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FORMER Bayswater mayor Dan Bull wants to bring back the infant immunisation service which was cut in 2022 as part of a hotly contested money-saving measure. For more than 30 years the council funded free immunisation days for infants at local clinics covering diseases like whooping cough, polio, measles and diphtheria. It immunised about 750…
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FOUR new short docos delving into local stories are in the works as the City of Vincent Film Project reprises its sixth year. Usually three film ideas are chosen every year for the festival, a collaboration between the council and Revelation Film Festival, but 2023’s bounty of quality entries has seen a fourth commissioned. This…
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A PRESERVATION project for an important part of Perth’s plumbing past kicks off soon. Officially titled the “Low-Level Sewage Pumping Station No 2”, the Langley Park Pumping Station was designed by architect RL Wright and built in 1914, incorporating a since-defunct public toilet in its elaborately-decorated masonry. With a cottage-like design, it commonly provokes “what is…
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Facts please NOT pleased with failure of the last 25 years to use Australia Day to push for a republic or change the Australian flag, the rally from the usual crowd has moved on to now change the day itself. The problem is our schools don’t teach ‘historical fact’ anymore. The decision to settle a…
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IN this week’s Speakers’ Corner environmental scientist MARY GRAY responds to recent coverage of the state government’s lack of a plan to protect native vegetation. Ms Gray was awarded an OAM for service to conservation and the environment in 2022. THE article “No plan for bushland” (Perth Voice, January 14, 2023) does not tell the…
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MONDAY lunchtime. Sun hotter than the inside of a party pie. Inglewood quieter than Michael Clarke’s endorsement team. My strange experiment in psychogeography – wandering around Perth suburbs to get a true feel for their history, culture and social origins – ended at Mori Japanese Kitchen. Tucked away in the corner of Inglewood Town Square,…
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HE started WA’S first experimental radio station 100 years ago, played a key role in creating Perth’s first commercial radio station 6WF and The Royal Flying Doctor radio service, and had many technical firsts in his field, but most sandgropers will have never heard of Walter “Wally” Coxon. Well now the “Godfather of Perth radio”…
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THIS might be one of the most luxurious properties the Voice has reviewed in Yokine. Featuring a contemporary facade, huge entertainer’s kitchen, gorgeous ensuite and high-end finishes, this four bedroom three bathroom home is going to turn heads in the suburb. The ground floor has a spacious open plan living/dining/kitchen area with a pristine white…
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HAVING grown up in Switzerland, you wouldn’t think Simone Blaser would be a natural in the ocean. But since immigrating to Australia and settling in Hamilton Hill, she can’t get enough of open water swimming. “In 2000 my boyfriend and I traveled around Australia in an old ambulance and fell in love with the country,”…
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A DO-LITTLE council report on improving safety for kids walking to school has been slammed by parents at Maylands Peninsula Primary School. In mid-2022 Bayswater council’s Safe Routes to School pilot project surveyed Maylands residents to identify the problems deterring kids from walking to school. It raised issues such as intersections which prioritised cars over…
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