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NGARINYIN/GIJA artist Vanessa Russ is the first Aboriginal director of the 40-year-old Berndt Museum. The museum features a large collection of Aboriginal artifacts rated by UNESCO as Australian Memory of the World. Dr Russ grew up in the Kimberley, where she experienced Aboriginal art firsthand in rock paintings and craft objects. She moved to Sydney…
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COMICS and novels have more in common than you’d think at first glance, curator of Comic Tragics at the WA Art Gallery Robert Cook says. “It’s just a different way of telling stories. Novelists use words to evoke images and comics go one step further.” Pictures are the craft of the comic writer, but the…
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MORE than 60 new and emerging Aboriginal artists were enjoying a barbecue on the lawns of the Fremantle Arts Centre last week, having arrived from some of WA’s most remote communities to kick off the Revealed exhibition. It’s a feather in the cap of the FAC, invited by the WA government to take on the…
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“REGAL on Regent.” I could see the headline as I arrived at this lovely Mt Lawley home, with its art nouveau trimmings and leafy streetscape. Finding an 1826 baby grand piano in one of the four bedrooms confirmed this is a home of substantial proportions. As you’d expect of an early 1930s dwelling, ceiling roses…
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PERTH city council is cracking down hard on homeless people camping out at Heirisson Island/Matagarup. On Tuesday and Wednesday rangers accompanied by police swept through the camp to confiscate goods. The camp has become a home to political activists, homeless people and even a couple of backbackers. The raids were of an intensity that has…
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PERTH city council will no longer accept the free tickets it has long been showered with for providing sponsorship. The Voice has been reporting for years about lord mayors and councillors being provided VIP tickets — some worth hundreds of dollars each — which were essentially bought using ratepayers’ money. The excuse has always been…
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BAYSWATER councillors will rally at parliament house Thursday against a proposed concrete batching plant. The councillors decided on the protest after the EPA refused last week to assess the proposal, despite the city’s environmental concerns about the project. The council has been fighting the proposed plant for five years, concerned with dust pollution and proximity…
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A LOCAL Bayswater association is providing free furniture and household goods to survivors of domestic violence. “We have walked into a place where they had moved three days ago and they haven’t got a fridge, they’ve been living on takeaway food and they were all sleeping on the floor,” says SOS founder Debbie Mason. “Then…
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IN defiance of Perth city council’s extreme level of secrecy, councillor Reece Harley will publicly release statements to show how much ratepayers’ money he’s claiming for expenses. Councillors are entitled to reimbursement of up to $13,360 a year on expenses like travel to council events, cost of phone and internet, training, clothing, and things like…
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