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Hidden Icons: Betty Beath and David Cox

Phil Vanderzeil — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:18:32 +0000

The curved driveway leading to the front door is aesthetic and artistic, it takes me a while to accommodate the visual density and identify the house that Betty and David […]

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Filming on the Fringe – West End’s time with Wendy Rogers

Mary Maher — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 03:17:21 +0000

The thing that struck me sitting out the back at Avid Reader early in 2020 watching the documentary Your Water, My Water, was not the dedication needed to do five […]

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‘Communitas’: Remembering Brisbane’s ‘Mud Army’ ten years on

Peter Walters — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 20:51:48 +0000

Crises bring out the best and the worst in us. They are opportunities for acts of selflessness or sometimes dark opportunism. These responses are shaped by the social and cultural […]

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Churchill Fellowship supports Gavin Hardy to explore community food forests and orchards

Jan Bowman — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:08:01 +0000

At the end of 2020, local landscape architect, Gavin Hardy, was thrilled to learn that he is a recipient of a prestigious Churchill Fellowship. Many will know Gavin locally from […]

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Noel Preston Remembered: advocate, ethicist, academic, commentator and minister

David Busch — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 03:43:37 +0000

“So sad to hear of the passing of my dear friend and colleague Noel Preston. He was the Westender’s resident Ethicist for many years, and contributed greatly to the development […]

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A community has to look after its own: Hill End’s Norma

Mary Maher — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 23:03:37 +0000

Pluck, that quality of standing up and calling something out. Are people born with it or do they become like that? Norma Morgan, one of Hill End’s personalities, has what […]

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Leo Tsimpikas: Merchant of West End

Phil Vanderzeil — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:15:12 +0000

Leo Tsimpikas was born on the Greek Island of Rhodes and this story of his childhood, tells us a lot about the determined, and competitive man he was to become. […]

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Shays Shoes: a treat for your feet…

Phil Vanderzeil — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:32:10 +0000

Numerous shopkeepers have been trading for many years in Boundary Street, none longer than the retailer Shays Shoes, established by Bernard Shay in 1901 in a shop at 135 Boundary. […]

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The Marinelli Family: A sensational West End deli with a few surprises

Phil Vanderzeil — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 22:43:29 +0000

The West End Poultry Shop began its life in the early 1960s in Vulture Street. The shop was moved in 1970 to one of the oldest buildings in the strip […]

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Annie Cowling’s Annual Bin Night

Jan Bowman — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 01:05:50 +0000

On Tuesday night (10th of February) cheered on by neighbours and friends, Annie Cowling put out her general waste bin for the first time in 12 months. For two years […]

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