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Shark attack survivor questions slow response THE survivor of a shark attack at Blackwall Reach two years ago says he’s disappointed a shark barrier still hasn’t been installed in the river, though Melville council says it’s still working on the project. Cameron Wrathall was 100 metres from shore on January 14, 2021 when he was…
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WITH school holidays wrapping up this week, the City of Vincent Local History Centre finishes its series of summer tales with a story about how local kids holidayed in times past. DURING summer school holidays in an earlier era, kids made their own fun ranging further afield than many parents would feel comfortable with today.…
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THERE’S a certain irony when one of the first books to scratch away the nostalgic gloss of WA colonial art to expose the Indigenous dispossession they reveal is published by an organisation with an indelible link to the state’s controversial ‘founding father’. Artist and author Philippa O’Brien’s No Stone Without a Name explores how artists expressed…
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LAST day of the school holidays. After eight weeks of ice cream, beach and video games, it felt like the Fall of Saigon in my house with Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles desperately needing to get back into some kind of routine. But before they were hoisted onto the roof and bundled into the Catholic chopper,…
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SEE RAMPAGE ELECTRA AT THE WA MADE FILM FESTIVAL on FEBRUARY 24. TICKETS HERE Fremantle Prison has seen some horrors down the years and that continues when it takes centre stage in the gripping action thriller Rampage Electra. Written and directed by Hassibullah Kushkaki, the film was shot extensively in WA with locations ranging from…
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FOR many parents, broaching the “birds and the bees” with their children has always been a very awkward conversation. But now with more and more kids identifying as gender neutral or LGBTQI+ the playing field just got a lot bigger and more complex, especially for parents of an older generation or with certain religious beliefs…
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IF I was to give this Morley house a name it would be Mr Flexible or Ms Flexible or just Flexible, if it’s gender neutral. That’s because this four bedroom three bathroom home has effectively got two main ensuite bedrooms – one on the ground floor and one on the first. On the first floor,…
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PERTH council will be asked to look at how it can prevent cats from straying into Kings Park from its residential areas when its electors meet for their annual gathering this coming Tuesday. Fremantle councillor Adin Lang had plans to make his city’s cat controls some of the toughest in the state by banning them…
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AFTER a three-year Covid-induced hiatus the Mount Hawthorn Hawkers Market is in line to return in 2023. The markets started in 2014 and used to run every Friday during the warmer months, getting more than 500 people a week out to Axford Park. In March 2020 the market operators Heart Inspired Events announced they were…
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THE quest to pack Perth with parked cars rolls on with another CBD development winning approval to install more bays than the rules usually allow. The Perth Parking Policy, a joint manual by the state government and Perth city council birthed in 1999, has tried to limit the number of car bays in new buildings…
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