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ARANMORE college soccer player Daisy McAllister is confident WA’s Under 13 girls team has a fighting chance at the national youth championship at Coffs Harbour this year. It’s the second time the 12-year-old will be heading east and she’s keen to hit the field again. “I’ve already been to Adelaide for a national tournament. I’m…
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ACTIVISTS packed the Perth electorate office of federal finance Minister Mathias Cormann on Wednesday morning calling for more action on climate change. Senator Cormann is on 350.org’s name and shame list for downplaying the effects of climate change. The list features WA politicians Gary Gray, Dennis Jensen, and Chris Back. While dozens of activists queued…
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Land swap? I RECENTLY wrote expressing my support for the proposed West Perth fire station in Carr Street, commenting that I would genuinely prefer a two-storey fire station next to me in Loftus Street instead of the ridiculous multiple dwellings with their multiple problems (“Careful what you wish for,” Voice letters, June 6, 2016). Siren…
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LET them eat cake,” Marie Antoinette is famously supposed to have said, not long before Monsieur Guillotine ended her privileged and tragically short life. So rocking up to Sugar & Nice in Mt Lawley I did — a raspberry, pistachio and white chocolate blondie (a fudge-like cake), a friand, a double choc brownie, and a…
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PLAYING professional baseball was Claire Chase’s dream growing up in sun-drenched California. That was until she discovered the flute, and at just 14 years old she was playing with the San Diego Symphony instead. Now 38, she’s embarked on an ambitious project to commission a new flute solo every year until 2036, marking the 100th…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) As the Sun makes his way through Cancer, so your feeling side comes to the fore. Even though you go at things like a bat out of hell, you are generally driven by innocent enquiry, not by anything at all dubious. Your quest for liberation continues, but is presently…
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AS newlyweds in 1986 the vendors of this Fifth Avenue, Mt Lawley home were given advice as solid as bricks and mortar. “[To] buy the worst house in the best street we could afford.” They needed somewhere central to the city and the tired old home on the corner of Fifth and Carrington fitted the…
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Divido Restaurant Divido offers Perth diners a casual eating and drinking experience within an intimate venue. The menu represents a love of good, honest food, made with passion and skill. It draws influences from Italian regional peasant style cooking, including old family recipes. It’s the type of food that we all feel comfortable with –…
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WHILE many Anzac commemorations during this year’s centenary celebrations have focussed on departing troops, Anzac Cottage in Mt Hawthorn is turning that on its head. During an open day on July 10, Ann Chapple from the Friends of Anzac Cottage will give a talk about the Anzacs’ homecoming. Ms Chapple will discuss the first two…
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VINCENT council is considering a new system of charging for waste collection which it says could reward those who reduce their rubbish. The downside for residential ratepayers is that under the model presented to a special council meeting this week, they’d initially face higher charges. Businesses, on the other hand, would have their charges reduced…
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