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VOLUNTEERS for Oxfam will parade through Perth with buckets on their heads next Friday to highlight the federal government’s reduction in overseas aid. Participants will fill buckets from the fountain in Forrest Place, before walking to Federal Finance Minister Mathias Cormann’s office where they’ll present an 80,000-strong petition calling for foreign aid to get a…
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Wrong wavelength THE Federal government has cut $1.4 million per year from community radio. This is critical funding for our future in digital radio. Digital radio will replace existing AM and FM bands in the near future. If we can’t pay for our transmission costs – which this federal funding pays for – our community…
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IAN CARTER has been the CEO of Anglicare WA since 1995. He has held the positions of deputy president of the ACOSS, president of WACOSS and president of Family Services Australia; and was also chairman of both the state taskforce on poverty and the social housing taskforce. He was a member of the prime minister’s…
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THERE really was rice in my green tea (toasted), along with wild-flowers and lemon verbena leaves. And there was I thinking the blurb on the menu was a bit like the description on a bottle of wine; pretentious flavours you try vainly to detect. Secondeli in Mt Lawley is one of the first to serve…
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“What’s love but a second-hand emotion,” Tina Turner belted out on her way to the top of the charts in 1984. It’s a question a troupe of former WAAPA students explore in their collaborative play What’s Love Got To Do With It, currently playing at the Blue Room in Northbridge. There’s a dark vein in…
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FORMER WA street artist Brolga has found himself in the limelight after one of his murals was co-opted by fans of Muhammad Ali to mourn the boxing champion’s death. The graphic designer who now lives in Brooklyn, painted a large mural of the boxing legend on a wall next to famed pizza joint Joe’s Pizza…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) There’s a whole lot of love coming your way. Are you able to fully comprehend that this is so? Are you able to receive it? Or are you so busy going somewhere where you are blind to the screamingly obvious? There’s a feast to be had. Take time out…
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RAW brick, industrial roof lines, huge steel doors and massive girders, the Maltings in North Perth took out numerous awards for its mix of heritage and development. “A first-rate example of urban renewal because of its blend of heritage and history with modern living,” Development Institute of Australia judge Peter Lanigan said in 2006. New…
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Each year our aid has sent more than a million children to school, vaccinated over 2 million children and supplied almost three million people with clean drinking water. Australian Aid has helped win the fight of eradicating global poverty which halved over the last 25 years. But this year Australian aid was been cut to…
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WHEN Mt Lawley’s Laila Shalimar became interested in vintage fashion and culture, there was one hitch; all the role models were white. “It was really hard being someone who was brown to relate to American and English and Australian actors,” says Ms Shalimar, who grew up in Pakistan near the border of Afghanistan. “I didn’t…
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