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KARRINYUP, Trigg, and Carine might secede from Stirling and join Cambridge if a group of residents follow through on the threat of initiating a Dadour proposal with the local government advisory board. The threat was made at a special meeting of electors on Monday night, where 140 angry residents showed up to criticise the city’s…
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CHRISTMAS can be one of the most stressful times for families, so much so that January and February are record months for couples contacting solicitors to seek a separation. Life Coach and mindset expert Sonia Czernik said tensions mount at Christmas because family and relationships are under the spotlight. “At other times of the year,…
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PERTH’s young singers will have the opportunity to learn from experienced mentors at the Perth Choral Institute’s first summer school course. Internationally acclaimed Australian soprano and early music specialist Sara MacLiver will front the team running the eight-day intensive singing experience in January. The summer school’s director Hugh Lydon said he hoped the initiative would…
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A BID to slash the $90,000 spent each year on dinners for Bayswater councillors and staff has been dashed, with only two councillors supporting more frugal meals. Speaking ahead of Tuesday’s vote, councillor Catherine Ehrhardt told the Voice the “the meals have always felt very extravagant for me”. The three course meals, which cost $63…
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TRINITY Uniting Church director of music Jangoo Chapkhana promises a mix of contemporary and traditional music and readings to provide a Christmas service with a difference. Trinity will host a Festival of Lessons and Carols on Sunday 18 December at 10am, as well as Christmas Day celebrations including an Afrikaans service at 8.30am. Mr Chapkhana…
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ST JOHN’S volunteers are taking to the seas as part of a Leeuwin Foundation initiative to help people with intellectual, sensory, or physical limitations experience an ocean voyage. Spending five days learning to sail on Australia’s largest sail training ship requires teamwork and perseverance, so it’s a challenge for able-bodied budding sailors but an absolute…
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MASSIVE chandeliers sparkled like Christmas overhead in the sleek, modern Paddy Field Restaurant on Newcastle Street. A quick look around showed it’s a favourite with Perth’s Chinese community. Adding to the party atmosphere, dim sum trays of delicate pastries and baskets of savoury steamed dumplings were being whisked between tables where diners were tucking in…
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RAIN didn’t deter people packing the floor and dancing to the hypnotic beat of Soukoss Internationale at last year’s Light Up Leederville festival. And at this year’s sold-out Camp Doogs festival down south, punters were knee deep in the mud but still dancing up a storm: “It was insane,” band member Quentin Thony says. Soukoss…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) For a precious moment, the world looks like a simple uncomplicated place, where positive enthusiastic Ram persons can get on with what needs to be done. The last thing you need to do is complicate it. Change will come when it needs to. Shake your tail-feathers and have fun.…
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HOARDERS unite; this beautiful Walcott Street home has enough storage space to pack away a city. This Hansel and Gretelesque property in Mount Lawley has an inviting appeal with decorative balustrades lining the top and bottom verandah. The large limestone terrace out the front was once home to a swimming pool but has, in recent…
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