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MORLEY GALLERIA traders want Bayswater to prioritise a fire safety audit of the shopping centre, saying it is an accident waiting to happen. Last week the Voice reported Bayswater councillor Chris Cornish had met with CEO Andrew Brien and requested they check if any of the flammable aluminium cladding, which contributed to the Grenfell tower…
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VINCENT council has to spend around $400,000 on emergency building repairs at Beatty Park, just a year after the leisure centre’s $17 million upgrade. In mid-December 2016 a huge chunk of render collapsed overnight, sending rubble crashing onto the eastern pool deck where spectators sit during the day. Parts of the centre are new but…
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OPERA on a barge in Claisebrook Cove, arts markets in East Perth and creative pop-up shops are some of the ideas locals have come up with at the first-ever City Summits. The community workshops, where locals discuss ways of revitalising the city, have proved popular, with 90 people attending in East Perth and 60 in…
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ARTIST JD Penangke will teach Nyoongar culture through song at NAIDOC Week. This year’s NAIDOC theme is “Our Languages matter,” focusing on the role language plays in cultural history and the way it links Aboriginal people to the land through story and song. Since colonisation, more than 100 distinct Aboriginal languages have died off. Today…
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DONALD TRUMP has blocked Perth Voice cartoonist Jason Chatfield on Twitter. Mr Chatfield can no longer tweet the US president or read his tweets. Unlike many celebrities, Mr Trump claims to manage his own Twitter account. Chatfield says he was blocked after the president, “had been tweeting this slew of wacky, incomprehensible garbage ([some] of…
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A NEW business incubator at Leederville’s YMCA HQ aims to remove one of the barriers for young people getting into performance and art. HQ manager Andrew Rigg told the Voice a couple of staff came up with the idea about two years ago after noticing the large number of incubators popping up around Perth were…
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ANIMAL photographer Alex Cearns is teaming up with artist Matt Mawson to hold an art exhibition raising money for the Dogs Refuge Home of WA. Many of the pooches abandoned there need expensive surgery and the money will go towards their medical fees. Cearns from North Perth’s Houndstooth Studio, whose animal photography takes her around…
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Eat my shorts, Uber! YOUR story “Uber eats into profits” (Voice, 24 June, 2017) is a realisation of the impact these new companies have on our society. It appears the Uber honeymoon is coming to an end as smart people understand the destructive impact this foreign company has throughout the world. When Uber ride share…
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IF you happen to find yourself in Crown Casino staring at some unusually aesthetic CCTV cameras, it’s no accident; it’s just the artsy side of techno-whiz Clayton Popa. The up-and-coming artist’s day job sees him in charge of the casino’s cameras, and he says while his artistic flair is somewhat limited by the positioning of…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) Change simply couldn’t be more on the cards if it tried. With Saturn involved in architecting these changes, there’s a good chance that they will be as sensible as they are radical. You simply have to move forward on your destinies time-line. Staying still would be avoidance in the…
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