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VINCENT council is set to spend $285,000 on festivals and events in the next financial year. Potential big winners in the draft budget are: • North Perth Local – $35,000 to run the Angove Street Halloween event and 6006 in the Park festival at Woodville Reserve. • Leederville Connect – $50,000 for the Light Up…
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A NEW online exhibition by the Museum of Perth highlights the historic city buildings lost to the bulldozers in the 60s, 70s and 80s. The majority of Demolished Icons is based on the work of photographer Michael Parr, who runs the Facebook page Lost Perth Found, and painstakingly created before-and-after composite images of the city.…
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TWO local photographers have snagged gongs in the state Australian Institute of Professional Photography Awards. Alex Cearns from Houndstooth Studio in North Perth won WA pet/animal photographer of the year, and Mount Hawthorn’s Kirsten Graham took home the award for WA travel photographer of the year. Cearns divides her time between her Perth studio —…
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Leftist cant WE’VE heard it all before, Jasmine Kaslauskas (“Welcome to ‘Oz’”, Speaker’s Corner, Voice, May 20, 2017). You are not thinking at all, merely spouting simplistic, wrong-headed negative and leftist cant, of which your grandfather might well be ashamed. Two facts to add to your “thought process”: anyone who is born in a country…
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LINDA FARDOE’S solo exhibition Presence and Absence deals with memory, loss and the passage of time. Despite an impressive track record of exhibitions, including several in the UK and US, it is the first time the Mt Lawley artist been able to dedicate herself solely to her art. Fardoe’s time had been split between teaching…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) There’s no way you can avoid the on-going roller-coaster of change. Uranus, the very cosmic herald of change, has been with you for years and isn’t about to leave anytime soon. To keep your change trajectory a positive and healthy one, take the hint of Venus and do what…
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JUST before the Great War, a handsome and rugged Englishman named George Simpson-Hayward beguiled batsmen around the world with his almost unplayable underarm lobs. Simpson-Hayward was a master tactician who spent three years perfecting a bamboozling off-break in his back garden before unleashing it in South Africa, where in one innings he routed the opposition…
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MORE and more seniors are turning to dating agencies to find love in the autumn of their lives, says matchmaking guru Viola Steed. Ms Steed has worked in the dating industry for 35 years and says her Mt Lawley agency, Solutions Matchmaking, is now hooking up loads of over-55s. “We are experiencing an increased volume…
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THE number of sexually transmitted infections in 50-70 year olds in WA has taken a dramatic leap. The WA health department was notified of 297 infections in 2012, but four years later that jumped by 75 per cent to 519 — although a department spokesperson stressed that accounted for just 3 per cent of all…
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PERTH council is going to have another crack at trying to get on top of anti-social behaviour in Wellington Square, East Perth. It’s organising an open community forum this morning, Saturday May 20, from 9.30am on the Wellington Street side of the square. The park attracts up to 100 homeless people a night during the…
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