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Author: Your Herald
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IT was like going in a time warp to a different era. Before placing your order at the deli in The Re Store, you have to manually pull a paper ticket, with a number on it, from a machine that looks like it has been around since the days of JFK. My number was “24”,…
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EIGHTY-one-year-old British film maker Mike Leigh is back with another of his slice-of-working class-life films. With 23 films under his belt and numerous awards to his name, in Hard Truths he works with some of his favourite actors, his long-time cinematographer and familiar musical director. In his long-established manner, the project was built by workshopping…
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IT’S seen off covid, the cost of living crisis and a few changes of government, but you might not have heard of the Perth Folk and Roots Club. Founded by Perth muso Keith Anthonisz in 2012, the not-for-profit started out life at the Oxford Hotel and Mt Lawley Bowling Club, showcasing live music by folk…
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IF you’re looking for a massive inner-city apartment, this could be the one. With 125sqm of living space, you’ll never be short of room in this North Perth abode. It looks the part too with gorgeous wooden floors, coffered ceilings and stylish downlights. The north-facing open plan living/dining/kitchen area is particularly impressive. Bathed in natural…
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THE City of Perth has declared its Rod Evans Community Centre out of bounds for a public meeting about Palestine featuring Indian intellectual Vijay Prashad. This follows on the heels of the University of WA forcing the meeting off campus last week (“Students claim UWA tried to block speaker,” Voice, October 26, 2024). Australian-Palestinian UWA…
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A RELENTLESS anti-Covid vaccine protester is opposing Perth council’s rules requiring a permit to hold a sign or play amplified sound in public. Stuart Chapman says he wants the right to publicly play a recorded message from a dying teenage cancer patient who refused the Covid vaccine. Mr Chapman is a regular sight on Perth…
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A MILESTONE in the redevelopment of Warndoolier/Banks Reserve has been marked with the opening of a space to “rest and reflect” on the area’s long cultural history. One of a series of “River Journey interpretation nodes” telling the story of the Whadjuk Aboriginal connection the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River), this latest spot is emblazoned with…
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AFTER 10 mature trees were cut down for a state government housing project in Mount Lawley, Vincent mayor Alison Xamon is furious at the way locals and councillors were left out of the loop by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage. The block at the corner of East Parade and Guildford Road is being…
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POPPIES made by hundreds of loving hands will be displayed outside Vincent council’s admin building for Remembrance Day. Vincent put the call out in August for community members to contribute to the Poppy Project and more than 1000 flowers have been pouring in since from schools, clubs, playgroups, community groups and individuals. …
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PERTH has a new councillor, with Steve Wellard winning the October 18 extraordinary election. A vacancy was left by former councillor Brent Fleeton who retired one year early to pursue a government advisory job in Dubai. It’s the second time Mr Fleeton has cut short a council appointment, having previously left his role as a…
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