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A 26-year-old Bayswater man has been charged with arson over the July 29 fire at Future Bayswater’s shed on Beechboro Road South. Police allege that at about 1.20am that morning he entered the rear yard and set fire to the shed, causing around $40,000 of damage to property that was not insured. He was also…
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AFTER seven months’ construction a date’s been set for Beatty Park Leisure Centre’s indoor area to reopen, with major works scheduled to be done by August 22. Vincent council has spent around $3 million on indoor renovations to replace pool tiling and the 1962 toilets, upgrade pipework and water filters, make everything wheelchair accessible, and…
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MARJORIE WILLIAMS, the woman who helped preserve Anzac Cottage where she grew up, has died on August 4, age 100. Ms Williams (nee Porter) was born in the cottage the community built for her father, a wounded Gallipoli veteran. A veteran herself, Mrs Williams served as an air raid warden and was in the Australian…
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AUNTY THERESA WALLEY, an Aboriginal elder, author and founding member of the Perth elders advisory group guiding the city, has died aged 83. Perth council house was lit up the colour of the Aboriginal flag this week to honour Mrs Walley and their flags were to fly at half mast on August 12, the day…
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Thanks Reece, but… A BIG thank you to Reece Harley for sharing his tip on how to get Vincent infrastructure fixed (“Speedy Response,” Voice, August 5, 2021). Directly emailing the mayor and CEO, who would have thought! The 24 hour turnaround for removing some non-offensive graffiti is very impressive. Particularly when compared to the fact that a…
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NORTH PERTH resident MARY GRAY is an environmental scientist and long time advocate for the bush and its inhabitants. This week she tells us what we can do in our own backyards (or front yards) to fight climate change, calling on us to ditch the concrete and go bush. ACTION on climate change is now…
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I RECKON the Premier should focus his house hunting on Claisebrook Cove in East Perth. The leafy enclave is perfect for a swish apartment where he could live with other MPs in a political version of Seinfeld – Seinfeld (Mark McGowan), Kramer (John Carey), Elaine (Simone McGurk) and George Costanza (David Templeman). They could all hang out…
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“ALAS, poor middle-aged white male. I knew him well…” Women take centre stage in Unbound, a reinterpretation of Shakespeare in which females are empowered and don’t take any nonsense from men. Using dialogue cut and pasted from Shakespeare’s entire canon, Blank Space Productions have created a lively and clever work that better reflects women in…
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THE front of this home could be straight out of a swanky street in London. Black railings contrast with white walls, pillars and a small bedroom balcony, conjuring up images of walking around Belgravia in Central London (remember those quaint times when you could go on overseas holidays). There is plenty more to enjoy inside…
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Family of dead mother plead for immediate housing action FIFTY SIX sleeping bags laid out on the front steps of WA’s Parliament on Tuesday laid bare the grim toll of WA’s housing crisis during an evening vigil to its latest casualty, Alana Garlett. The sleeping bags commemorated the 56 people who died homeless last year,…
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