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LOCAL homeless support charity Short Back & Sidewalks gave out its 7000th free haircut on Monday this week (August 29). “What started as a few folk heading into car parks in Northbridge on weekends has now grown national and we’re extremely proud to be positively impacting the life of our 7000th client,” SB&SW founder Craig…
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MARITIME historian Daniel A Elias has struck gold after his call-out for memorabilia relating to industrial relations on Western Australia’s docks (“Appeal for port history,” Voice, August 20, 2022). The UWA honours student is looking into how the tensions between labour organisations such as the Lumpers Union, stevedoring companies and government bodies helped shape today’s maritime…
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FEW sports combine athleticism, grace and courage like diving. Divers never fail to mesmerise us with their skills and strength during the Olympic or Commonwealth Games. However, we rarely see or experience diving up close in local pools anymore. HBF Stadium in Claremont is one of the few pools in Perth to still have a…
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Only the Voice! PLEASE find my contribution for your appeal. I first saw it in the Fremantle Herald a few months ago. I live in Inglewood and over the years I’ve had two or three free local papers. But now, only the Voice. Is the Voice a separate paper or one published under different names but…
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IT WAS one of those days when you crave soup for lunch. Bright and sunny, but at the fag-end of winter, the wind cut you in two and folk on the Leederville cafe strip were still wearing heavy jackets. There was only one place on my mind – My House Dumpling on Oxford Street. I…
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THE WA Symphony Orchestra will make their Heath Ledger Theatre debut in the contemporary dance classic GLORIA. Originally created by legendary New Zealand dancer and choreographer Douglas Wright in 1990, GLORIA will feature Perth’s Co3 dance company and the ethereal voices of the St George’s Cathedral Consort, one of the top mixed-voice choirs in WA.…
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A NEW apartment in the Perth CBD for under $350,000? No, the Voice hasn’t smoked some funny cigarettes, this Adelaide Terrace apartment is on the market for $345,000. Okay, it’s only a one bathroom studio, but it would be perfect for a FIFO worker or a professional working in the city. And long term it…
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A VOLUNTARY tree protection register approved by Bayswater council has been dubbed a dud. Some tree-loving councillors reckon even they wouldn’t sign on to the register given the expense and onerous requirements. Six years in the making, the register would let people nominate a beloved significant tree on private land for protection. Development on private…
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A LONGSTANDING policy against nuclear power stations in Vincent will stay in place and the council will join the anti-nuke “Mayors for Peace” program. Vincent council brought in the ban on nuclear materials in July 1995. It was one of the first acts of the newly formed council under inaugural mayor Jack Marks and for…
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FUNDING for organisations that only hire church-going Christian chaplains is likely to come to an end at Bayswater council. Since 2011 Bayswater has paid Christian charity Youthcare $40,000 a year for chaplains at John Forrest Secondary College, Hampton Senior High School, Morley Senior High School and Maylands Peninsula Primary School. Youthcare’s members are from 13…
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