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by DAVID BELL

A HUGE request for a $25 million ‘contribution’ to the WACA pool project has landed on Perth council’s door.

It comes as the state government tries to get the current council to make good on its predecessors’ tentative agreement.

Back in September 2021, just weeks before the current line-up was elected, the council was being run by caretaker commissioners

appointed by the state government. The commissioners agreed to contribute the $25m to the WACA pool and $10m for Roe Street upgrades as part of the Perth City Deal between all three tiers of government.

But the pool funding was “subject to council’s future consideration and endorsement of a business case”.

The new council didn’t like the cost, estimated at $151m over its 40-year lifespan (a figure disputed by the state government) and

reckoned it was better off looking for another site and doing its own thing.

But the state still wants a “one off” contribution to honour the commissioners’ commitment, sending a request for the $25m earlier this month.

Hard capPerth council CEO Michelle

Reynolds has advised the council it might be a good idea to pay up as long as they get it in writing

that it’s a hard cap that doesn’t include any maintenance.

Her recommendation to councillors notes they’ve been keen on eventually getting some kind of pool in the city, and paying $25m as a one-off was probably the quickest and cheapest way to go about it.

Councillors vote on whether to pay up at the August 31 meeting.

Tacked onto the request for $25m was also another optimistic invoice from the s tate for a $10m contribution for “unspecified CBD

transport initiatives”.It’s separate from the $10m

the council committed for Roe Street upgrades (which has now ballooned in price and will cost them $12.5m), but they still don’t know what’s in the transport mystery box.

Ms Reynolds reckons councillors should say no, given “the lack of clarity”, and also noting the city pays millions to the state in parking levies every year for an increasingly bloated fund that’s meant to cover that stuff.

by DAVID BELL

THE Friends of Coolbinia Bushland are gearing up for another Djilba of restoring remnant bush, and are inviting folk along to get to know their rare urban woodland on Bradford Street.

The group’s now marked a year tackling the exotic weeds that had been crowding out the native vegetation, having revived a dormant Friends group that fell away many years ago.

On September 4’s open day they’re marking the Noongar transitional season of Djilba with a smoking ceremony by Phil and Neville Collard, guided walks through the area to learn Noongar knowledge, and some millennial ventures like workshops on how to take a decent wildflower pic with a mobile phone.

FoCB coordinator Karen Lee says it’s calming and restorative to spend time in urban bushland, a bit like a bush holiday but with less travel time.

“Local bushland is an undiscovered gift right here in our neighbourhood. You have a chance to step out of your everyday experience to see the wonders of more than 90 local plant species, many of them in flower right now. Once your senses are attuned, you can return whenever you like.”

The group holds regular busy bees and they’re hoping more people get onboard with helping preserve the patch.

“Urban bushland needs people to know it and care for it to keep it safe as habitat, for our enjoyment right now, and for future generations. If we don’t look after this place, it will be lost,” Ms Lee says.

Phone photographer Sophie Xiang is heading along to teach people how to get the most out of their phone flower pics.

“I love the bright colours and rugged beauty of Western Australian wildflowers,” she says.

“It’s amazing that you can see them in the city too in places like Coolbinia Bushland.”

And she sees a lot of character in our flora: “I like taking portrait-style photographs of flowers to convey their unique personalities.”

It’s on Saturday September 4 from 1pm and everything’s free, but some events have limited numbers so plug “Coolbinia” into trybooking.com to nab a spot.

• Sophie Xiang

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More than a snap in Coolbinia bush

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by DAVID BELL

AFTER years of disputes, frustrations and delays around Vincent council’s heritage and character area retention scheme, there’s finally some renovations coming to speed things up.

The policy was intended to let people nominate their neighbourhood as a heritage area or character retention area, to ensure future development fitted the existing character.

Owners of at least 40 per cent of properties in a proposed area had to agree to nominate it, then neighbours would gather for council-facilitated workshops to nut out the exact details they liked and discuss what to encode into a policy framework. The council would have the final vote over whether to declare a retention area.

But in the six years the policy’s been around progress has been achingly slow and has led to heated arguments among neighbours, and only a few small areas have been declared.

The process “took significant time, did not result in a clear understanding by the community of the proposal and led to disagreement within the community and frustration in the delay of an outcome”, a Vincent council report says.

Under the new policy locals will still nominate an area and gather the 40 per cent of signatures, but instead of public workshops bogged down with planning policy framework, council officers will do the work of translating what locals like about the street into planning-speak and drafting up rules.

Once guidelines are ready

• Relieved at finally getting character retention for part of Cleaver Street, West Perth local Marie Slyth chats with Vincent mayor Emma Cole. Photo by David Bell

THE streamlined rules follow a fierce neighbourhood dispute around a patch of Mount Hawthorn being declared a character retention area.

March’s council meeting was peppered with comments from those for and against. Those in favour wanted to keep the area’s interwar houses, those against said they shouldn’t be prevented from developing their properties by a minority of history fans.

“How dare the council even consider this ridiculous change,” Mount Hawthorn resident Robert Gemelli said in March. “It surely cannot be legal to have different rules for different streets. My home

is my home and when I want to develop it, I should be allowed to build my dream home within normal rules as is now.”

A resident in favour of character retention said: “I live next door to an ugly modern house that was built in 2012-2013, despite the objections of many residents who were relying on the council to ensure that street character was retained. I therefore hope that this new policy will prevent this from happening again.”

From an initial plan to cover a wide area of Kalgoorlie Street, Buxton Street, The Boulevarde and Matlock Street, councillors eventually settled on adding just a segment of the latter two.

Policy renosthe workshops will be held, with a council vote still the ultimate decider.

West Perth local Marie Slyth is hopeful a quicker process will mean fewer old houses are demolished while waiting for the nominations to be processed.

“It’s so important we protect this slice of history and hold onto these beautiful homes,” she says.

She’d nominated several streets over the years but said it was always a race against time: In some cases like that of Florence Street, it took so long for the nomination to be finalised that a lot of the old homes had already been demolished or sold to new owners who didn’t like the retention area idea.

Mayor Emma Cole says “we were losing momentum if we can’t act quickly on a nomination request”.

She says guidelines stemming from the new system will still be based on the residents’ nomination but be quicker for council staff to draw up and then put out for feedback.

Rather than tackling whole chunks of a suburb, smaller sections are encouraged to nominate. Then if nearby segments like the idea they can jump onboard too, rather than trying to get a widespread area to reach consensus.

The policy changes still have to be advertised then it’s hoped five nominated areas in the backlog can be handled.

Fierce debate

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We need our open spaceTHANK you for your recent front page article on the intended sale of the block at 26 Brentham Street, Leederville and the fate of the playground located at the rear of the block (“Deal or no deal,” Voice, August 21, 2021).

DrainedREFERRING to the letter in the Perth Voice, August 5, 2021 from former City of Perth councillor and City of Vincent resident Reece Harley (“Speedy response”).

It seems all you have to be is in the ‘purple circle’ and within 24 hours some non-offensive graffiti is removed and Mr Reece hands out compliments.

Yet for us common, unloved residents it took three complaints to the City of Vincent to get a blocked drain cleaned out in North Perth.

My personal dealings with the administration and councillors at the City of Vincent is that they do not act on complaints unless you send multiple emails or direct complaints.

They are out there at the opening of an event or ribbon-cutting ceremony to take all the positives and get publicity, but they then seem to disappear and common residents’ complaints are not followed up.

You only hear from the mayor and councillors by a flyer in your letterbox or, if you are lucky, a knock on the door at election time.

I wonder how many other residents have had these frustrating experiences.

What we want is not a purple circle but an administration, mayor and councillors who are for the good of the community, not there to enhance their political or professional careers and it might do them good to realise that the common residents pay the rates that pay their salaries and allowances.

Ray Stevenson JPEmmerson St, North Perth

I am quite new to the area and although I knew about the land swap between Vincent council and Aranmore Catholic Primary School, I was unaware that a promise had been made to upgrade the playground and that they will now renege on that agreement. Thank you for drawing that to my attention

I was disappointed that your article did not mention that the public open space in question contains not only the playground but seven large, magnificent mature eucalypts.

Also not mentioned was the fact that now that the previous house on the block has been demolished, visibility of the playground is much improved and of course, the block could be improved as part of the playground and open space.

I concede that there is plenty of open space in the area but such things are precious and as they well know, expensive to acquire.

If this sale is about raising money to fund acquisitions elsewhere, I’m sure there are plenty of other, more valuable blocks within the city boundaries more suitable for sale to developers.

For example, they could have sold the land that the school wanted from them.

I have concerns for the fate of the two large trees that are on the land gifted to the school, as I feel building more facilities for the school is part of the reason for initiating the land deal. And now the council reckons they will want to buy the playground area for millions?

Naturally as a nearby resident I object to more development in the street but mainly I fear for the future of the trees at risk. We know the amenity that public open space and trees provide to our whole present and future populations and there is little enough in the inner city.

I have written to the council of my concerns both for the present fate of the proposal but also for any future developments that may arise as a consequence should the sale go ahead

Margaret KennedyVia email


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We acknowledge that some residents do not wish to have the footpath and kerbline adjacent to their property sprayed. If you would like your property to be permanently exempt from the weed spraying and have not previously signed an exemption form, please submit an online application by Friday 10th September 2021.

You can find the weed spraying exemption form on our website www.vincent.wa.gov.au/weedspraying or fill in the form below and return it via email, in person or post to the City of Vincent.

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by DAVID BELL

MAYLANDS’ heavily congested railway crossing at Caledonian Avenue will be closed by the state government, but locals fear pedestrians and cyclists will face such lengthy detours they’ll drive instead.

In 2017 Labor promised to close the crossing and upgrade surrounding crossings to ease traffic flow, as drivers were routinely waiting more than 10 minutes to cross. The boom gates are lowered 150 times a day for a total of nearly four hours, causing traffic to bank up along Whatley Crescent and Railway Parade.

Removing it wasn’t precisely costed but the government estimated it’d come in at between $50m-$70m.

On August 25 transport minister Rita Saffioti announced a more frugal $15m plan to close the crossing in the first half of 2022 (said to be necessary for the Forrestfield-Airport Link), upgrade the intersections at 7th and 8th Avenue, and make the whole of Whatley Crescent two lanes to give people an easier drive through alternative routes.

But it’s a long hike round for pedestrians or cyclists.

Bayswater councillor Elli Petersen-Pik says in the past four years he has several times advised Metronet and the state government they needed to provide a safe crossing for pedestrians and cyclists, such as an underpass.

“It’s a main crossing for many people from one side of Maylands to the other,” he said.

by DAVID BELL

AS local government elections draw near Perth council is scrambling to patch a number of “high risk” weaknesses in its vetting processes that could lead to election fraud.

Many of the risks identified by a recent audit relate to the troubled roll of property owners and occupiers; people who claim a vote because they own a non-residential property or rent a property in the city.

It was identified as being a source of bogus voters by the City of Perth Inquiry, which found it “common practice” for people to invent sham leases to run for council or cast a vote.

Trying to keep out bogus voters was a headache in 2020.

A last minute surge of voter applications in 2020 led to undertrained council staff

interpreting complex legislation throughout the weekend to get information on several thousand applications to the WA Electoral Commission in time.

The audit states there’s a “likely” risk (between 66 and 95 per cent) that “applications are inconsistently and/or incorrectly assessed resulting in errors and potentially non-compliance with the act”.

With applications closing August 28, the council’s governance staff are on a three-week leave ban to process the influx of applications, and an election coordinator has been employed for a three-month stint.

The council’s software for storing applicant information and the roll was also found to be hot garbage, or as the audit delicately puts it, a “problematic technology solution intended to be decommissioned”.

The audit says the software’s

so complex anyone without a background in infotech can’t even fully use it, and the only person from the last election who was fully trained has switched to another department.

And while it’s complex to use fully, it also hasn’t been secured, making it pretty simple for a staffer to blunder their way in and pilfer a copy or edit data even if they don’t understand the full workings. The audit says the lack of security “increases the risk of error or possibly election fraud occurring which may not be detected”.

There’s no time to replace the software before this election so the council will try to train up a new person to be fully across the byzantine program, and clamp down on who can make edits.

Councillors will have to decide whether to upgrade the software at the next budget.

• WAEC no help. See page 7

Election risks linger• Cars will be given some easy routes to compensate for a closed crossing, but walkers or riders face long detours.

Closed crossing concerns for cyclistsThere’s a lot of housing on the

north side and schools and shops on the south.

Now pedestrians will have to hike at least another 350m to venture down under Maylands train station’s crossing, and cyclists are in for a detour of at least 500m each way.

Cr Petersen-Pik says the crossing closure is required but is concerned that in the mitigating measures “all the focus is about cars”. He fears that such lengthy and inconvenient detours will just end up with more people choosing to drive, especially people who used to ride with their kids to school. Since raising the issue many locals have echoed his concerns.

“It goes against what we’re trying to do on council, the Safe Roads to School plan,” Cr Petersen-Pik says.

He says there should’ve been more consultation ahead of this week’s surprise announcement.

The state government media release says a road bridge at Ferguson Street, close to Caledonian Avenue, had been considered, but 14 homes would have to be demolished and more traffic would’ve ended up on local streets. There’s no mention as to whether a lower-impact underpass or pedestrian bridge was considered.

It does give pedestrians a small boon, saying pedestrian access at Eighth Avenue and Guildford Road (the crossing south from the Maylands Station) will get upgraded.

Cr Petersen-Pik’s planning to raise the issue again with the state in a briefing to councillors scheduled for this week.


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ONGOING problems with vetting voters has been worsened by a lack of help from the WA Electoral Commission, a Perth council-commissioned audit declares.

The 2021 audit was carried out by KPMG Legal and found “communication between the WAEC and the City of Perth has been largely ineffective”.

At 2020’s election Perth council

staff identified concerning cases of people applying to vote, but when asked to provide proof of a lease they presented forms that showed their first date of occupation was after they’d applied to vote.

A 2020 audit reckoned “on this basis the occupier nominee claim should have been rejected rather than accepted,” but the council’s rejections “were later overturned on appeal by the claimants to the WAEC”.

The new 2021 audit says the council has never received an explanation from the WAEC, setting the stage for a possible repeat.

RiskAnother risk stems from

the WAEC not wanting to train external temporary staff brought in to handle the extra election workload.

They’re dealing with voter applications but don’t get training about “the release of sensitive information and the potential implication this has for the city if this type of information was to be leaked”, and the audit flags a medium risk that “sensitive information may be released inappropriately to councillors, city staff, or the general public”.

The council tried to train the temps via informal slideshows

but reckons the full resources of the WAEC are needed to get them up to speed. The audit says “the city has contacted the WAEC to determine the possibility for the agency to provide training, this request was declined”.

Instead the council will try to train up all governance staff who’ll then try to train the temps in time. Temps will also be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement this election.

by DAVID BELL

A ROOF is on the way to protect an exposed heritage cottage at 54 Cowle Street and will be installed “shortly”.

Last week we reported the 137-year-old home, one of the five oldest in the City of Vincent, which had gone topless during this rainy winter after owner Palazzo Homes removed the old iron-over-timber shingle roof.

We still haven’t heard back from Palazzo as to why, but Vincent council’s responded to our queries. Conditions on an upcoming development at the site say before a building permit’s issued, Palazzo has to enter a legal agreement to retain the external “built form” of the cottage to the council’s satisfaction.

An emailed response from Vincent CEO David MacLennan

states: “The City of Vincent and our community place great value on protecting the history and heritage contained in buildings like 54 Cowle Steet.

“City staff have been working closely with the developer to ensure this important building is restored appropriately.

“The developer has advised the roofing materials have arrived and will be installed shortly.”

He says the roof’s old timber shingles under the corrugated iron were in “extremely poor condition”, and the flooring and internal fitout were stored off site to reduce damage.

The legal agreement to retain what’s left of the built form is being drafted by the council’s lawyers and has to be signed before a building permit’s issued for Palazzo to build units on the lots encompassing the cottage.

by DAVID BELL

AN ancient tradition dating back to the Roman republic plays out in the CBD this weekend as the crew of HMAS Perth (III) is granted Freedom of Entry into the City of Perth.

It’s the highest accolade a local government can confer on a military unit. It stems from Rome’s strict rules against armed soldiers crossing into the city for fear they’d topple the civilian leadership. They could only enter as soldiers when their actions had earned them a “Triumph” parade.

HMAS Perth’s commanding officer Tony Nagle said “it’ll be a case of us marching through the streets with the full pomp and circumstances of ceremony, with our swords drawn, with our drums beating and the band playing”.

And lord mayor Basil Zempilas is getting out the old school mayoral chains, made in 1886 and featuring 16 silver swans.

Audit: WAEC unhelpful in election

• The original HMAS Perth visits Fremantle on August 6, 1941.“The lord mayor of today

doesn’t always wear the traditional robes and the original chain,” he said. “I’m delighted to be able to put it on for this very important and ceremonial occasion.”

The HMAS Perth (III) is the third ship to bear the city’s name, with the first sunk near Java in World War II and survivors taken

as prisoners of war by Japan. The current HMAS Perth is

dotted with memorabilia of the original, including red paw prints commemorating the original ship’s cat “Red Lead”, lost in its sinking.

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I ARRIVED at St Mary’s, as the Aranmore College girls’ school was then known, as

a nine-year-old in 1971. What a culture shock it was for

me to move from a small, blonde-brick school with a sun-burnt Aussie flavour near my beachside home in Trigg, to an “ancient” double-storey school where everyone seemed to be related, and Italian was spoken more than English.

It took two buses to travel to Leederville – the first bus from Trigg to the newly-created Karrinyup interchange, the second one dropping us on busy Loftus Street.

• Spire of St Mary’s Church, Leederville, 1978. (COV LHC PH05308)

Recollections from St Mary’s 1971-1978OUR series of tales from the Vincent Local History

Centre returns this week with Julie Anglesey’s ‘Recollections from My School Years at St Mary’s 1971-1978’, one of the entries from this year’s local history awards.

• Choir of St Mary’s College Leederville, 1971. (COV LHC PH06403)

The smoke-filled buses would become crowded with office workers on their way to the city and we would politely stand for the adults, (“reluctantly” might

be a more accurate word!), when there were no seats left.

My daily pilgrimage up tree-lined Franklin Street led me past rendered brick houses with brown-tiled verandahs, and unfriendly-looking weatherboard cottages.

My adult self now loves these renovated cottages with their high ceilings and jarrah floorboards, but my perception was different back then.

One white-rendered house (or was it blue? I can’t remember now) had a low path-side wall that was decorated with shells.

This struck my young brain as being odd; Leederville, to me, felt about as far away from the ocean as you could get.

Nevertheless, I could appreciate the patience and love

that had gone into cementing each individual seashell into place.

The homeowner would stand guard over her maritime creation every morning as groups of blue sailor-girls marched our way to school.

One morning, with no guard in sight, my friend dared to walk on top of the wall, crushing beautifully formed shells with each disrespectful step.

Out of nowhere, a wild Italian lady appeared, yelling animatedly at us.

We may not have understood the words, but we certainly received their meaning…

These days, the shell house is gone, replaced by a modern home more in fitting with this now-trendy neighbourhood.

The sliced white-bread

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Words like mortadella, coppa, gorgonzola were a brand-new language to me; a language I learned to love.

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When people asked me where I went to school, I’d point out the steeple, its red-brick tower and white peak tapering gracefully above the roofs for miles around.

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I decided to try Lupo Lab for lunch, but don’t worry it’s not a themed diner where

you drink out of test tubes and eat from petri dishes.

It’s actually a stylish Italian restaurant on Scarborough Beach Road.

Situated opposite the Mezz shopping centre, the interestingly named Lupo Lab is part of a nice row of eateries and shops, including Diabolik Books & Records (good to see there are a few book shops still around).

Lupo’s lunch menu had a compact range of antipasti, pasta, main-style dishes, salads and sides.

I was tempted for the lamb chops marinated with garlic, rosemary and bay leaves, or the slow cooked beef cheeks, but they looked a bit heavy for lunch so I ended up going for the tonnarelli all’amatriciana ($25).

There was a good range of pastas and the gnocchi porcini and mushroom, and the fettuccine with spicy crab also looked very inviting.

Initially I thought my tonnarelli all’amatriciana was a bit on the small side, but it was deceptive with a deep bowl and thick strands of tonnarelli

(a slightly thicker version of spaghetti with square edges).

The pecorino romano cheese added an indulgent creaminess to the locally sourced guanciale (cured pork cheek), which had great depth of flavour and intensity.

It was one of those pasta dishes which was both comforting and slightly refined, straddling Nonna’s house and a bistro.

The highlight was the combination of the cured pork cheek and the san marzano tomato sugo; a moreish and rich sauce that went perfectly with the al dente tonnarelli.

It had that slow cooked, complex flavour.

Lupo Lab use organic eggs, and specialty pasta flour and

semolina from Italy, resting the dough in the traditional way to give it the best al dente texture.

It certainly had a nice firm bite and the sauce clinged well to the slightly rough edges on the pasta.

Apparently head chef Davide and his team make the pasta and gnocchi fresh every day.

The portion was just the right size for my lunch, but some might have wanted a bit more on the plate.

I washed it down with a large bottle of sparkling water ($6) which was very refreshing.

Lupo Lab’s founder Mirko, hails from Italy, where he grow up working at his family’s restaurants in Rome.

Lupo seemed authentic with two old Italians settling down for

lunch and conversing with the owner and staff in their native tongue.

The interior was pretty classy with table service and refined fixtures and fittings.

Sometimes I’m put off going to restaurants for lunch where a waiter takes your order, as it can take too long if you have appointments looming, but the service was super quick and polite, so they obviously cater for a quick turnaround.

Lupo Lab also had a takeaway coffee and cake section, so I got a fruit tart and a chocolate tart (both $4.50) to take home for my wife and kids.

“The chocolate tart looks like it would be quite heavy, but the chocolate is actually lovely and

light and the strawberries taste nice and fresh,” my wife said.

“The casing has a nice buttery flavour.”

Across the table, the kids enjoyed their deliciously looking custard tart, which was topped with kiwi fruit, blueberries and strawberry.

Lupo Lab is a bit more expensive for lunch, but you are paying for top drawer ingredients and dishes, so it’s definitely worth it.

I’ll be back to try some of their well-regarded coffee and maybe the odd limoncello from the bar.

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CHOPPER’S back.The classic Australian

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Chopper has never been shown on streaming services in Australia, adding to the myth and cult following it has attracted since hitting the big screen in 2000.

Featuring a stunning breakout performance by Eric Bana as criminal Mark “Chopper” Read, it is an unflinching account of his turbulent life in and out of prison in Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s.

The film was written and directed by Andrew Dominik, based on Read’s autobiographies, and several lines in the movie have become part of the

Australian lexicon including “He couldn’t knock the fluff off a cappuccino.”

Cinema Australia founder Matt Eeles says Chopper tapped into our quirky obsession with criminals.

“Chopper gave audiences permission to root for the bad guy,” Eeles says.

“Like Scorsese’s Goodfellas, or Coppola’s The Godfather, Chopper manipulated audiences into an emotional connection with this evil character by telling it from his point of view only.

“Dominik tricked the audience into thinking Chopper was a likeable fella, just like the real life Chopper tricked people into thinking he was much more dangerous that he actually was.

“Chopper certainly hasn’t dated. If anything, it has gotten better with age.”

The early scenes were shot at Pentridge Prison, where Chopper had been incarcerated, creating a gritty and authentic feel, while

later scenes have over-saturated colours, reflecting an older Chopper’s paranoia and mania.

“Although it’s a wild, brutal ride, the film has a simplicity about it that is seldom seen nowadays in Australian cinema,” Eeles notes.

The film launched the Hollywood career of Bana and Dominik – Chopper was his directorial debut – and he went on to direct Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly.

Dominik said he had so many agents calling him in Hollywood after Chopper’s success he had to change hotels, eventually signing with an agent who called every single hotel in Los Angeles to track him down.

Dominik’s Hollywood career stalled a bit in the mid 2010s, but he re-emerged in recent years,

directing two episodes of the critically acclaimed Mindhunter on Netflix, and is now putting the finishing touches to Blonde, a film about Marilyn Monroe.

Eeles says the director still thinks a lot about Chopper Read, who died of liver cancer in 2013.

“Despite Chopper’s crimes and his claims of killing 19 people, Dominik genuinely cared for the guy,” Eeles says.

“He spent seven years of his life writing about this man. Following the film, Dominik and Chopper kept in touch, and according to Dominik, Chopper was very encouraging of him moving to Hollywood to make movies.

“Dominik told me that he still thinks about Chopper, the man, all the time.”

Before Chopper, Bana had never been a leading man and was known for his comedy turns in

the sketch show Full Frontal and films like The Castle, making his transformation into Chopper even more remarkable.

At the time, industry insiders were sniggering when they heard Bana had been cast as the hardened criminal.

Twenty years on, Eeles says it’s still Bana’s best performance and he’s having the last laugh.

“Every time I watch this film I’m totally engrossed in Bana’s performance,” Eeles says.

“In fact, Bana’s performance is so good that even Mark Read’s father thought he was watching his son act in the movie.

“Despite going on to work with Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg, Bana has never again reached the height of this performance since. He’s that good in it.”

Chopper (20th Anniversary) is showing at Luna Leederville until Wednesday (September 1).

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AstrologyAstrologyAugust 28 – September 4, 2021

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20)Steady the ship, lest some of the pickles you are in bite. This is a healing time.

If you honour slow above fast, and hold true to your calling you’ll soon fi nd lightness and ease. Mars is in Virgo now, and giving you the tendency to get lost in details, which will not serve to further your cause.

TAURUS (Apr 21 – May 20)The presence of the Sun in Virgo is keeping you steady, which is exactly what you need

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