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IT’S a new record for Bayswater Bridge with two trucks running into it in a single day. Perth drivers only made it two weeks into the new year before driving into the bridge, with a truck peeling its top off just after noon on January 15. Before the end of the day another truck would…
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PERTH-based company Power Ledger is one of three finalists in this year’s Extreme Tech Challenge, and they’re off to Richard Branson’s Necker Island for the final round. The tech startup uses blockchain and a virtual currency that can be used as tokens for people with renewable energy generators, like solar panels, to trade excess power.…
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HERITAGE PERTH is inviting budding historians aged 6-16 to enter its Capturing Change school holiday competition. Perth has changed dramatically since the early days of the Swan River Colony in 1829, but there are still spots where new buildings sit alongside remnants of the past, be it natural heritage or historic buildings. Capturing Change wants…
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Golden duck for Saffioti THE newly build OPTUS Stadium was built to increase the capacity of fans (60,000) for all events but transport and planning minister Ms Saffioti has stated over the past few days, that for the BBL Match, the capacity for the stadium is going to be capped at 40,000 because of the…
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AN email from theatre company Squid Vicious arrived as I was thinking about my lunch at The Blacksmith cafe. The Perth/Singapore production company boasts its GodeatGod show, “serves diverse morsels of contemporary performance on a platter”. Perhaps it’s returning to an avalanche of Fringe Festival press releases after two weeks off, but it seemed an…
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THERE’S a quite a lot of Scott McArdle’s childhood in his latest production, Josephine. The Perth writer/director says he wrote the play for kids and has firsthand experience of the pain they can face growing up. When McArdle was 11 his school mate died, a grandparent died, and then his parents divorced. “Loss was a…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Sun moves out of Capricorn early in the week. This will feel like a rather large weight is lifted from your shoulders. As it moves into Aquarius, you will begin to feel like you suddenly have wider horizons and a greater sense of possibility. Your sense of intensity…
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I WAS in a bit of a Zen mood when I walked around this delightful Third Avenue home in Mt Lawley. There were only a few empty berths in the conspicuous wine rack in the living room, and I pondered the joy of a full rack, versus the sense of loss the gaps represented. I could…
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SLOW cooked” kids is the key to successful parenting and child care, according to a course being held at the Perth Waldorf School in Bibra Lake. “Allowing the child not to be over sensitised…not rushing out in the car all the time, allow them to be slow,” teacher, educator and story teller Jenny Hill says.…
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Discover the many health benefits of Tai Chi. What better way to start the year than with a change to your daily routine that’s sure to improve your mental, physical and spiritual health? Taoist Tai Chi™ classes offer a method steeped in the tradition of an ancient wisdom and provide a way to develop a…
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