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Author: Your Herald
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THE Wireless Institute of Australia performed a historic broadcast at the ANZAC cottage in Mt Hawthorn this week. Using the special event callsign VK100ANZAC, operators contacted Europe to commemorate the 1915 August offensive. “We managed to get a very good signal with an operator in Paris who spoke English,” says Onno Benchop, treasurer of WA…
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Binning hope THE hundreds of employees with disabilities working for charity organisations will be distressed to hear of the removal of donation bins, which threatens the viability of their jobs. In June, the City of Joondalup voted to remove 76 bins because of graffiti, theft and dumping of rubbish. Now the City of South Perth…
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YELLOW neon lights, cosy wooden walls, a two-storey dining area and an open cooking bar all under the same roof—the latter open for outdoor dining on weekends. The Flour Factory isn’t only a trendy, fancy-looking restaurant, but also the home of good, fine cooking. Our waitress, Verity, welcomes us with a glass of homemade vermut,…
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EDGY theatre is bread and butter for The Blue Room in Northbridge and All That Glitters tackles the issue of asylum seekers and detention centres. “Our fellow humans, those we recognise as people — and those we don’t, live in continual fear and face the danger of violent death, and we are powerless to help…
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O Menino e O Mundo—The Boy and the World. The Latino film festival is in full swing and is holding a free night August 30 for you to dip your toe in with a free screening of the Venezuelan film Libertador. The festival’s also holding Perth’s first ever Latin short film competition which got more…
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WA’S Sunshine League has all but disappeared from history, but in the early 1900s WA kids were donating their pocket money towards its push for a children’s hospital. It took 12 years of public subscriptions, in some cases a penny at a time, including from Ruth Street 13-year-old, Viola Hodgkinson. Like many youngsters writing to…
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PERTH Theatre Company has cancelled the next two productions in its 2015 season and is “reviewing operations”. On Wednesday morning customers trying to buy tickets to Of Mice and Men (starring Hollywood’s Jai Courtney) and yourseven were met with a dead link. Shortly afterwards a press release was issued announcing “PTC has been reviewing operations…
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BAYSWATER mayor Sylvan Albert was admitted to hospital this week after feeling unwell. Deputy mayor Mike Sabatino says Cr Albert took ill last Saturday, cancelling an appearance at the Avon Descent the following day: “The doctors have told him to rest, but he will be back on council duty this Saturday,” says Cr Sabatino. “They…
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POLITICS in wedding photos? Snaps from Perth councillor Reece Harley’s wedding to new wife Rebekah Major over the weekend included in them a subtle dig about a recent disagreement he’d had with lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi. At the last council meeting Ms Scaffidi voted not to spend $50,000 for a giant mural at 456 Hay…
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