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Author: Your Herald
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FLORENCE, Evelina and Rose check out Vincent council’s new all-ages playground which has just opened on the corner of Sydney and Haynes streets in North Perth. Part of the Haynes Street Reserve development, the playground is the first area to be opened to the public and includes a log scramble, cubby, basket swing, tightropes, stilt…
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ONLINE multicultural radio station Global Chat Radio is on a mission to keep Western Australian migrants connected with their culture, but needs more volunteers to make it happen. Founder Franco Smargiassi, who migrated from Italy as a child, describes WA’s culture as “rich” but says over time those who have migrated to Australia have been…
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“EVERYBODY has a backstory” and artist Alun Bartsch brings his subjects’ tales into focus in his first solo photography exhibition Backstories. Bartsch, a Coolbinia local, had a 30-year career in advertising and now works in TV and film production. Work has taken him around the world, to Turkey, Spain, Italy, Greece, China, and back here. …
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It’s a real transagenda REGARDING your article, “Some dicks don’t get it: Support pours in for storytime drag queen” (Voice, April 1, 2023). It would appear that the City of Bayswater and your paper would have people believe that “Support pours in for storytime drag queen” and are therefore culpable of pushing this transgender agenda…
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Elon Musk’s Starship is the biggest rocket ever built, but despite its impressive height and girth it could only manage a “wet launch” on Monday and didn’t get off the ground. I wonder if the same psychology applies to rockets as other areas of life – you need a big It could apply to burgers…
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PUNTERS could experience strange intergalactic noises and images when they venture through the back streets of West Perth next month. As part of the The Pickle District After Dark Art Crawl, audiovisual artist Roly Skender is creating a bespoke projection with all sorts of weird sounds and lights. Skender’s award-winning public artworks including the interactive…
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The Voice has reviewed some heritage stunners in Mt Lawley over the years, but this could be the best yet. A charming three bedroom two bathroom property, it has a wealth of period features including soaring ceilings, original fireplaces, timber architraves and beautiful ceiling panels. There’s gorgeous natural wood throughout with the warm hue of…
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A HUGE patch of Bayswater’s industrial zone is yet to be connected to modern sewerage, which is holding the district back, threatening trade jobs, and possibly poisoning the groundwater. Instead of pipes the industrial zone inhabitants mostly use septic tanks or aerobic treatment units, which aren’t always suitable for modern industrial uses and are…
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AFTER a three-year break the popular Mount Hawthorn Hawkers Market returns to Axford Park for a pop-up preview this Friday April 14. Vincent council’s found a new operator in Roz Collins, whose events company In the Bag Promotions has run the Saturday morning Kyilla Community Farmers Market. They’re fitting in one pop-up hawkers market before…
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AN eagle-eyed ratepayer has called out Vincent council for plagiarising so heavily from the City of Townsville’s CCTV policy that it’s own draft version quotes Queensland legislation that’s not relevant to WA. Brendan Bensky, who’s got an interest in privacy policy, says aside from the red faces such a gaffe should produce, it’s made him…
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