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Our response IT is great to see the comments and debate generated by Mr Harley, (“Speedy response,” Voice Letters, August 5, 2021) about the city’s response times to requests from residents and ratepayers. City staff are working hard every day to manage and maintain our roads, footpaths, drains, parks, playgrounds, carparks, trees and community facilities.…
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LIKE many other dads, I over did it with the unhealthy food and craft beer on Father’s Day. I also had to wear a cap made by my young son, featuring his drawing of me that looked like Bela Lugosi with a hangover. On Monday I was in dire need of some vitamins and greens,…
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DESPITE all the obstacles thrown up by covid, this year’s Perth International Jazz Festival will be the biggest yet with the jazzers embarking on a tour of regional WA. Festival director Mace Francis says a $612,000 federal arts grant has enabled them to hire people to work on the festival all year around, whereas previously…
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I COULD imagine Hercule Poirot sauntering about this Coolbinia home and twiddling his wax moustache. That’s because it’s an art deco delight, overflowing with leadlight windows, soaring ceilings, original light fittings and a stunning bay window that overlooks the garden. Normally these sort of ’character’ homes are poky affairs, but this house has four bedrooms,…
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AFTER spending seven months trying to get Vincent council to fix a traffic safety issue just metres from city hall, Leederville local Ross Ioppolo has decided to run for council. He says while the experience was “incredibly frustrating” he hopes to turn it into a positive and steer the council more towards listening to local…
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PERTH councillors have agreed to plop $25 million into a pool at the WACA, as long as there are no maintenance bills. The state government’s been badgering the city to pay for its portion of a pool as part of the joint local, state and federal City Deal. But the cash has been long delayed…
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PERTH needs a statue commemorating a significant woman to break up its conga line of stony-faced blokes, deputy lord mayor Sandy Anghie says. She’s put up a motion for council to invite submissions for statues commemorating significant women, drawing on a quote from Rebecca Solnit’s book The Monument Wars to explain the need. “A city…
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LONG before most people had heard the term climate change, physicist and climate scientist Bill Hare was looking for solutions. A graduate of Murdoch University, Dr Hare worked on the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the 2015 Paris Agreement, and was a lead author of the landmark 2007 IPCC…
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Perth’s feminine few BESSIE MABEL RISCHBIETH (1874-1967) co-founded the the Women’s Service Guilds of WA, a feminist organisation campaigning to improve rights for women and children. Later she joined environmental causes, successfully campaigning against the plan to build a swimming pool in Kings Park, and unsuccessfully fighting the plan to fill in parts of the…
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PERTH’s stern grey ghosts have been told to go a bit easier on people running overtime on their parking tickets and spend less time targeting quiet residential streets. In March councillor Brent Fleeton got up a motion calling for the council’s parking fine practices to be overhauled, stating “councillors heard loud and clear during…
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