Category: news
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NAOMI CLARK of Beaufort Street, Highgate—Vincent mayor Alannah MacTiernan would like to hear from you because she reckons you’re bogus. In a letter published in the Voice last week Ms Clark was critical of Cr John Carey, mocking his support for publishing kerb crawlers’ details as “an obvious ploy to move to the right and…
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RACHMANISM is alive and well in Perth, according to a local man who personally knew the world’s worst slum landlord. Peter Rachman was a Notting Hill landlord in the 1950s and 1960s, infamous for exploiting tenants with derelict dwellings and high rents. The word “Rachmanism” is now in the Oxford dictionary to describe, “the exploitation…
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ALANNAH MacTIERNAN has apologised to artist Matt McVeigh for not advising him earlier of Vincent city council’s decision to cancel his commission. “The council stands by its decision,” Ms MacTiernan wrote in a message posted to the council’s website. “But firstly, I apologise to Matthew that he was not advised of the council’s decision (which…
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IT’S been a long road and a year-and-a-half of paperwork but the future of the Vastese Bakery in North Perth is safe. The Alma Road bakery has been in the Saraceni family since 1961, baking for cafes, restaurants and boutique retailers, along with selling locals their daily bread. But in 2011 someone complained about the…
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AN Australia Day fireworks without any fireworks has been raised as a possibility by a Department of Fire and Emergency Services staffer. In the Australia Day post-mortem conducted by Perth city council a brief note on page five states, “there were… significant bush fires in the state which required DFES attention”. “It was raised at…
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FOR the first time Jane’s Walk is coming to Maylands. The international event takes place May 4, celebrating the legacy of urban activist Jane Jacobs who died in 2006. Jacobs pioneered a grassroots movement to protect Greenwich Village’s old neighbourhoods from so-called “slum clearance” where old blocks were to be razed for upscale apartment blocks.…
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JUST over a million bucks will be spent sprucing up the first stage of Leederville’s town centre. With little done in the precinct since the formation of the Vincent city council, mayor Alannah MacTiernan says, “it is clearly Leederville village’s turn to get an upgrade in the public spaces in the town centre, it being…
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PASTY-FACED computer enthusiasts will leave their command centres—their bedrooms—to attend Perth’s first ever hacker conference this weekend. WAHCKon will revolve around a series of talks from fellow hackers and IT security professionals. Founder Peter Hannay say his conference focuses on preventive security and won’t be a hacker’s guide to the universe. “It will be hacking…
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Lighten up WOW! I have read some negative letters over the years but Naomi Clark’s criticism of councillor John Carey being regularly seen in the Voice (Voice Mail, April 27, 2013) is very strange. I always thought it was the editor who decided what is published in the paper, not councillors. As a long-term resident…
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THE Barnett government is distancing itself from a $4 million pre-election promise made by its unsuccessful Maylands candidate, Sylvan Albert. In a March 1 media release, the high-profile candidate and Bayswater councillor had stated the “Liberals [will] commit $1 million a year over four years to eradicate mosquitoes in Maylands”. Cr Albert failed in his…
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