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THE tension in Marcella Polain’s Driving into the Sun is more palpable than some crime novels, and I found myself hunched over the pages in a cold sweat. The award-winning North Perth author and academic is happy to hear of my unease. “It was the sense I was hoping to create – a sense of…
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THE Perth tram line extension in 1900 led to a building boom in Mt Lawley as lower middle-class workers flocked to the area. The new residents included shopkeepers, and this Grosvenor Road home started life as a grocery store with living quarters at the rear. These days the chic home is a sought-after-address for the…
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TURN down the volume on your headphones or risk permanent hearing loss, warns the Deafness Foundation. While music may make a monotonous commute or nagging parents more bearable, continually exposing your ears to loud sounds may lead to irreparable damage. Almost a year ago the World Health Organisation revealed that more than 1.1 billion young…
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EVERY five minutes another Australian develops diabetes. More than 1.7 million Aussies have the chronic disease and it’s estimated another half a million are undiagnosed. But there are hopes that understanding a molecule known as “RAGE” could help control the effects of the disease. Diabetes Research WA has received a $60,000 grant to research the…
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THERE have been so many false fire alarms at a public housing tower block in East Perth, residents don’t evacuate anymore. One resident at the 100-unit complex on Goderich Street told us the alarms are going off at least once a week, sometimes three. Initially people would evacuate, but when the alarm went off this…
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RARELY has a parliamentary speech led to such widespread outrage as Lisa Baker’s relatively mild prompt to eat less meat. But the Maylands MP told the Voice she won’t shy away from bringing up difficult issues. Ms Baker finished her speech with a quote from a Lancet article: “So what is a healthy amount of…
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Stirling mayor Mark Irwin and members of African bands Akwaaba and Bella Ndayikeze will be hoping to set a new drumming world record on Harmony Day. The city council wants to try and get more than 61 nationalities playing in a drum circle, which would break the record set by a not-for-profit organisation in Canada…
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JOANNE QUINN has spared no expense in trying to become the Stirling Liberal candidate at the upcoming federal election. The 47-year-old has tried to woo Liberal state delegates with a glossy six-page brochure outlining her credentials ahead of the Stirling pre-selection vote today (Saturday February 23). A party insider said candidates normally send delegates a…
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MOUNT LAWLEY Labor MP Simon Millman has condemned Liberal MP Jim Chown’s “Jews of Asia” remark, saying it follows an increase in intolerance that constituents have reported to him lately. On Saturday The West Australian reported Mr Chown made the comment during a 2015 meeting in Shanghai, which he and other MPs attended to meet…
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SHE’S a dancing queen, but she’s certainly not seventeen. 99-year-old Madge Hitchins is a walking or dancing reminder that it’s never too late to boogie as she takes to the dance floor at Leederville Town Hall every Saturday night. Mrs Hitchens always steals the show and dresses to shock, claims her close friend Margaret Hodgson.…
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