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I DON’T believe there is anything quite as divine as listening to someone speak Italian. I could be eavesdropping on a Sicilian mobster discussing where he dumped a body and I’d still have stars in my eyes. It’s not only the language, but the heavenly Italian food that infatuates me. I had heard rumours about a…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The more comfortable you get with the people around you, the more your light shines. You aren’t usually one to avoid the spotlight but this time it seems to come with a whole new responsibility. What you say counts. What you give off has effect. Your delight is carrying…
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Disclaimer: These comments are the writer’s own and do not necessarily reflect the current opinions and policies of the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia. Flicking through some of my earlier contributions to the Voice, I found this one about Affordability written in 2010; this issue remains a hot button topic. Much finger-pointing surrounds this topic:…
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SPINAL HEALTH WEEK 2017: May 22 to 28. BETWEEN 70 and 90 per cent of Australians will suffer lower back pain during their lives and one in six Australians have chronic back problems, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Back pain can have a debilitating effect, leaving sufferers unable to do the simplest…
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SPINAL HEALTH WEEK 2017: May 22 to 28. National Chiropractic Spinal Health Week begins on Monday 26th May, with this year’s theme based around Chronic Back Pain. At Marslen Chiropractic the whole family shares the responsibility of caring for patients. Dr Stephanie has recently graduated as a Chiropractor from Murdoch University, and joins her parents, Doctors…
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Local finance broking company, Diversifi Pty Ltd, has just taken out three awards at the prestigious Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia WA Excellence Awards. Diversifi was awarded Best Customer Service as a company, while Ashleigh Wight won the Young Mortgage Professional of the Year and Bree’ana Coleman was recognised as the Best Loan Administrator…
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THE legendary organ builders of the early colony will be celebrated by St Mary’s cathedral in the first show of their 2017 concert series. The cathedral houses two pipe organs, one built by famed organman Josiah Eustace Dodd (our first Australia-born organ builder, 1856-1952) and another built by Arthur Hobday (1851-1912). Both men were trained…
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ACTIV has been forced to cancel a bus service which took its disabled workers to their factory jobs and home each day, leaving dozens of families stressed, out of pocket and unhappy. Many of the organisation’s 30-odd drivers will also be made redundant. Executive manager operations Mark Furr told the Voice that as part of…
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THE man whose images inspired a legion of Brits to emigrate to Australia — E.L. Mitchell — is finally getting the credit he deserves, says historian Joanna Sassoon. Her debut biography, Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs shaped Australia, is a celebration of the photographer, whose work for the immigration department in the early…
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PERTH lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi is refusing to stand down as opposition leader Mike Nahan joins premier Mark McGowan in calling for her to resign. Ms Scaffidi released a lengthy statement via Twitter characterising the 45 breaches as an “error of paperwork” that was “inadvertent”. “As I have maintained from the outset I did nothing…