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HOT and flustered after a frantically busy morning, the peaceful ambience of Casa Bianchi, on Scarborough Beach Road, Mt Hawthorn, worked its magic on Voice snapper Matthew Dwyer. Frown lines turned into sighs of contentment as we sat next to a koi pond full of beautiful waterlilies — a jet of water playfully spraying —…
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THE vendors instantly recognised the beauty hidden in the bones of this Rookwood Street home but it would take a bit of effort before others recognised it. “It was a little lean-to place, with sand everywhere,” I was told. Thirty-six years later it’s a stunning three-bedroom Mt Lawley abode full of light-filled spaces, and surrounded…
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A GHOST tent and things that go bump in the night (or day), Dead Ringer is a deliciously dark exhibition transforming PICA’s heritage-listed James Street home into an art-house version of the Royal Show’s haunted house. “[It’s] a very dark summer show, but sometimes you need an antidote to the beach and endless sunshine,” curator…
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HIGHGATE primary school kids, staff and parents are campaigning for a better playspace to replace a sun-scorched square that’s “boring, crowded and heavy on the bitumen”. School board chair Tanya Sim says the school has capacity issues from its growing inner-city population, and it needs to better utilise the small space they have. Numbers are…
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STAMPING out crime along Maylands’ Eighth Avenue shopping strip may be as simple as tweaking the street’s design, a Curtin University researcher says. Researcher Paul Cozens and colleague Courtney Babb, an urban planning expert, will soon talk to local traders and collect information on when, where and what kind of anti-social behaviour occurs on the…
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JUST months ago WA councils — including the City of Perth — rejected transparency suggestions from Vincent mayor John Carey. Now, the Barnett government plans to write similar measures into the City of Perth Act. Mr Carey says “they’re being dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century”. At this year’s WA local government association…
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BAYSWATER councillor Alan Radford says ratepayers should chip in when it comes to beautifying local streets. Cr Radford told last week’s council meeting he remembered when it was common for residents to help with projects like community gardens. “People took ownership and if someone came along to ruin it, they’d be the first ones to…
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FINAL preparations are under way for next weekend’s Light Up Leederville Carnival, with Leederville Connect chair David Galloway saying they’re aiming for “idiosyncratic, eccentric and fun”. He says they’re not looking to pack the streets with a massive rave party, but to keep it local, low-key, and a wee bit wacky. “What makes our carnival…
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BAYSWATER train station looks like being a key plank in WA Labor’s campaign against the Barnett government. The station is the first stop on the new Forrestfield-Airport Link project, but is to be largely ignored during the $2 billion rollout. Maylands Labor MP Lisa Baker says the plan to only upgrade disability access isn’t enough.…
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