GEOFF VIVIAN
from The Western Review November 1994
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There are several good reasons for avoiding opinion pieces.
One is the fact that opinions do change!
I wrote this in the mid-1990s before glassings came into vogue in Northbridge pubs.
Disclaimer: the author no-longer holds these views.
Well, some of them perhaps.
POST Newspapers
Text by GEOFF VIVIAN
Transplant organs sent to the wrong cities
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Human organs removed for transplant had been mislabelled and sent to wrong cities, a worker’s compensation arbiter heard this week.
In a second incident described to the hearing, a donor liver due to arrive in Perth from interstate was found in a courier van with other parcels while the local surgical team waited in theatre for an hour and a half.
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It emerged this week that three of WA’s most experienced organ donor coordinators were no longer working in the public health system.
This is a 2008 story I did for POST newspapers about Karakatta Cemetery’s security.
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Thieves were targeting visitors’ cars. Warning signage was very poor.
The story contains an interview with a Dunsborough woman whose car was rifled as she visited her grandmother’s grave with her children.
The newly-elected premier said he intended to fix traffic congestion problems at two rail crossings in Cottesloe.
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Seven years have passed, and I am wondering what his constituents and others think of the state of the Eric Street and Jarrad Street crossings in Mr Barnett’s own electorate.
This was the first ever review of the play Bindjareb Pinjarra, which has since become a classic.
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Kelton Pell, Geoff Kelso, Trevor Parfitt and Phil Thomson first performed their interactive play at The Actors’ Centre in Northbridge, Perth.
Actor and stage manager Craig Williams says the play is opening in Adelaide this coming week, before touring regional South Australia.
“Kelton Pell’s back in the cast, which now consists of Sam Longley, Isaac Drandic, Nigel Wilkes, and myself,” he says. “Last year I stage managed a short season, which included Geoff Kelso and Phil Thomson from the original cast. (Phil and Geoff not available for this tour. Shorty Parfitt is sadly no longer with us.) The show has been continuing with various combinations of casts, and that loosely improvised script, for almost 20 years, touring all over Australia, and is still just as well received everywhere. Looking forward to being in the cast this time. If you’re in SA, hope you get to see it!”
Premier Colin Barnett is raising the profile of science in WA by appointing himself Minister for Science.
Colin Barnett
In his new role he says he wishes to foster a culture of science, and to attract more funding for scientific research in his state.
He has announced a new science policy unit to be created within his Department of Premier and Cabinet.
You can read my article in Science Network WA or click below.
STORY AND PICTURE BY GEOFF VIVIAN
Major news outlets were quick to congratulate Lewis Abdullah, 19, on receiving the Western Australian Young Person of the Year award last month. He was so honoured for his work with young offenders at Banksia Hill juvenile detention facility.
What they neglected to mention is that Lewis had not been able to hold his classes since January, when Banksia Hill was damaged in a riot and all of the boys got transferred to Hakea, an adult prison.
From The Koori Mail Wednesday 24 April 2013
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TEXT AND PORTRAIT BY GEOFF VIVIAN
from Artsource April – June 2013
Pierre Capponi is eyeing off a stack of ornate pressed tin sheets that once lined a room in
Pierre Capponi
an old house. The century-old building material is the main sculptural medium he uses to create life-sized figurative works that evoke Goldfields ghost towns, rural rubbish tips and desiccated mammals you sometimes find on dusty outback roadsides.
In his early teens he migrated here from Marseilles with his family, and pressed tin features in his earliest Australian memories.
“We lived in Smith Street in Highgate,” he says. “My father was reading the racing form guide one morning and there was a shadow of him on the pressed tin wall. I always thought that was a beautiful moment. Continue reading
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from The Western Independent
This is one of my original news photos. It appeared in The Western Independent’s April 2012 edition to illustrate a story by Amber Koenig.
STORY BY GEOFF VIVIAN
From Echo Newspapers
