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THE long and dusty saga of Claisebrook’s concrete plants has an end in sight with an intricate land swap plan in the works. The Cook government plans to shift the plants out of the neighbourhood, but residents are dead against any deal that’d extend their approval to operate beyond the current June 30, 2024 expiry.…
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A DRUG crisis centre has been approved for a residential street in Vincent after local councillors were outvoted by state-appointed panel members. The state government wants to set up an “immediate drug assistance coordination centre” in an empty building at 37-43 Stuart Street Perth, to be operated by not-for-profit Cyrenian House (“Drug help centre has…
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TRACKLESS trams such as the one which made its way along Scarborough Beach Road for the first time last week, should be part of the Future of Fremantle discussions says Peter Newman. The Fremantle resident and professor of sustainability at Curtin University did much of the research leading up to Integrated Transport Solutions Group’s purchase…
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PRIDEFEST returned to Hyde Park for the 2023 Fairday, with thousands descending on the park on November 12. The official count’s not in yet, but the daytime family-friendly Fairday’s been growing in popularity compared to the evening Pride Parade in recent years, with 37,000 people attending the 2022 Fairday compared to the 30,500 at the…
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AN 11th-hour Cook government offer to fund Perth council’s “Safe Night Space” women’s shelter has been deemed too late to stop the closure, with lord mayor Basil Zempilas saying the building will be “returned to community use”. In 2021 Perth council opened the SNS in the old Rod Evans Centre on Hay Street in East…
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THE MATILDAS feel good factor had slowly washed over me. No, I haven’t put a poster of Sam Kerr on my bedroom wall – I’m in my late 40s and that would be all wrong – but her World Cup antics did inspire me to take my two young kids to see Perth Glory Women…
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REMEMBER those “weirdos” at school who met in a classroom at lunchtime to roll dice with six thousand faces, cast spells and battle trolls in the board game Dungeons & Dragons? Well, now they are literally having the last laugh with their hit comedy show Improv RPG. Featuring a motley crew of performers who improvise…
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WE never thought it would happen, but interest rates have gone up again! Thankfully the Voice has ferreted out a little bargain in Maylands for under $230,000. This one bedroom apartment on Sixth Avenue isn’t the Taj Mahal, but it’s clean, tidy and has lovely wooden-style floors and enough space for a laundry. It’s also…
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AFTER a lengthy tender process Vincent’s e-scooter hire scheme rolled out this week, allowing cross-border riding with neighbouring Perth council. Vincent has picked Neuron Mobility to provide 250 rental e-scooters for a 12-month trial, hireable via an app and charging $1 to unlock the scooter then about 50 cents a minute to ride. Perth council…
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PLANS for an “innovation cluster” in the Bayswater Industrial Area might have to be shelved because its sewerage system it too outdated. The BIA is a fairly under-utilised industrial zone, but most properties are still on septic systems which deters sizeable companies from setting up. Bayswater council has been trying to get higher levels of…
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