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Author: Your Herald
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OVER the WA Day long weekend, while their home suburb sang with the sizzle of snags, Kim Epton and fellow Cockburn 4WD Club members found themselves in more rugged surrounds working to save a historic well. Kodjerning Well is one of 26 reliable year-round water sources established by explorer Charles Cook Hunt, along with a…
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IN exploring one of history’s darkest chapters, local director Aron Attiwell’s upcoming film Fading Numbers highlights why issues of anti-Semitism and white supremacism in Australia are as relevant today as they were 75 years ago. Attiwell told the Voice the WA-made film “comprises multiple survivor stories [combined] into one overarching narrative”. This narrative was the result…
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AN entertaining video series shot in Bull Creek, Melville and Fremantle aims to get more youngsters reading books. Reading for the Heart and Mind features some of the best children’s authors and illustrators in WA talking about the mental health benefits to kids and young adults from reading. The five part series is targeted at…
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IN this week’s Speaker’s Corner, Maylands’ MIKE ROEGER shares his love for one of the WA Art Gallery’s rarely seen treasures, hidden from the public for decades. SOMEBODY told me the Art Gallery of WA was closed for renovations. Fake news! Fake news! It’s open. Enter off Beaufort Street — the former police courts. To…
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BEING a supporter of Scotland’s soccer team is an exercise in sadomasochism. In the early hours of Wednesday morning we were dumped out the European Championships by Croatia, who beat us 3-1. Once again we had failed to get past the group stage at a major championships. By lunchtime I desperately needed some comfort food…
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THOR, Hulk and Superman will take a back seat at the Perth Comic Arts Festival next Saturday (July 3). Instead there will be a focus on local comic-making talent with artist talks, workshops and a comic market and exhibition. The free annual PCAF was first held in 2018 at Edith Cowan University, and after missing…
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VICTORY Terrace is one of the best addresses in East Perth. It’s tucked away in a lovely spot beside the Swan River and the lush Mardalup Park, and at night you can enjoy the UFO light show as Burswood Stadium bursts into life. This luxury five bedroom four bathroom abode lives up to its location…
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Too scared to pitch a tent THE Department of Communities says it has reached the “due diligence” stage of securing a new crisis shelter for Perth’s rough sleepers. It comes as around a dozen homeless people, some former residents of Lord Street’s “tent city”, have returned to the Beaufort Street footpath opposite Weld Square to…
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VINCENT council staff appear intent on selling a Barlee Street carpark despite hundreds of nearby business owners and workers complaining it’ll create a parking shortage nightmare. The 300 people who signed a petition opposing the sell-off have been mushed down into just one submission among 144 in the council report. The council’s been pondering whether to…
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VINCENT council’s admin building has a new Covid-inspired artwork that is, funnily enough, probably the last place you’d find the insidious virus. Mayor Emma Cole unveiled the installation Connections last week, saying North Perth artist Liz Gray had created it after successfully applying for one of the council’s Covid arts relief grants in 2020. Ms…
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