Nonnas Project honours unsung heroes
THEY were often the unsung heroes of the Italian pioneers who travelled across the world and gave WA its cosmopolitan flavour; now those young women are being celebrated in their […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
FOI casts doubt on cost claims
CONFIDENTIAL advice given to Perth councillors ahead of a vote to close the Citiplace Child Care Centre has cast doubt on the official story it was costing about $1 million […]
Close call for Hyde’s turtles
A HEAVY duty truck driving through Hyde Park has ridden roughshod over delicate tree roots and turtle nesting sites. Australian Garden History Society WA branch chair John Viska last year […]
Lego masters show park’s model design
HYDE PARK has been preserved in Lego form by two local Lego masters who spent two months creating the model. The pint-sized park project came from Vincent local history librarian […]
Bidee Mia missing the mark
PERTH lord mayor Basil Zempilas says the state government’s 100-bed Boorloo Bidee Mia homelessness facility on Wellington Street was “perhaps … not fully thought out” and isn’t meeting a need for […]
Advocate: Keep safe space
A HOMELESSNESS support worker has urged Perth council to keep running the Safe Night Space for women beyond its two year trial. In May 2021 Perth council opened the SNS […]
Alarm bells?
HOPEFULLY your story about Bayswater’s budgeting problems (“Probe into Bayswater budget gap,” Perth Voice, April 30, 2022) will ring some alarm bells at Vincent council. I believe that Vincent’s financial […]
Chook tastic
PACIFIC Rim Mix Plate is no more. It sounds like something happened to the Earth’s crust in South East Asia, but it was actually a quirky takeaway in Applecross that served […]
Sax to the max
ABOUT 100 saxophone players will belt out AC/DC’s It’s a Long way to the Top as part of the inaugural WAAPA Sax Festival in Perth this weekend. The two-day event […]
Smashed it
THE Australian 65+ mens tennis team has won the Britannia Cup at the ITF World Teams Championships in Florida. Captain Glenn Busby says they turned back time to beat the […]
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