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  • Cold will test Big Apple swimmers

    It seems an unlikely training ground but the icy waters of Lake Leschenaultia in the Perth Hills have proved the best substitute for a group of open-water swimmers trying to simulate New York's Hudson and East rivers.Fishermen have to make way for the five men and two women when they train closer to home and jump off Claremont Jetty into the cold, still Swan River before daybreak or after ...

  • Homebuyer sues over plane noise

    A teacher is suing a real estate agent after buying a Greenmount home she alleges was advertised as in a "whisper quiet location" even though it is under a flight path.Karen Georgina Davies claims she had to stop work because of her lack of sleep and illness, including neck and shoulder problems from sleeping with her head under a pillow, as a result of the noise.Ms Davies, 60, said ...

  • Overnight relay target set at $320000

    THIS year's Joondalup Wanneroo Relay for Life has been officially launched. The overnight event, where teams of 10 to 15 take part in a relay-style walk or run at Arena Joondalup to raise funds for the WA Cancer Council, will be held on October 19 and 20. Mr Pickard, who launched the 2013 event last week and co-chairs the organising committee with Wanneroo Mayor Tracey Roberts, said the ...

  • Locals cheer win against quarry

    A MONTH shy of four years of campaigning, Nowergup residents celebrated a decision in their favour against a limestone quarry this week. After the Department of Environment and Conservation decided last year not to approve a clearing permit application from PMR Quarries, which trades as WA Limestone, the company appealed to the Appeals Convenor. On Tuesday, May 21, Environment Minister Albert ...

  • Dream for Grace finally fulfilled

    THE consecration of the new Grace Anglican Church in Joondalup last Sunday fulfilled a long-held dream for "pioneers" of the parish. The purpose-built church replaces worship space in an adjacent office building, which the parish occupied for most of its 20 years after relocating from a community hall in Edgewater. The new church, specialist medical suites and a stand-alone caf are ...


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M [DVD]

M [DVD]

Fritz Langs M is one of the great film thrillers, a seminal exercise in combining suspense and social commentary. Its influence on world cinema is so far-ranging that its mind-numbing to try to trace it all. Suffice it to say that M is a prototypical masterpiece, po ... ...

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  • A celebration of Cervantes

    THE crayfishing town of Cervantes celebrates its 50th birthday this year, and residents have planned celebratory activities during the WA Day long weekend, on June 1 and 2. Located about 200km from northern Perth, the town was named after The Cervantes, an American whaling ship which was wrecked north of the island in 1844. The ship's captain, Sylvanus Gibson, and survivors walked 160km ...

  • Sea change lights up local artist’s life

    WHEN Connolly artist Val Brooks arrived from the UK in 1981, the quality of light and colours of the Australian landscape were a revelation. Always living close to the ocean, its movement and colour fascinated. Over the years, ceramic artist Val translated what she saw firstly to pots and platters and then, as a natural progression, to pastels on paper. Land and seascapes became her passion ...

  • Magazines were not child porn

    A Perth man who had three editions of a 1980s magazine called Rockspider, which was allegedly targeted at paedophiles and contained sexually explicit stories, denies the material is child pornography.Harry Holland, who changed his name by deed poll from Colin Nugent in 1991, went on trial in the District Court yesterday, defending an allegation he possessed child pornography in the form of the ...

  • WA taxes carry nation

    Almost $15 billion more in taxes leaves WA each year than flows back into the State in Commonwealth spending, a WA Treasury analysis shows.The report spotlights the extent WA carries the rest of the Australian Federation.It shows WA's net contribution to the other States and Territories is a staggering $6447 for each resident, way beyond that of the other two donor States - NSW and ...

  • AHA seeks tough line on violence

    People convicted of serious assaults, including domestic violence, as a result of being drunk could be banned from pubs and clubs for up to a year under a proposal by WA's hotel lobby.But the Australian Hotels Association WA also wants the "1950s restriction" that requires pubs to close at 10pm on Sundays scrapped.Releasing its submission to the review of the Liquor Control Act, ...

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