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THE North Perth primary school olive harvest has become a treasured annual tradition and the kids will be back out on April 23 and 24 picking fruit from local neighbourhood trees to make olive oil for their P&C fundraiser. Last year 1.34 tonne of fruit was squeezed to create 700 bottles of oil. Ingrid Magtengaard…
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PERTH city councillor Lily Chen has been endorsed by the Liberal party to contest Mirrabooka at next year’s state election. Labor’s Janine Freeman holds the seat with a 4.6 per cent margin. Announcing her candidacy on Facebook, Ms Chen says, “it is a very marginal seat but I love challenges”. “I treasure the opportunity the…
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IN a sign of how deeply the end of WA’s mining boom is being felt, inner-city Perth suffered a 1.7 per cent rise in unemployment over the past year. According to the federal employment department, Perth city started the year with a 5.8 per cent unemployment rate, close to the national average, but by January…
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A BIZARRE sight has been greeting dog walkers down at Woodville Reserve in recent weeks, with two women carrying a portable fence while escorting people through the park. It’s an art project in response to a story the Voice ran (“Pooch and shove,” January 14, 2016) about a bit of biffo down at the reserve.…
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CITIZEN scientists are needed to help collect bird feathers in wetlands so regular scientists can build a “feather map” and figure out where birds are and how they’re coping with reduced river flows, flooding, drought, climate change and different land uses. Waterbird expert Kate Brandis is heading up the project and says Perth’s great lakes…
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FOR more than two months Ditte Eden’s family has been producing just one bag of rubbish a week. The Mt Lawley family had been reducing its rubbish output for a while but recently, when Ms Eden’s partner, Merlin, prepared to take the Sulo out he found it was empty. That week’s waste was just a…
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THE humble Carmel Gym in Yokine was home to the Australian National Para Table Tennis Championships this week. The Maccabi table tennis club hosted competitors with disabilities from Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia and New Zealand, as well as Thai medalist Rungroi Thainiyom who won gold at London in 2012. There were wheelchair divisions, standing, deaf…
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COCO BELLE in Mt Pleasant was humming and there was barely a table to spare as the D’Angers rocked up for Sunday breakfast: luckily we’d rugged up because outdoors was all that was available and we had to just about fight for the seat. By the time we departed customers were queuing at the door…
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THE edamame were wonderfully creamy, but a bit messy to get out of the shell, unlike the crab which was the soft-shell variety, encased in batter and wonderfully crisp. The very helpful Japanese waiter was at a loss to translate what the bean-like edamame is, but Mr Google tells me they’re immature soya beans, picked…
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THE images looming out of the darkness of Christophe Canato’s photos are beautiful, but also menacing, bestial and childlike. But the French-Australian artist says it’s about an idealised childhood, not anything sinister. “The dark is something more romantic to me, not connected to something uncomfortable,” he says, his rich French accent flowing down the line.…
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