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MOST sports around the country are shut down, but greyhounds in WA are still running every day without a live audience in race meets closed to the public. In this week’s Speaker’s Corner, Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds’ WA divisional manager Andrea Pollard reminds us these animals are still being badly injured. IN a…
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NOONGAR artist Sandra Hill has been selected to create a new Wellington Square artwork acknowledging the Stolen Generations. Part of the square upgrades, the work will replace the Sorry Pole which was unveiled by the Bringing Them Home Committee in 2006 for the Sorry Day held there each May 26. The Bringing Them Home Committee…
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THE wisteria-covered balcony of this Mt Lawley home overlooks the suburb’s leafy streets, offering quiet contemplation in these fraught times. Come spring the magnificent cluster of delicate mauve flowers will hopefully welcome in a pandemic-free world. Meanwhile, lockdown in this gorgeous federation mansion will seem like a resort holiday, with numerous white shutters creating the…
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LIVE music returned to the city this week as residents in East and West Perth emerged from their balconies to musicians playing for the neighbourhood. Activate Perth’s City Sessions socially-distanced show on April 12 brought 15 artists to balconies, tennis courts and rooftops to liven up quarantine life for people in apartments. The idea came…
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Bayswater council is fine with a slightly expanded WA government control zone, as long as the state takes care of the parks. THE Bayswater train station upgrade rolls along with the WA government selecting a tenderer to design and build the station, platform and surrounds. The tenderer is Evolve Bayswater Alliance, a project name of…
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TWO Leederville parks owned by Vincent council will not be sold off, following a unanimous vote by councillors. Council staff recommended selling off five lots to help finance Covid-19 relief efforts and soften the blow to city coffers (“Land sale for Covid-19 relief,” Voice, April 4, 2020). At the April 7 meeting councillors pulled the…
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LABOR’S federal Perth MP Patrick Gorman has penned a notice of motion imploring the Morrison government to rescue artists slipping through the Covid-19 welfare cracks. The motion calls the arts sector “an essential part of our economy, our community and our identity”. It says the Covid-19 coronavirus has “destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of working artists”…
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THE first woman elected to a WA road board is set to be honoured with Bayswater council naming Nellie Tant Reserve after her. Nellie Fawdrey Tant (1880 to 1949) was elected to the Belmont-Bayswater Road Board on April 9, 1921, before resigning the next year. The park, informally named The Strand Reserve, is the patch…
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Former Bayswater councillor Chris Cornish still keeps an eye on local government, and was taken aback by City of Perth commissioners’ support for Brookfield’s over-sized Elizabeth Quay towers as “a political response” to the impact of Covid-19 on WA’s economy. In this week’s Speaker’s Corner he dissects three failings of a flimsy planning system. LAST…
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WINTER was supposed to be a good season for Fibber McGee’s. The Leederville Irish pub’s hearty food and dark stouts usually sees trade pick up in the colder months, a reversal of the patterns at a lot of summery bars. But in the space of a week they went from celebrating St Patrick’s Day on…
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