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SEE THE LIST: Prestigious photo award winners announced (opens the original)
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Perth’s coastline is a prominent feature in work by this year’s City of Subiaco Photographic Awards winners. Fremantle photographer Kerry Faulkner was crowned overall winner by the judging panel, comprising experienced Subiaco-based photographers. Glenda Gore won the open category for her work Cottesloe Mermaids and Edisson Suarez took out the new AI category for Tiny Universe. The kids prize winner was 11-year-old Indigo Hardisty for Summer’s Sunset (my sister’s name is Summer), and 14-year-old
Perth’s smallest council to double homes in the suburb (opens the original)
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Perth’s smallest council — home to some of its richest residents — is not immune to expanding density infill, with a plan to more than double its current number of homes. Thousands more people could call the Shire of Peppermint Grove home under its draft local planning strategy, which proposes 1242 dwellings at a 70 per cent take-up rate over the next 10 to 15 years, a 200 per cent increase on the current 617. Known as the ‘garden shire’, the sought-after riverside suburb is Australia’s smallest
Perth daycare would cause ‘psychological distress’ (opens the original)
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A childcare centre proposed to replace a City Beach home has been refused amid concerns from neighbouring medical professionals it could provide mental anguish for patients. Neighbours and Town of Cambridge planning staff opposed the two-storey centre on Oban Road between City Beach Medical Centre and a single home, and opposite Empire Village shopping centre. Perth Health and Fertility founder Anna Sangster operates from the medical centre, where she treats people with long-standing fertility i
Book reveals hidden key to Kings Park biodiversity (opens the original)
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A book nearly 10 years in the making is lifting the veil on a “mostly invisible but vital” part of Kings Park’s biodiversity. Mycologists Roz Hart and Sapphire McMullan-Fisher have released Fungi For Land: A Practical Guide For Land Managers, which serves as a manual to Australia’s fungi. They collaborated with more than 25 top Australian scientists and have delivered a book suitable for farmers through to home gardeners. Hart, a former University of WA microbiology teacher and passionate Kings
Childcare centre proposed to replace single City Beach home (opens the original)
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A single home in City Beach could be replaced by a two-storey childcare centre, under a proposal presented to the local council. The Town of Cambridge has recommended against approving the project, which will be considered by the Metro Inner North Development Assessment Panel on September 8. The Oban Road property, which sold for $1.27 million in 2020, is between City Beach Medical Centre and a single home, and opposite Empire Village shopping centre. A report by town staff said the centre’s pro
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