Victoria Laurie
Journalist and Feature Writer at Freelance
Journalist & Feature Writer, formerly The Australian, Author UWAP National co-patron Women in Media WA [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
smh.com.au | Victoria Laurie
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two large maple trees once dominated Joanne Taggart’s backyard in Fremantle, casting dappled shadows on her back wall and shading the lawn from the searing heat of a West Australian summer. Now the only evidence the trees existed are faint rings in the yellowing grass. Nearly four years ago, she noticed one of her box elder maple trees was dying, and had it cut down.
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3 weeks ago |
watoday.com.au | Victoria Laurie
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3 weeks ago |
australiangeographic.com.au | Victoria Laurie
It’s a cloudless day as our vehicle heads across a hillside incised with deep furrows. The bare paddock is tinged with grey stubble, remnants of the last cereal crop to grow on this land. A wide sweep of the eye takes in two dozen figures walking each furrow with dangling bags of native shrub and tree seedlings. At 5m intervals, they insert a plant into the soil and move on.
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1 month ago |
watoday.com.au | Hamish Hastie |Victoria Laurie
Love has already called for the suspension of WAEC Commissioner Robert Kennedy and a parliamentary investigation into the election’s “failings”. “This election has been plagued by failings – ballot shortages, postal delays, missing mobile polling, and widespread voter frustration,” he said. Kennedy has already confirmed he would conduct an investigation into what went wrong. A WAEC spokeswoman said the tender was conducted along Department of Finance guidelines and was open to all.
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1 month ago |
watoday.com.au | Victoria Laurie |Hamish Hastie
“I watched long lines, levels of frustration of people and some people travelling to other booths to try and vote because of a lack of ballot papers,” he said. “There were lesser numbers of people at the booths managing the electoral rolls. The setup was very different to what I experienced in the past. It was as if it was a cost-cutting measure. “Several people I’ve spoken to said they applied for roles but were told there was no opportunity.
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