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MOUNT LAWLEY playwright Doreshawar Khan was partway through her latest work about three Muslim siblings when news broke of the Christchurch Mosque shooting. She says it was a fearful time for Muslims in Perth as they faced prejudice in the aftermath. “I’ve had friends who’ve stopped wearing the hijab after this, because they were abused…
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YOU wouldn’t know it, but below St Georges Terrace is Lalla Rookh – a restaurant-bar serving Italian-inspired fare. As I wandered down the staircase and into the expansive dining room, I felt like Alice in foodie wonderland. Wasting no time, we kicked off our culinary adventure with sardine bruschetta ($16). The toasted bread was topped…
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THE Perth Symphony Orchestra will tackle iconic soundtracks and pop songs to raise money for kids with cancer. The special concert at Gloucester Park will feature special arrangements of songs from Frozen, The Lion King and The Greatest Showman, and by artists including Katy Perry, David Bowie and Taylor Swift. Singers Leah Guelfi, Mark Turner…
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Golden comms TO celebrate 20th century telecommunications, Perth’s Wireless Hill Museum will host a free show-and-tell session and an outdoor screening of the classic silent film The Thief of Bagdad. Former Melville mayor Russell Aubrey said the Show and Tell Vintage Technology Information Day was a chance to get the opinion of telecomms experts on old…
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THIS home is situated on the leafy Alfonso Street, which has gorgeous examples of early Perth architecture like the Redemptorist Monastery. Featuring all the heritage bells and whistles, this four-bedroom house has art nouveau-tiled fireplaces, a stained-glass front door, soaring ceilings and chocolate-brown jarrah floors. The long hall has a decorative plaster arch and there’s…
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WHILE Perth city council’s staffing costs soared to unprecedented levels last year, its executives couldn’t even tell how many employees they had. An accounting consultant commissioned by the official state government inquiry into the council appeared at public hearings last week and said nearly half the PCC’s total expenses last year were taken up by…
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TWO residents whose sit-in protest earlier this month prevented a 30-year-old tree in their strata complex being cut down, fear they’ve been the victim of an oddly macabre payback. While James Kozak and June Winsome-Smith’s appeal against the removal of the grevillea robusta grinds its way through the State Administrative Tribunal (“Tree warrior,” Voice, October…
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A PILATES studio in Maylands has been one of the first small businesses to benefit from Bayswater council’s red tape war. Under Bayswater’s new rules, which are designed to tackle high shop vacancies, cafes, pop-up shops, galleries and even community markets can operate for up to six months without requiring planning approval. Pilates with Bec…
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AN innovative new podcast about Perth’s hidden history has been launched by Perth council. Untold Stories of Perth examines themes of identity, discrimination, and prejudice, with the three 10-minute episodes already uploaded looking at the Ugly Men’s Association which raised money for returned soldiers, a colourful snake charmer, Italian and Chinese communities and the segregation…
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VOTING is open for the most popular photograph at this year’s Vincent’s local history awards. The awards attracted a record 205 photographic entries, with voting for the most popular open at http://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/library or in person at the library on Loftus Street until October 27 (the winning voter gets a framed copy of their favourite pic).…
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