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PERTH’S burbs are full of bees and a new research project aims to find out how many species there are using DNA barcoding. Bee scientist Kit Prendergast has been surveying native bees in WA’s urban southwest for more than two years. The region is a biodiversity hotspot and she’s identified about 150 species in Perth alone. The…
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SIXTY dads and kids rode en masse to watch the East v West Perth WAFL match at Leederville oval on Saturday August 18. The event was organised by the Mountain Goats, aka the Mt Hawthorn Fathering Project, which aims to make men into better dads, and has been running at Mt Hawthorn Primary for just…
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THE Voice was barely in letterboxes when UWA cancelled last Friday night’s talk by controversial US doctor Quentin Van Meter. UWA’s decision to host the talk sparked an outcry from UWA students who had planned to protest, and more than 9000 people signed the online petition “UWA, don’t host anti-LGBT hate on campus!” But the…
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RICHARD OFFEN has been busy since retiring from Heritage Perth last year. As well as giving countless talks on WA history, the former executive director has just released his new book Lost Perth, a fond tribute to the buildings we’ve sadly lost over the past 130 years. It’s well documented that the demolition-friendly 1960s and…
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UPDATE: UWA has cancelled the booking, saying “we have been advised the risk surrounding the event has been elevated to a higher level, which mandates a more robust event management plan”. The uni’s statement said the organisers could not provide that management plan and so the event was cancelled under their booking policy. “The University…
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BY day Mark Loader fishes rubbish out of waterways, but on Saturday night he saved a woman’s life after she jumped off the Narrows Bridge into the icy Swan River. Mr Loader was skippering the solar powered boat, Ellie J, from the Little Ferry Company. It’s a side gig to his business Cleanamarina, which uses…
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A PERTH councillor’s attempt last year to make colleagues sign statutory declarations swearing they weren’t leaking secrets to the media has been trumped by Subiaco’s mayor, who’s turned to God as an enforcer. The Post Newspaper reported this week that Penny Taylor brought a bible to the last council meeting and asked her councillors to…
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A DOLPHIN tangled in fishing line is struggling in the Swan and Canning Rivers, and if she dies her calf “Splash” may not survive without her. The adult female bottlenose dolphin named High Nitch is a long-term resident of the river, having been regularly sighted for at least 18 years. On the weekend she was…
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VINCENT council officers want to give a proposed barber shop cum small bar the snip. Proposed for the old Kartique jewellery shop at 559 Beaufort Street, the business would have a 120-person bar in the rear serving up old school cocktails and a small barber shop up front. The owners plan to call it Blind…
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THIS mesmerising pillar looks like a post-modern art project, but it’s actually the result of one week’s decomposition at the Community Compost Station in Mount Hawthorn. “It’s fascinating to see that after just one week, the bottom layers are already decomposing, and that’s before we mix the mulch through to really get the process ‘cooking’.”…
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