Perth Voice Interactive
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Month: February 2023
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WHILE some people were saying hail marys in Church on Sunday morning, a motley crew were wildly dancing and rejoicing on the lawns beside the Round House in Fremantle. They weren’t stragglers from an all-night rave or beach bums having a breakfast party, but folk taking part in the first ever Ecstatic Dance Church, a…
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LET’S face it, some pools are a waste of time. If they’re not a decent size they become an expensive hole in the ground that doesn’t get much use and eventually becomes a neglected eyesore. No such problems at this three bedroom one bathroom Dianella home, which has a cracking pool in the backyard with…
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Poisons taking deadly toll on owls VINCENT bird advocates are calling for a city-wide ban on rodent poisons that also kill other animals, with native owls at great risk if they consume a poisoned rat. At the Vincent council electors’ AGM on February 2, Birdlife Australia member Betty Bryant said the group is sounding the…
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PARKERS who overstay just a little bit would have a second chance to pay the extra parking fee and avoid a fine under a system proposed by Stirling councillor Joe Ferrante. Cr Ferrante, who recently copped a parking fine himself, reckons they should drop the fine if the person overstays no more than 90 minutes,…
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THE iconic Greens & Co cafe in Leederville is in line to become an Indian eatery and pub. The quirky and chaotic Greens & Co, often stylised “Greens & Cock” due to frequent additions of a painted CK to their sign, closed in April 2021 leaving a large, solemn shopfront in the middle of the Oxford…
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A BID to restore free infant immunisation clinics has been voted down by a slim majority of Bayswater councillors. The free clinic days used to immunise about 750 to 1000 kids a year and cost the council around $120,000, until a split council voted to end the clinics to save money in 2022. Councillor Dan…
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AFTER five years of efforts there’s finally a safe pedestrian crossing in front of the main entrance to Maylands Peninsula Primary School. Bayswater councillor Elli Petersen-Pik originally raised the issue before he became a councillor and long before his kids started school, and parents later collected a petition in 2019 calling for a crossing. “On…
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I READ your front page story “Kings Park push for cat laws” (Voice, January 28, 2023) with great interest. I record frogs on the FrogID App for Australian Museum so see first hand the carnage. Cats are killing small birds, frogs, all sorts of lizards and wildlife. Every day throughout Australia there is 7 million…
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SOMETIMES I start to roll my eyes when I read the pretentious and often embellished backstory to a new restaurant or food product. Like the beer that was brewed by celibate monks in a cave in Syria for 12 years using yeast extracted from the Turin shroud. Thankfully The Woodfired Baker in Maylands has a…
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AN unlikely friendship between 101-year-old retired cray fisherman Bill Newbold and 16-year-old Coogee artist Finn Brophy has been the catalyst for a touching artwork. They were paired up as part of The Centenarian Portrait Project by Teenagers, which sees young, budding artists chat to centenarians and create a portrait of them to help dispel negative…
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