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IN the wake of terrorist attacks in Brussels, Iraq and Pakistan, WA terrorism researcher Anne Aly says Australian kids might have questions and teachers must be ready to answer them. Dr Aly says most young people who get involved in extremist organisations like ISIS or Al Qaeda are Muslim kids with questions about who they…
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DARRYL MOORE has put his hand up for another tilt as the federal Liberal candidate for Perth. The woman who beat him in 2013 says she’d love to see him win pre-selection, even though she won’t be facing him this time around. Alannah MacTiernan held off Mr Moore to retain Perth for Labor following Stephen…
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BAYSWATER council has decided to leave the massive beehive in Robert Thomson Park untouched. The council decided at its meeting last Tuesday to follow the advice of acting technical services chief George Rimpas and not get rid of the hive in one of the park’s sick trees (“Hive save,” Voice, March 26, 2016). According to…
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THERE were street campaigns for it, letters against it, and even a bit of petty theft aimed at stopping it. Now, after lengthy consultation it looks like the bike boulevard will be installed in Mt Hawthorn’s Shakespeare Street. A WA transport department baby, bike boulevards are low-speed neighbourhood streets “where the car is a guest…
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ARTIST Renee Vassiliou is working on a 50sqm mural in Coolbinia and she’s letting kids call the shots. New Kidsland owner Taryn Prior commissioned her to do the piece to liven the Walcott Street place up, wanting something more personable than the usual Mickey Mouse motifs on the wall, and Ms Vassiliou wants to go…
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NORANDA has become part of the City of Bayswater following a 25-year turf war with neighbouring Swan. Bounded by Reid and Tonkin highways and Benara Road, the suburb will be officially transferred on July 1. “The council has been pushing for this boundary change for many years,” Bayswater mayor Barry McKenna said. “It’s wonderful to…
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VINCENT council will consider writing to the WA government pleading for new laws that can help it address “nuisance or dangerous trees” on private property. The council gets peppered with “numerous requests on a weekly basis” about leaves and branches falling over fences, invasive roots tearing up fences, fire hazards from shedded bark, seeds and…
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First world solution needed IN the article relating to the proposal to redevelop Charles Street (Voice, March 26, 2016), the Member for Mt Lawley, Michael Sutherland, is quoted saying the concerns raised by residents were a first-world problem. He is right, and a first-world solution is required. In terms of process, there was no community…
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WHEN I heard about a place called Gami Chicken & Beer I knew I already liked two of those three things. Turns out Gami, roughly translated from Korean, means “good delicious”, and the friend I was eating with had been there two nights in a row so I figured the name was on the mark.…
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MYTH and cultural and gender relationships are played out in a mix of theatre and dance as the Blue Room opens its 2016 season with Selkie, an ancient Celtic legend presented with fresh eyes. Written by Finn O’Branagain it’s based on the myth of seals shedding their skins to become women: as the creatures played…
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