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Biggest and best yet: 29 November 2018 – High St This year’s Fremantle Long Table Dinner will be the biggest and best yet, with 1200 three-course Christmas dinners being served along a dining table almost half a kilometre long. The annual event, which raises money for homeless and disadvantaged people, will take place on 29…
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UPDATE: UWA has cancelled the booking, saying “we have been advised the risk surrounding the event has been elevated to a higher level, which mandates a more robust event management plan”. The uni’s statement said the organisers could not provide that management plan and so the event was cancelled under their booking policy. “The University…
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BY day Mark Loader fishes rubbish out of waterways, but on Saturday night he saved a woman’s life after she jumped off the Narrows Bridge into the icy Swan River. Mr Loader was skippering the solar powered boat, Ellie J, from the Little Ferry Company. It’s a side gig to his business Cleanamarina, which uses…
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A PERTH councillor’s attempt last year to make colleagues sign statutory declarations swearing they weren’t leaking secrets to the media has been trumped by Subiaco’s mayor, who’s turned to God as an enforcer. The Post Newspaper reported this week that Penny Taylor brought a bible to the last council meeting and asked her councillors to…
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A DOLPHIN tangled in fishing line is struggling in the Swan and Canning Rivers, and if she dies her calf “Splash” may not survive without her. The adult female bottlenose dolphin named High Nitch is a long-term resident of the river, having been regularly sighted for at least 18 years. On the weekend she was…
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VINCENT council officers want to give a proposed barber shop cum small bar the snip. Proposed for the old Kartique jewellery shop at 559 Beaufort Street, the business would have a 120-person bar in the rear serving up old school cocktails and a small barber shop up front. The owners plan to call it Blind…
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THIS mesmerising pillar looks like a post-modern art project, but it’s actually the result of one week’s decomposition at the Community Compost Station in Mount Hawthorn. “It’s fascinating to see that after just one week, the bottom layers are already decomposing, and that’s before we mix the mulch through to really get the process ‘cooking’.”…
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SCITECH turned 30 this week but it’s not sitting on its laurels and has launched an initiative to attract more women and indigenous people to its exhibitions. Kids have long loved the colourful exhibits and flashy demonstrations, but CEO Deb Hancock says they’re hoping to target people that are under-represented in science, technology, engineering and…
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THE Rosemount Hotel goes all Brazilian on Saturday August 26 with an all-ages fundraiser for Perth’s 6th annual Kuatapoeirando Capoeira Festival. Hosted by Brazliian martial arts school Capoeira CDO Perth, there’ll be live capoeira and samba, and tunes from musos including Randa and the Soul Kingdom, Belle Harvey, Constanza Herrero and Renata Garcia. It starts…
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Speed trial put to the test IN last week’s Voice letters, Tom Goode requested that I provide information on whether Vincent council’s proposed 40kmh trial on residential streets in the southern neighbourhoods of Vincent is supported by any evidence and how the outcomes will be measured. We do know that current research shows lowering of…
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