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A NEW fun fair at Yagan Square means you’ll no longer need to drag the kids screaming and shouting into the city. The fair is crammed with all your favourite rides and sideshow games, and of course there’s stalls selling candy floss and doughnuts. Traditionalists will enjoy the dodgems, the mini-ferris wheel and the cups and…
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You’ve shamed every mother I WAS absolutely appalled by The Speaker’s Corner “Mental health is in the mouths of babes” in last week’s Voice. How could you publish such inflammatory material? Accusing parents who bottle feed their babies of contributing to “a pandemic of mental health problems” and then further linking that to domestic violence…
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DON’T worry, you won’t find a dry meat pie, soggy bread roll or limp vegemite sarnie at the Tuck Shop Cafe in Perth. Instead there’s a comprehensive breakfast/brunch menu and a mouth-watering range of pies. Finding a chunk of string in the watery filling of a pie in the school canteen put me off them…
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The Nannup Music Festival 28 Feb – 2 March 2020 The much-loved Nannup Music Festival is back for 2020, with an incredible line up of amazing music acts, set in the stunning bushland backdrop of the south west. To be held on the weekend of 28 February-2 March 2020, the eclectic program highlights the best…
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TWO exhibitions showing alongside each other – one by award-winning children’s author Shaun Tan – at the Fremantle Arts Centre provoke some interesting reflections on the state of modern society. Tan’s Tales from the Inner City primarily explores the relationship between humans and animals. The paintings, sculptures and sketches were the raw material from his…
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IN 2006 The Maltings development in Perth won a second national award for successfully blending heritage and modern living. Fast forward to 2019 and the complex still looks stunning, with modern apartments, communal open spaces, gorgeous gardens, a pool and gym. The circa 1903 heritage buildings were originally a brewery, but in 1928 the owners…
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Perth to aim for 90,000 residents PERTH’S inner city population would triple to 90,000 by 2050 under a new Strategic Community Plan released by the city’s commissioners. The new plan calls for an inner-city population on par with Melbourne by 2035 and Sydney by 2050, well beyond the currently projected 58,000 residents. Chair commissioner Andrew…
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“JUST move it, please,” Maylands Labor MP Lisa Baker called from the speaker’s chair as the 11th of 55 amendments to WA’s voluntary assisted dying bill was read out in parliament. The bill was passed into law just before 6pm on the final sitting day of the year, December 10. In his closing remarks premier…
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THE week-long Beaufort Street Christmas Festival wraps up today (Saturday December 14) with a pageant and twilight markets. The strip’s had a bit of a bounceback in recent weeks: New business Greenhaus Yoga opened up at 580 Beaufort, the first to take advantage of Vincent council’s amnesty on “change of use” rules and convert offices…
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Fine threat for ticket hoarders CLEAR out your dashboard daily: Under a new Vincent council bylaw, drivers who leave old parking tickets on their dashes will now face a $70 fine. The council’s rejigging its parking laws to bring the language up-to-date for mobile phone parking apps, but another amendment bans expired tickets “visible from…
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