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Last modified on Wed 24 Feb 2021 20.58 EST It is an odd sensation, feeling foreign in the place where you grew up. Returning to Perth recently after seven years abroad, I found all the familiar markers of home: that enormous sky with its bursts of wattle and red gum, corrugated tin roofs, sunsets as rich as fresh cut jarrah and the howling sou-wester that rips across the Derbarl Yerrigan, the Swan River. But my frame of reference, my interior terrain, had shifted so immensely in seven years that it was like searching the face of an old friend to see how we had both changed, whether we could still co-exist in the same way. ....
Perth Festival to showcase hidden massacre of Noongar people at Lake Monger MonMonday 21 updated MonMonday 21 Ian Wilkes says he is excited to share Galup s story with the audience. ( Print text only Cancel When Ian Wilkes was a child, his father would point out the window at Lake Monger whenever they drove past and say something bad happened there . The popular lake in Perth s western suburbs, which is flanked by the Mitchell Freeway, attracts thousands of visitors every week to use the walking track and see the bevy of black swans on the shore. But few people know the full history of the place the Whadjuk Noongar people call Galup place of fire. ....