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Wave of excitement as newly renovated Albany Surf Club opens

May 16, 2025
The newly renovated Albany Surf Life Saving Club at Middleton Beach is officially open and ready to serve club members and the local community after a $3.3 million renovation.

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Mina Mina by Renita Brown Nungurrayi © Renita Brown Nungurray

2024 Reconciliation Week Street Banners are up

23 May 2024

Media release

Organisations and local governments across metropolitan Perth and regional WA have once again joined together in a stunning display of unity through the annual Reconciliation Week Street Banners Project.
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Event recognises volunteering excellence in the Great Southern

21 May 2024

Media release

Two highly respected volunteers in the Great Southern community have been recognised for their contribution to the local sporting community at an awards night in Albany.
Wongi man Johnny Grey, also known as Pannican, is one of the many Trackers featured in the database. Considered one of the best Trackers of his time, Pannican worked for the police in the Laverton-Leonora area from 1942 to 1962.

Tracking down the history of WA’s Aboriginal Police Trackers

21 May 2024

Media release

The names and details of more than 400 Aboriginal men who played a crucial role in tracking and wayfinding for Western Australian Police between 1931 and 1954 have been released.
Learning to pour a beer behind the bar

Longer trading hours for fans to enjoy football championship

15 May 2024

Media release

Applications are now open for pubs and bars in Western Australian to stay open longer and serve liquor while showing televised matches of the upcoming UEFA EURO 2024 Championship.
Primary school students stand with Olympic athletes Jayde Taylor and Trent Mitton

Hockey Olympians unleashed in Goldfields inspiring next generation of future stars

14 May 2024
WA Hockey stars and Olympians Jayde Taylor and Trent Mitton recently visited the Goldfields to motivate and inspire young locals as part of the Olympics Unleashed program.
A crowd of people watch and listen to a band on a stage , surrounded by large trees.

Words, song, photos and music all part of regional vitality

14 May 2024

Media release

A writers’ festival, multicultural celebrations, a photography project and a pub full of sea shanties are among the activities funded in the latest round of regional arts grants.
A crowd at the Perth 2024 ISPA Conference are standing a clapping

WA to host Australian Performing Arts Market

13 May 2024

Media release

The Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) will be hosted in Western Australia for the first time in the major event’s 30-year history.
A small group of Aboriginal people sit on the ground painting on an unstretched canvas

Funding to support connection to country in WA communities

13 May 2024

Media release

The State Government’s Connecting to Country grant program is continuing to support Western Australia’s Aboriginal people and organisations to transfer knowledge between generations and preserve culture – 20 projects will each receive up to $25,000 this year.
Woman leans over desk and shakes the hand of a man visiting her office

Funding to establish the Office of the Local Government Inspector

13 May 2024

Media release

The first stage of establishing the proposed new local government inspector and monitors will get underway, with the State Government allocating $702,000 in the State Budget to begin planning and establishing this new office that will prevent and address dysfunction in local government in WA.
DLGSC Director General Lanie Chopping pictured with winners of inaugural Best Australian Short Film Competition

The May edition of the CAtch-up is out now!

7 May 2024
The May edition of the CAtch-up, our regular newsletter for the culture and the arts sector, is now available online.
A small group of people are looking at Aboriginal art works on the wall in an art gallery

Emerging talent in spotlight for Revealed 2024 art exhibition

6 May 2024

Media release

When Revealed 2024 opens its doors on 9 May, visitors to the Aboriginal Art Exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre will have the opportunity to see more than 150 pieces from some of WA’s finest First Nations artists.
Alluvial Gold by Louise Devenish, Erin Coates and Stuart James. Produced by Tura New Music. Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, June 2022. Photo by Edify Media.

Three million dollars in grants for arts and culture projects in WA

1 May 2024

Media release

75 community organisations, groups and individuals across Western Australia will benefit from $3,107,488 in grants to support arts, music, and cultural projects and events in WA via 2 funding streams.
Pictured: AHWA researchers Duane Kelly and Leanne McDonagh

AHWA takes truth telling and family research to the regions

30 April 2024
Team members from Aboriginal History Western Australia (AHWA) and the State Library of Western Australia's Storylines program hit the road in March to hold free family history sessions in the Great Southern and Wheatbelt.
A person swimming at a local swimming pool

Funding helps regional athletes achieve sporting dreams

26 April 2024

Media release

Regional athletes are kicking goals with the latest round of funding to support their ongoing development close to home — more than $2.6 million in total being provided by the State Government.
Behind the scenes of a film production with equipment on a truck

State Government investing in WA’s job-creating screen industry

24 April 2024

Media release

The State Government will invest $31.9 million over 4 years to implement a new screen industry strategy as part of its economic diversification plans, with initiatives that grow the local screen industry and establish Western Australia as a major international and national screen production destination.
Image of participants at the Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property workshop, May 2024

Aboriginal Cultural Centre Steering Committee communique 6

24 April 2024
The Aboriginal Cultural Centre (ACC) Steering Committee for Phase 2 held its sixth meeting on 24 April 2024.

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