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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) It’s time to shed some skin. The placement of the Sun in Leo makes this a heroic journey rather than a sad tale. You know as well as the next person that there are changes to be made and that these changes need to go deeper than appearances. Rejuvenation…
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HAVE you ever felt like you could do with a bit more fizz and pop in your life? If so the new M/24 apartments in Leederville could be perfect for you, as they are built on the site of the old Golden West Aerated Water Company. Developers Match Property have subtly incorporated elements of the…
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IN 1968 Tony Green emigrated from Leicestershire, England to WA, wearing a three-piece wool suit and a heavy raincoat. When he got off the plane it was nearly 50 degrees. Despite that daunting introduction to the Land Down Under, Mr Green has gone on to become a stalwart in the Bayswater community. He’s the long-running…
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NORTH PERTH 16-year-old Zak McGuffie won a gong at the Revelation Film Festival for his short movie This is Elizabeth earlier this month. The film tells the story of an 85-year-old woman who attributes much of her good health, strength, flexibility and positive attitude to practising yoga for more than 50 years. “Most would think…
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HOMELESSNESS is rife in areas near Weld Square despite a line of empty Housing Authority homes crumbling away on nearby Parry Street. Local resident John Collins says he often sees homeless people in the area, and when Voice was there a man rocked up to his makeshift camp on the porch of one of the…
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WA Labor’s “Missing” posters have gone, well, missing. Last week the party put up posters across the city, poking fun at the Liberal party for not fielding a candidate for the federal Perth by-election on July 28. Now the “missing” posters are missing, and when we contacted Labor HQ to ask if they took them…
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WA is getting some woefully low return numbers on the first day of pre-polling for the Perth and Fremantle by-elections. Australian Electoral Commission figures show that the Perth pre-poll had just 264 votes and Freo had 238. Meanwhile Mayo’s by-election in South Australia got 968 people lodging a ballot on the first day, and Longman…
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THIS month Victoria Gardens in East Perth will say goodbye to its oldest resident – a tree more than 140 years old. The Hoop Pine was one of the first trees in the 1877 garden – the same year WA got its first, single telegraph line connecting Sandgropers to the rest of Australia. Jeff Broun…
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A POOR duck with its neck constricted by plastic has been evading rescue efforts for more than two weeks at Lightning Swamp bushland in Noranda. Photographer Muneer Al Shanti was at the bushland on Sunday July 1 when he spotted the Pacific black duck and took a picture. At first he didn’t realise what was…
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A MAMMOTH new mural by artist Mel McVee – paying homage to the historic general stores of the area – has been painted on the side of the Good Grocer Leederville IGA. The concept was to draw on the elements of the old grocery stores – delivery trucks, fresh food, orchard trees and food-producing animals,…
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