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THE first of 12,000 Syrian asylum seekers the federal government agreed to embrace this week enjoyed an Aussie barbecue hosted by the City of Bayswater. Six members of the Kujah family moved to Australia in November and now live in Yokine. Mayor Barry McKenna was called into a special meeting on Monday and asked by…
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WHILE foreshores were flooded by an estimated 300,000 revellers on January 26, hundreds of Aboriginal people and activists marking the date as Invasion Day made their way from the significant site at Matagarup (Heirisson Island) to the Survival Day concert at Ozone Reserve. Activist Alex Bainbridge documented the march and says it’s the biggest turnout…
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• THEATRE historian Ivan King has picked up another premier’s Australia Day active citizenship award (he also won in 2005). Having set up the Musuem of Performing Arts where he maintains a massive collection of memorabilia beneath His Majesty’s Theatre, he was given the award “for service to the performing arts as an historian and…
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FLYERS have been stuffed into East Perth letterboxes imploring locals to speak up against the planned demolition of two old houses at 60 and 62 Cheriton Street. The planning application doesn’t list an owner but whoever bought the homes (number 62 sold for $1.75 million in 2013) has applied to bowl them both over. At…
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THE WA Police’s “Frontline 2020” model has been hailed for breaking a cycle of drinking and violence at Wellington Square. Support for the model follows Labor branding it a “failed model” in the wake of a spike in crime statistics over the past six months. “It may have worked in some small policing districts in…
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THE Mount Lawley Tennis Centre has almost tripled its junior squads in the past two years. The Central Avenue club has 14 junior teams of players up to the age of 18 — in 2013/14 there were five. Rhys McDougall, who’s been on board for 18 months and is the club’s third head coach in…
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A VISIT to East Village can be a delightful teaser for anyone contemplating a visit to New York City anytime soon. Perth’s William Street may be a long way away from the Big Apple but the food in this small, enchanting restaurant will transport your tastebuds to Manhattan. Seated comfortably in a booth our food is…
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TRAUMATISED childhoods thread together two diverse artists in Memories and Dreaming. Jacquie Penton Skipp and her sister would cower in their beds, listening as their mother was beaten by their abusive father, scared but thankful it wasn’t them this time. “He was mainly physical towards my mum,” Penton Skipp tells the Voice. Her older sister…
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COMBINING UV body paint, circus, and puppetry, Luminous is the only show of its kind in the world, and it’s heading to Freo Royale this week. Luminous Creator Jessica Watson Miller says, “there isn’t a show that is the same experience” and describes it as an “immersive world” created before its audience. The show, performed…
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NO grizzly bears were hiding behind the two massive urn water features nor in the greenery of the pleasant courtyard at this home in Canada Street. And there was no hint of the rugged, icy wilderness of Oscar-nominated film The Revenant–shot in the far north of North America. Not that cold weather would be a…
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