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BAYSWATER mayor Barry McKenna shares a tale with Matthew Tian, Lana Brekic and Elizabeth Marshall at the re-opening of the Morley Library this week, while mums Chunli Li, Sanja Brekic and Nicola Marshall listen in. The library was originally in the Morley shopping centre, but got nudged out when supermarket giant Aldi decided to move…
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VOLUNTEERS for Oxfam will parade through Perth with buckets on their heads next Friday to highlight the federal government’s reduction in overseas aid. Participants will fill buckets from the fountain in Forrest Place, before walking to Federal Finance Minister Mathias Cormann’s office where they’ll present an 80,000-strong petition calling for foreign aid to get a…
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WHEN Mt Lawley’s Laila Shalimar became interested in vintage fashion and culture, there was one hitch; all the role models were white. “It was really hard being someone who was brown to relate to American and English and Australian actors,” says Ms Shalimar, who grew up in Pakistan near the border of Afghanistan. “I didn’t…
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FOR years the Scarborough Beach Road and Green Street intersection in Mt Hawthorn has been a confusing tangle of odd angles that results in countless prangs and dire congestion. It’s a known blackspot which made the latest RAC top 10 worst intersections for Perth because of a “poor overall intersection design causing confusion and risk-taking…
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JACOB’S LADDER looks like it’s heading for a 7pm to 7am curfew. Early morning exercisers who routinely hit the West Perth steps at the crack of dawn look likely to find themselves facing padlocked gates, with the council siding with nearby residents who claim the early morning crew create too many problems. Built in 1909…
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STIRLING city council is taken by Malcolm Turnbull’s Smart Cities Plan. Following a visit by assistant cities minister Angus Taylor last week (“Bayswater ‘prime’ for Turnbull cash‚“ Voice, June 4, 2016), the council is preparing a submission which in draft forms praises the PM’s commitment to infrastructure spending. 57,000 jobs The submission warns that unless…
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THE newly revamped Beaufort Street Artisan Markets has broadened its horizons from fine arts to more artisanal wares so local crafty sorts can sell their craft, food, ceramics, fashion and jewellery too. Originally a narrower “art market” for paintings and sculpture, Beaufort Street Network chair Pam Herron explains they’ve also shifted the day to the…
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UPDATED June 13: THE team of street hockey youngsters credited with keeping the Bayswater Bowling and Recreation Club alive has been shut down unless it can tone down the noise. The Street Roller Hockey League joined BBRC and set up a rink next to the bowling grounds at 58 Murray Street last year, with members…
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VINCENT council went a little more democratic than usual in putting this year’s budget together, asking for ratepayers to suggest where the money should go. Technically every budget is subject to community consultation, but it’s usually done after months of internal budget workshop have pretty much set the spending in stone, and only attracts comment…
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VINCENT is no longer home to the youngest councillors in WA; local school kids have been heading along to Bayswater council chambers to play mayor as part of their learning about government and citizenship. Year 4, 5 and 6 students from Morley and Hillcrest primaries have been dropping by to hold mock meetings where they…
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