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The excitement generated by the 2023 Eurovision contest was palpable. Members of my family, like thousands of Australians, were awake at 5am on a Sunday to cheer on Australia’s Eurovision contenders, Perth band Voyager. Their song Promise was the eighth Australian entry since we first competed in 2015. Seven of…

The Antarctic continent conjures visions of white ice and blue sky. But not far from Australia’s Casey Station, 3,880km due south of Perth, moss beds emerge verdant and green.

Roxanne Tabourel greatly misses her mum Paula who died in November 2021, so on the weekend that would have been the 55th birthday of the well-known Perth restaurant boss, she and her dad raised a flag at the summit of Ben Nevis, the final climb in the 24-hour Peaks4Paula challenge.

Perth and Kinross Council’s waste services team recently invited householders to nominate the best volunteers around