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A PLAN to turn the historic Maylands parcel office into a public toilet has been canned by the Public Transport Authority. There’s long been a dire need for a dunny near the Maylands train station (five years ago the Voice reported on a neighbouring resident complaining about someone pooing in her yard), since the nearest…
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BAYSWATER council has knocked back requests from two charities for rates and rent relief. Community Housing Limited provides long-term, secure accommodation for people on low to middle incomes, and asked for three properties it rents out to be exempt from rates, saving it $3352 each year. The local government act says “land used exclusively for…
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THE Centre for Stories in Northbridge has taken another step in its development with the appointment of Sisonke Msimang as program director. The year-old social enterprise was founded by Margaret River Press owners Caroline and John Wood and aims to collect stories from WA that slip under the mainstream media’s radar. Ms Msimang says the…
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A GROUP of senior and disabled Mt Hawthorn residents escalated a dispute with Transperth over bus routes to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, but with no success. SANDBAG (senior and disabled bus action group) has been up in arms since Transperth diverted route 15 in August last year, leaving a swathe of suburbia around Brady…
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STIRLING council has been urged to repair the barbecues at the Hamersley golf course after two players were severely burned by a portable one which exploded. The Hamersley Hackers and other golf clubs had been using a portable barbecue for sausage sizzles since the council-provided ones broke down, with the Voice hearing conflicting stories they’d…
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DAY CARE operator Marjorie Mann in Mt Lawley won’t be affected by cutbacks in childcare subsidies, says local Liberal MP Michael Sutherland (“Cuts ‘level playing field’,” Voice, August 6, 2016). Mr Sutherland got a letter from community services minister Tony Simpson in late July which identified that only the Meela and Mt Lawley childcare centres…
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TIM MUIRHEAD is the author of Finding Heraan, a ‘philosophical fable’ that explores the themes in this article. His writing is based on 30 years professional experience in building understanding between different groups. I HAVE long felt frustrated that we in Australia, with all our benefits, are not able to realise our extraordinary potential in nourishing…
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S AYERS doesn’t do table service, a polite waitress informed me, but after finding out I was just after a pre-lunch coffee, it turned out not to be a hard and fast rule. Soon a smooth and steaming brew arrived while I willed the heat from the alfresco heater towards my fingers so I could file…
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A DEAD Mouse and a Broken Coffee Machine is Applecross artist Shannon Lyons’ latest exhibition. “It’s a real mouse which is dead,” she says when asked about the rodent pictured on her press release. “I definitely did not kill it,” she’s quick to add. You can get just about anything from a taxidermist, including a dead…
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WITH a 100-strong indie rock choir set to perform, it’s a good thing the revamped Badlands Bar on Aberdeen Street is cavernous. Menagerie is a Perth-based group where the conductor will probably be wearing shorts or safari gear rather than a tux, and the choir could be sporting horns or ears. “Because we are wonderful,…
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