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FOLLOWING intense public interest and a packed-out meeting over the Meltham Station Precinct Structure Plan, the deadline for public comment has been extended to March 14. There’s been fierce debate back and forth over the merits of the plan which would bring up to six storeys to the area around the train station. The structure…
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EVER since the state government handed approval powers to development assessment panels, architect and heritage expert Ian Molyneux says he’s been inundated by calls from people fighting huge developments popping up next door to them. “This is happening all over the metro area,” he says, with some people claiming large towers are making their homes…
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A BIG turnout for a small extraordinary election saw Vincent councillor Emma Cole elected mayor with 78 per cent of the vote. Rival Malcolm Boyd upped his total from his 2015 mayoral run, scoring about 21 per cent. Jonathan Hallett was the clear frontrunner among the six people running for the vacant South Ward spot,…
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A SIX-METRE Christmas tree adorning Vincent council’s foyer in December cost ratepayers $4500. Former councillor Dudley Maier has been quizzing council administration about who authorised the extravagant tree, which was located inside and not seen by most of the public. Vincent CEO Len Kosova said that he “authorised this expenditure” and told the Voice “every…
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UNSEASONAL heavy rains and high water levels in the Swan River are making Maylands a mosquito mating capital. Bayswater mayor Barry McKenna says they’re likely to see a “spike in numbers” after the rains and they’re rolling out the six-wheeled amphibious mozzie buster to treat hard-to-reach breeding areas. The wee ATV cost council $30,000 in…
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Voice reader Chris Elieff sent us this photo of what looks like a 1950s B-movie monster attacking Beaufort Street, but this gigantic-appearing insect is just a wee grasshopper on his windshield. He was pulling out of his new premises at Pressed for Time Ironing, on Seventh Avenue, when the bug landed on his van’s windscreen,…
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Promises, promises… A FEW weeks ago your paper included an article about the Barnett government promising a $38 million dollar expansion of Mount Lawley Senior High School as a “stopgap measure” while the new Churchlands College is built (“Libs promise $38m Mt Lawley expansion,” Voice, February 4, 2017). Liberal MPs Michael Sutherland and Peter Collier…
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EDITH Cowan University’s JESSE J FLEAY researches ways of integrating Noongar knowledge into school curricula to keep Aboriginal youth engaged. He works at the Kurongkurl Katitjin Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER, he argues that One Nation will actually divide Australia. A VOTE for One Nation not only endangers…
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DESPITE having lived in the bustling inner city suburb of West Perth for little over a year now, I have never fallen victim to the incessant social media hype surrounding the quaint café located just minutes from my home. The West End Deli has sent local millennials into overdrive by crafting Instagram-worthy culinary delights. Early…
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TO say director Rachel Perkins is a little nervous about her new movie Jasper Jones is an understatement. Her screen adaptation of Fremantle author Craig Silvey’s coming-of-age tale was released Thursday, but at last year’s preview screening at CinéfestOZ she was so nervous she had to bail. “I had to leave the screening because it…
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