Perth Voice Interactive
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Author: Your Herald
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A POCKET Park on Progress Street, Morley will get a $65,000 makeover. Bayswater council is collaborating with local group The Morley Momentum to turn the 130sqm block into an attractive public space with seating, decking, festoon lights, greenery and a footpath. It’s estimated the makeover will be finished later this year.
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VINCENT voters have been sluggish in this year’s council elections. With the mayoral position and north ward vacancies filled without a contest, just 20 per cent of south ward voters have bothered to return their ballot papers. In the 2017 election 26.69 per cent voted. Although voters have been apathetic, sign stealers have been active.…
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BAYSWATER council has added two electric bikes to its fleet. The new treadlies mean staff could nip up to Officeworks or Donut King and back without a grunt of carbon dioxide, let alone the nasties that spew from the exhaust of a stinky car. ”Our bikes are recharged using solar panels already in place at…
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POLICE have charged a “ride-share” driver with the indecent assault of a female passenger. Police say on October 5 around 11pm, the driver told the woman, who is in her 20s, that the rear passenger doors were broken so she had to ride up front with him. During the trip from a southern Perth suburb…
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“SERIOUS consequences” are in store for witnesses who forged documents, gave dishonest testimony or withheld information from the inquiry into the City of Perth. After 40 days of evidence, 23 witnesses and 4000 pages of transcripts, inquiry lawyer Philip Urquhart wrapped up the public hearings last week warning those who’d tried to frustrate the inquiry…
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“WE have been conflicted hundreds of times.” It finally dawned on Perth’s councillors in 2016 that they’d breached conflict of interest rules by accepting pricey VIP tickets and swank showbags for events propped up with ratepayers’ money. But the Voice had been banging on about the apparent conflict of interest for more than 10 years.…
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PIERS VERSTEGEN is director of the Conservation Council of WA. As a long time campaigner for the environment, he was initially skeptical about the tactics used by Extinction Rebellion members, who’ve promised to use civil disobedience and disruption to urge action on climate change. LIKE many people committed to action on climate change, I initially…
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SWEET REMEDY is the cupcake equivalent of the shop in Chocolat. The Leederville cafe sells every type of cupcake imaginable and they’re all made fresh in-store. When I visited during lunchtime on the school holidays there was a fun atmosphere and kids were decorating their own creations. For $6.50 parents can buy a vanilla dream…
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SHAKESPEARE at the Pop-up Globe is like a cross between stadium rock and a football match. Harking back to performances of the Bard’s work at the original Globe theatre in London in 1599, audiences are encouraged to shout and jeer and there’s plenty of bawdy jokes. But then things take a modern, surreal turn. In…
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THE beautiful, textural ceramics of ceramic artist Pippin Drysdale are timeless classics. This is exactly what the 12th Duke of Devonshire, Peregrine Cavendish, thought when he bought a range of Drysdale’s pieces to sit along the priceless ancient Roman and Egyptian sculptures and Rembrandt and Veronese masterpieces in the private collection at his majestic home,…
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