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• A FIVE year old kid left at Scitech on their own after an excursion has earned the company Funtrain an $8000 fine. There was no roll call and after everyone else left the youngster was “without any form of supervision for at least 90 minutes” according to a state administrative tribunal ruling earning the Bassendean…
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JOHN CAREY will seek re-election as Vincent mayor in October, as will his deputy, Ros Harley. The confirmation ends the persistent rumour that Mr Carey was a possible contender for lord mayor of Perth, something he said was only on the table when there was a possibility of Vincent and Perth merging. “I never considered…
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Dear Prudent? TEN thousand dollars to review the CEO’s performance (Voice, July 25, 2015). Is this what John Carey means by the new era of “prudent financial management”? Debbie Saunders Oxford St, Leederville Men all heart ON Friday July 24, Forsyth Gardens Hall in Menora was invaded by the smells of barbecued sausages and grilled onions…
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THERE’S a nice synergy between West Perth’s Gordon Street Garage and Fremantle’s Bread in Common. The coffee-roasting West Perth eatery provides beans to its sister joint, which in turn provides the fantastic bread we were happily dunking in olive oil and balsamic ($2.50). Gordon Street takes its coffee very seriously, and jars of beans sit…
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NORTH PERTH’S Marcella Polain has won an international poetry prize for her triptych on love and loss. Dr Polain was one of 48 international poets invited to the 19th Festival Curtea de Arges Festival in Romania. “The poems Still and Turn are about the complexities of love, and the poem Silence is about grief,” she…
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A FOREST of poets will sprout across the Northbridge Piazza, as part of this year’s Poetry Festival, which kicks off August 13. A live installation on August 16 invites people to wander through a word performance, festival co-organiser Peter Jeffery says: “Poets stand like trees—you go up and they will recite one poem endlessly.” The academic…
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THINK gracious living in an age of gentrification in Perth and Twining, on Alvan Street, Mt Lawley fits the bill to a tee (boom tish). The home’s name is spelled out in art nouveau-designed stained glass above the matching door and surround. It’s all part of life on a grand scale: elegant afternoon teas are…
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A PHRENOLOGIST studying the shape of your head looking for criminal aberrations, a palmist reading futures in the lines of your hand, and the “Goanna Man” selling snake oil as a cure for polio: this is the history of William Street’s businesses. The William Street Collective’s Lake Bovell and The Butcher Shop staffer Alex Fuller…
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