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MOTORCYCLISTS and scooter riders could be allowed to park on city footpaths if Perth councillor Jemma Green gets her way. Melbourne council lets motorcyclists park on the footpath as long as they don’t obstruct pedestrians, and the Voice occasionally gets calls and emails from Perth riders who want the same rule here. The Motorcycle Riders…
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PERTH council’s “joke” of a media policy that prevents councillors speaking to the press has been granted a stay of execution. City staff, including new CEO Martin Mileham, recommended that councillors adopt a new policy letting them give their personal opinions to the press (provided they didn’t purport to be representing the city’s view). The…
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LABOR has fulfilled its pre-election promise to scrap unpopular plans to widen segments of Guildford Road. Late last year the WA Planning Commission tentatively floated long-term plans to widen a six kilometre stretch of Guildford Road between Tonkin Highway and East Parade. The upgrade wouldn’t have added lanes, but instead create wider footpaths, bike paths…
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WEAK corporate business controls, inconsistent management reporting, and surging spending that’s projected to outstrip revenue has been uncovered by an independent report into the City of Perth. Councillors spent $500,000 on the independent Deloitte, “organisational capability and compliance assessment”. At the time of the vote in March, lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi said the audit would…
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THE bike boulevard at Mount Hawthorn will be extended following a mildly successful five month trial. Turning a chunk of Shakespeare Street into a bike priority zone had initially split the neighbourhood, but with 60 per cent of submissions supporting the trial it went ahead in December last year, with the Department of Transport footing…
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Silent majority I WOULD like to comment on Sonia Gurrin’s Speaker’s Corner in the Voice (“Love and ‘marriage’,” June 3, 2017). I feel that her article is misleading and only speaks to one side of the story. I don’t believe that 65 per cent of Australians agree with marriage equality. I believe there are many…
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Following Bayswater council’s vote to support marriage equality, we’ve heard from councillors, conservatives, Christians and concerned citizens on the issue of LGBTI marriage. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER we hear the Zen Buddhist point of view, with extracts from a statement sent to us by Venerable Reverend MUYJO WILLIAMS. The Reverend is an ordained Zen…
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THE name of this Northbridge eatery became apparent the minute we stepped inside—the gloom swirling with dark figures and brooding shadows. The trendy black-on-black decor at the Shadow Wine Bar is sure to appeal to its groovy-hipster demographic. Fortunately a single light burned over a booth table, otherwise my dinner companion and I would have…
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THERE’S some shockers when it comes to country and western song titles, including I Flushed You From the Toilets of My Heart, and I Wanna Whip Your Cow. So, All Our Exes Live in Texas isn’t so bad. Then again Elana Stone, Katie Wighton, Hannah Crofts and Georgia Mooney weren’t expecting to use the band…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The week begins with a full Moon. It’s in Sagittarius. This means that you are likely to go headlong into an enquiry into truth, or gallop flat-strap to the distant hills. Are you going to meet what’s before your eyes, or high-tail it? Either way you’ll go at pace.…
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