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New Joyce Kitchen Showroom in Osborne Park With a brand new showroom in Osborne Park and 2 others south of the river Joyce Kitchens makes planning your new kitchen easy. For over 20 years, the name Joyce Kitchens has been synonymous with stylish, well designed, quality custom built kitchens and cabinets here in Perth and…
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THE unsavoury and mostly hidden history of WA’s missions is laid bare in the exhibition Kerosene Tins and Love Hearts, part of Perth Heritage Days this weekend. The project came about when Robert Eggington and wife Selina from the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation took students from Clontarf Aboriginal College on a tour of the missions through…
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MOUNT HAWTHORN locals are petitioning education minister Sue Ellery to save a 75-year-old tree due to be removed to make way for a new two-storey early childhood building at Mount Hawthorn primary school. The back of the new $3.5 million building is along Scarborough Beach Road and along with making for a closed-off and unattractive…
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THE historic North Perth Bowling and Recreation Club Open Day is this Saturday October 14 from 12 noon. The Voice caught up with super-friendly club secretary Dean Evans last week as he shovelled sand in preparation for the big day. He said the club was “the social hub of Vincent” set high on the hill…
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ABOUT 60 years ago Perth council ordered verandahs on several grand old buildings be pulled down. Traffic rules weren’t as codified back then and kerbs lower, so cars would occasionally clip the verandah poles and the city was worried they would collapse. Perth councillor Reece Harley says he’ll introduce a policy to help owners reinstate…
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“I GOT my first piece of hate mail,” Bayswater council candidate Greg Smith told the Voice—”And they paid a dollar to send it.” Most of the campaign nark we’ve seen this election has been online, but this week Mr Smith got a genuine Australia Post-delivered envelope telling him he was a “conceited old man”. It…
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DFES is offering a unique experience for anyone heading to its Perth Heritage Days event at the old Perth Fire Station on Murray Street: jump in an RAC helicopter and get whisked off to a crash site somewhere in the Wheatbelt. OK, you won’t actually leave the ground, as all the action takes place in…
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Well spoken AS usual a very readable Speaker’s Corner contribution to the Perth Voice by Michael Sutherland (“Misbehaving Members”, October 7, 2017), pointing out the history of our system of government (Westminster) under a constitutional monarchy and its drawbacks. The system and institutions we have in place, good and bad, are from our being a…
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Reverend professor DAVID SECCOMBE is an ordained Anglican minister, former rector of St Matthew’s Church in Shenton Park, and Locum Tenens at St Albans Anglican Church, Highgate. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER he argues against changing Australia’s marriage laws. MARRIAGE was here before Australia’s laws and will be here when they’re gone. Change requires thought…
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I SWEAR the waitress at Fiorentina is psychic; she’s got a touch of the gypsy look about her and knew what I wanted before I did. With just a narrow window between appointments I needed prompt service if I was to fit in a reviewable meal, and I’d barely scrunched my butt into one of the…
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