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BAYSWATER police have held a community meeting in Maylands following a wave of anti-social behaviour in the suburb’s business district. The area, especially Eighth Ave, has improved in leaps and bounds in recent years with swank new venues and high quality retailers opening up, but aggressive behaviour from unsavoury characters is turning punters off. With…
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THE MOUNT LAWLEY primary school chess team has taken out the state title. The whiz kids beat Deanmore Primary School and Anzac Terrace PS at the Chess Association of WA school championships, and will travel to Sydney in December to compete for the national title. MLPS pupils Zachary Pendragon, David Richards, Minh Nguyen and Ethan…
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BAYSWATER councillor Stephanie Coates won’t re-contest her west ward seat at the local government elections in October. When Ms Coates was elected in 2013 her kids were two, four and six years old, and in bed by 7pm when the meetings started. Now the kids are staying up later and the meetings are starting earlier.…
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IN the wake of a national survey revealing that nearly 7 per cent of uni students were sexually assaulted in 2015/16, Edith Cowan Uni says its rates are lower at its Mt Lawley campus. The shocking national figures were produced by the Australian Human Rights Commission, which found 1.6 per cent of the assaults occurred…
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HUMAN RIGHTS activists will march in Perth this Saturday urging federal MPs to vote for marriage equality in parliament. The Liberal party’s election platform was to go out to a “plebiscite”, allowing the country to vote on whether they wanted people to get married regardless of their sex. It will cost about $160million, but some…
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WILLIAM STREET art space Paper Mountain hosts its annual art auction with the opening night this Friday August 4. Paper Mountain’s been running since 2011 providing a space for local artists to showcase their work and develop their talent. Dozens of artists including Andy Quilty, Nathan Beard and Jo Darvall have donated works to raise…
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HOMELESSNESS WEEK runs from August 7 – 13, and apart from giving a donation to any of the noble charities providing succour to people on the streets, there’s a few activities you can take part in. Head to http://www.shelterwa.org.au/homelessness_week to have a look at the program of events. Meanwhile, the Voice presents part 1 of…
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IN the wake of opposition leader Bill Shorten promising a national vote on Australia becoming a republic during a first term of a Labor government, the Voice received an apropos SPEAKER’S CORNER from JEFFREY CUNNINGHAM. He’s self-employed, lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and his dream is a united, strong and separatist-free republic. He thinks…
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THE menu at Red Chilli Sichuan isn’t for the faint-hearted, and not just because it’s the size of a telephone book. With dishes like pickled chicken feet, pork intestines, jelly fish and sliced beef tongue with tripe, you know this Northbridge restaurant is authentic as it gets. If I was braver I may have tried…
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CAMIKNICKERS and nipple pasties, raunchy dancing and seductive moves—is burlesque just striptease with larger underwear or an art form? The naysayers have never seen burlesque well executed says Melanie Piantoni, co-founder of Sugar Blue Burlesque. “It most certainly has striptease, but it also has elements such as comedy, parody, acting and dance,” she says. “A…
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