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A NEW walking performance exploring Perth during the 1980s AIDS crisis has unearthed a rich history its developer feared was at risk of being lost. Noemie Huttner-Koros’s The Lion Never Sleeps takes the audience through the Northbridge streets where the queer community gathered, danced and fought the discrimination they faced during the 80s and early…
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WITH urban homes short on garden space, indoor plants are becoming like little green children to many inner city dwellers. Indoor plants have become mascots, meme-material and mental health menders, especially for millennials taken by their compactness and affordability. Now Perth City Farm is jumping on the growing indoor plant trend, hosting the Perth Indoor…
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BEEN hacked? ECU’s Alexa Palassis wants to hear from you. The psychology honours student is studying the personal and emotional cost when a digital identity is compromised, whether it’s social media or bank accounts. Ms Palassis says anyone can be a target. “Millennials are, funnily enough, the most common victims of hacking, with 60 per…
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A FORMER senior City of Perth staff member says the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority ruled out advertising on a Noongar-inspired tower in Yagan Square. “This was our fear but the MRA assured us no advertising would be on it,” the former employee said. They’d been involved in discussions with the MRA, along with a range colleagues.…
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STIRLING councillor Bianca Sandri says criticism of her appearance as a witness against her own council in a SAT appeal last year is making a mountain out of a molehill. An urban planner in her day job, Cr Sandri’s firm had been hired by a church group trying to get approval from Stirling for a…
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THE first two of Perth council’s new “general manager” positions have been filled. CEO Murray Jorgensen is making a clean sweep of the five old director positions to be replaced with four GMs. He has captain’s pick because the commissioners (filling in for suspended councillors) relinquished their right to have a vote on the senior…
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Great work THANKS for front-page and great all-round coverage in Perth Voice of Naidoc Week themes. With your limited space for newsfeed, you rivalled the ABC Radio and TV in your generous efforts to support the cause of Voice, Truth and Treaty. Fred Chaney, Danny Gilbert and Noel Pearson were guest writers in our national…
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I HAD never eaten steak tartare before my visit to The Meat & Wine Co in Perth. I’ve never been put off by raw red meat, but I’ve found it difficult to trust an establishment’s ability to put together such a quality dish. To me, the beef should be high-grade and it’s imperative that it’s fresh…
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WHILE orchestras elsewhere funk themselves up by playing with rock bands, Perth Symphony Orchestra is the rock band in its production Love Him Madly: The Doors Reimagined. Rock bands inevitably swamp an orchestra, says PSO head Bourby Webster. “Rock bands just drown them out, you are never going to hear the second cello.” In Love…
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THIS two-storey West Perth townhouse in Carr Place is the perfect pad for a couple of hip young city workers. The layout is simple, with the ground floor given over to a spacious open plan and the two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second level. Light fills the spacious living area thanks to almost…
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