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HERITAGE PERTH will be history at the end of this month when its funding from Perth council runs out. The independent advocacy group runs the award-winning Perth Heritage Weekends, but a council review estimated it could save almost half the $300,000 it funds the organisation each year by doing the work itself. Commissioners will next…
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BAYSWATER council is in the process of installing new exercise equipment at 13 parks across the city. “Earlier this year we asked our community what they’d like to see in their parks and reserves, and this has been part of the outcome of that community feedback,” Bayswater mayor Dan Bull says. “With all kinds of…
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A PRIVATE school which bussed in students to hand out snacks to homeless people in Weld Square could be banned from doing it in the future. Perth Labor MP John Carey wants to crack down on unsanctioned charities that he believes are doing more bad than good. The Voice recently received a call from a…
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PERTH lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi has weighed into the debate about surveillance cameras with facial recognition technology being installed throughout the city. Ms Scaffidi, who is currently suspended with the rest of the council, recently woke to find a CCTV camera had been installed directly in front of her Claisebrook Cove home and she’s not…
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The EAST Perth Community Group believes consultation over facial recognition cameras in the city was adequate, says chair Anne-Maree Ferguson. Ms Ferguson said she had “no expectation on being consulted on the project before the trial commenced”. She wants a council that’s pro-active: “If you consult on everything before a trial then you don’t ever…
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PLANS for a cigar lounge opposite the Inglewood Civic Hotel are hanging in the balance with Stirling council’s planners concerned smoke could billow into a neighbouring house. Michael Dryka Architects have applied to redevelop the disused car yard on the corner of Nelson and Beaufort Streets into a restaurant/cafe, a cigar lounge for up to…
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SWALLOW BAR in Maylands has won the People’s Choice award at this year’s WA Small Bar Association awards. The Whatley Crescent bar was opened in 2012 by Meredith Bastian and Zoe Roy, two Melbourne chefs who met while working at Stephanie Alexander’s iconic Cafe & Larder in Richmond Hill. They hatched a plan to…
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I was skint UNFORTUNATELY I couldn’t take up Joshua O’Keefe’s suggestion to get down to Beaufort Street on Saturday evening and ‘act local’ (“Rally for traders”, Voice, June 8, 2019) Much as I would have liked have “bar snacks and cocktails at Must, dinner at the Dainty Dowager and a cookie from Get Chunky” I…
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KEN SEALEY is an artist and longtime Beaufort local, and crafted the big “Beaufort Street” sign in the middle of the strip. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER, he shares a bold plan to help revive the ailing hub, rezoning properties to create new street fronts. I am a sculptor and long term resident of the City…
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HERE’S a combo that would have given Frida Kahlo and Mahatma Gandhi heartburn – butter chicken nachos. It may sound strange, but it’s one of the best fusion dishes I’ve had in ages, although my cardiologist just booked me in for a triple bypass. It’s got all the usual suspects like sour cream, beans, a…
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