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Perth City Council Ordinary Council Meeting September 27, 2022 A NEW ‘elegant’ adult store can open up at 129 Barrack Street after winning approval from Perth council. Some neighbours were concerned Pink Rabbit Adult Boutique might bring in some unsavoury customers, but the owner assured the council they wanted to run a tasteful shop that…
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ROBERTSON PARK is in the running to become an incubator of tennis talent, with Vincent council hoping to woo Tennis West into investing in six clay courts. Tennis West has been scouting venues around the city to find a place to build six new clay courts and reckons Robertson Park is looking like the best…
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IN this week’s column from the Vincent Local History Centre we have the story of the Chinese immigrants who set up Perth’s early market gardens that were once abundant through the inner-city suburbs. EARLY settlers established the first commercial vegetable gardens in Perth shortly after 1829. Decades later in the 1880s, small but increasing…
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A “WIND telephone” has been installed at Claughton Reserve for bereaved people to feel closer to lost loved ones. The project was driven by Bayswater resident Merle Taylor, whose son Chris died in his sleep in 2018 aged 34. She had heard about the concept of the Japanese “kaze no denwa” (phone of the wind)…
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FREMANTLE HOSPITAL has unveiled the first of three upgrades to reinvigorate itself as a centre for healthcare, however they have highlighted a much larger healthcare crisis in WA. The 12-bed respiratory ward, featuring four beds with oxygen saturation monitoring equipment, opened last week. Other upgrades include a new ophthalmology unit set to open at the…
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Why him? REGARDING “Street to honour Indian Anzacs” (Voice, September 24, 2022). SORRY, but thousands of Australians and Western Australians died in the Great War. If this Indian chap gets a road named after him why not ALL the others … or is this a form of reverse racism to satisfy a woke or political agenda?…
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SOME of the Perth CBD is still like a ghost town on the weekend. The stretch of Hay Street near His Majesty’s Theatre on Sunday night was a prime example. Countless eateries and cafes, which clearly rely on trade from workers during office hours on weekdays were shut, making the place eerily quiet and feel…
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PETER GARRETT never really quit politics – he just swapped parliament for the tour bus. Taking to the stage with Midnight Oil at the RAC Arena on Sunday night, the dreary upper house debates had been replaced with power chords, the parliamentary speeches with trenchant lyrics, and the hoary backbenchers with Marshall stacks. Halfway through…
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ARE we heading for another global economic crisis? The soaring cost of living is battering consumers around the world with the inflation rate in the UK hitting a record high this month and the pound tumbling in value. With all this fiscal gloom in mind, Voice Estate has unearthed another budget gem. This two bedroom…
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PERTH lord mayor Basil Zempilas wants to bring more troops into the CBD, by giving the 10th Light Horse Regiment ‘freedom of entry’ for an honour march. Granting freedom of entry is a rare honour and the highest accolade a local government can confer on a military unit. The convention against armies entering towns stems…
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