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FREMANTLE features prominently in the latest issue of top-tier American comic book series, Suicide Squad. And there’s talk of one of the series’ co-authors, who has ties to Applecross, introducing the global franchise’s first indigenous female character. Fremantle Harbour and the WA Maritime Museum is the setting for a violent opening sequence of Suicide Squad…
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WITH the rest of the country ablaze, charitable efforts have spread across Perth to help eastern states communities cope with the fires. Concerts, bake sales, and goods donations have sprung up, while over at Milktooth kids art school in Bayswater the tiny artists are putting up their masterpieces for sale. The school’s Elizabeth Marruffo and…
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“IRREPLACEABLE” custom surfboards have been stolen from a Mount Lawley couple, along with their car and camping gear. Hannah and Cameron Etchells’ Landcruiser Troopcarrier named Sandy was stolen from near their Chelmsford Road home December 29. “We were going on a trip to Esperance. We had the car packed up with so much stuff. We…
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IN the ’60s parents sometimes left their kids in the car while they nipped into a pub’s beer garden for a drink. My sister and I would enjoy a real lemon squash and a bag of chips, then fall asleep on the back seat. Children’s services would be called in today, but luckily you can…
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TALKBACK is a dark and intense play about a fraudulent psychic who discovers she might not be such a fraud after all. Part of the Blue Room’s Summer Nights and Fringe World, it’s playwright Hannah Cockroft’s debut play. The Yokine local was hooked on script writing whilst completing an English and cultural studies degree at…
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FRINGE World 2020 kicks off next week (January 17) for four weeks of magic, mayhem, music, circus, cabaret, and more. Acts are popping up in unusual places this year, and you can pack your bag for a shipboard overnighter for Fringe on the Water. The Vasco da Gama is set to become the first ever…
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FOR near on 100 years Russell Street’s tannery was an industrial hub virtually on the doorstep of Fremantle’s CBD. It was also the only WA tannery which kept up the tradition of vegetable dyes (wattle bark), right until it closed in 1995/96. Straight after the buildings were sold off, the original 1854 limestone buildings which…
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MARY GRAY is a North Perth resident who, like most of the city, is concerned about climate change and reckons there’s a way all of us – including the Voice – can do their bit to turn things around. THE City of Vincent has declared a ‘Climate Emergency’ and is to be commended for this…
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North Perth’s SCOTT GIBBINGS found the day after a rollicking Pride party had a challenge or two to overcome. STARTING your day with a hangover is not always a bad thing. It’s about perspective. The human condition dictates that fulfilment is derived through overcoming challenges. The hangover presents a novel challenge. It brings into focus…
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THERE always had been a discreet flow of gossip coursing through the lanes and alleyways around winding Monmouth Street. The near accident, when Ms Buttle, while riding her mauve coloured bike with the wicker basket, almost crashed into her husband riding peloton style in front, when he stopped to let Ms Chrushin‘s yellow spotted tomcat…
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