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LOCALS noticing a massive die-off of trees around Voiceland have raised fears WA is in the grip of a drought and have called for more government action. Driving their fears is that many native trees and bushes appear to be affected far more than usual, and they fear climate change means it’s only going to…
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PERTH student Shayla Keane has won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s 28th Class Clowns grand final. Class Clowns is one of the festival’s developmental programs, helping hundreds of young people develop their comedy potential with access to workshops and audiences, and cultivating the next generation of funny people and those with unique voices. The Santa…
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AGE was no barrier for Mt Lawley’s Esther Finkelstein last weekend, the 87 year old taking out one of four main sessions at the WA Mahjong Festival. The one-day competition attracted 88 players from around WA, including a contingent of 13 from Bunbury and one intrepid Queenslander. Ms Finkelstein said she was hooked on Mahjong…
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LIONS and Tigers on Bannister Street in Freo is not your average Indian restaurant. If you rock up expecting beef vindaloo and garlic naan you’re in for a surprise. A great surprise! My handsome co-reviewer and I rolled on in one Saturday for lunch, to be greeted by the loveliest server ever. She took us…
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SPORTS-related concussion injuries are increasingly gaining attention in Australia with almost 3,100 hospitalisations in 2020–21, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Now Perth’s Black Swan Theatre Company is shedding light on the issue through its state-wide tour of the award-winning play Barracking for the Umpire, with a Perth pre-tour, encore season. Set…
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A GORGEOUS family home on a giant 1214sm block near the river in Attadale ? Tell ‘im, he’s dreaming. Well he’s not, because this four bedroom two bathroom property is up for sale and will attract a lot of buyers. There’s plenty of space to put in the dream pool and tennis court, or you…
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THE City of Bayswater has become the latest council moved to ditch its annual Australia Day citizenship ceremony. During an hour-long debate last Wednesday, Bayswater councillors discussed the result of consultation with its Reconciliation Advisory Committee and a survey of 431 Bayswater residents conducted over June and July 2023. Councillor Sally Palmer said the advisory…
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ARTAGEDDON is officially over. The Albanese Labor government this week announced the first Perth recipients of funding aimed at shoring up small-to-medium arts organisations which were hammered under the former Abbott government. Back in 2015 former arts minister George Brandis blindsided arts organisations when he stripped $105 million from the Australia Council to set up…
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AN enrolment boom in Edith Cowan University’s music teaching courses could help get singing and playing back in Perth classrooms, and even go some way to reversing declining academic outcomes. A doubling of enrolments in ECU’s postgraduate courses has been driven by a one-year graduate diploma in teaching aimed at aspiring school teachers who’ve completed…
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SMALLER local publishers will be disproportionately affected by Meta’s removal of it news tab from Facebook and Instagram says a lobby group. Facebook’s news tab disappeared from Australian accounts on Tuesday after Meta thumbed its nose at the federal government’s news media bargaining code, introduced in 2021 to make digital companies pay for news content they…
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