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Author: Your Herald
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WHEN grain, wool and meat prices plummeted in 1991, things weren’t looking good for the Nenke family in the small town of Kukerin in the Wheatbelt. They had three kids in boarding school and the bills for their farm were mounting by the day. The family had been selling yabbies as a side business to…
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HE’S Danish, he lived in London for 12 years and now he’s moved to Perth. Some days jazz guitarist Kristian Borring must wake up thinking he’s in witness protection and ask himself “Where do I belong?” There’s an element of that in his new album Earth Matters, which has a searching, restless quality with lots…
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IT can take years to save up for furniture and appliances when you move into a new home – unless you buy this designer pad in East Perth. It comes with all that included, so you can spend money on fun stuff like holidays and hosting dinner parties. This two bedroom one bathroom apartment has…
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THE Galup (Lake Monger) story is coming to Vincent in September. Galup (or Kaarlup, a place of fires) is known to Noongars as a traditional camping and meeting place, and as the site of a colonial massacre in 1830. Noongar theatre-maker Ian Wilkes and artist and filmmaker Poppy van Oorde-Grainger created a multi-platform project telling its…
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A SPATE of dog attacks has prompted Stirling council to consider “covert” park patrols to catch owners who illegally let them off the leash. After Stirling recorded 75 serious attacks in one year, councillor Tony Krsticevic moved a motion calling for a report on ways to better deal with off-leash dogs, citing concerns about attacks…
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PERTH’s favourite Chook, The Perth Voice is a very rare bird. Very few places have their own independent news outlet, like the Chook, delivered free every week to thousands of homes in the cities of Vincent, Bayswater and Perth. To do this the Chook relies on advertisements from healthy small business. Regrettably many of them,…
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PERTH needs more people, Perth lord mayor Basil Zempilas says, and he’s called for an investigation into what’s keeping residents out and how to bring them in. There could be juicy bonuses for developers in store to lure them into building in the CBD instead of on the outskirts of Perth. A bit over 30,000…
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PERTH needs more people, Perth lord mayor Basil Zempilas says, and he’s called for an investigation into what’s keeping residents out and how to bring them in. There could be juicy bonuses for developers to lure them into building in the CBD instead of on the outskirts of Perth, with Mr Zempilas foreshadowing “incentives for increased…
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LONG-EMPTY social housing in East Perth has been refurbished and reopened, with seven Federation-era cottages in the Parry Street heritage precinct getting $3 million in conservation works. Some have been empty for more than seven years (“Running on empty,” Voice, July 21, 2018). Locals were tired of seeing the old places vacant and crumbling while homeless…
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IN this week’s story of olde from Vincent’s Local History Centre historians, we have the tale of Leederville Oval from its early days as a wetland through to hosting women’s sports while the men were away at war, and the big ambitions to host high level plays in the 1960s and today. FEW footy grounds…
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