because he was on the batting team.

The bigger issue is that hypocrisy continues to hover over Australia’s actions on the eve of another Test summer.

Helmet upgrade needed

Helmet manufacturers need to move swiftly to produce a design to protect cricketers from being killed when struck on the neck and base of the skull.

If every batter in last week’s exhilarating World Series in Toronto and Los Angeles could wear a suitable helmet that extended low over the base of their skulls, there is no reason that cricket helmets could not do likewise.

The death of teenager Ben Austin, who was felled during a training session in Melbourne,

should be the catalyst for manufacturers to come up with a new blueprint. His incident appears to have been almost identical to the blows that killed Test cricketer Phil Hughes in 2014, and UWA engineering student Jeff Gibbings at James Oval in 1946. It is an anomaly that helmets are mandated in most cricket competitions today yet fail to provide protection from the deadliest missiles – those tracking towards the vulnerable point at the base of the skull.

When the Australian players start their Ashes defence, they will be led by Smith, the captain who oversaw the Newlands fi asco and whose determination to downplay the tampering and misread of the nation’s mood at the press conference later that day were as critical in the penalty as the act itself.

“It’s not what we’re about,” Smith said. “It won’t happen again – I can promise you that – under my leadership.”

As bad as that day was, Smith has since rehabilitated his tattered reputation in spectacular and lucrative fashion.

He is now Australia’s go-to replacement whenever captain Pat Cummins is unavailable, stepping into his NSW’s teammate’s shoes six times over the past four years.

Smith has proved a capable locum, too, guiding Australia to five big wins and a draw while his individual performances have gone a long way to underwriting his team’s success.

Smith is an astute and intuitive tactician who backs up his sharp decision-making with run-making so prolific that his Test average of 68.98 when in charge puts him in the league of Don Bradman and very few others.

Yet if Smith and Warner can be rehabilitated, why not Bancroft?

The opener appears to have had his papers stamped Never to be Selected, a fate not uncommon for controversial, querulous or divisive players, but apparently not those whose decisions bring the game into disrepute in spectacular fashion.

All three conspirators were selected in the first Test for which they were available after their bans expired – the Ashes

Simmers comes to the boil

surfing with cameron bedford-brown

Some surfers thunder, some flail, but American 20-yearold world champion Caitlin Simmers glides.

Simmers is one of the most refreshingly unfazed, whimsical and delightfully original characters in professional surfing today.

Style can’t be faked and she’s drawing classic lines that drown out the noise and clutter.

No fireworks or fanfare, just a composed cursive surfing script quilled across liquid parchment like she’s writing a slower more philosophical chapter.

In a world of high-stakes competition Simmers seems nearly untouched by the pressure and hype.

She’s laidback, light-hearted and playfully quirky in a cool unpredictable way that turns heads, not just for the way she wins but for how she wins.

Don’t expect Simmers to start carrying herself with rock star bravado like the storming Brazilian Italo Ferreira.

She doesn’t proclaim herself with fists in the air or choreographed outbursts, and approaches waves with a confident nonchalance beyond her years.

Simmers doesn’t gyrate wildly with her arms and legs akimbo trying to out surf the ocean.

She rocks to the beat of the

siren’s song with smooth flowing grace.

Simmers took it all, Pipe, Bells, Rio and the world title in 2024 to become the youngest ever world champion.

Facing the reigning world champ Caroline Marks in the title match-up she lost the first heat then took the next two like it was just another free surf session.

Simmers is a surfer’s surfer, with a dab of punk irreverence which she showed after winning at the world’s most dangerous wave and pronounced “Pipeline is for the f*cking girls”.

Grounded and determined she’s the timeless, unassuming and unfussed Californian current simmering across the wave face.

opener at Edgbaston in 2019 – which makes you wonder if they were advised that a reward would come if they did not appeal the penalties, did not hint at any other players or officials being involved in the tawdry affair and simply did their time without drawing attention to themselves.

It won’t happen again – I can promise you that –under my leadship

Smith and Warner soon reestablished themselves in the team while Bancroft could not get going again.

It made his decision to walk out with the sandpaper in Cape Town, and obfuscate about what it was: “We had this yellow tape in our kit … I felt like it could be used to collect some stuff from the side of the pitch … get some granules from the rough patches” even more disastrous. He looked more at home in that Test than any other and appeared set for a bountiful

career.

The list of self-inflicted injuries continued with a couple of calamitous interviews that, while not revealing the motivation and sequence of events at Newlands, perhaps made his senior colleagues nervous about what he might say in a more candid moment.

“Obviously what I did benefits bowlers and the awareness around that, is self-explanatory,” Bancroft told the Guardian in 2021, probably using that one line to consign himself to State ranks for the rest of his career.

Bancroft scored a fighting century for WA last week and was in decent form when the national selectors considered which players should take on England in Perth this month. He deserved to be considered given that he is the best-performed State opener since his last Australian appearance in 2019 but was overlooked when the 15 names were read out on Wednesday.

If Steve Smith can be welcomed back with open arms and cheque books, maybe Bancroft deserves similar treatment. After all, it is not hypocrisy if the same rules apply to everyone.

Watch out world, here comes Caitlin Simmers and she doesn’t give an eff

Photo: WSL/Sharon.

Cam Bancroft and Steve Smith at their Newlands press conference.

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