“I remember thinking — the noise was just awful — I thought ‘I am 18 years old and tonight I die’.”
Malcolm Quekett
Each buggy was the scene of a picnic, most of those who drove bringing their own provender
The shoal of swimmers, each with an attendant boat, looked like a school of herring, with a fishing fleet in attendance.
Through its fundraising efforts it became a major part of Perth cultural life which featured well-known — and ultimately controversial — entertainment areas by the river in Perth and also in Fremantle.
Forming themselves into processions the happy-hearted crowd exultantly thronged the street with such manifest joy as to make the heart of the most confirmed pessimist glow.
It is a calm that has been lovingly planted in a space that was once a vivid symbol of how inner cities can fall into urban decay.
For those of us unwilling to challenge traditional silhouettes — or to walk around looking like they’ve been attacked by a police dog — the impracticality presents problems.
Robert Drewe
In the days before footpaths or roads, the club members had to make their way to the courts through the bush on ‘shanks’ pony’.
While “de-extinction science”, even if feasible, presents significant problems, getting rich celebrities to cough up millions to resuscitate extinct animals isn’t difficult
Though Donald Trump laments that the dogs and cats of Springfield, Ohio, are being eaten by immigrants, his apparent concern for America’s pets doesn’t extend to wanting any domestic animals himself.
And right there amid the opulence of the city’s biggest exhibition, Western Australian took its chance.
There was a real carnival atmosphere and amusements included wheels and swings, games of chance, boxing, log chopping, bands and dancing.
It’s a much loved region, popular for boating, fishing and just plain relaxing. But it wasn’t always that way.
If the drama of the Harris V Trump debate this week hasn’t been enough to satisfy your US election fever, Agenda has a host of suggestions from the big and small screen to put in your viewing hopper.
Laura Newell
“We were standing on the deck and you could see smoke rising everywhere. All the major government buildings were destroyed.”
In darkness, sometimes with a background of air raid warnings, he could hear some of the children sobbing.
Amid fears for the safety of the premier and cabinet ministers, they were shifted out of their offices in the Old Treasury Building and into what was considered a more robust building in the city
For that generation it was a special time, and the memories of music, bands and venues are strong.
What is little known is that Henry Lawson lived in WA in two visits as his views were honed and he was at his most productive
Poodle clipping. Yes, at Paris in 1900. It involved 128 competitors performing in front of a crowd of 6000 where they had to clip the fur off as many poodles as they could in two hours.
Work of a trailblazing artist which shows WA over eight decades comes to light
He wears retirement-casualwear: a cap, a cashmere jumper knotted over his shoulders in winter and a polo shirt (with obligatory upturned collar) in summer. His clothing statement says legions.
“A young man purchased this railway ticket with every expectation he was going off to war, (but) he bought a return ticket and he thought he was coming home.”
Rebecca Parish
The Man Who Walked Backward, by Ben Montgomery, was about Plennie L. Wingo (real name), an American who back-walked for 18 months and 15,000 kilometres.
