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“THE roof looks like a giant evaporative air-conditioner!” That was my initial reaction as I walked towards the new WA Museum Boola Bardip at the Perth Cultural Centre. I was probably being a bit harsh, and the architecture began to grow on me as we walked up the huge limestone concourse towards the entrance. My…
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TWO special exhibitions showcasing Aboriginal culture are some of the highlights at the new WA Museum Boola Bardip. The award-winning Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is the culmination of more than five years of collaboration between Aboriginal communities and the National Museum of Australia. It has the world’s highest resolution six-metre-wide travelling dome, where visitors…
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IF you’re into golf then this could be your dream home. It’s situated opposite the Peninsula Golf Course in Maylands, with relaxing views of the fairways and glimpses of the city in the distance. But there’s far more to this three bedroom, two bathroom home than birdies and hole-in-ones, it’s a lovely two-storey abode with…
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SETTING up tents under the noses of WA’s leaders, 30 of Perth’s homeless residents and allies brought the issue of poverty to the doorsteps of Parliament on Wednesday. Indigenous outcry and political promises made by the newly appointed Opposition leader Zac Kirkup saturated the steps, as rough sleepers from East Perth’s ‘Tent City’ appealed for…
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PERTH council has refused to provide bins for homeless people living in Tent City, forcing them to live amongst mounds of rotting rubbish. Tent City resident Raymond said the council’s repeated knockback to requests for a skip bin lacked “basic human decency”. “The people here want to live somewhere that is clean and healthy,” he…
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IF beach sand in your socks, sunburn and yelling kids isn’t your idea of a great gallery experience, it might be time to ditch Cottesloe’s seaside spectacle and try out some new public art in The Pickle District. Viewers won’t even have to leave the air-conditioned comfort of their cars to see the latest exhibition…
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VICTORIA’S $5.3 billion social housing package has exposed the McGowan government’s 10-year strategy as the work of a third world “backwater” says a WA-based homeless advocacy group. House the Homeless says just 260 new homes will be built for low-income families in WA over the next decade – less than half what the Andrews government…
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IN the lead up to the Maylands Brickworks open day, former worker David Weatherhead made a surprise visit to the heritage site to rekindle some old memories. “I worked there a couple of times, first in 1963 and later on it would have been about 1980,” Mr Weatherhead, now 84, recalls. “It was a job,”…
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VINCENT council has been issued a caution after carrying out unauthorised works at an Aboriginal heritage site near Banks Reserve. A Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage investigation found “legislative non-compliance” in path repairs carried out near Windan Bridge, which is named for one of Yellagonga’s wives. The DPLH tells us the works occurred within…
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BEAUFORT STREET now has its own Christmas tree with star. In preparation for the Christmas Festival in Beaufort Street tomorrow (Sunday November 29) Anglican rector Stephen Conway recently braved some rough weather to ride a crane to the top of the massive pine tree in front of St Patrick’s in Mt Lawley. Fr Conway wrapped…
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