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A PEDESTRIAN had to be rescued from under a bus near the corner of Charles Street and Carr Street last week, a risky intersection that’s long been warned about by local pedestrian and bike safety advocates. The man was crossing around dusk on June 1 when he was hit by a bus in the bus…
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AFTER briefly experimenting with giving residents a say on whether they want a verge tree, Bayswater council is set to drop its opt-in system. Until late last year verge trees went in by default, one outside every residence, and anyone not wanting one would have to plead their case to the council and hope for…
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FEDERAL Perth MP Patrick Gorman has entered PM Anthony Albanese’s ministry after being appointed assistant minister to the prime minister, sworn in this week by governor-general David Hurley. It’s considered a nice gig and involves working closely with the PM, and comes off the back of Mr Gorman’s huge result for Labor in the Perth seat.…
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Where is the planning? REFERRING to your two recent articles in the Voice both relating to e-mobility devices (“e-Trouble on the footpath,” “E-scooter share on cards,” Voice, June 4, 2022). The two articles do relate in the sense that they point to larger issues which have not been addressed in either the media, nor by the government…
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THERE’S a psycho on the loose in America, reducing A-list celebrities to tears. Thankfully “Psycho” is actually a new brand of ultra hot sauce made by Perth boutique company Dingo Sauce. Psycho features on the latest season of Hot Ones, where A-list celebrities are interviewed while eating 10 progressively hotter chicken wings doused in hand-crafted…
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It only seems fitting that WA’s sexually-ambiguous burlesque scene has officially entered the post-gender age. This year’s burlesque state finals in Perth will do away with its Miss and Mr categories, replacing them with the all-encompassing ‘Mx’. “This competition is now open to all expression of gender identity,” says Mx Burlesque WA producer Melanie Piantoni…
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THIS Maylands home has one of the most intriguing street names – Sopwith Elbow. The bend in the street explains the elbow bit, but is Sopwith a reference to a vintage plane or the old Maylands airstrip where the first non-stop flight across Australia landed in 1928? It’s one for the history buffs and psychogeographers,…
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A WOMAN suffered a broken leg after being hit by an electric bike on a Beaufort Street footpath recently, highlighting growing concerns about mixing e-vehicles and pedestrians. On May 5, Anna Lindstedt was hit by the e-bike as she got off a bus on Beaufort Street. “As I stepped off, the e-bike hit me from…
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FREMANTLE’s mighty Chook yearns once again to be the theme of the vintage nursery rhyme’s Golden Goose: always doing most good for the world around. So we’re calling out to all our wonderful readers to hop on board and give the Rooster a mighty post-pandemic financial boost for the next year or two. We have…
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A STIRLING council ranger proved a welcome sight recently when he came across a woman needing urgent medical help. Stirling mayor Mark Irwin dedicated his June mayor’s message to ranger Darren Anderson’s actions, saying “every now and then, whilst we are going about the business of local government, extraordinary circumstances can arise. “Darren, a new…
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