Check out these experiences in Perth for under $50!
There is so much to see and do in Perth the hardest thing is decinding what to do and of course make sure it doesnt break the bank. We have a list of some of the best things to do in Perth for less than a pineapple. Perfect for travellers who want to experience the best of Perth on a budget. Or alternatively, if youre a local and looking for things to do in Perth on the weekend. 1. Penguin & Sea Lion Cruise $42 Enjoy a leisurely 45 minute cruise on a glass bottom boat through Shoalwater Bays wildlife sanctuary zone to see wild dolphins and rare Australian sea lions. Get up close with the worlds smallest penguins when you join the island rangers present penguin feeding and a talk. Plenty of time to explore the sandy bays too! BOOK NOW 2. Nostalgia Box $17 Relive your childhood with a trip to Australias only video game museum right here in Perth! Play old favourites such as Pong, Atari 2600, Super Mario Bros, Alex Kidd, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot and many more! A great visit with the kids on the weekend or school holidays. BOOK NOW 3. The Bell Tower $18 Located overlooking the Swan River, The Bell Tower is one of Perths most visited attraction and its home to the famous royal bells of St Martin-in-the-Fields, which chimed for James Cook as he departed on his voyage of discovery to Australia. Definitely one of Perths iconic landmark and located right in the heart of Elizabeth Quay. BOOK NOW 4. The Perth Mint $19 Watch a molten gold pour and see precious gold bars and coins being struck at the award-winning Perth Mint. Marvel at Australias largest collection of natural gold nuggets, including the second largest gold nugget in existence, weighing in at 25.5 kilograms. Guided talks operate every hour. BOOK NOW 5. Lancelin 4WD Sand Dunes Boarding Adventure $30 Enjoy this 45 minute adventure onthis thrill ride which takes you up and down some of the biggest dunes in Western Australia with the magnificent crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean as the backdrop. Lancelin is located around 70kms north of Perth so a great activity if you have your own vehicle and self-driving. BOOK NOW 6. Caversham Wildlife Park $28 Spend the day at one of Perths most incredible and popular attractions, showcasing the largest private collection of native wildlife in Western Australia. There is nothing like hand feeding the kangaroos before joining the interactive farm show, touch a possum or lizard, meet a wombat and have your photo taken with very cute koalas! BOOK NOW 7. Mandurah Dolphin and Canal Cruise $32 View spectacular wild dolphins, in their natural environment, on the pristine and calm inland Mandurah waterways with Mandurah Cruises. Less than an hour south of Perth and Mandurahs number one tourist attraction thisone hour Dolphin and Scenic Canal Cruise visits the world class Ocean Marina as well as the luxurious homes, with no expense spared, on the canals. BOOK NOW 8. Fremantle Tram Pass $28 Start your sightseeing tour at any of the six conveniently situated stops around the city. Your driver will provide an entertaining and informative commentary as we tour Fremantle City and allowing you to jump on and off where you feel the need to spend a little more time. With photo opportunities along the way we can ensure you will not miss anything that the historic port city of Fremantle has to offer. BOOK NOW 9. AQWA Aquarium $30 Enjoy exploring all of AQWAs stunning exhibits discovering WAs spectacular marine life as you explore Australias largest single aquarium. Encounter giant sharks, stingrays and turtles, meet rare, unique and deadly sea creatures. Touch a starfish or baby shark at our child friendly discovery pool plus experience the wonder of one of the worlds largest living coral reef exhibits, before relaxing by a coastal lagoon or enjoying our new toddler playground. BOOK NOW 10. Perth Coffee, Culture & Art Tour $40 The tour will explore the Heritage Precinct of Perth, the old theatre district as well as former educational precincts. Enjoy a coffee/tea at popular local cafe (included) and enjoy a wonderfully re-purposed heritage space in a forgotten area. Visit secret gardens, discover hidden artwhile learning some of the more interesting anecdotes about the city. BOOK NOW 11. Learn to Surf $40 Learn to surf in Perths northern suburbs! The lesson will take you through ocean awareness, surf safety and surfing technique. All lessons are conducted in a safe and controlled environment making the class the perfect way to ease you into the sport of surfing. All of our instructors absolutely love their job and their enthusiasm and teaching skills will ensure you have a great time. BOOK NOW 12.Twilight Cruise of the Swan River $35 There is no better way to finish your day than aboard a twilight cruise along the Swan River while enjoying sundowner drinks. The scenic cruise takes in the Old Swan Brewery and South Perth foreshore before heading upriver to bask in the glowing city skyline. A complimentary drink is included, along with light snacks available to purchase on board. BOOK NOW 13. Perth Optus Stadium $25 With views of the picturesque Swan River and Perth city in the west and the foothills in the east, this 60,000 seat, world-class, multi-purpose Stadium will host a variety of sports and entertainment events including Australian Football League, International and Big Bash League cricket, soccer, rugby league and union plus concerts. BOOK NOW 14. Live Pearl Harvest $15 Experience the wonder of a live pearl harvest and uncover the journey of the Pearl of Western Australia from shell to showroom at Elizabeth Quay. The most beautiful and valuable pearls in the world are grown in Western Australia and our live pearl harvests allow guests to have a truly unique experience, right in the heart of Perth city. BOOK NOW 15. Hop-On Hop-Off Bus $35 Tour around Perth and Kings Park on an iconic open top bus. No other tour vehicle can offer such a birds eye view of the top attractions. Take great photographs from the top deck no glass window to spoil the view! If you stay on all the way round, the tour takes approximately 2 hrs to complete. Or you can use the hop on hop off facility and make a whole day of it! BOOK NOW 16. Swan River Scenic Cruise $40 Cruise down the beautiful Swan River past all the sights including Perths impressive Bell Tower, the restored Swan Brewery, Kings Park, Royal Perth Yacht Club.See magnificent homes overlooking the river and Fremantles busy inner city harbour to explore Fremantles galleries, boutiques, colonial history and laid-back lifestyle. BOOK NOW 17. Caversham Wildlife Park with transfers $39 Spend the day at one of Perths most incredible attractions, showcasing the largest private collection of native wildlife in Western Australia with return transfers from Perth CBD hotels. Hand-feed the kangaroos, join the interactive farm show, touch a possum or lizard, meet a wombat and have your photo taken with koalas. BOOK NOW 18. Tree Top Climbing Adventure $45 Join Australias premier tree top adventureropes experience. Lane Poole Adventure Parks features a number of exciting and challenging obstacle courses high up in the tree canopy, that will have all the family swinging, leaping, climbing and flying through the forest allowing thrill seekers and nature enthusiasts to experience the trees like never before. BOOK NOW 19. Convicts & Colonials $45 This tour winds its way through Fremantle, which is renowned for its well preserved architectural heritage, including convict built colonial year buildings and one of the most notorious prisons in the British Empire, the World Heritage Listed Fremantle Prison. BOOK NOW 20. Oliver Hill Train & Tunnel Tour $29 Journey to the historical Oliver Hill Guns and Tunnels Fortification on board the unique Captain Hussey trolley train. This tour begins with an informative train ride passing some iconic and historical landmarks and a guided tour through the stunning tunnel system that once played a crucial role in Australias military defence World War II. Price excludes ferry fare to Rottnest Island. BOOK NOW Explore more of Perth and WA There are so manymore great Things to Do in Perth, luckily we have this latest guide to help. https://soperth.com.au/20-things-to-do-in-perth-for-under-50-25416
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List of locations for Australia Day Perth fireworks celebrations.
Australia Day Perth fireworks Did you know that you dont just have to head to the city to celebrate Australia Day with a fireworks display? The Swan River wont be the only locationfor fireworks on Australia Day with 5 locations around Perth set to lighting up the skies. Check out our list below of known firework locations in Perth for Australia Day thanks to theDepartment of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS). Australia Day Perth Fireworks Locations:Armadale Event: Australia Day Celebrations City of Armadale Location: City fo Armadale Car Park, Orchard Ave, Armadale Time: 8:00PM Ashfield Event: Australia Day Celebrations Location: Ashfield Reserve, Guildford Road, Ashfield Time: 8:00PM Belmont Event: Season Belmont Music Festival Location: Belmont Raceway, Goodwood Parade, Burswood Time: 8:00PM Perth Event: City of Perth Australia Day Skyworks Location: Swan River, Perth Time: 8:00PM The city is your number one destination for Perth Australia Day fireworks celebrations and festivities. Come along from 3pm to enjoy the free events at Lotterywest Entertainment Zone at Langley Park, the Birak Concert at the Supreme Court Gardens and the South Perth Celebration Zone. Make sure you arrive early though to secure your spot on the foreshore and set yourself up with the perfect view to watch the spectacular Australia Day fireworks display at 8pm. The fireworks will commence at 8pm for 30 minutes, finishing at 8.30pm. Download the 2019 Skyworks Mapand for more information visit visitperthcity.com Rockingham Event: Rockingham Australia Day Fireworks Display Location: Val Street Jetty, Rockingham Time: 8:00PM Related Articles https://soperth.com.au/australia-day-perth-fireworks-locations-2-25210 It reunites Anderson with Roosters mentor Trent Robinson, the pair having spent time together at famed rugby league nursery St Gregory's College Campbelltown.
Loading Anderson is considered one of the games most astute tacticians. He earned Dally M coach-of-the-year honours after guiding the Warriors to the 2002 decider and also had success with the clipboard in the United Kingdom, prompting St Helens chairman Eamonn McManus to hail him the greatest coach in the club's history. Anderson took Parramatta to an unexpected grand final appearance in 2009, where the blue and golds were beaten by a Melbourne team that was later found to be cheating the salary cap. However, he was sacked just one year later. The former New Zealand national coach returned to Parramatta ahead of the 2014 season as their head of football after stints in the media and as the boss of the NRL referees. However, he was effectively rubbed out of the game midway through the 2016 season as a member of the so-called Gang of Five Eels officials deregistered for their roles in the salary cap saga. The club was also stripped of 12 competition points and fined $1 million, $250,000 of which was suspended. Pre-purgatory: Daniel Anderson after being appointed Eels coach back in 2008.Credit:Ben Rushton Anderson hasnt had any official involvement in rugby league since, but his time in purgatory is about to end. The 54-year-old is synonymous with the blue and golds, having grown up in Winston Hills and coached junior and senior Parramatta teams. However, he was a Roosters fan growing up and will now get the chance to join the glamour club. ''My mother's family is from the eastern suburbs,'' Anderson told the Herald in 2010. ''In the '70s I'd go and watch Mark Harris, Bill Mullins and John Brass and I've seen Russell Fairfax a few times. New start: Joe Kelly, seen left with Manly chairman Scott Penn, is also returning to the NRL fold.Credit:Dallas Kilponen ''I watched our salary cap auditor, Ian Schubert, play a few times too. ''No favours ever given by any of those blokes.'' Kelly will also get a second chance at Bondi Junction. The former Manly chief executive was suspended for his role in the salary cap breaches at the Sea Eagles during his tenure, but has returned to the Roosters after serving his time. Anderson and Kelly are now charged with helping tweak a roster considered the best in the game. The reigning champions have lost Blake Ferguson, Dylan Napa, Ryan Matterson and Sean OSullivan from their 2018 side, but have bolstered it with the additions of Angus Crichton, Brett Morris, Brock Lamb and Ryan Hall. The new recruits will get a chance to impress in the World Club Challenge clash with Super League champions Wigan at DW Stadium on February 17. Adrian Proszenko is the Chief Rugby League Reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. Most Viewed in Sport Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/sport/nrl/anderson-to-join-roosters-after-doing-time-in-purgatory-for-cap-rort-20190129-p50ud7.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed June was followed by Hunger, as it is on last year's fourth album High as Hope, and here the multiple camera angles amplified Welch's explosive stage presence. Sprinting from one side to the other, whirling and stamping to the surging bassline in a red flowing dress, it was clear that although she has long refused comparisons to Kate Bush, Welch is no stranger to the Wuthering Heights film clip.
But all her running and dancing was no mere affectation. It emphasised the possibility of triumph over adversity that defined crowd-pleasing songs such as Hunger, in which Welch sang unflinchingly of past battles with anorexia and substance abuse; Patricia, a stand-out conjuring of hero Patti Smith; and closer Shake It Out, where after 90 minutes of near-constant movement she was still able to hit the big note on "it's always darkest before the dawn". For someone who projects such confidence in song, Welch's speaking voice was surprisingly mousy when she introduced herself after Between Two Lungs, three tracks in. She told us she hated public speaking but was perhaps being disingenuous, as later bits of banter included a rousing speech against apathy and during a breakdown of Dog Days Are Over, a successful cajoling of everybody to put their phones away, so we could "have an experience" pogoing to its sugar-rush coda. Such big dramatic finishes, coming after simmering, oh-so-serious build-ups with harp and violin to the fore, emerged as something of a trope after listening to 17 Florence and the Machine songs in a row. So it was a relief to have opening act Marlon Williams called back for a duet on the contemplative folk of his Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore, while new single Moderation delivered a loose bluesiness not heard from this band since 2009's Kiss With A Fist (lamentably unplayed tonight). Such niggles will do nothing to dissuade Welch's hardcore fans, whose devotion was plain to see on those big screens as she worked the crowd barrier towards the end of the set. Singing forehead-to-forehead with them, touching their faces as if in absolution, her music is a source of strength that on this night transmitted far and wide. https://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/music/florence-and-the-machine-review-clever-staging-helps-fans-go-with-the-flo-20190128-h1akbo.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed In an increasingly crowded tennis calendar, theres also the Laver Cup played between Team Europe and Team World another men's teams event preparing for its third instalment in September.
There have been reports the sports various bodies could find "common ground" and potentially join forces to prevent two major mens tennis teams events being played within weeks of each other. "Theres a lot of speculation in that," ITF president David Haggerty told The Age. "I think the bodies have to get together and really continue the positive dialogue that has started and see what the potential can be for either consolidating things, or looking at the calendar. "Rather than speculate, I will just keep it [my comments] kind of broad." Under the new Davis Cup finals format - dubbed the World Cup of Tennis Finals -the 18 nations each year will be comprised of 12 qualifiers, four semi-finalists and two wildcard nations. Great Britain and Argentina have already been allocated wildcard status and will be joined by last years semi-finalists Croatia, France, Spain and the United States. The qualifying ties will take place in February each year and will be played under the traditional home-and-away format. Australias qualifier is against Bosnia and Herzegovina starting in Adelaide this week. Meanwhile, the ITF has argued that overhauling the Davis Cup was inevitable and outside investment in tennis would support weaker federations by making "a phenomenal difference to the bottom line of tennis". There are also fears that some of the worlds top players will make themselves unavailable for November's finals, even with the reduced impact on the calendar. The ITFs executive director of professional tennis Kris Dent said the choice of a November final was deliberate. "It would have been irresponsible for us to unilaterally decide to just plonk a new event in the middle of the calendar," Dent said. "Theres no doubt its going to make a phenomenal difference to the bottom line of tennis because the tours, quite rightly and Ive worked for both of them they dont invest into next generations. "They dont invest into the grass roots and neither should they. Thats not their business model. Thats our responsibility. "And if we dont then I dont know where the next generations of players come from outside of the nations with a long tennis heritage." Loading The ITF partnership with Kosmos headed by Pique and backed by investors including American billionaire Larry Ellison and Japanese rich lister Hiroshi Mikitani - was met with widespread suspicion. But Haggerty said tennis should take it as a badge of honour that the sport was being eyed off by "outside investment". "We should be proud to have a company come from outside tennis that sees it as an exciting sport and wants to invest in it because I think that shows tennis is strong, it has a lot of appeal," he said. The availability of the sports top players for Davis Cup action will be closely watched throughout 2019. Attitudes vary among the playing group about the new concept. The ITF point out that Rafael Nadal is committed to the finals in Madrid. In contrast, German world No.4 Alexander Zverev has already flagged his intentions. "I still will not play in November, in that time, I am in the Maldives in the sun, not playing Davis Cup," Zverev said in Melbourne. Beaten Australian Open semi-finalist Lucas Pouille, of France, expressed his dismay with the new-look Cup. "I was against it 200 per cent, and Im still against it 200 per cent. But now the decision has been made. We cannot do anything about it," Pouille said. "We have to live with it. Its never going to be the Davis Cup. I think its a shame because the atmosphere you can live when youre playing for your country at home or even away, its just unbelievable." Meanwhile, Roger Federer told The Age it would be up to the next generation of players to determine the success of the remodelled Davis Cup. The 20-time major winner also said there was an appetite for teams events among players who "wanted the opportunity to share" the celebratory moments in sport. Federer said: "You cant hug the umpire." The genesis of the new event came to 2010 FIFA World Cup winner Pique "in a dream" but convincing tennis federations and players to back in the concept has hardly been smooth sailing. Interestingly, in 2010 former Essendon player and coach James Hird and his company Gemba floated a new format for the Davis Cup that would have seen a round-robin tournament held every two years across a 10-day period and feature 32 nations, a "Twenty20" tweaking of Davis Cup. "I remember the name," Haggerty said when quizzed about Hirds involvement. "I was not at the ITF or involved with the ITF at that point of time, but I remember hearing about it, perhaps in a grand slam board meeting. "Theres been a number of different ideas." Scott Spits is a sports reporter for The Age Most Viewed in Sport Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/sport/tennis/davis-cup-upheaval-to-make-phenomenal-difference-to-tennis-bottom-line-20190127-p50tx3.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed "How many of us know the local Aboriginal names for the places that surround us? How many of us are able to greet elders in their traditional language?," Governor Hurley said.
Loading "It is clear weve got a lot to learn, and for many of us it starts with our national anthem this morning." The Aboriginal and Australian flags were raised on the Sydney Harbour Bridge as Jason Owen sung the national anthem - first in Eora language and then in English. General Hurley expressed a renewed "commitment to learn, to listen,to come together with friendship, to reconcile, to move forward as a nation and as a people". 'Shaping the future' For Yvonne Weldon, Chairperson of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, the message was one of healing and survival. "It is right to stop, reflect and declare the atrocities," she said. "Not out of guilt but to listen, learn, share and come together. If its not done we may never fully heal our past and create a happy inclusive future. "Bringing your people, my people and our people together, we can create a true healing. "We have survived," she added. "Have a wonderful survival day." NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks during the Australia Day Wugulora Morning Ceremony on the Walumil Lawns at Barangaroo in Sydney, Saturday, January 26, 2019. (AAP Image/ Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVINGCredit:AAP Loading Premier Gladys Berejiklian also addressed the event, saying she couldn't "think of a better and more appropriate way of starting Australia Day than with our First Peoples - a culture that is proudly the longest surviving continuous culture on this planet". "Todays a day where we think positively about what steps we can take, for all of us, and make sure that First Peoples ... are not only in the pages of our history books but shape our future," she said. The ceremony was held beneath the Always' sign on Barangaroo headland, created by artist Jacob Nash for Sydney Festival in reference to ongoing Aboriginal custodianship of the land. Natassia is a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald. Most Viewed in National Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/national/nsw/got-a-lot-to-learn-governor-s-call-to-study-indigenous-languages-20190126-p50ttd.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed Debra Adelaide at home.Credit:Dean Sewell Her frustration was so great it resulted in a 90,000-word novel that has been pruned into its new form. "The novella is hard to master because it is neither a long story not a short novel." A bit like a zebra neither horse, nor donkey, but with features common to both. "I wrote a PM who was kind, generous and without ego. Then I abandoned the project when Julia Gillard broke the drought. When I came back to it, it became the ultimate fantasy of what I would do in that role, taking that house and giving it back to the people whose home has been taken." Adelaide also dips her toe into the stream of historical fiction and current controversy about who has the right to write certain stories, with a poignant account of the last days of Bennelong, the first Aboriginal man to visit Europe and return. "I read his letter, written in about 1796, in which he asked Mrs Phillips, with whom he had stayed, for some items of clothing. I use it in a course I teach on creative reading," says Adelaide, who is associate professor in the creative-writing program at UTS, where she has been part of the faculty for 12 years. Zebra. By Debra Adelaide. "Dispossession diminishes all of us. His story is our story, but this is my place too. If an Indigenous person told me I had no right to tell a story, I would respect their point of view but would not stop myself from writing," says Adelaide, who explored themes of occupation following the arrival of the First Fleet in her novel Serpent Dust. "The response I got from Indigenous readers was one of gratitude. I think we are still working this stuff out, it's a fluid transition. We all steal stories all the time. Of course when it is done without any sense of protocol, without consultation, that's wrong. You have to examine your motives, seek advice from people you trust, and then just hold your nose and jump in. If there is any flak, I'm prepared to take it." Adelaide projects many moods on the page. But despite strongly held principles and convictions, in person she radiates a gentle serenity: she is happily domestic, and a keen gardener "The writing is, almost always, calming. We've all bashed out stuff in white-hot rage, and often that is a vital thing to do, but it does not necessarily mean that anyone else needs to read it. Anger may be the fuel for certain stories, but it's a raw element that needs converting to be effective. Sometimes the best way to express dismay is by attempting an optimistic story as an alternative scenario. I used the shame I feel about the way we treat asylum seekers as the starting point for a story called The Master Shavers Association of Paradise, which starts from a powerful negative emotion but not to the detriment of the story." Zebra is dedicated to Adelaide's father, who died last year and to whom she was very close. "Not that he would have read it," she laughs. "Dad read nothing by women and nothing written in the first person. I actually found it quite endearing," she says, adding wistfully that "he was the only man who never criticised me". Currently single, Adelaide says that what she finds attractive in a man apart from a sense of humour is an ability to punctuate, "in particular where to put his possessive apostrophe", which sounds like a saucy double entendre if ever there was one. Adelaide shares her Sydney home with two dogs (she edited a canine anthology called Acts of Dog) and a lorikeet. The chooks that were a feature of The Household Guide to Dying, and that promoted some readers to get their own, are no more. Adelaide looks stricken when they are mentioned. A suburban fox was the culprit. She shivers at the memory. Many stories in Zebra, such as The Recovery Position, written after doing a St John's ambulance first aid course, are based on personal experience. The collection is divided into three sections, each denoting a different voice, of which the second-person singular is the most striking: "It is very hard to sustain in a novel but handy for establishing intimacy while maintaining distance. It makes me collude with the reader." In this voice, Adelaide writes hilariously about food intolerances at a Christmas family gathering in which she reprises the somewhat Mrs Beeton-esque voice that characterised the domestic advice columns of The Household Guide to Dying to mock current food fads "about which I am quite cynical, although I confess I recently made a vegan chocolate cake because the recipe was Nigella's and I love her". She maintains the voice to write Migraine for Beginners, as a lifelong sufferer. "So many women's illnesses are endured in silence. Mine started before I was pre-pubescent, and are obviously hormonal. People don't understand what they feel like and dismiss them as bad headaches. I ended up in hospital on a morphine drip until a new wonder pill came along. Now my daughter has them," says Adelaide, grateful to have the kind of flexible work that could accommodate her condition. She has never resented the need to earn a living for eating into her writing life. "I need to get out into the world because that's where the stories are. Sure, I fantasised about being a full-time writer, we all do, but the results might be crap." In the third person, and a blackly comic tone, she writes about her son's leukaemia, diagnosed in 2004 when he was six, in No Hot Drinks In the Ward. "It's far enough away now," she says. "I kept a diary but could not read it." Her son, who lives at home, has not read the story. "He never thought he was going to die." When she earned a much-publicised advance that was reported at the time as worth $1 million for The Household Guide to Dying, he bought her a special pen for signing contracts. It has the heft that befits an instrument intended for significant documents. "I didn't actually get a million dollars," Adelaide says. "The book went through three agents plus tax, so that takes a lot out. It still feels unreal, as it did when it happened. I didn't splurge on a treat, I'm not a shopper, except for books and at Bunnings, which is where I would like to work if I ever retired. I didn't even buy myself a new computer. What it bought me was time, so that I took a year and half's leave without pay from UTS, and there were a few practical, necessary things I did like replace the roof, verandah and kitchen." This year is a double whammy, with the publication of a collection of her essays on writing and reading, about which she is upbeat and optimistic. "Despite all the distractions available, my students are very well read." She won't be answering customer queries at Bunnings any time soon. Zebra is published by Picador at $29.99. Most Viewed in Entertainment Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/books/debra-adelaide-interview-the-many-moods-of-her-short-stories-20190117-h1a62i.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed 1/23/2019 0 Comments Zimbabwe's civil servants to strike over salaries, as economic collapse deepensA labor federation leader charged with subversion was at court along with dozens of others accused of involvement in the protests, while their lawyers accused the government of systematically denying them justice.
Japhet Moyo, secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, could face 20 years in prison. He is accused of inciting Zimbabweans to protest the fuel price increase by staying off the streets. Other Zimbabweans, frustrated over the long lines for fuel and other basics, demonstrated, with some looting shops in anger or desperation. The military deployed, and doctors and rights groups have documented at least 12 people killed and more than 300 wounded. Some were shot at close range. Others were pulled from hospital beds and arrested. A protest against the rise in fuel prices in Harare resulted in more than 600 arrests.Credit:AP They are likely "just a fraction of the actual victims", the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights said Tuesday. Lawyers say labor leader Moyo is not guilty. Pastor and activist Evan Mawarire, also accused of subversion for joining Moyo's call for protest, had his application for bail delayed until Friday by the High Court in Harare. He has been detained for a week. Lawyers say more than 600 people have been arrested, with most of them denied bail. Those arrested, killed and wounded include ordinary citizens, including children. Some hungry Zimbabweans were picked up after venturing out in search of bread or other basics from the few shops open during the protests. The dozens in court on Wednesday are accused of "committing public violence". Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa alleged "a coordinated, deliberate orchestrated attempt to subvert justice". Some people were forced to stand trial without being given sufficient time to brief their lawyers, she said. "We have had a pattern ... of every magistrate in different provinces doing exactly the same thing," said Mtetwa, a board member of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. Responding to the president's call for national dialogue, main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday called for the "unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience and political detainees". A soldier controls a fuel queue in Harare on Tuesday. Credit:AP In Harare's city center and in many of its working-class and poor suburbs, armed soldiers maintained a presence and at times beat up people, according to residents, non-governmental groups and the opposition. Zimbabwe's government has provided buses with cheaper fares, accompanied by armed soldiers, to ferry people to work. There were long lines for cooking gas and other basic items, and people elbowed each other for bread in shops that still had it in stock. AP Most Viewed in World Loading https://www.watoday.com.au/world/africa/zimbabwe-s-civil-servants-to-strike-over-salaries-as-economic-collapse-deepens-20190124-p50tcd.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed Perth Weather this weekend is extremely dangerous, authorities warn.
The Perth weather is so extreme this weekend, the government has shut down picnic spots in some areas, with Water Corp closing public areas around Perth dams. There is also a very high chance of fires in the metro area. Severe and extreme heatwaves pose significant risks to human health and safety, particularly the elderly, who are more vulnerable to the effects of heat stress, the BOM says of the Perth weather heatwave danger. When temperatures are unusually hot over a period of time, with continuously high night-time and day-time temperatures, heat stress becomes a critical factor in human survival and infrastructure resilience, they warn. Saturday is looking to reach over 40C in some parts of the city, while Sunday we could see even hotter conditions. WA heat map for Sunday The UV forecast is extreme so stay the hell out of the sun between 9am and 4pm. Youll 100% slip, slop, slap during the day if you have to be out. At 14+ UV youre going to be cooked pretty quickly without any protection. Perth UV forecast Extreme! Perth beaches are expected to be packed today. Perth Weather Forecast: Saturday Very hot and sunny. Winds easterly 15 to 25 km/h tending north to northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the middle of the day then tending south to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h in the early to mid afternoon. 39C in Perth Sunday Very hot and sunny. Light winds becoming northerly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning then shifting west to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h in the middle of the day. 40 in Perth The latest Perth News Related: How hot is Perth right now: 21 MEMEs and GIFs to Express Just How Hot It Is In Perth Perth Heatwave has arrived. https://soperth.com.au/perth-weather-extreme-weekend-heatwave-has-arrived-25187 Australia is the number one hotspot when it comes to Instagram.
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