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NEVER judge a book by its cover. I know it’s a cliche, but it was the perfect adage for this six-bedroom home in North Street, Mt Lawley. From the street the house looks like a neat, run-of-the-mill abode, but inside it’s grand, elegant and contemporary—the ultimate family home with plenty of pizazz. The original home…
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THE kids at the Italian Australian Child Care Centre are from countries as far flung as Norway, Canada, Japan, the US and of course…Italy. And quite a few of the kids are second generation. “Parents who were here as children are now bringing in their own children,” centre coordinator Assunta Martella says. Child care is…
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COMEDY and opera will mesh in ear-shattering harmony when DivaLicious perform at this year’s Italo-Australian Welfare and Cultural Centre ball. The ball brings the week-long Italian festival to an end and Penny Shaw and Fiona Cooper Smyth from DivaLicious are looking forward to performing their James Bond spoof Licenced to Trill, an operatic cat fight…
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DEMENTIA sufferer Biagio Pezzimenti has forgotten most of the English he learned after arriving in WA some 55 years ago, but he hasn’t forgotten the Italian card game from his youth. The highlight of his day is playing briscola with the Sergio Gustinetti, an aged care worker at the Italo/Australian Welfare and Cultural Centre. “He’s…
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THE Italo-Australian Welfare & Cultural Centre was set up more than 60 years ago to help Italian migrants settle into their new home and maintain their cultural heritage. These days the centre also has a social welfare program for women and youths that includes counselling, support services for people with diabetes, a child care centre…
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MOST people choose burial or cremation as part of their funeral arrangements, but a little more left-field approach offered by an Australian foundation is to have your brain removed and cryogenically frozen. For nearly a decade the Neural Archive Foundation has been offering Aussies the deep-freeze option in the hope that one day scientists will…
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Receiving a diagnosis of dementia is not something people plan for, and it can be an overwhelming experience. It’s important to know there are services and support available. After a diagnosis, some people don‘t know where to turn. They may not have access to the right information, feel isolated and alone, or feel unsure how…
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Did you know that there’s a quick and easy test to determine your risk of heart attack? A coronary calcium score scan can detect coronary artery disease long before it becomes symptomatic. It’s completed in little longer than one breath hold. It uses a very low dose CT scan and doesn’t need any injection of…
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A YUED woman from Highgate is in the running to be crowned Miss NAIDOC Perth. Willara Wyatt, 23, says she was apprehensive about entering the competition, but was tired of feeling like her community didn’t have a voice. “I was sick of wanting to help my community but not knowing the way to go about…
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A CLOTHING company has been labelled “deplorable” for trying to sell Maddog t-shirts mocking cult Perth eccentric “Adrian”. For the last 30 years Adrian has been riding his bicycle around Midland. In recent years he has unwittingly become an Internet sensation, with people harassing him and posting videos of his angry response online. Last week…
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