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A STAFF culture survey at Perth council last July showed most employees would warn others against taking up a job there. The “Cultyr” scorecard was conducted just before state-appointed commissioners left; the result’s worse than during a tumultuous 2017. Among the dozens of questions, a “promoter” score measures how likely they are to recommend the…
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IT had to happen: A locally produced video game has captured Perth during its Covid lockdown madness. The retro-style Sonny Yang’s Incredibly Inconvenient Pandemic Game was made by Perth comedians Yang and Alice McCullagh (Alice Mack on stage) and features a protagonist struggling with crowded shops, closed pubs and a toilet paper shortage. It’s an old…
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A DISPERSED and diverse series of events across five days will replace Perth’s cancelled Australia Day Skyworks. In November, Perth’s new councillors took heed of WA chief health officer Andrew Robertson’s advice and cancelled the Skyworks due to the risk of having huge crowds packed together for a few hours and uncertainty about WA’s Covid…
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MORE than 50 greyhounds and allied dogs had walkies around Hyde Park on Sunday January 10 in support of a campaign to phase out the racing industry by 2025. The walk was hosted by racing abolitionist group Free the Hounds and supporter Greens upper house MP Alison Xamon. The number of racing dogs injured or…
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EX-PERTH lad Jason Chatfield has won the ComicOz award for Best Australian Original Comic for 2020 for his cautionary coronavirus comic. The former (and still occasional) Voice cartoonist, now living it up in corona-central New York, penned the multi-page toon back in April after contracting the virus. It depicts a hellish experience lying about for…
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MY family and I were en route to a pizzeria in Mount Lawley when my wife spotted a funky cafe with bright murals and South American music playing. We couldn’t resist Medellín’s lively charm and decided to abandon our plans and give the Colombian cafe a go. Open from 9am-9pm, Medellín does everything from traditional…
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PERTH comedian Matt Storer pokes fun at mystical gurus in his one-man Fringe show A Cult For You. Featuring clever jokes and the odd satirical song, the show squeezes the life of a cult leader into an hysterical one-hour performance. “Having come from a religious background, I’ve always been fascinated by supernatural beliefs, particularly really…
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IT’S a cliche, but first impressions count. This Yokine home doesn’t disappoint with a lovely tree shading its entrance and a stylish art deco motif in the double garage doors. There’s a quiet confidence about this four bedroom, three bathroom home, with bold architectural lines split over two storeys. The ground floor has a large…
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TRAFFIC will be diverted from North Perth Common for 12-months as Vincent council tries to get the drastically underpopulated public space working. The $1 million public square at the corner of View and Fitzgerald Streets was opened mid-2019 to address a shortage of casual hang-out space on the pedestrian-unfriendly strip. But apart from some organised…
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AN old photo tucked away in the back of a drawer has revealed a stark West Perth of 50 years ago. Ian Hale owns The Backlot cinema down in the former industrial wedge of the suburb now known as the Pickle District. He was first given the photo by neighbour Andrew Kailis shortly after moving…
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