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MOST folk eventually give up their crazy dreams to get a ‘sensible’ job and settle down, but the co-founders of Acrobatch did the exact opposite. 21-year-old Simon Wood was studying politics at university and Ben Kotovski-Steele was a graduate engineer, but they gave it all up to run away to the circus. “I was studying…
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WHILE perusing parliamentarian speeches during January’s calm, a couple of long-time Chook staff got talking about some of the all-time great orations. One contender by former president Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 speech titled “Progressive Cause Greater than Any Individual” came to mind: Roosevelt delivered the monumentally lengthy speech after surviving an assassination attempt (the bullet penetrated…
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An entry from our Summer Reading competition. My Mother’s Mother’s Eyes I walked the corridors of grief Until I berthed in Tenerife Onto a land os obsolete Save the rays upon the water, I was led across a reef By the hand of a tall thief Who sold me false belief Before he crumbled into the mortar…
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A GRIM record was set over the holidays with the highest ever number of people attending Mission Australia’s Christmas Lunch for homeless people in Wellington Square. It was a turnout that organisers see as a dire sign of the housing and cost-of-living crisis. 2023 marked the 48th lunch run on Christmas day by Mission Australia…
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THE divorce has been finalised between Fringe World Festival and their former fossil fuel funder Woodside. It follows a years-long campaign by artists and climate activists who pressured Fringe organisers to sever the relationship. In recent years activists have staged impromptu performances, collected petitions, held protests, and even conducted a 50-hour long reading of the…
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PERTH city has seen “the biggest New Years Eve in a decade” with Perth council crowing over a turnout of up to 50,000 people in the city on December 31. It follows a record-breaking spend in the lead up to Christmas, with figures showing city spending was up 25 per cent in November 2023 compared…
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AN inquisitive Stirling resident will spend another year on the “Restricted Customer” list, limiting contact with Stirling council staff after his queries were deemed “unreasonable” back in 2016. Resident Robert Mitchell attends almost every council meeting to pose queries at public question time, and he’s been critical on a plethora of issues ranging from Stirling’s…
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MOST folk associate Fremantle Fishing Boat Habour with fish and chips, but in recent years there has been a wider variety of eateries at the waterfront precinct. Bathers Beach House’s modern Australian cuisine and the Char Char steakhouse have given punters slightly more choice, but one of the most recent additions, Ostro Italian, could be…
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AN anthropologist working with Aboriginal groups in WA, it’s no surprise that Finn Alexander’s music is deep, multi-layered and says a lot about the human condition. When he’s not out in the field deciphering civilisation, you’ll find the 26-year-old tinkering on his guitar and writing songs in his share-house in Fremantle. Alexander’s been playing guitar…
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An entry from our Summer Reading competition. Let’s set the scene: DANNY and HELEN to be Married 23.3.74 at 10.45am in St Jerome’s Church, Spearwood Assisted by: Best Man: D’Arcy (Darc) Maid of Honour: Wendy Groomsman: Alan (Cero) Bridesmaid: Carol Priest: Fr Tomich(Tomo) What follows is a truthful series of events on that day without expletives.…
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