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THE Perth Rotary Club is collaborating with the Ukraine Association of WA on a fundraising lunch to help support victims of the Ukraine invasion. UAWA president Mykola Mowczan will be guest speaker at the event, being held on Friday May 6 for anyone who’s picked up an early copy of the Voice. The UAWA represents…
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• THE CBD bounceback looks to be underway with Perth having its biggest footfall count for a Friday night in months. Lord mayor Basil Zempilas reported at the May 3 AGM that “the Friday night just gone… figures showed an increase of 14.6 per cent in activity on the previous week,” the biggest number of people…
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USING the car park opposite the WA Magistrates Court is always a roll of the dice. “Sorry I dinged your car – family of convicted murderer who feed their pitbull tabasco sauce – do you accept Visa?” Some of the characters milling about reminded me of jury duty in Glasgow, where I found a man…
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• Gemma Farrell (middle) with her quintet. PERTH musician Gemma Farrell has been nominated for a humanitarian award for her tireless efforts for women and non-binary performers in jazz. Farrell has been running the Young Women in Jazz Program since 2014, and at the height of the #metoo movement in 2017 formed The Artemis Orchestra,…
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LET’S face it, Bassendean used to have a pretty naff image. Many thought it was like some cheap fanny pack strapped to the bulging gut of Bayswater with little sophistication or sense of excitement. But in recent years there has been a reappraisal of the suburb, which has undergone a bit of a cultural renaissance…
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CASH-STRAPPED Bayswater council will spend up to $50,000 figuring out why it doesn’t have enough money. Concerns over the council’s long-term financial health were raised at a closed-doors workshop in March, and this week mayor Filomena Piffaretti moved to obtain “an independent detailed analysis of expenditure, revenue and financial management over the past five years…
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ARTISTS from all walks got together this week to slather some colour on one of the most boring walls in town. The Melrose Street noise wall was until recently a slab of olive drab panels separating a slice of residential Leederville from the freeway traffic. Last year the local town team Leederville Connect put in…
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A PLAN to fence off part of a Bayswater park for a Metronet contractor’s office has been fended off after public outcry. The state government’s Metronet team sent a letter dated April 14 to residents around Mills Avenue Park saying it was planning to fence off about 2000sqm as a construction HQ for Bayswater station contractor…
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IN this week’s Speaker’s Corner, as Rebekah Dawson prepares to move house she pens a paean lauding all there is to love about Leederville. WE are embarking on our next adventure, but I wanted to write a love letter to Leederville: To express how much I will miss you. And reflect on all of the…
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WITH mask mandates going and a new state government cash injection, there’s optimism this week that some life might soon return to Perth’s CBD. Premier Mark McGowan announced as of April 29 masks were only needed for public transport, hospitals and care facilities. Lord mayor Basil Zempilas said at this week’s council meeting he had…
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