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Opinion piece by ANDREW SMITH, former mayor East Fremantle and democratic town planning expert. THIS Thursday the fate of the historic Woodside maternity hospital, birthplace of 50,000 West Australians including the wildly popular Sam Kerr, will be decided. As will most of the intact rich history generated by the site over the last 100 years…
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FORMER Melville councillor Pam Neesham met up with the Chook this week for a chat about the former Woodside Hospital. She talked of her enormously successful family who, despite a raft of successes in many fields of endeavour, are best known for decades of success in AFL, water polo and other sports. That’s how the…
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THIS week’s Speaker’s Corner comes from Mount Lawley neurologist CAROLYN ORR, who explains why so many medical doctors are concerned about the looming “human health emergency” posed by policies favouring fossil fuels. ON Friday December 1, more than 50 medical doctors rallied outside Parliament House against WA’s support for oil and gas expansion. Why is…
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Do as I say… YOUR story about an Oxford Street development (“JDAPPED AGAIN,” Voice December 2, 2023) pointed out that the former Barnett government introduced Development Assessment Panels (DAPs) as a way of streamlining development approvals by reducing pressure from the community to influence planning decisions. The clear inference being that DAPS are a creation…
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IT was perhaps my lowest moment of 2023 – watching Brendan Fevola in the semi-final of The Masked Singer. It was reminiscent of the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where the primates touch the monolith and learn how to use a bone to whack things. I needed a pick-me up, and in times of…
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AUSTRALIA may not be rationing food just yet, but the cost of living crisis is giving people a little taste of how frugal life was in the aftermath of World War II. Food shortages, families living on war pensions after already going through the Great Depression, returning soldiers struggling to adapt to civilian life, women…
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THIS Bassendean home is a real whopper. Situated on a 1012sqm block, it’s got five bedrooms, a huge swimming pool and space for six vehicles. After opening the front door, you are greeted with a lovely old-school corridor with decorative architraves and rooms off to each side. Adding to the sense of style is the…
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A COMPETITIVE monologuist from Joondanna has won silver at the World Monologue Games for a two-and-a-half minute speech where he broke into seven languages. Jay Jay Jegathesan came in second in the main professional category, with judges scoring his performance of a self-written piece The Script Doesn’t Matter as an 8, just behind France’s Tracey…
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PLANS to move a concrete batching plant out of Vincent and into Stirling have not been warmly welcomed across the border. Stirling council this week unanimously voted to write letters to all parties involved expressing “concern” over the proposal. Vincent council and many Claisebrook locals are desperate to see the end of two concrete plants…
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A VETERAN Stirling councillor has played down her sharing of social media memes which have been criticised as having racist undertones. Councillor Elizabeth Re is a prolific re-poster of memes, and while many are on contentious topics, one using the word “illegals” in reference to asylum seekers has put her in the spotlight. The memes…
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