Emma Young
Homepage Editor and Journalist at WAtoday
Slapdash natterings from journo @WAtoday, author The Last Bookshop (2021) & The Disorganisation of Celia Stone (2023) @fremantlepress. More active on Instagram.
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5 days ago |
brisbanetimes.com.au | Emma Young
By Emma Young June 3, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTIONKing of Dirt Holden Sheppard Pantera Press, $34.99Brash, bolshy and bold, Western Australia’s Holden Sheppard has created a layered and pitch-perfect anti-hero in his latest work, a seasoned and confident novel that traces one of humanity’s deepest yearnings: the desire to belong.
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1 week ago |
watoday.com.au | Emma Young
SaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeLandscape architecture redevelopments at Subi East’s new-look oval and Bunbury’s Maidens Reserve have been crowned the best in Western Australia. In a ceremony at Royal Perth Yacht Club on Friday evening, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects’ WA chapter awarded the Maidens Reserve redevelopment the highest achiever in the regions and gave it the top honour overall, the WA Medal.
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1 week ago |
watoday.com.au | Emma Young
In this series, WAtoday reaches out to the Perth community to discover three things people love most about our coastal capital. Today we feature Ilona McGuire, an artist and cultural leader whose drone-light performance First Lights opened the 2021 Fremantle Biennale then toured regional WA.
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1 week ago |
watoday.com.au | Emma Young
WA’s Department of Water and Environmental Regulation will be unable to assess a new clearing permit until the trial process concludes. A Heidelberg spokeswoman said the quarry would provide a vital local resource for the residential construction industry in Perth at a time when demand was high, and sand available locally low.
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2 weeks ago |
watoday.com.au | Emma Young
“The approach of the program is to achieve a transparent, risk-based and adaptive frameworkfor monitoring and managing environmental quality to successfully protect the rock art onMurujuga from anthropogenic emissions into the long term,” he said. Only hours before on Friday morning, Murujuga traditional owner Raelene Cooper had launched a fresh Federal Court challenge to the proposed long-term expansion of the Karratha gas plant. A community march on the Burrup Peninsula in 2022.
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