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PERTH’S Heritage Weekend celebrates its 10th birthday this year. Starting out as Heritage Day, the mix of tours, talks and workshops proved highly popular, and the event was later expanded over two days. This year’s event (October 20-21) has 42 sites, from the Old Observatory, designed by George Temple Poole and built for the colonial…
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A NEW festival is coming to Maylands town centre early next year. Bayswater council will hold the Maylands Laneway Festival on Saturday, February 23, from 5.30pm to 9pm, in Lyric Lane just off Eighth Avenue. Councillor Elli Petersen-Pik says the family-friendly festival “will take place in the evening and include buskers and free children’s entertainment.…
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NEARLY 60 per cent of people in a Vincent council survey have supported a 40kmh trial on residential streets in the south of the city. At Tuesday’s council meeting (October 16), Vincent councillors will vote on whether to proceed with a two-year, 40kmh trial south of Vincent Street, north of Charles Street and east to…
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PLEASE inspect your citrus trees for lumps and bumps—they could be nests full of invasive wasp babies about to hatch. The state agriculture department has issued a warning that citrus gall wasps are concentrated in Bayswater, Vincent, Stirling and further north in Bassendean and Swan. Native to Queensland and the warmer regions of NSW, their…
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THE future of East Perth is looking bright after City of Perth commissioners allocated $300,000 to revitalise the suburb. The revitalisation is being overseen by not-for-profit organisation Historic Heart and city staff recommended they be given $117,032 for the second stage of their revamp, but commissioner Gaye McMath said they should get $300,000 to ensure…
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GAY MPs in Voiceland are supporting a law change that would give male same-sex couples the same rights as women for surrogate pregnancies. Women who can’t conceive and female same-sex couples are allowed to use a surrogate mother as long as she is not paid, but it’s illegal for single men and same-sex male couples.…
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Morley Labor MP Amber-Jade Sanderson told the lower house in WA Parliament on Tuesday it’s not just gay men who’ll benefit from proposed changes to the Human Reproductive Technology Act and the Surrogacy Act 2008. “There has been a lot of focus on access to surrogacy for same-sex couples, but what about single men? I…
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Better the devil you know? IT was great to read the Speaker’s Corner “Heads must roll” (Voice, October 6, 2018), written by year 12 student Joel van Boxtel. It’s good to know that at least some young folk are aware of the political realm, and his suggestion of a multi-person head of state is worth…
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RICK HEATH is a performing arts industry veteran of 25 years and a former executive producer of the Perth International Arts Festival. In this week’s SPEAKERS CORNER he takes umbrage at former Black Swan State Theatre Company patron Sally Burton’s criticism that the company’s 2019 season was too alienating for audiences. Mr Heath, who’s previously…
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CANTINA’S declaration that it’s a friendly noshery where staff are “always ready to greet you with a smile” is not fake news. When the Voice dropped in recently we were greeted with 40-watt smiles and the service was friendly and uber-efficient. Situated in the shopping arcade next to the Astor Theatre, Cantina 663 was one…
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