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A FILM detailing the fight by Aboriginal communities to stop mining on their country will get a free screening in Perth tomorrow (Sunday, February 24). The 1980 documentary On Sacred Ground documents the Noonkanbah land rights movement, when the Yungngora people protested the drilling for oil on sacred sites. Noonkanbah is a station in the…
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Just a shed PERTH federal MP Patrick Gorman having a wet-pants moment over the redevelopment of the old Bunnings site (“MP calls out Woolies”, Voice, January 16, 2019). Mate, the proposal is basically replacing a tin shed – get over it. Then there is Perth state MP John Carey harassing Coles over their little toys…
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DOROTHY HENDERSON is a regionally based journalist with 30 years’ experience reporting on rural issues. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER, she calls for calm and consideration following the huge backlash against Maylands MP Lisa Baker’s call to reduce meat consumption. SO this has happened. A politician raises the issue of livestock production in parliament, a…
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HANAMI in Mt Lawley is a bit of a hidden gem. Tucked between a tiny hardware store and a chemist on Beaufort Street, it’s easy to miss, but well worth seeking out. The eatery’s website claims it’s dedicated to providing a superlative Japanese dining experience and there’s no argument from yours truly. There’s a variety…
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TURNER GALLERIES have kicked off the year with three eclectic exhibitions that include everything from Mexican religion to jarring thoughts. If artists were good with words they’d be authors says Perth sculptor Harry Hummerston, demonstrating the point when I phoned him last week. “Trying to explain the work becomes a struggle to replace images with…
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THE sleek modernity of this North Perth home defies its 16 years and it could have been built yesterday. The builders scratched their heads when plans called for concrete floors. “It was 2003 and they hadn’t done polished concrete before,” the owner says. The result is an exquisite black-and-grey flecked floor, contrasting with crisp white…
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PERTH federal MP Patrick Gorman has stepped into a local planning issue, imploring Woolworths to cough up for an artwork at its proposed Beaufort Street store. The supermarket giant is planning a shop on the site where Bunnings burned down last year, but has told Stirling council it doesn’t want to put in an obligatory…
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AFTER seven months of radio silence the state’s planning and heritage department now expects to release a report on the future of the heritage-listed Maylands Brickworks before July. A year ago this month the department released four proposals for a $7.7 million redevelopment of the 1927 brickworks, three involving apartment complexes to fund the makeover.…
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TURTLE-murdering helium balloons are in the crosshairs of Stirling council, with mayor Mark Irwin calling on the state government to ban balloon releases. In a letter to WA environment minister Stephen Dawson, he says that under the 1979 Litter Act it’s not littering if you release a balloon into the air, only if it can…
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AFTER five years of development delays, Lyric Lane co-owner Michiel de Ruyter says he hopes to open the venue late next month. The de Ruyter family first floated the idea of an ambitious music bar/cafe on the site of the old Speelite bike shop on Guildford Road in May 2014. At the time Mr de…
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