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VIOLINIST Emily Leung will bring Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 3 to life in two concerts June 25 and 26 with Fremantle Chamber Orchestra. Leung made her soloist debut with FCO at 15 and has since performed to great acclaim. When she was 11, Emily attended master classes with visiting Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman who identified…
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FORMER WA premier Peter Dowding says the “disgraceful” secret trials of a whistleblowing Australian spy and his lawyer need to be examined by a royal commission or federal corruption watchdog. Known as Witness K, the former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer and his lawyer Bernard Collaery were charged in 2018 with conspiring to reveal classified information…
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THE East Fremantle Football Club weren’t just kicking goals to get top of the ladder when they ran out for their first home game at the WACA last month. Apart from demolishing Subi 90 – 46, the Sharks helped raise awareness and topped up the coffers of a foundation supporting people with a rare genetic…
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SARAH HULT and LILY McAULIFFE are founding members of the Fremantle-based Abortion Project, a pro-choice movement which seeks to destigmatise discussions about abortion and provide peer support for the many people who have experienced one. 1 in 4 to 1 in 6 people with uteruses have had abortions in Australia. You may have had one,…
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WITH covid hitting the house for six, we were in takeaway mode. It’s been a rough couple of weeks and as my wife remarked, the only upside of covid is that she can no longer smell our dog’s farts. But, I must say, God bless technology. Choosing from umpteen varieties of cuisine and getting…
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WHEN Dana Kazhimova went to watch a couple of friends perform the traditional music and dance of her native Kazakhstan, she had no idea of the impact it would have. “I was not a Kazakh dancing type of person,” she said. While she’d done the compulsory national dancing in primary school and her father had…
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FOR more than 20 years The Cove Indian Restaurant has established itself as an icon on Perth’s food scene, and having a landmark location has played a big part in that. But now The Cove is moving on and its beautiful and historic venue in Alfred Cove is awaiting a new generation of restaurateur to…
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Perth set for 1.1% rise A HEFTY 7.6 per cent rate increase is proposed in Vincent as the council grapples with ageing assets, rising staff costs, and sizeable debts to pay off. At the June 7 meeting Mayor Emma Cole said of the draft budget: “There’s no glamour projects … it’s all very much a…
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RARE old shoes, intact teetotaller bottles, and evidence of long-gone paperbark trees are among artefacts uncovered in an archaeological dig at Peninsula Farm in Maylands. The Farm’s owner the National Trust hosted archaeology students from UWA for the second year to excavate the grounds, delving into an old well and digging out trenches across the…
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WA HOMELESSNESS minister John Carey has blasted Perth councillors for voting against a homeless drop-in centre moving to a new location in Northbridge. Homelessness services provider Ruah runs the drop-in centre on Shenton Street opposite Russell Square, but that site’s soon to be redeveloped into a seven-storey shelter for women and children escaping domestic violence…
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