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Bye the by THE recent decision by the WA Liberal Party not to contest the state by-elections doesn’t sit too well with Liberal voters in this state. The voters in these areas need to send a message to Bill Shorten about his defiant attitude about Section 44 of the Constitution, and also his stance on not…
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IT’S been five weeks since I broke three bones in my right hand, and this is the first story I’ve written two-handed after some great free treatment from our public hospital system. Our public health system isn’t perfect: For some specialist tests you might wait a year or more. Important but elective surgery waiting lists…
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MY Voice colleague David Bell has been raving about Uncle Billy’s in China Town for years, so I finally acquiesced and went there for a pre-theatre dinner. Like many of the neighbouring restaurants, Uncle Billy’s is not salubrious, the decor is haphazard and the service efficient but perfunctory. When I mentioned to the waitress we…
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PLAYWRIGHT Ray Lawler changed the face of Australia theatre in 1953 with Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. For the first time in mainstream theatre we had a warts-and-all portrayal of working class life in Melbourne. “A play so superbly true to Australian thought and the Australian scene…” read the review in The Argus following the…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) Slowly, the chance is coming to find your feet in the world in a new way. You are moving towards your goals with a raft of life lessons under your belt. Uranus is now officially gone. Those hurricanes that have been visiting you, have moved on. This is a…
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WANDERING around the gardens of this Mt Hawthorn home you can see why it’s won a couple of Vincent horticulture awards. The front garden has pretty roses, and a wrap-around verandah where you can relax and enjoy the emerald green grass grow. This three-bedroom/two-bathroom house on Ellesmere Street was built in the 1920s and has…
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THE Vincent community has launched a campaign to reduce the speed limit across all the city’s residential roads to 40kmh. Cyclist Geraldine Box and pedestrian advocate Andrew Main have started the “Our Streets at 40” group and are collecting signatures for a petition they will lodge with the state parliament. In May 2016 Vincent councillors…
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CANCER COUNCIL WA and the Australian Council on Smoking and Health have joined forces to help the growing number of apartment dwellers living next door to heavy smokers. Following the Voice’s recent story about an ex-nurse driven out of her house by the chainsmoker next door (“Smoked out,” Voice, April 21, 2018), ACOSH got in…
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A BROKEN toilet fixed with a paperclip, a cracked bathtub patched up with gaffer tape and renters forced to give up their pets after being told they could have them. These were just a few of the issues raised at the renters’ rights forum at the City of Perth library on May 2. “The unfortunate…
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IT’S more frontispiece than full novel, but hopes for a dedicated Vincent Writers Centre have at last turned a page. Starting later this month, WA Poets will be holding a 16-week trial of workshops in the subset of the North Perth town hall, courtesy of a cultural grant from Vincent council. It’s been a long…
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