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MARRIED trans people in WA could soon have their gender officially recognised. Last week Maylands MP Lisa Baker spoke in favour of the Gender Reassignment Bill 2018, which will scrap an old law that prevents a married person from being issued with a gender recognition certificate. The vestigial law, from the days when same-sex marriage…
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THE best weekend of the year to be a nosey-parker is back. Open House Perth is giving tours of more than 100 prominent buildings across the city, including many usually closed to the public. The first Open House Perth was in 2012, but the global movement dates back to 1992 when it was founded by…
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MAYLANDS library will hold a red poppies workshop today (Saturday November 10), the eve of Remembrance Day. At the free workshop artist Geraldine Pillinger will help locals make their own red poppy pins or badges. Bayswater mayor Dan Bull says this year’s Remembrance Day marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice, which ended World War…
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WHILE the major political parties (and One Nation) charge thousands of dollars to access pollies at swank nosh-ups, the Greens are letting supporters bend their ear for free. In October, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson charged lobbyists and business owners $5000 to join her for an exclusive dinner in Perth, while tucker with PM Scott…
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VINCENT council may grab headlines for being progressive and green, but Bayswater has being quietly making strides in environmentalism for years. It was one of the first councils to introduce a three-bin collection in 1997, has recently stopped using single-use plastics like balloons and water bottles at city events, and is trialling compostable dog poo…
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Vote first, worry later I WAS mentioned in Voice Letters on November 3 (“We live in a deMOCKracy”), so here is my return of serve. I may initially have misunderstood Mr Westwood; I thought he may have suggested that a democracy must enshrine certain political and cultural values, even though they change over time. That…
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Mount Hawthorn Voice reader SIMONE DOMINIQUE was shocked when she found out how many items donated to OP shops end up in landfill. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER she asks “do you know what OP shops do with your donations?” and suggests some less wasteful alternatives. AUSTRALIAN charities complain that they spend thousands of dollars…
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I’VE never been a fan of pickled vegetables. So if I had known about the pickled zuni in the mushroom tart ($18) at Blake Street Merchant I probably wouldn’t have ordered it. Thankfully I didn’t and experienced a vinegar epiphany. The pickled zuni (paper-thin slices of zucchini) was made in-house and had none of the…
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AT the age of 27, Matt Tarrant left a high-end job at one of Australia’s biggest banks to become a magician. “I liked the corporate world, but realised it’s wasn’t for me,” he says. Telling his mum, a school principal, he’d chucked a good job to start a magic act was his first big trick.…
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A Perth Voice Promotional Feature: Jazz Under the Stars – Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker The festive season is soon upon us, and what better way to get into the spirit than with three big bands over two greats nights at one of Perth’s most incredible outdoor venues! WAYJO presents its final shows for the 2018 season…
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