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CARNABY’S black cockatoo advocates have held a candlelight vigil on the steps of Parliament and handed over a petition calling for an emergency plan to protect the birds’ habitat. The petition seeks a halt to clearing of pine trees above the Gnangara Mound aquifer, and protection for southern woodlands subject to bauxite mining. The state…
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FRENCH guitarist Ingrid Riollot moved to Australia in 2018 to marry guitar maker Damon Smallman and the couple now reside in rural Esperance. It’s a pretty unlikely location for a world-class guitarist who’s criss-crossed continents while wowing audiences and scooping up a multitude of awards; likewise for the workshops of luthiers Smallman & Sons, whose…
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A NEW plan to light up shadowy city laneways has kicked off with the installation of Adam Cruikshank’s “Falling Stars” artwork off Hay Street mall. It’s the first in a new series of public artworks to light up the laneways, the latest in the long-running attempts at laneway activation that’s been newly revived amid Perth…
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AN important piece of WA’s sculptural history is coming up for auction in Sydney later this month, and one of the state’s most respected art academics says he’d love to see it come home. The Wildflower State was created by renowned Australian sculptor Lyndon Dadswell and hung on the facade of the Commonwealth Bank on…
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AFTER years of research a Hyde Park history enthusiast has come to an unexpected conclusion: The park has never had an official opening. Retired journalist Rodney O’Brien threw himself into researching Hyde Park to find out more about a long-forgotten fountain that was vandalised in 1918 and removed two years later, along the way discovering…
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1990s trance music, weird refracted light and old landline phones create a hypnotic and slightly strange backdrop to the stage show Telephone. Focusing on the fragmented nature of communication, audiences are bombarded by “a symphony of phone calls” as conversations criss-cross, repeat and fade-out in disorientating waves. The endless chatter creates an emotional and sometimes…
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ITALIAN techno from the 1990s was playing when I visited La Mortazza. I wasn’t at a rave for middle-aged Italian expats, but a funky cafe/deli in North Perth. According to the friendly lady behind the till they were listening to live radio from their homeland, where people were still out partying in the wee hours.…
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THERE’S an air of French provincial to this lovely Inglewood apartment. Light floorboards, elegant chairs, wine barrel and ‘distressed’ furniture all conjure up visions of a townhouse in Provence. Or if you want a more Aussie take on this two bedroom one bathroom apartment – Acton Mt Lawley call it a “Little Ripper”! They’re not…
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LIGHTNING SWAMP will become a learning hub to help kids reconnect with nature. Friends of Lightning Swamp chair John Williams made a deputation to Bayswater council asking for a spot at adjacent Lightning Park to set up a transportable building as a learning space across the road from the swamp, as Perth’s shrinking remnant bushland…
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BAYSWATER council has been wrongly framed as WA’s most secretive council when it comes to tendering and awarding contracts. The Civil Contractors Federation WA released a report on Monday which gave Bayswater a poor review over its transparency, earning the council a full page story in The West Australian headlined: “Bayswater earns ‘most secretive’ gong…
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