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PULITZER PRIZE-winning play I Am My Own Wife examines the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who navigated through the Third Reich and Iron Curtain in a pair of high heels. Not long after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, US playwright Doug Wright held a series of interviews with von Mahlsdorf, by…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) You have plenty of planetary support to navigate your way through some intriguing challenges. Your relationships are more important to you than ever – and at the same time they are testing you. It will take all your wit and wisdom to acknowledge and accept the simple fact of…
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WHAT a stunner! This art deco home looked gorgeous as I walked up the wide, red-bricked path, and it got better and better as I took a tour. Built in the 30s, it was clearly not one for the hoi polloi; it featured it’s own room for a newfangled telephone (Perth was still Morsing telegraphs…
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IT’S ironic that Aaron Pedersen’s latest acting role is in the new series of A Place to Call Home, which hit TV screens last week. For the last 20 years that’s what he’s been trying to create for his younger brother Vinnie, who has cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability. Aaron’s been his brother’s full-time…
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A Helping Hand For more than 25 years KinCare’s family owned and operated organisation has been providing in-home support to older people, people with health needs and their carers. Committed to improving quality of life, health and wellbeing, KinCare will ensure you, your friend or family member will always be taken care of. KinCare’s focus…
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Thanks to Luna Palace Cinemas, we are giving readers the chance to win an in season double pass to this years Cunard British Film Festival! Exclusively at Luna Palace Cinemas, the Cunard British Film Festival is back for its fifth year with a blockbuster line-up featuring a spread of British cinematic delights from sweeping romances and beloved book adaptations,…
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MALE candidates outnumber female candidates two to one at the upcoming local government elections. And the gender imbalance in mayoral races is even more pronounced, with women only making up 25 per cent of nominees. Joanne Fotakis is running for Vincent’s north ward and says women can be deterred by male-dominated politics and the criticism…
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AFTER being a Stirling councillor for a quarter of a century, Rod Willox is calling it a day. “I’ll be turning 80 in January, and I’ve seen men hang on too long,” he says. A retired colonel who went on to work in medical science, Cr Willox says he’d prefer to stand down “on a…
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VETERAN Stirling councillor Terry Tyzack says he’s concerned and disappointed by the “significant involvement of both major political parties” in the local government elections at Stirling and Bayswater. “…councillors cannot serve two masters and this is a retrograde step reminiscent of the practices of the Burke era,” he says. “The introduction of political agendas into…
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YOU might be tossing out electioneering pamphlets by the handful but the state library is hoping people donate a few to be preserved in the historical election collection. State library CEO Margaret Allen says election material might be short lived but it has lasting significance, and donations of today’s flyers will help “future generations…see the…
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