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A 1917 World War I plane will fl y over Kings Park at dawn on Anzac Day.

The replica Sopwith Pup, with original parts including a rotary engine, is owned by Bert Filippi.

Bert has been collecting vintage aircraft for years, but describes himself as an amateur

pilot because he has never fl own professionally.

I only do it for the fun, Bert said.

If it were work, it wouldnt be fun.

Bert said next weekends flight over Kings Park, on the centenary of the Gallipoli landings, would celebrate the role of the Sopwith aircraft in World War I.

To have a World War I aero-

plane up there on Anzac Day thats special, he said.

But the reason we want to do it is not because we want to celebrate war.

I am celebrating the courage of those young men and the aircraft that taught those pilots how to survive combat.

By RHIANNON SHINE

Western suburbs bound Bert Filippi with his 98-year-old Sopwith Pup, nicknamed Normie in honour of World War I pilot Norman Dimmock.

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Tensions over Rokeby Roads plunging fortunes boiled over this week as disgrun-tled Subiaco business people carpeted Subiacos mayor and CEO at a secret meeting on Wednesday.

A group of about 12 business owners, operators and landown-ers from Rokeby Road fronted the councils leadership about what they see as the lack of ac-tion to revitalise the struggling

shopping strip, which is the heart of the local economy.

It came in the week that Coles confirmed it was moving its Barker Road store to the just-

approved new centre on the site of the Station Street Markets in Subi Centro, a planning decision out of the councils hands.

There are fears that the retail centre of gravity is slipping down the hill to the railway station precinct. A similar move left Claremonts Bay View Terrace devastated by Claremont Quarter.

Drops in Subiaco visitor and customer numbers, parking, and a lack of investment and action by the council were seen by Please turn to page 94

A Peppermint Grove resident helped a grateful council buy nearly $20,000 of new air-conditioning for its library.

A council report mentioned the generous residents help with the air-conditioning but did not identify the benefactor.

Councillors watching every cent this week questioned the shires fi nancial report for the past nine months.

Even a forecast $20,000 reduc-tion in expected income from community centre hire fees is a worry.

Its an issue of concern, corporate services manager Paul Rawlings told councillors on Tuesday night.

The Grove library, a joint project between Peppermint Grove, Mosman Park and Cottesloe, incorporates cutting-edge green technology to reduce energy consumption.

In summer, night air cools a rock thermal maze under the building. This cool air is circu-lated during the day to reduce peak cooling demand.

Heat-wave conditions in the librarys early days brought complaints about high indoor temperatures.

Deputy shire president Charles Hohnen asked about $27,810 of legal fees paid last month in a planning dispute over the riv-erfront home of building tycoon Marcus Plunkett.

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Can we live in peace, prosperity?As a child I quizzed my father

about his World War II experi-ences.

He would say little except hed been one of the lucky ones.

Later some of my friends from school days were conscripted into the Vietnam War.

Returning to civilian life had layers of deep diffi culty for them. One day a Viet vet who had married a friend and had young children shot himself in their driveway.

The article, One soldiers at-tempt at atonement (POST, April 4), described David Bradburys documentary, The Crater.

I went to see it and learnt about Vietnam War experiences and their aftermath through the life of conscript Brian Cleaver. His brother also fought, but they never discussed it with each other.

The brother took his own life but Brian struggled on. Eventually his decision to try to fi nd the bodies of 43 Vietnamese soldiers buried hurriedly in a bomb cra-ter and return their remains to

their bereaved families proved a healing path even though it was impossible after 10 trips to that battlefi eld to locate 42 of those bodies.

For me, The Crater was the best anti-war fi lm Id ever experienced. I recommend POST readers view it at 9.30pm on Thursday (April 23) on ABC TV.

Shannon Loveladys weekly Gallipoli Remembered articles in the POST have been revealing the impact of the Gallipoli experi-ence from the viewpoint of local soldiers and their families.

Post-war, Australia and Turkey are friends as we are with Vietnam, Japan, Germany and other one-time enemies.

Will we ever learn to skip the traumatic war phase in our relationships by respectfully, pre-emptively addressing and resolving our differences without the guns?

Could we live by Subiacos motto Peace and prosperity?

Judy BlythTroy Terrace, Daglish

It is totally disgusting that the icon of Subiaco, the Station Street markets, is to be replaced by a supermarket and department store.

An undercroft could have been allocated to include the markets.

As usual, its all about money.Frank Cherry

Elderberry Drive, Southlake

Icon do better Service with miles and smilesI accepted a challenge to partici-

pate in HBFs Run for a Reason half marathon.

Not an easy challenge as I am not a runner, and have never been a runner.

But with months of preparation, my training plan indicated that yesterday was the day to increase the distance, now edging closer to the 21km.

All was well until I reached around 13km, which happened to be close to the single decker coffee-beverage bus that sits in the beachside carpark opposite the Montessori School in Mosman Park.

My energy had completely drained and symptoms of exhaus-tion followed. With no money and my car parked at The Naked Fig in Swanbourne, I needed to continue. I needed a sugar hit ... a really big one.

I hesitated to approach the young server on the coffee bus but decided to ask for a loan of a cold bottle of fruit juice. I would pay her back when I ran later in the week.

Without hesitation she said yes, of course and immediately went to the fridge saying what would

you like you choose whatever you want.

This was followed by, do you want to sit down?

I was so grateful for the juice as it gave me the sugar hit I needed to fi nish the run but, above all, I give sincere thanks to this young server.

She is a shining example of a valuable young member of our community, and though secondary, customer service.

So often we hear about the younger generations negative atti-tude towards elders. It is important to acknowledge the positives and random acts of kindness.

And yes, I will pay for the juice, with a well-earned tip, next time I run!

Karen LeibovitchExcelsior Street, Shenton Park

Diversity the keyThis is what the infi ll debate should be about:

these buildings can easily accommodate two to four apartments, and could house a range of residents grandparents, couples, singles, parents and start-up families with small kids. This makes for a more vibrant, inclusive com-munity.

If the naysayers dont want diversity or believe diversity is a negative they should be asked to explain why.

A vibrant community is what is needed and diversity will deliver this. There is plenty of evidence to support this.

David HallHeytesbury Road, Subiaco

Deadly treadly hidebound by helmet

I dragged the treadly out of the garage this morning, pumped up the fl at tyres and was looking forward to a ride down to Floreat Forum.

Downhill cycle path all the way, beautiful sunny day, the breeze blowing through my imaginary hair.

Then I put my helmet on and the spell was broken.

An ugly, uncomfortable, neck-strangling thing that suddenly made it all seem too hard.

I put the treadly back and took the car.

Maybe its just me but hel-mets seem to totally destroy the pleasure of a leisurely bike ride.

Is it time to allow people to use their discretion with this sort of cycling? Can we keep helmets mandatory on roads

but let people decide for them-selves on cycle paths?

If they still want to ride at pace they can wear a helmet, but if theyre only going to puddle along could they not be allowed to choose?

Risk management is good but it seems to me you can also become risk-averse to the point that you snuff the live out of living.

Grayden ProvisHesperia Avenue, City Beach

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Hair we go Jonathon Holohans work on Bill MacLeods beard and moustache.

Bill MacLeod hadnt shaved since 1985.

But on Tuesday evening the Claremont Yacht Club vice-commodore had his 30 years of facial hair removed for Parkinsons WA.

Jonathon Holohan, from

Carls in Swanbourne, used the clippers to style Bill in several looks before nishing with a razor shave.

Bill decided to take it off to coincide with his retire-ment from the Department of Food and Agriculture after a 30-year career in plant pathol-

ogy, his wife Anne said.Bill chose Parkinsons WA

because his sister was diag-nosed with Parkinsons about 10 years ago, and our brother-in-law died at 60 after suffering the disease for 20 years.

So far Bill has raised nearly $4000.

Many faces of Bills close shave

Appeal worries heritage owners

Heritage homeowners in Subiaco are worried a developer of a 16-storey building on their doorstep is trying to strip away protection measures for their properties.

They are also concerned about the way they and the wider com-munity are being deliberately shut out by the planning system and the issues being treated in secret.

The Subiaco Hotel, Regal Theatre and multiple shops and premises around the former Pavilion Markets site in Rokeby and Roberts roads could also be affected.

Last week the POST reported that Subigate the developers behind a 16-storey apartment tower and shopping complex had lodged an appeal with the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) last month.

On February 25, the Metro West Joint Development Assessment Panel approved the $120million project with 39 conditions and 25 advice notes, which included dilapidation reports to document the structural state of surrounding buildings.

Affected landowners are listed as numbers 12, 16, 20, 24, 1 to 13 and 17 to 23 Rokeby Road and 1 to 8, 15, 18 to 32, 19 and 27 Catherine Street, 455 to 465 and 464 Hay Street and 369 Roberts Road.

The Subiaco Hotel and Regal Theatre are among those proper-ties.

An SAT directions hearing into the matter which is open to the public was listed on the SAT website for April 2 at noon. Just before midday the POST learnt the matter had been dealt with at 9.30am.

An SAT spokesman said the last-minute change had been made at the request of the parties involved

but the change had not been passed on to the website.

At that meeting it was deter-mined that the case would go into mediation, which means it becomes a secret negotiation.

Both the SAT and DAP refused to comment on which conditions were being appealed.

Unless the matter goes to a pub-lic hearing which would be highly unlikely for a DAP appeal the details will remain secret.

Catherine Street resident Ines Janca said neither she nor her neighbours were aware of the appeal against conditions of ap-proval until she read it in the POST (Developers challenge Pavilion site terms, April 11).

By LLOYD GORMAN

Half of the big free carpark on Shenton Road next to Claremont train station will close this Saturday.

A temporary space on the corner of Shenton and Davies roads will open the same day.

Shenton Road is being moved to run alongside the railway line.

The North East Precinct develop-ment needs the change to create three new lots for sale.

The western part of the big carpark will re-open on Saturday, May 2. The eastern part will per-manently close the same day.

When nished, about 300 park-ing bays of the existing 460 will be lost.

Trees on both sides of Shenton Road have been chipped. About 300 new trees will be planted throughout the project, and 43% of the development space will be open to the public, says Luke Willcock, LandCorp general man-ager metropolitan.

Bad rap for infillIn ll will get a very bad

name if Cambridge council goes ahead with its contro-versial move to increase density in its coastal suburbs, urban development expert Ian Everett says.

The plan would allow four times the overall number of extra dwellings that Cambridge needs to comply with govern-ment edicts, he says.

But this has been disputed by Cambridge mayor Simon Withers, who this week mounted a ery defence of the councils in ll proposal.

Mr Everett says the duplexes, triplexes and manor houses that would be allowed by Cambridge councils amend-ment No.31 are inconsistent with sound planning princi-ples and established planning policy.

Mr Everett, who lives in City Beach, is a senior urban planner who specialises in subdivision, urban design and structure planning.

The councils proposal to increase the density of 1600 lots is ad hoc and unplanned, he says.

Mr Withers disputed this analysis.

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to avoid the jammed-in small lot developments in the new suburbs that Ian makes his living from designing which is probably why he doesnt understand the proposals, Mr Withers said.

Those new suburbs have more roads and far fewer parks per household than the Cambridge proposal.

So I dont understand why he is saying that our suburbs cannot accommodate a small change in density.

Mr Everett charges that the Cambridge proposal al-locates a signi cant density

By BRET CHRISTIAN


Claremont railparking halved

Plastic fantastic for sculptor by the sea

Sculptor Kathy Allam has been inundated with plastic drink bottles. But its still not enough.

The Peppermint Grove sculptor, who regularly exhibits at Sculpture by the Sea and Sculpture at Bathers, has just won fi rst prize at the Melville Sculpture Walk with a sculpture called Blooop, one of a series of cloud-like sculptures lit up with solar-powered LED lights.

Kathy said: I am in-debted to many friends, neighbours and strangers who have been collecting plastic drink bottles for me. They also contributed to Accumulus, which was exhibited at Sculpture at Bathers in Fremantle last month.

But Kathy added: My need for bottles has not diminished as there are two more planned exhibi-tions. If I could fi nd more people in the Cottesloe,

Peppermint Grove, Mosman Park area who would save coloured and clear plastic carbonated water and soft drink bot-tles for me, it would be a huge help.

She said she was particu-larly interested in coloured

plastic bottles for her new designs, because they are much less plentiful than the clear ones: All do-nations would be hugely appreciated.

Anyone who can donate plastic bottles may call Kathy on 0412 556 818.

Mosman pondersQueens Park

If the Queen arrived in Mosman Park, the corpo-rate and technical services committee chairman said he would like to make her a freeman of the town.

The committee was debating amending the residential criteria in the councils freeman policy on Tuesday night.

South ward councillor Brett Pollock said he was making the point that the

council should be care-ful about who it excludes from its most prestigious award.

But North ward council-lor Zenda Johnson said awarding the Queen would be like Prime Minister Tony Abbott making the Duke of Edinburgh a knight and could not see why a person who had not lived in Mosman Park should get the award.

Honorary freeman is the highest honour that can be aff orded for lots of diff erent reasons, so you must be careful how you look at this amendment, Mr Pollock said.

The full council will discuss the policy on April 28.

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Kathy Allams glowing plastic sculpture, Blooop, won fi rst prize in the Melville Sculpture Walk.

Photo: Mike Dymond

Subi gets top dog collar

Parishioners at a small Subiaco church have col-lared Perths Catholic leader to join them for mass on Sunday morning, April 19.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe is due to lead the 8.30am mass at St Catherine Laboure in Bedford Avenue.

The congregation at the church on the quiet cul-de-sac has been petitioning him to celebrate a service there for some time.

A churchgoer said they were delighted the arch-bishop had accepted their invitation and said all would be welcome to the Mass.

Feeling clucky There were some good-looking chicks at the library this week.

An image from one of the negatives, believed to be a Mark VI Jaguar.

Hot chicksin the Grove

There have been new additions at the Grove library but theyre not on shelves.

Borrowers were treat-ed to a 12-day hatching program.

Eggs were kept warm in an incubator before fluffy Hyline Brown chicks emerged from their shells.

Positive sighting of negatives

An early-morning walker found three identical, large-format negatives in the middle of Jersey Street, Jolimont, on April 11.

The POST reader said the negatives were in a puddle and had been run over by numerous cars, but once she dried them out they seemed to be in good condition.

And the car?Petrol-heads at the POST

vote that it is a Mark IV Jaguar, sold from 1945 to 1949.

The cars were a variation of pre-war SS Jaguars with a name-change to escape the unpleasant connotations of Hitlers SS.

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Hannah Atcheson creates a portal in Claremont.

Claremont goes arty for April

Hannah Atcheson created a glimpse into another world in Claremont.

She was one of a small army of artists transforming walls in the town.

Hannah started work on the 5m wall at the back of McKenzie Auctioneers in Bovell Lane last Friday.

Its an abstract surrealist piece and shows a black hole at the bottom of two mountains, Hannah said.

It will be like looking into a portal to another world.

Hannah (23) recently com-pleted a two-month art residency in Fukuoka, Japan.

I lived between mountains in a beautiful rural area, she said.

Her painting was done with acrylic house paint and wall brushes.

She said she was primarily a wall artist but sometimes paint-ed on wood and canvas.

Hannah started art when she was very young.

One of my first birthday presents was a big box full of paints, and I havent stopped, she said.

It [art] is inescapable: if some-one told me I would never make money I would still do it.

Hannah creates prints, accepts commissions and exhibits in galleries.

Five of her works are on show in The Mantle, on Fremantles James Street.

She said she admired artists Salvador Dali and Liam Dee, and her father.

My dad has an amazing work ethic, she said.

Elsewhere in Claremont paintings by interstate and in-ternational street artists were created in Stirling Highway, Leura Avenue and Bay View Terrace.

Thousands of drivers have seen Italian artist Moneylesss huge Letraset-style creation on the eastern side of the Wilton Court apartment tower on the highway.

Artist KAB101 created a work in the lane opposite Bunnings, off Leura Avenue; Finton Magees work is in Walt Drabble Lane, at the back of Dilettante.

Claremont council worked with FORM to bring PUBLIC 2015, an international street arts festival, to the town as part of its Arty April festival.

By DAVID COHEN

$59m for beach blockA Singaporean developer

and hotel owner has paid $59million for a 4.4ha in-dustrial site near Leighton Beach at North Fremantle.

Pindan Capital the in-vestment arm of Perth build-ers Pindan, who are building several apartment blocks in China Green, Subiaco and across the western suburbs secured the deal.

R o x y P a c i f i c , f r o m Singapore will stump up 40% of the cash while Hostplus an industry superannuation fund represented by ISPT, an unlisted property fund manager with more than $10billion in funds will put in the rest.

The company expects the industrial site to be rezoned

residential, within two years according to a document produced for its AGM in March.

Roxy Pacifi c has built more than 3000 fl ats and shops in Singapore over the past decade.

It also owns the Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel and has plans to build a 23-storey hotel with more than 300 rooms in the Perth CBD on a site it bought in January.

The company also wants to build or own more hotels across Australia.

Pindan Capi ta l has been actively seeking in-vestment from the Asian markets and earlier this year opened an offi ce in Shanghai, China.

Dentist on fraud countsA Claremont dentist who

has been de-registered by HBF appeared in Perth Magistrates Court last week on three counts of fraud.

Randeep Singh Dhillon did not have a lawyer and asked Magistrate Pamela Hogan for an adjournment to seek legal advice.

When Ms Hogan asked how long he would need, Mr Dhillon said: As long as possible, your honour.

Mr Dhillon said he was going overseas to the US and China and would need at least four weeks.

The Dental Board of Australia has referred Mr Dhillon to the State Administrative Tribunal

after concerns were raised about his professional conduct.

Mr Dhillon, who prac-tises at Dental Horizons Claremont, will appear be-fore the SAT on May 13.

The Dental Board of Australia, HBF and Dr Dhillon all refused to say what the allegations re-lated to.

Mr Dhillon practises general and cosmetic dentistry, including root canal treatment, wisdom tooth removal, dental implants, sleep dentistry and veneers.

He is due back at the Perth Magistrates Court to defend the fraud allegations on May 22.

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Christine Exten thought she knew all about her great-great-granddad from family chatter until she embarked on a school exercise to com-memorate the Anzacs.

Now she has charted his life from that of a farm labourer in Geraldton to Gallipoli and back.

Private Sidney Russell Exten, who joined the 11th Battalion, is part of an honour board at John XXIII College, thanks to his 14-year-old great-great-granddaughter.

Fellow students and visi-tors can use their phones or tablets to scan a printed QR code and share in the soldiers story through Egypt, the Battle of Lone Pine, Belgium and France.

I knew basically about him because the family has always talked about him, Christine said.

I have been going to Geraldton RSL since I was about fi ve because it is a good place for all the family to get together. They are all proud of him.

On his return from the war Sidney married Emily.

His story is one of 92 re-searched by Year 9 students.

The whole family is proud of Sidney Extens contribution as an Anzac. Christine Exten researched her great-great-grandfather for an hon-

our wall at school.

Wendy inspires new generationNedlands haematology

researcher Wendy Erber is working to apply scientifi c discoveries to improve pa-tient treatment, care and outcomes.

We read about scientific discoveries and see them on the news every night and hear that within fi ve or 10 years it may result in improved survival of patients, she said.

We are trying to bridge that gap between pure scientific discovery and the patient to deliver what I call next gen-eration pathology for patients this will better inform deci-sions about treatments and improve outcomes for patients with cancer.

That is what I have been doing for the last 30 years.

Professor Erber, an academic haematologist and head of the University of WAs School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, was recently named the Cancer Council WAs Cancer Researcher of the Year.

Without the fi nancial support

of the Cancer Council WA, and its donors, research like this just doesnt happen, she said.

Her journey into blood can-cer research began when her younger 18-year-old sister, a first-year university student, was diagnosed with leukaemia 36 years ago and died within months.

Professor Erber was then a medical student planning to become a surgeon but when completing a doctorate in hae-matology at Oxford University she said she was mentored by a truly great haematologist who changed her lifes direction.

David Mason was a great teacher, motivator, educator, innovator, a fantastic mentor and really captured my inter-est in leukaemia research, she said.

So even though I had not gone there with a specifi c interest in studying leukaemia it was the teacher who motivated me to study the disease that affected my sister.

She is passing that enthusiasm on to the next generation of PhD students.

I have been teaching ever

since I qualifi ed as a doctor, she said.

I really enjoy imparting knowledge to others. We should enthuse them about research, particularly translational or applied research.

We need to get the message across to the next generation of scientists as they are our future

researchers.They need to be men-

tored, enthused and moti-vated so they can learn the skills of scientifi c inquiry and apply the knowledge to solve clinical problems such as cancer.

Professor Erber is particu-larly proud of her achieve-

ments in translating scientifi c and research discoveries into diagnostic pathology practice to improve patient care and outcomes.

Several of her recent papers have led to signifi cant innova-tions in clinical pathology prac-tice, including more accurate diagnosis of leukaemia and lymphoma using new imaging and genetic techniques.

Her award also recognised her long-term commitment to teaching students and research-ers, including the publication of two textbooks on haematological malignancies.

This award will highlight the work my team does which

we hope will ultimately lead to improved lives for patients with leukaemia and other cancers, she said.

We are now working on see-ing if we can predict which pa-tients may progress from chronic to more aggressive leukaemia. If we can identify it earlier we may be able to do something about it earlier.

We would then be able to introduce a test into pathology practice much sooner. This will enable treatment to be offered earlier before the patient suf-fers problems such as infections and anaemia resulting from the leukaemia and their bone mar-row failing.

Mentor Professor Wendy Erber advises researcher Belinda Guo on using a semiconductor sequencer to unravel DNA.

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Coralie, the grand dame of Perth theatre, died on Christmas Eve last year, aged 99.

Coralie, known as the fi rst lady of WA television, ap-peared on Channel 7 and co-founded the chain of Dirty Dicks theatre restaurants with

Frank Baden-Powell.Right up to her last months,

Coralie followed theatre close-ly, attending shows regularly, although she lost most of her sight several years ago.

Her niece, Judy Kozak, who lives in Mt Claremont, visited Coralie every week, taking with her the POSTs TimeOut section and reading Coralie

stories and reviews.When Coralie died, Judy still

had a little pile of cuttings of arts editor Sarah McNeills reviews, which she hadnt yet read to Coralie.

So she popped them in an en-velope and tucked them under Coralies arm in her coffi n, so she had something interesting to read on the way.

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Getting in a tackle for asthmaA good rugby tackle is all

about timing and power, Junior Rasolea says.

The Western Force and Cottesloe Rugby Club centre is helping earn big charity bucks this season every time he tackles an opponent.

You have to time a tackle well, Junior (23) said. When youre under the other player you generate real power.

Queensland-born Junior is the

new ambassador for the Asthma Foundation Western Australia Tackling Asthma campaign.

The initiative sees 25 Perth businesses donating $2 per tack-le made by a Force player.

So far this season it has raised $32,800.

Junior, who went to Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, said he was excited with his new role with the foundation.

The staff are very passionate about asthma education and prevention, and its great to have the chance to help them

with such a fantastic cause, he said.

Junior agreed with a quote from fellow rugby player and former US Marine Corps lawyer Michael Mori, who said rugby was about having to think clearly while exhausted.

How you act when youre exhausted shows what sort of person you are your real char-acter comes out, Junior said.

The tackle campaign has raised more than $183,000 in the past fi ve years.

Last weekend Cottesloe thrashed Palmyra 17-3.

Catch him if you can Clockwork Prints Graham Dudley and Asthma Foundations Carly Parrick try to tackle Western Force centre Junior Rasolea.

Secret hand shakes at the mens shed ...Freemasons WA has started

a close working relationship with the states mens shed movement by providing an office at its new Subiaco Grand Lodge building.

The WA Mens Shed Association reportedly has more members than Rotary and the Freemasons combined, with 162

mens sheds on its data base.The western suburbs are

home to the states biggest mens shed at Mosman Park. Other sheds are in Cambridge, Subiaco, Wembley and West Leederville.

Beyondblue has found that men's sheds combat the effects of social isolation, providing

men with a sense of purpose and self-esteem, improving physical health and mental wellbeing and increasing help-seeking behaviour.

The two organisations have agreed to support each other to serve the community and enhance the health and well-being of men.

Dine with top chefsTop chefs have

donated their skills this Sunday to help flooded Carnarvon food growers and highly desired tickets are still available.

T h e o c c a s i o n will also see Fred Fairthorne, owner of the Farmer Jacks stores, present $100,000 to support the banana growers.

Twenty-fi ve of the states best chefs have volunteered their time on Sunday to raise money in the Chefs for the Gascoyne event after crops were devastated by cyclone Olwyn.

The chefs include Don Hancey, Anna Gare, Peter Manifi s, Justin Bell, Adam Bielawski, Sophie B u d d , Z o e R o y , Diego Cossio, Vince Garraffa Ryan Ebbs and Brendon Rose.

Tickets cost $150 per person, including all food and beverage.

The event starts at 4pm at the Urban Orchard, Perth Cultural Centre.

For tickets, look for the event link on the Gascoyne Food Council Facebook page or search Chefs for the Gascoyne on ticket sales website Eventopia.

Subi to outsource parking disputesFlaws with the way Subiaco

council handled appeals against parking tickets have led to an overhaul of the system in a bid to make it fairer.

The council is sitting on more than $1.2million of unpaid park-ing fi nes.

Between July 2013 and June 2014, 32,601 infringements were issued in what has been de-scribed by a council document as a typical 12-month period.

Of these, 1505 were appealed, with 278 overturned and the other 1227 upheld.

Drivers could ask for a review in the fi rst instance, which would be handled by council staff.

If they were still unhappy, their complaints were then referred on to the next level, which was handled by two councillors.

The council is now looking to outsource that part of the appeals process to an independent body.

For the past year, council staff have been processing both levels of appeals, but now a contract to handle the second review has been put out to tender by the council.

Authorised council staff have the right to assess and withdraw infringements, but in cases where they do not do this the appeals will be sent to the successful contractor on a weekly basis.

They will then have five working days to make a recom-mendation to the council if an infringement should stand or be thrown out.

Over the past year, Subiaco has referred hundreds of thou-sands of outstanding tickets and fi nes to the Fines Enforcement Registry as a last resort.

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The study is a follow up on previous benchmark surveys that have been undertaken annually since 2011. The survey takes approximately ten to fteen minutes to complete and will be used for research purposes only. All responses will be dealt with in the strictest of condence and in accordance with the Privacy Act.

For further information on the survey, contact the city on 9237 9222.

ANZAC Day 2015 This year is the centenary of the ANZAC, marking one hundred years since the landing at Gallipoli during the First World War.

To commemorate, a number of ANZAC events are happening in and around the city. For more information, visit www.subiaco.wa.gov.au/ANZAC

ANZAC Day services

Join the Subiaco and Shenton Park Returned and Services League (RSL) Sub-branches and the City of Subiaco at the two annual ANZAC Day services to honour the brave men and women who have served our nation.

Shenton Park RSL Sub-branch When: Saturday 25 April, 7am (Parade assembles corner of

King Street and Onslow Road at 6.45am)Where: Shenton Park Community Centre, 240 Onslow Road,

Shenton Park

Morning tea will be provided after the service.

Subiaco RSL Sub-branchWhen: Saturday 25 April, 8am (Parade assembles outside

Subiaco Post Ofce at 7.45am)Where: Subiaco Fallen Soldiers Memorial, corner Rokeby and

Hamersley roads

Morning tea will be served after the service outside the Subiaco Museum.

ANZAC Day road closures

SubiacoRokeby Road between Bagot and Hamersley roads, and Hamersley Road between Campbell and Rupert streets will be closed between 5am and 10.30am.

Shenton Park Onslow Road between Fortune and James streets, as well as Herbert Road and King Street to Evans Street will be closed between 6.30am and 8.30am.

Library talk For the reception of ladiesJoin heritage professional Annette Green for a fascinating insight into the design and provision of private maternity hospitals in Subiaco prior to 1945.

When: Friday 8 May, 12.15pm Where: Subiaco Library, 237 Rokeby Road, Subiaco

Please RSVP on 9237 9300 or [email protected]

Annual customer satisfaction survey The city has appointed independent consultant CATALYSE to conduct a short randomised telephone survey among residents to evaluate how its local services and facilities are regarded.

www.subiaco.wa.gov.au/formalsubmissions, via email to [email protected] or addressed to the Chief Executive Ofcer, City of Subiaco, PO Box 270, Subiaco WA 6904. Comments should clearly indicate the name and address of the person making the submission and the proposal or application to which the submission relates.

Q Development applications received

Property Proposal

73 Rupert Street, Subiaco

Re-roof to an existing dwelling

136 Rokeby Road, Subiaco

Painting of facade of existing commercial premises

Public submissions in respect to these proposals are not being requested at this time. Formal consultation, where required, will be undertaken in accordance with the citys policy on planning public consultation. To view the policy, visit www.subiaco.wa.gov.au

Q Ordinary Council meeting Tuesday 21 April

Agenda items

Draft revised Planning Policy 2.8 Aged or dependent persons dwellings Report to advertise

Draft revised Planning Policy 4.10 Shenton Park Precinct Report to advertise

Draft revised Planning Policy 4.9 West Subiaco Precinct Final adoption

Proposal to include 118 Subiaco Road, Subiaco on the Town Planning Scheme Register of Places of Cultural

Heritage SignicanceProposal to include 429 Rokeby Road, Subiaco on the Town Planning Scheme Register of Places of Cultural

Heritage SignicanceProposal to include 203 Nicholson Road, Shenton Park on the Town Planning Scheme Register of Places of Cultural

Heritage SignicanceProposal to include 18 to 22 Coghlan Road, Subiaco on the Town Planning Scheme Register of Places of Cultural

Heritage SignicanceProposal to amend the level of signicance of 2 Hamilton

Street, Subiaco on the Local Government InventoryProposal to remove 119 Fairway, Crawley from the Local

Government InventoryNomination to include 80 Townshend Road, Subiaco on the

Local Government Inventory and Town Planning Scheme Register of Places of Cultural Heritage Signicance

Nomination to include 3 Browne Street, Subiaco on the Local Government Inventory and Town Planning Scheme Register of

Places of Cultural Heritage SignicanceRe-appointment of Design Review Panel

Nomination of a representative to attend the meeting of the Heritage Councils Register Committee at which the P23992

Metropolitan Sewerage Vents will be considered for permanent entry in the State Register

Community Safety and Crime Prevention Plan Status reportRegal Theatre funding request

Monthly Finance Report March 2015March 2015 Budget Review

420 Hay Street and 31 Catherine Street Construction of a nine storey mixed use development comprising two shops and

seventy multiple dwellings146 Gloster Street Subiaco SAT reconsideration

42 Federal Street Subiaco SAT reconsiderationRevocation motion and report Forrest Square Tender

Q Rescission of Planning Policy 2.10 Amusement Centres

The City of Subiaco is inviting public comment on the rescission of Planning Policy 2.10 Amusement Centres.

Comments are to be received by 5pm on Friday 24 April.

Q Changes to Town Planning Scheme Register of Places of Cultural Heritage Signicance

The City of Subiaco is inviting public comment on a proposal to include the following places on the Town Planning Scheme Register of Places of Cultural Heritage Signicance.

Fairmont, 39 Nicholson Road, Shenton Park Hawkesbury, 129 Coghlan Road, Subiaco Subiaco Police Station, Lock-up and Quarters (fmr), 365 Bagot

Road, Subiaco The former Presbyterian Church and Manse, 315 to 317 Bagot

Road, Subiaco The Anglican Church Rectory, 257 Barker Road, Subiaco

(as a combined entry with the already listed St Andrews Anglican Church)

Comments are to be received by 5pm on Monday 4 May.

Q Changes to the Local Government Inventory

The City of Subiaco is inviting public comment on the proposal to amend the level of signicance of 13 to 21 Coghlan Road, Subiaco on the Local Government Inventory. A heritage assessment has identied the place as having some signicance (level 3) to the city.

Comments are to be received by 5pm on Monday 4 May.

For more information on the above, visit www.subiaco.wa.gov.au/formalsubmissions or view hard copies at the citys Administration Centre, 241 Rokeby Road, Subiaco or Subiaco Library, 237 Rokeby Road, Subiaco during normal operating hours.

Comments should be submitted in writing through the online submission form at

AmpFest 2015 all ages showAmpFest is a platform to launch new, local bands into the Perth music scene. Come down to this free, all ages show featuring sets from ve up-and-coming Perth bands.

The line up includes Alex Brittan, Iceage Sugar, Kings Justice, Mister Wolf and Riley Pearce.

When: Sunday 26 April, from 5pm to 9pm Where: Llama Subiaco, Rokeby Road, opposite The Regal Theatre, Subiaco

This is an alcohol free event. For more information, visit www.ampfest.com.au or contact the city on 9237 9216.

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Whats happening in SubiQExpecting master class

First time expectant parents are invited to join Familyworks for

a free master class on what you really need to know before

your baby arrives.

Wednesday 29 April, 6.30pm to 8.30pmShenton Park Community Centre, 240 Onslow Road,

Shenton Park

Please RSVP on 9237 9317 or [email protected]

QFilm club Beneath Hill 60

An Australian War lm based on a true story.

Thursday 30 April, 11.45am Subiaco Community Centre, 203 Bagot Road, Subiaco

Cost: $13

Please RSVP by Tuesday 28 April on 9237 9320 or

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MPs question QEII waiting timesMPs went to see for them-

selves on Tuesday after com-plaints about poor waiting-room conditions at the QEII cancer centre.

Labor health spokesman Roger Cook said he would table a petition in Parliament next week calling for action.

The treatment area is re-ally well set up but the patient amenities elsewhere are not that crash hot, Mr Cook said.

The patients all tell me the staff work really hard but what long waiting times tell me is they are clearly under-resourced.

Charles Samuels, who takes his wife, Doris, to the centre for chemotherapy, told Mr Cook that on a busy day patients sometimes had to wait up to two hours.

The waiting room is furnished with a mishmash of chairs that look like they are offi ce cast-offs, he said.

There is nowhere for patients to put their feet up except for one recliner chair that looks like it came out of someones lounge room.

Mr Samuels said it was not reasonable to expect patients to sit upright for long periods on what looked like dining room or boardroom chairs.

He asked his Mirrabooka MP, Janine Freeman, for help.

She said while there was a push to correct shortcomings at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital, the government could not afford to neglect existing services at QEII.

Hospital staff had told MPs seating in the waiting room had been ergonomically designed by the architects, Ms Freeman said.

She said while it had been specifi cally designed for the building, it did not seem to take into account the fact that people using it would be sick and at various stages of treatment.

Labor health spokesman Roger Cook and MP Janine Freeman check out complaints about facilities at the cancer treatment centre at QEII.

Mossie queries Wearne leaseFuture generations would

never forgive Mosman Park councillors if they gave away a $7.8million quarter-share of Wearne Hostel for a pepper-corn amount, a resident told councillors this week.

Former business broker Roz MacNish, of Stone Street, Mosman Park, told the corporate and technical services commit-tee on Tuesday night she was dismayed to read the council proposal in the agenda.

Last year Curtin Care, which has a 20-year lease over the land in Gibney Street, approached Mosman Park, Cottesloe, Claremont and Peppermint Grove councils to sell it the land or give it a 99-year lease for a nominal fee.

Once it is in private hands anything could happen, Ms

MacNish said.For instance, there could be

an application for changing of zoning, there could be the sale of the business, the minister could change his mind about what it can be used for, so anything could happen. Why would we even consider giving the land away at a nominal amount?

Generations to come would never forgive us for that.

She said she was puzzled why Curtin Care had a 20-year lease over the $30million site for $1 a year when it was profi ting from what it was doing.

She said neither option was fair or just and would be stupid if carried out.

Who knows what may happen in 100 years, she said.

The organisation running the show may not exist, they could sell the business, they could sell it to a money-making concern

which would have a phenomenal rent or they could sell it at a huge profi t.

It is prime, rare earth and you cant get it back again. Eventually it will become a commercial money-making concern and we will have given it away for peanuts.

The site, originally owned by the state government and administered by the Fremantle

Hospital Board, was transferred to the councils in 2009 as a con-ditional tenure under Section 75 of the Land Administration Act which limits its use to aged care.

The decision on the future tenure of the Wearne site is one of the most complex decisions that the council will need to make in the short to mid-term, a staff report to the committee said.

On one hand, a community organisation is seeking to secure tenure over the land from which they provide services, so that they can expand their services and provide long-term security to their residents.

On the other hand, the land in question represents a develop-ment opportunity that could be used by the local government to provide higher density ac-commodation for aged persons while generating a return that

would allow it to provide other services and facilities.

The report said the council could not consider the proposal until a business plan for the land was advertised and public submissions considered.

The report warned advertis-ing such a plan could create the impression that council was considering the proposal, result-ing in negative feedback.

CEO Kevin Poynton said the multi-step process was required under the Local Government Act.

He said when the business plan was put out for comment, residents would be able to make submissions.

The only decision council would be making now was start-ing the process to get public com-ments for analysis, he said.

Mosman Park is considering the future of its $7.8million stake in

Wearne Hostel.


Three shotguns were stolen from Royal Perth Yacht Club in a burglary last weekend.

Two people forced their way into a storeroom then ripped open a locked fi rearms cabinet between 7.30 and 8.30am last Saturday.

Yacht clubs use shotguns to start races. The shotguns had shortened barrels.

Police praised witnesses who gave them a partial registration number on a car of inter-est, a grey Toyota Rav 4.

A witness saw a man walking from the

Australia II Drive club with one of the shotguns under his clothing.

Police believe two men and a woman were involved in the crime.

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Future Housing Choice packs containing an information brochure and feedback forms have been distributed to all Cambridge home owners in City Beach, Floreat and Mt Claremont, and are available for collection from:

Town of Cambridge Admin - 1 Bold Park Drive, Floreat

Cambridge Library - 99 The Boulevard, Floreat

The Boulevard Centre - 99 The Boulevard, Floreat (below Cambridge Library)

Wembley Community Centre - 40 Alexander Street, Wembley

Wembley Golf Course - The Boulevard, Wembley Downs

Comment is invited on a proposed amendment to the Town Planning Scheme which, if implemented, would allow for a greater choice of housing in City Beach, Floreat and Mt Claremont.

Directions 2031 supports Housing Choice

Liveable (p.18)Directions 2031 seeks to promote and increase housing diversity, adaptability, affordability and choice.

2.1 Ensure the proposed R -Code densities and provisions in local planning strategies and schemes support a sufcient mix of housing types and sizes...

2.3 Promote the use of density bonuses on corner lots, subject to design guidelines to ensure preservation of local amenity and an appropriate streetscape....

2.6 Promote exible building designs capable of conversion to dual or multiple occupancy.

Changing household structure (p.64-65)Social trends towards couples having children later in life, more people living alone, and a greater proportion of older couples whose children have left home are increasing the number of households overall and even more rapidly increasing the number of smaller households ...

...The implications of the expected population growth calls for an increase in dwelling stock and the rise of smaller households will require a greater choice in size and types of housing to satisfy the diverse household needs of young families, empty nesters, ageing householders or inner city dwellers. The smaller household trend may have signicant impacts on housing densities and in turn the provision of physical and social infrastructure.

Demographic drivers (p.63-64)Increased demographic diversity will drive changes in lifestyle, housing and community service needs, and changing values may inuence where and how we choose to work. Household and family size is decreasing as is housing affordability, which is contributing to greater income and wealth disparities and, potentially social differences.

Local governments with a particularly high proportion of people over the age of 65 include Cambridge, Claremont, Cottesloe, Fremantle and East Fremantle. As people live longer there will be more elderly people requiring health services, access to public transport and suitable housing options. All local governments must plan to meet the needs of increased older populations over the coming decades.

Small scale incremental development (p.82)In addition to planned growth areas (activity centres and transport corridors), the central sub -region will also accommodate small -scale incremental development in all local government areas... and will result from:

d Minor redevelopment that will occur from the uptake of development potential contained in existing and future local government planning schemes.

d 32 per cent of new dwellings will potentially be derived from small -scale incremental inll development.

Background to the proposal, the brochure, two options for feedback and FAQs can also be accessed at cambridge.wa.gov.au/futurehousingchoices. The two options for feedback provided are:

Housing Options Survey - one per household only (either online or using the survey form provided in the Future Housing Choices pack).

Form 4 - one per adult resident (aged over 18 years).

To have your views on the Future Housing Choices proposal known, please provide your comments by 5pm Friday, 8 May 2015.

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The whole of the Town of Cambridge is classied as Urban Consolidation

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Directions 2031 is a Western Australian State Government plan to accommodate Perths expected population growth.

The Town is actively addressing Directions 2031.

We have in place the West Leederville Centre Plan and are working on the Wembley Activity Centre. The old Nursery site, Perry Lakes, Ocean Mia and St Johns Wood are all contributing to the Towns target of 4,000 new dwellings, a 40% increase on existing dwelling numbers.

However Directions 2031 is not just about development around activity centres and transport corridors.

Directions 2031 highlights the need for greater housing choice and says that 32% of new dwellings across the Central Perth Sub-region will come from small -scale incremental inll developments across all local government areas.

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Pedal proves mettle for married life

Anna Gibbney and Chris Sellings were on top of the world making their way to Australia to get married this weekend.

The couple met in London through their love of cycling and decided to pedal to Perth for the wedding.

They crossed some of the toughest mountain ranges, camped in snow leopard country, encountered a camel caravan and spent days without seeing another soul.

They had set off from Istanbul to avoid being caught out by the winter and had only one puncture between them during the trip.

It took them seven months to get here and they surprised Annas family by arriving a fortnight earlier than they said they would.

They assembled their bikes and rode home to Marlow Street, Wembley, from the airport.

We wanted to do it on $10 a day and camped a lot of the time, Anna said.

The most nerve-wracking mo-ment was when they met a bunch of cyclists heading the other way who told the couple they were on track for a remote area where others had been looking for snow leopards.

We woke up and heard some-thing prowling around outside the tent, Anna said.

It was scary.I managed to fi nd a knife.Eventually they discovered

the creature that had terrorised them was a mouse.

Anna was a member of Floreat Surf Life-Saving Club and former

student of Newman College be-fore she went to the UK on the Trans-Siberian Railway eight years ago.

I have always had a fasci-nation for central Asia, she said. I wanted to see what it was like.

Her grandmother was from Manchester and Anna said she decided to go the UK even though there were no other family members there.

It was my last chance to apply for an ancestoral visa, Anna,

37, said.Once there she had various

executive assistant jobs.She took up triathlons and

met Chris, 35, at the velodrome where Olympic cycling events had been held and where he worked as a cycling coach.

Soon after the wedding at the Loreto chapel in Nedlands on Saturday, Chris will be going to France where he helps run cycling holidays.

Anna will stay in Wembley in the hope of fi nding a job.

Bride Anna Gibbney said she will use more traditional transport to get to her wedding with Chris Sellings after they cycled for seven months to

get to Wembley. Photo: Billie Fairclough

Surf club member on sex countsA former Cottesloe Surf

Life Saving Club captain has appeared in court on historic child abuse charges.

Trevor Guy Maybank (64), of Mosman Park, was charged by Perth detectives with three counts of indecent dealing with a child under 14.

In the Perth Magistrates Court last Friday morning, Mr Maybanks lawyer had the charges adjourned until July.

The charges relate to different offences which allegedly happened in 1979 against a nine-year-old boy.

Police will allege the offences happened when the boy was under school supervision but not at school.

Mr Maybank is a former captain of the Marine Parade surf club.

As part of his bail he must not contact the complainant.

Serious allegations Trevor Guy Maybank after appearing in the Perth Magistrates Court last week.

Traffic motion divertedA motion to reverse traffi c

at a busy Claremont intersec-tion was withdrawn at the last minute at Tuesday nights meeting.

Councillor Bruce Haynes motion called for traffi c to come east out of Barnfield Road, instead of west.

Dr Haynes said the change would ease traffi c congestion on the highway, Swanbourne bridge and Alfred Road.

But on Tuesday he asked for the motion to be rescheduled.

In 2010, Barnfield Road residents objected to a proposal to reverse traffi c to east fl ow.

A public housing ten-ant appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court on a drug charge this week.

Janelle Marie Augimeri (30) was charged by Wembley police earlier this month with one count of possessing methylam-phetamine with intent to sell or

supply, and one count of pos-session of stolen or unlawfully obtained property.

Offi cers executed a search warrant on Ms Augimeris home in Jugan Street, Mt Hawthorn.

Ms Augineri is on $10,000 bail and is due again in court next month.

Mt Hawthorn drug charge in court

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More letters pages 14, 26, 30

Society defeated forced mergersIt is diffi cult to get a concise,

balanced comment and analysis of why Premier Colin Barnetts clumsy attempts to overcome local democracy and force amalgama-tion and boundary changes on our councils ultimately failed.

But Malcolm Mummery (Give Parliament its due on Dadour revolt, Letters, POST, April 11) is wrong when he says it was mostly parliament and not local community action that defeated the Premier.

He does a grave disservice to the many, many hundreds of people who took the time and made the effort to form associations and protest groups, attend rallies, write to and meet their MPs, organise public meetings, write letters to the press and be interviewed on radio and TV.

Also to those mayors, councillors and CEOs who resisted amalga-mation through every stage, the Subiaco council (and one elector) who courageously took the matter to the Supreme Court, the may-ors who formed the Councils for Democracy and even WALGA and its CEO, who fi nally helped pull the rug from under this costly, decep-tive and dishonest process.

Media outlets like the POST also served a valuable role in informing the public on these matters while the politicians whether left or

right in persuasion equivocated and failed to respond to their constituents concerns.

During all of this time, Mr Mummery was telling us all that we were barking up the wrong tree, that we should recognise that it was the Australian political system that was broken and that we should be addressing this matter.

Now he claims that we should all unambiguously acknowledge the deep debt all councils owe to the principled parliamentarians who opposed forced amalgamations.

If the people had done nothing, all of our councils would now have been forced into unwanted, unjus-tifi ed and costly mergers. The fact is that such was the critical mass of action across the entire met-ropolitan area that a few Liberal MPs, fearful of losing their jobs, caved in.

Mr Mummery suggests that showing respect for parliament is the best possible way to elicit sup-port for clarifi cation of the Dadour clause so that residents have the right to vote in future.

Does he suggest that we all sit back and do nothing about the injustices now being perpetrated under the City of Perth Act, with some communities being forced into the City of Perth?

Colin LatchemSherwood Road, Dalkeith

It was the community that stopped reform cullI find myself incredibly

disappointed by Malcolm Mummerys black-and-white praise of the Parliament for its role in the demise of the Barnett-Simpson local gov-ernment so-called reform putsch.

Also very disappointing is his denigration of the role of the many in the community who kept the issue in the pub-lic eye for so long despite the lack of attention in most mainstream media (POST Newspapers an honourable exception), and even in the Parliament.

In one key respect, Mr Mummery is simply wrong. The Local Government Amendment Bill he refers to never included a provision to remove the Dadour poll provision (reported by the ABC on October 30, 2013), as Premer Colin Barnett couldnt get this through his own party room (reported by the ABC on October 11, 2013). He is also wrong in stating that the Bill has been abandoned, as it is still listed as an active Bill in the Parliament.

Indeed, Mr Mummery de-stroys his own argument when he states that, The Barnett Government elected to ignore Parliaments opposition.

I must declare a personal interest in this matter. Many people have told me that if I

had not initiated legal action on the matter and gained the support of three councils (Subiaco, South Perth and Serpentine-Jarrahdale) as parties to the action (plus two others Kalamunda and Cockburn as funding sup-porters), they would not have had the self-belief to stand up for their communities as they did.

Likewise, I must give credit to Mr Mummery for setting up the Dadour group, which helped focus me on action rather than words another example of the multiple and diverse factors that brought about the demise of Barnetts so-call reform.

The failure of the legal ac-tion itself (for reasons that many people, including law-yers, are still bemused by) was, in many ways, irrelevant.

Credit must also go to the WA National Party for its principled decision to oppose forced amalgamations not only for country local governments but also for metropolitan ones. It is important to acknowledge, however, that the initiative came from the lay members of the party, through a resolution of the party state conference, not from the parliamentar-ians.

And Mr Mummery ignores Mr Barnetts failed attempt to save some face with his

initially proposed City of Perth Act, which would have made Vincent residents second-class citizens through his gerryman-der, aimed at ensuring busi-ness domination of the merged Perth and Vincent.

It wasnt Parliament, nor was it parliamentarians, that prevented his doing this it was the outrage of the Vincent community and the Vincent council that did so.

The Local Government Act needs to give the Parliament an effective voice, perhaps through the right to disallow changes in the same way that it has the power to disallow regulations under any Act.

More fundamentally, though, the poll provision itself should not only be clarifi ed, as Mr Mummery suggests, but should also be changed so that it doesnt place the onus on objectors but places it fairly and squarely on those who want the change.

Perhaps the simplest way to do this would be for voting at local government level to be compulsory. This would also help overcome an oft-stated complaint about local govern-ment that councillors can be elected by a small minority of the community.

Ian KerVincent Street, Mt Lawley

Greenery gets short shrift

Global warming, here we come!

Just drive down Shenton Road near the Claremont Showgrounds.

There once were moreton bay fig trees on one side and a row of eucalypts on the railway side.

Everything has been chopped down leaving a large area of bitumenised carpark, road, and then a huge sandpit around the football oval.

Heres hoping when the developers have fi nished all their multi-storey apartments there will be room for some greenery and trees as well as the oval.

Christine Foulkes-TaylorWindsor Street, Claremont

Luke Willcock, LandCorp general manager metropoli-tan, says the trees had to be removed to allow the shifting of Shenton Road, water mains and high voltage power lines. See report Page 3.The opposite side of the road.

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More letters pages 26, 30

Town and gown kept separate The proposed incorporation of

parts of the Cities of Nedlands and Subiaco within an extended western boundary of the City of Perth on the grounds that the University of Western Australia and the nearby medical complex are functionally parts of the City of Perth is mistaken and should be abandoned.

From the very beginning in the 1880s, when the idea of a university was fi rst mooted, it was always to be a University of Western Australia and not, as was the case with the founding universities of NSW, Victoria and South Australia, to be a capital city university as are Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Nor was it ever envisaged that there should be a University of Perth.

Furthermore, from the earliest records in the 1880s it was to be a campus university requiring at least 50 and even as many as 100 acres (40ha).

A commission of inquiry before World War I into a permanent home for the university selected Crawley as being by far the best of three possible sites.

In so doing it rejected one in Subiaco because it was surrounded (I shudder at the thought) by an insane asylum, sewerage sludge settling tanks, an infectious diseases hospital and a home for lost dogs: and an-other site in Kings Park because in addition to being too small there was public opposition to the idea of losing park land.

The choice of a suburban site at Crawley was also infl uenced by the choice of a similar subur-ban location at St Lucia for the University of Queensland, the only other state university.

Interestingly, Crawley and St Lucia are almost the same distance from their CBDs: 6.4km

and 7.9km respectively, with the striking difference that unlike St Lucia, Crawley was not only separated from its CBD by Kings Park but was in no way part of the City of Perths built up area either then or now.

More importantly, although Kings Park acts as a physical barrier between Perth and the ities of Subiaco and Nedlands, it is encircled by two chameleon-like roadway tongues of City of Perth territory stretching west-wards from the city.

The fi rst follows Kings Park Road, Thomas Street and Winthrop Avenue, the second fol-lows a strip of land along Mounts Bay Road to join Winthrop Avenue at its southern end.

It is the presence of these two narrow strips of carriage way that gave rise to the false idea that the university, medical centre and Kings Park are somehow part of and the responsibility of the City of Perth.

They are not. Kings Park is unincorporated crown land under the care and control of the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority as a national treasure and shrine. It is not a city park.

In fact Kings Parks nearest equivalent is Londons Hyde Park, administered, as are all Royal Parks, by a ministry of the central government.

On this evidence one can only conclude that the University of Western Australia is not, never was, and should never be con-sidered to be an integral part of the City of Perth.

To think so fl ies in face of the universitys founding fathers wisdom in keeping it out of the city, the universitys subsequent history, and the hard facts of geography.

Emeritus Professor Martyn WebbCirce Circle, Dalkeith

Could not the owners/share-holders of Allied Mills, North Fremantle, do the right thing by repainting the silo outside their property and bring back this iconic landmark for all to see?

I arrived from England 35 years ago and it was one of the most outstanding things that I cast my eyes upon.

It is such a shame that I have had to see it deteriorate year after year.

I realise that this would be costly and time-consuming project.

However, I do believe this would be an undertaking to beautify this great state.

David PitulejStirling Highway, Claremont

A meeting of the Metro South-West Joint Development Assessment Panel last month approved demoli-tion of the silos and replacement of the Dingo Flour sign, which has become corroded (Therell be trouble at mill, DAP is warned, POST, March 14). Allied Mills has said it will replace the sign like for like. The DAP has approved the project.

Corrosion of the Dingo Flour sign requires it to be replaced and re-painted.

Dingo down at heel

Residents of City Beach and Floreat, please sit down calmly with the Cambridge council and put forward your own ideas about the future housing plan-ning of your suburbs.

Do not put your heads in the sand and think that your garden suburbs from the 1920s will remain the same.

Wembley and West Leederville have had to accept infi ll; now it is your turn to step up and embrace progress and increased population growth

Pamela van der Meulensecretary, Wembley-West Leederville

Residents AssociationJukes Way, Wembley

Keep calm, Cambridge

Stand by for a rate rise

It would appear that mayor Max Hipkins is softening up the people of Nedlands for a big rate increase.

Any sensible person would see that it is ludicrous for major institutions such as QEII and UWA to have municipal boundaries running through the middle of their major campuses, including Winthrop Hall itself.

They each need to be able to deal with a single mature and capable municipal body.

As for the loss of revenue, there is a simple very easy solution: stop wasting money.

I recently had a need to look at the last budget and a single issue stuck out like the proverbial.

There was an item of about $600,000 annual cost for strategic planning.

Having been through the strate-gic planning process at least four times at Nedlands council, as well as in other commercial settings, I can label that as a blatant, obscene waste of money, particularly in an institution which experiences change at a snails pace.

The big problem is, however, local government has to waste large amounts of money, prefer-ably out of sight of the community, because executive remuneration is tied to how much money they spend.

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