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RICHARD OFFEN says he is busier than ever since stepping down as executive director of Heritage Perth. The English ex-pat was in the role for 12 years, but is now doing a lot of heritage talks and is flat-out working on the follow-up to his hit book, Perth: Then and Now. On March 26 he’ll…
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So, what’s the plan? THE Rethink the Link campaign worked really well. There was only one major flaw—they didn’t have a viable transport solution instead of the Roe 8/9 project. Their campaign was emotive not factual: “Save our wetlands and our animals”. Building a bridge over the area and closing Hope Road would have done…
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DR TOM VOSMER is a maritime archaeologist who lived and worked in the Middle East for decades. Grappling with a refugee crisis of boat people after the end of Vietnam War, the Fraser government was offered some options for dealing with it: 1.Reprovision and refuel all boats, tow them beyond the three-mile limit and encourage…
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MY burgeoning love affair with Beaufort Street grew stronger over the weekend thanks to the friendly service, great cocktails and phenomenal food at Dainty Dowager in Mount Lawley. Dainty is Perth’s first Asian roasting house, according to the restaurant’s website, and while it’s not fine dining, the food is fresh, smart, well-presented and packed with…
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THE camaraderie and valour of diggers in World War I is seen as the beginnings of what it means to be Australian. But that’s not the story for the first Australians. Aboriginal service personnel were whited-out of the “heroic” narrative when they returned home after the war, author Rachel Bin Salleh says. The indigenous soldiers…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) There are way too many pragmatic influences coming down the highway from Capricorn for you to get too carried away. This is even though the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Uranus are all in Aries. Though you have energy and power to burn, your feet are planted firmly on solid…
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I’VE never seen anyone get so excited about opening a pull-out pantry than the owner of this Mt Hawthorn home. The drawers are so deep the owner jokingly refers to them as coffins. “You could fit a whole supermarket in this pantry,” she says proudly. The kitchen in this art deco home had a total…
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LESS than 10 per cent of Wikipedia contributors are women, leading to an “alarming gap” in content related to gender and feminism. Independent art space Paper Mountain is teaming up with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at UWA to rectify the imbalance with a “Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” this weekend, as part of the global campaign Art+Feminism.…
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PROTESTORS complaining the McGowan government hasn’t lived up to its pre-election promise to stop logging in high conservation value forests will gather at Parliament House this Wednesday at noon to present a 10,000-strong petition. The WA Forests Alliance says it has plenty of proof that old-growth forest in the South West is being clear-felled, aided…
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NEW laws giving the state government the power to suspend or sack an individual councillor have been introduced to parliament. Currently the local government minister can only suspend an entire council. Discussions about the law started shortly after the McGowan government’s election and Perth lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi’s appearance at the State Administrative Tribunal over…
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