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contents
4 RESCUE HEALING HANDS WILDLIFE CARE
Battling Summer Heat and Winter Winds
6 ENGAGE ON THE MARK AND KICKING GOALS
Great Southern Women’s Football League
4 HEALING HANDS 6 ON THE MARK
8 NUTURE KRISTI MCMULLAN
The Wisdom of the Natural World
10 TASTE THE FARMER’S WIFE
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11 THIS MONTH’S RECIPE
Immunity Boosting Chicken Stock
12 VOGUE AUTUMN FRESH
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16 REFLECT LANCE CORPORAL LAUGHTON
Boy Soldier Lied About His Age to Enlist
8 KRISTI MCMULLAN 11 RECIPE
22 RECOLLECTIONS OF WAR
Stories, Memories, Remembrance and Respect
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HEALING HANDS WILDLIFE CARE
Group Battles Summer Heat and Winter Winds
STORY ALLEN NEWTON | PHOTOS LATA WRIGHT
High winds in winter and searing summer heat are a constant threat to the wildlife of
the Great Southern. Throw in the carnage from an increasing volume of traffic on our
roads and you’ll go some way to see the motivation for the launch of the new Healing
Hands Wildlife Care (HHWC).
The carers group rescues injured wildlife and rehabilitates them back to their natural
habitat, and evolved from the passion and energy of Maggie van Santen, inspired by the
persuasive encouragement of her daughter, Joslyn.
A group of enthusiastic wildlife carers met for the first time in August last year and HHWC
was born. The organisation provides 24 hour support, seven days a week, to wildlife
carers together with injured and orphaned wildlife in the Great Southern Region.
Maggie says from August through to November call-outs are mainly to rescue kangaroo
joeys. In summer when there is a lack of water and food, animals move closer to
suburbia and roads, putting them at increased risk. Whenever the region is hit with high
winds the calls are mainly for baby birds falling from their nests.
According to Maggie, birds are by far the hardest animals to rehabilitate as they
suffer stress and capture myopathy very quickly. “There is always a cheer when one is
successfully released into the wild,” she says.
The group has rescued more than 220 animals since it started.
“Our aim is to get the animals back in to the wild as soon as is possible, but if injuries
are too severe for a successful release, sadly the animal will need to be euthanised.”
Maggie says another issue can be with well meaning, but inexperienced carers who
want to save an animal, but often don’t ask for advice or help which can lead to joeys
being fed the wrong formula, birds the wrong kind of food and inappropriate housing.
She urged members of the public wanting to rescue wildlife to ask for help and
guidance to achieve the best outcome for the animal.
While there are some sad stories there’s also plenty of good news.
“Last year our rescue officer scrambled on the roof of an office building in York Street to
rescue an adult female possum. We suspect that some territorial fighting had gone on
and she had been displaced,” Maggie says.
“As you know our Western Ringtail Possums are critically endangered. She was taken
into care, rehydrated and introduced to a new home.
“When she was released, we suspected she may have had a joey in her pouch and a
couple of weeks later a possum drey was spotted high up in a peppermint tree and
about a month or so later she was seen with a baby on her back.”
The committee is made up of Chairperson Jane Forward, Vice Chair Joanne
Mitchell, Secretary Maggie van Santen, Treasurer Joslyn van Nieuwkerk, Wildlife
Coordinator Korina Krispin and mentor to the committee Gayle Upson, now in her 70s,
who has more than 40 years of wildlife caring experience.
Becki Shaver is Conflict Resolution Officer supporting the committee, Jon Pridham, Wildlife
Officer with DBCA and Shey Rogers, vet at Nullakai Vet make up the rest of the committee.
Maggie says Shey has been an awesome support in not only caring for wildlife but is a
fountain of knowledge on medical procedures and processes which is incredibly useful.
“Shey and Dog Rock Vet treat all our wildlife free of charge, so a huge thank you to
them as most expenses come out of carers own pockets.”
The committee members have all been wildlife carers for many years with a combined
experience of over 80 years, spanning across many species of wildlife, their
rehabilitation and release. Most of the rescued wildlife are cared for by individual
members under the guidance of mentors.
The group has a release site for the joeys and as funds permit, will develop this into a
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physical sanctuary although the group doesn’t want visits from the general public so
chooses not to disclose the location.
“We rehabilitate to release and our wildlife are not for public viewing,” Maggie says.
HHWC can be contacted by phone 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week, on 0475 442
202. People can call and be given the address of a nearby carer for drop off or
arrangements can be made to pick the animal up.
Most calls for injured and orphaned wildlife come via the phone or Facebook or through the
WildCare Helpline. The group is also the first point of call for all after hours call outs for City
of Albany. They operate mainly in the Albany and Denmark area but have members as far
afield as Baldivis, Harvey, Kojonup, Bremer Bay, Walpole and all areas in between.
Most of the group’s expenses are in buying milk powder for its joeys, but they are also
setting up a pre-release pen for the joeys. Money from the public will be used to build
a little joey pen within the larger pen, aviaries for possums and birds, basic first aid
equipment and appropriate housing for possums, bandicoots and so on.
Maggie says they also urgently need to provide some kind of man made shelter in the
pen for the babies. The group has used funding from Building Stronger Communities
to buy two humidicribs for critically ill wildlife and for pinkie joeys. Chairperson Jane
Forward says the group receives no government funding.
“Caring for wildlife properly is very expensive and if we still want our grandchildren to
see our wildlife as we do, this is an important job for everyone.
“One person or group cannot take on all the care of our wildlife, but together we can,”
she says.
Healing Hands Wildlife Care is a registered, not for profit organisation.
OPPOSITE PAGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Wildlife carers Joslyn van Nieuwerk, Maggie van Santen,
Jo Johnson, Lauren Johnson (holding Cherish), Greg Johnson, Annie Arnold and Sarah Schouten.
TOP RIGHT: A young Western Gray Kangaroo bottle feeding.
RIGHT: A critically endangered Western Ringtail Possum is in good hands.
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ON THE MARK AND KICKING GOALS
Great Southern Women’s Football League
STORY ADAM MORRIS | PHOTOS SULLIVAN AND CO PHOTOGRAPHY
The GSWFL has been official now for two years but one of its players who spends most
of her time as a full forward or a half back flank (after she quickly checks if that’s the
right name for the position) Anne-Marie Bergsma, who plays for the Albany Sharks, says
the ladies involved in the league have been getting together randomly for roughly the
last twenty years to have a kick and the occasional scratch match.
The real drive to formalise what was an impromptu social club, came around 2015
when the players from Claremont’s Women’s Football Club wanted to affiliate
themselves with the Albany girls and make their community camp down south as part
of their regular pre-season training.
As Shelly McLennan of North Albany explains, “the camp involves a scratchie with the
Albany ladies and then a clinic or ‘come and try day’, with all ages welcome and every
year the attendance and participation has just grown.”
The following year after the first clinic, the popularity of the sport amongst women in
Albany meant the field was getting more and more crowded for the traditional kick around
after the men’s games, so eventually the women decided to form a league of their own.
They initially were hoping to make four separate teams with twelve women a side but
the influx on registration day was so overwhelming they were able to field four full
squads with twenty five players each.
Shelley says the inaugural season couldn’t have been better with a short two month
run where each team played each other once and then a semi final followed by a Grand
Final that was held as the curtain raiser for one of the men’s regular league matches.
“There were more people there to watch the women than the men that day,” recalls
Shelley. “The cars were backed all the way up to the gate just to get in and there were
lines pouring out of the canteen and the bar.”
The experience was such a success for all involved that this year’s season has been
extended where the ladies will clash twice with each rival club and the finals will take
place sometime after the Easter break. Some of the younger girls from last year’s
competition have since moved to study in Perth but Ann-Marie says more expansion is
hopefully on the cards for next year with either a further extended season or hopefully
the introduction of two more teams from Mt Barker and Denmark.
Although the women joke about rival clubs and fierce competition, they all agree
the benefits of the GSWFL goes far beyond the boundary line and the final score on
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gameday. For many it’s a chance to get back on the ground and play a team game with
other inspirational women as well as a fun way to incorporate a decent workout into
their weekly routine.
For others such as Nicola Boland, it has been a welcome opportunity that has until
recently, been missing for women in the Great Southern.
“I love playing sport but particularly football as it’s such a great team game where everyone
can have a go even though you might have different skills. I’m playing now again that my
kids are older, having played in high school, but that’s as far as it went for girls back then so
now I have a chance to give it another go and be a part of an amazing team too.”
This notion of football being something only for men or at least only for men once the
high school years are over, is one echoed by Royals all-rounder Renae Parsons, who
had let go of her love of the game at a young age as the opportunities to continue
competing simply weren’t there.
As a young child Renae would carry a footy under her arm wherever she went, whether
it was hanging out with her friends or helping her dad on the farm, wherever Renae
went, the Sherrin was going too.
But it was a passion she had to let go of at the tender age of seven where she switched
to hockey and went on to be selected for the state side as well as a selection in the
National Country Women’s Hockey team, the mighty Wattles.
After a nasty concussion courtesy of a hockey ball rocketing into the back of her head,
Renae hung up the shin pads and the stick and spent the next few years recovering
from the injury and all the troubles that came with it (including having to retrain her
vision). But it was with utter delight, a few years later, when she heard the news that a
women’s football league was starting up in Albany.
“I immediately joined the Royals as I had friends playing for the club already and
straight away I felt like I belonged. The comradery with my teammates, the amazing
diversity, mums breastfeeding before the games, bringing their kids down while they
train, it’s all walks of life coming together at once.”
“When I think of what women’s footy has brought to my life
one word comes straight to mind – joy. Pure joy. Why? In
my family there have been VFL/AFL premiership captains
and players going back three generations. The love for the
game has always been there for me, so the opportunity to
participate is fantastic. I imagine for a lot of women it has
brought their families’ closer as the love of footy is now a
whole family affair on and off the field.”
Mel Mettam, Albany Sharks
I play footy because it’s fun, a good way to keep fit and it is
a competitive sport. There is a really good atmosphere at the
GSWFL games and there are plenty of spectators. It’s great
because it gives the girls a chance to play footy and it also
supports the men’s teams.”
Skye Cordon, North Albany.
For Renae it’s not just about what’s happening on the ground each week as the season
rolls along but what’s really important is the ground work the women today are paving
for the younger girls who will be playing in the future. A future which Renae hopes will
see girls of the next generation not having to give up their dreams and passion for a
sport that all Australians seem to love and should be able to embrace fully.
“The support I feel we have as women now paving the way for future generations is
really amazing,” says Renae.” Young girls kicking a footy today will have a brilliant future
playing a sport they love with all the support they will ever need.”
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KRISTI McMULLAN
The Wisdom of the Natural World
STORY LUCY SMALL | PHOTOS LUCY SMALL
I forgot to take notes during my interview with Kristi McMullan. Usually I would record
or frantically try and note down some good phrases while I chat to my subject, but with
Kristi I couldn’t tear myself away from the conversation. We sat on the grass outside the
playgroup at Golden Hill Steiner School and discussed the future. Afternoon sunbeams
fingered the long green stems that waved out of the garden nearby, gold shrouding the
tea trees overhead.
For a rubbish lady, Kristi is an exceptional listener. She is however, not your average
rubbish lady. In fact, I would barely call her that at all. To me, she seems like more of
a gardener. Not just in the literal sense but tending to the future of the planet that
surrounds her, planting seeds into young minds about the importance of reconnecting
to, nurturing and protecting the Earth. She tells me about the period when she lived in
a mud hut, six years without electricity and water as a means of reaching into the earth
and downloading the reams of knowledge stored within.
Kristi grew up in the Middle East. Her father worked for an airline so they were based
out of the Arab Gulf and Pakistan before Kristi returned to Australia for her final year of
school. She describes culture shock returning to her country of birth, taking a while to
learn the cliquey nature of Australian society and lives lived in excess. She then worked
on the superyachts in the Mediterranean, a period that she explained allowed her to
understand how billionaires think.
“Billionaires have problems,” she says. “And underneath the billionaires are a bunch of
millionaires who are terrified because the billionaires are not normal, there’s something
going on in their minds,” says Kristi. It is from this position of attending the ritzy
lifestyles of the extraordinarily rich, that Kristi has found her way in taking the pieces of
excess of humans and returning them to the earth.
“Indigenous people listen with their whole being,” Kristi said as she describes time spent
in remote parts of Australia. She talks about long walks with her daughter and realising
the unimportant nature of having nice things or fancy new toys. She describes a time
when her four kids were content with the small pieces of rubbish as toys they found in
the wilderness, fighting over litter in the street when they got into town “not a good
look for a single mum and kids fighting over a bottle cap,” she laughs.
Kristi worked as a volunteer at the Denmark tip sorting rubbish for nine months prior to
working at the school, a period in which she came to understand the sheer expanse of
human waste being buried in the ground even from a small community like Denmark. “In
the nine months that I was at the tip I dressed my whole family from clothes out of the
landfill. Not even from the shops, from the actual rubbish,” she said. She explains this to me
as she tosses through a bin full of materials, layered with dark earth alive with fibres slowly
breaking down and returning to soil. The bin next to it is layered with takeaway coffee cup
lids, the “biodegradable” type, them too being worked to gradually break down.
Kristi tells me that across Australia there is a line of pieces of toilet paper set back 50
metres from the road the entire way. “It’s as if people are too scared to go any further,”
she says. “That stuff doesn’t just break down on its own. People think ‘it’s only paper’
but it takes years to break down. It’s the same with these ‘biodegradable’ things, they
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own,” she said.
She also discusses the idea of ‘minimalism’ and how this has actually increased waste
and consumerism. “People have this idea that they need to get rid of everything all the
time, but why not just hold onto it?” Kristi says. “They also need to buy more things
because they keep throwing everything out,” she laughs. Kristi’s eyes are wide as she
speaks, glinting often, her laugh easy. The sun lowers overhead, shadows falling on the
long grass and timber tent nearby as we sit chatting on the lawn.
Kristi is captivating in some way, like somehow, she knows more than she is letting
on. A little girl called Verity, one of her young students, lies in the hammock close by,
intermittently asking for Kristi’s attention after sticking her fingers in wet yellow paint.
She too seems easy in Kristi’s company. I realise as I walk away, the importance of
listening to people like Kristi. Taking a moment to pay pure and real attention to the
many layers of wisdom of the natural world that she has and how vital this is for not
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of the Great Southern and surrounds. The Farmers Wife is the brainchild of Perin
Mulcahy, who had a background in marketing and communications at the WA Museum
and the State Heritage Office, before moving into the farm with her husband Tony
and their three children. They bought the property 11 years ago and lived there part
time, commuting between Perth and Cranbrook for 7 years, before settling down
permanently 3 years ago.
“I’m often asked if I miss the city, but I just love it here. The people are so supportive,
we have an amazing community,” Perin says. “As we became immersed in the country
life, I realised how time poor the farmers were at certain times of the year, especially
seeding and harvest time. It’s so intense. Unfortunately, these times coincide with
Christmas and Mother’s Day so it’s often a struggle for them to get gifts for their loved
ones in time.”
Thus, The Farmers Wife was born. Fresh flower bouquets cut from her own garden,
along with preserves and jams made with fruits from the farm, are amongst the
delights to be found nestled with handmade jewellery, candles, soaps, bath salts, teas,
body lotions and lip balms, all carefully selected from local small businesses and rural
women or created by Perin herself. From wellness hampers to baby baskets Perin
covers all bases and prioritises the customers’ requirements by individually designing
and sourcing a variety of options. The bespoke hampers can reflect the seasons, the
individual or the occasion. Perin is passionate about choosing quality supplies whilst
promoting rural businesses and supporting farmers and their families.
“The whole community is so vibrant and supportive and the quality of their products is
second to none. If I raise the awareness of rural businesses by supplying the community
with their products, as well as providing a much-needed gift service in a remote area,
then I have achieved my goal.” Perin says.
“A lot of rural women who are my suppliers have such interesting stories. I write about
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I love to keep the hampers interesting and I’m always searching for beautiful, unusual
and individual items to add to them.”
Helping to raise awareness of these rural suppliers to customers living in metropolitan
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1 medium carrot, chunky cut
2 medium parsnips, chunky cut
1 onion peeled and quartered
6 stalks celery, chunky cut
1 teaspoon of freshly grated ginger
5 cloves of garlic
1 large bunch of parsley (add last 15 minutes)
3 bay leaves
8 peppercorns
6 cloves
Salt to taste (add at the end)
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1 tablespoon fish sauce
1-2 fresh chopped chilli
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LANCE CORPORAL ALEX LAUGHTON
Boy Soldier Lied About His Age to Enlist
STORY ANNE SKINNER
Alex Laughton was one very single-minded teenager. Determined to serve his country
no matter what, the 17-year-old railway apprentice convinced his parents to sign a
consent form declaring that he was over 18 years old and had their permission to enlist
in the Australian Imperial Force.
What arguments he brought to bear will never be known, but Alex’s height (178cm, or
5ft 10in), sturdy build and high level of fitness clearly convinced the military authorities
not to look further into the circumstances of his birth, and the Denmark-born teen
enlisted on 25 September 1915 – barely two months after his 17th birthday.
After training at Blackboy Hill, Private John Alexander Laughton embarked on 17
January 1916 from Fremantle aboard HMAT Borda with the 8th reinforcements to
the 28th Battalion. On reaching Egypt, where the Anzac troops were resting after the
evacuation from Gallipoli, he was assigned to the newly raised 51st Battalion. The
51st was formed as part of the doubling of the AIF, the large-scale restructuring of the
Australian forces following the Gallipoli campaign. The seasoned 11th Battalion, which
had gained its first battle honours against the Turkish forces the previous year, was
halved. One half remained as the 11th Battalion while the other half became the 51st
Battalion. Both battalions were then brought up to strength with newly arrived raw
recruits like Pte Laughton.
For the next three months both veteran and newly-fledged Anzac forces trained in
Egypt for the war in Europe. In between rifle practice and forced marches through
the desert, Pte Laughton found time to visit the bazaars of Cairo where he bought a
souvenir cloth for his sister Mabel, even commissioning someone to embroider “To
Mabel from Alex” beneath the rising sun badge.
His battalion sailed for France, arriving in Marseilles on 12 June and within two weeks
was in the trenches of the Western Front. From then until the end of the war, the 51st
was in the thick of many of the major battles in France and Belgium. The battalion’s
first major engagement was at Mouquet Farm where it lost more than 30 per cent
of its fighting strength. In early 1917 Pte Laughton took part in the advance to the
Hindenburg Line and the attack on the fortified village of Noreuil. On 9 June, during the
battle for Messines, he was shot in the right hand and evacuated to England with what
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the telegram to his anxious parents described as severe wounds.
At some stage during his time in England, Alex ran into his brother-in-law, Pte Louis
Frederick, who was serving with the 44th Battalion. Pte Frederick wrote to his wife Mabel
to let her know that her little brother would recover. Tragically, Mabel would never see her
husband again – he was killed in Belgium less than a month later. It was late November 1917
before Alex’s hand was healed sufficiently for him to rejoin his battalion in France.
The Bolshevik revolution in Russia had just knocked the Czarist forces out of the
war, freeing up a large segment of the German army to concentrate on defeating
the Allies. In late March 1918 Germany launched a major offensive on the Western
Front. On 5 April the 51st Battalion was thrown into action against a massive enemy
attack, launching a critical counter-attack late in the day. Pte Laughton proved himself
a good soldier and, despite his youth, was promoted to Lance Corporal on 19 April,
commanding men much older than himself. A few days later, in the early hours of
Anzac Day, L/Cpl Laughton took part in the now-famous battle of Villers-Bretonneux,
the attack that definitively turned the tide of the war in the Allies’ favour. In July he fell
ill with influenza and spent several months in hospital, rejoining his battalion in early
October. Three weeks later he was granted leave to England and was still there when
the Armistice was declared on 11 November.
LEFT: Alex Laughton was just 17 years old when he falsified his age to enlist in the AIF. The legal
age of enlistment was 19, although 18-year-olds could enlist if their parents gave written consent.
(Courtesy Perth Now) ABOVE: In 1916 Alex bought this specially embroidered cloth in Egypt for his
sister Mabel. (Courtesy Australian War Memorial REL41786-1) BELOW: The ruins of the village of
Messines is just visible on the crest of the distant hill. (Courtesy Australian War Memorial E00473-2)
BOTTOM: This image of the bombardment of the Messines Ridge was snapped on 8 June 1917, one day
before Alex Laughton’s right hand was severely wounded. (Courtesy Australian War Memorial H12264-2)
In a war that claimed the lives of thousands of boy soldiers, Alex Laughton’s story
is exceptional. Unlike many lads his age, he was never in trouble with the military
authorities for going absent without leave, drinking on duty, brawling with anyone
(other than the enemy), or any of the less salubrious activities engaged in by not a few
of his comrades in arms. Mature beyond his years – and with the help of a lot of luck
– the apprentice moulder from the Midland railway workshops had survived almost
unscathed the worst conflict in the history of the world.
After his homecoming in mid-1919, Alex Laughton returned to his job on the railways
and in 1922 married Norna Edwards. He suffered from a lung condition for the rest of
his life – perhaps related to his severe bout of influenza in 1918 – and passed away in
Perth in 1972 at the age of 73 years.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF WAR
Stories, Memories, Remembrance and Respect
STORY ADAM MORRIS | PHOTOS LATA WRIGHT
“Come and see our little project.”
These are the words that John Shapland says over his shoulder as he and his wife Kathryn
walk me towards the poppy-emblazoned building on the property where he and Kathryn
operate a cattle stud on two hundred acres of Great Southern land. The directions I was
given by John the day before were something befitting a military campaign.
“We’re in between the Sleeman and the Hay River, if you make it to the Hay you’ve
gone too far, double back half a kilometre and we’re the property on the right with the
green railed entrance.”
As we step into the space inside, the sound of The Andrew Sisters can be heard playing
through unseen speakers and you are immediately transported back in time into a place
of reverence, respect and fascination.
The historic military collection that John and Kathryn have been gathering now for
nearly ten years takes over five separate yet conjoined rooms which are filled with
ornately displayed treasures of military memorabilia dating back to the Boer War
of the late nineteenth century right up to the apparel worn by Australian soldiers in
Afghanistan today.
On the walls hang portraits, photographs and sketches of all facets of days gone by. The
collection is a staggering achievement which has stemmed from the passion and efforts
of John and Kathryn who have dedicated a large portion of their time to honouring all
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those who have served, both here at home as well as abroad.
There are rows upon rows of period clothing, outfits from nurses, paratroopers, airmen,
operational medics, infantrymen’s bayonet practice training gear to name but a few.
There are model planes, intricately detailed dioramas, glass cabinets and drawers filled
with meticulously displayed medals, ribbons, porcelain dolls and stuffed bears of the
different eras.
Kathryn is quick to point out that the collection does not set out to glorify war but
rather celebrate the people who participated in each particular theatre and their focus
is on telling the individual stories that took place during the conflicts as well as the
repercussions that take place afterwards.
“It’s about honouring ordinary people who have done extraordinary things,” John says.
A sizeable part of their collection is devoted to remembering the significant contributions
of Women at War, particularly with regard to the Red Cross, and not just the Australian
contingent but indeed the Red Cross all over the globe. Kathryn walks me through
memorabilia of Red Cross gift packages, board games and craft work done by troops at
various hospitals and explains that they honour the work done by the Red Cross, which
worked on both sides of the conflict in Australia, Britain, America as well as Germany and
Japan.
The human connection between all sides engaged in war is on display as John shows
me a photo of the German Women’s Land Army, a service that John’s own mother was
a part of in the British equivalent. The women who participated in their respective
services were basically charged with keeping the home front going while the men
were at war and the pictures of the German women show them laughing on a double
decker bunk after a day’s work or another one of them relaxing after a day collecting
mushrooms or out in the fields standing next to a hay cart pulled by cattle, they are
photos that put a very human face to the otherwise horrific nature of war.
The reverence for another nations humanity and traditions is incredibly touching and is
just an extension of the honour and respect John and Kathryn extend to veterans closer
to home. The Albany brothers, Murray and Eric Maxton, were World War Two air force
veterans who unusually flew together manning the infamous Lancaster bombers, one
as the pilot, the other the radio operator, have both visited and taken in the collection
honouring their service. Both brothers were awarded the French Legion of Honour and
John and Kathryn said it was a particular honour to have the local heroes come out and
spend time with them and immerse themselves in their collection.
We continue the private tour where we see mandolins and wooden shoes made by
soldiers interned in prisoner of war camps, sheet music detailing songs from the First
World War, lockets, watches, hand carved roulette wheels, cigarette cases and snuff boxes,
match books and tobacco pouches, playing cards, silk postcards, letters and illustrations
in personalised autograph books, diaries of missing soldiers, Monopoly sets, cribbage
boards and a very antique looking Snakes and Ladders set, yet one of the most remarkable
things that dawns on you the longer you spend in John and Kathryn’s space taking in the
marvellous collection, is that there is a complete lack of weaponry of any kind.
“This is about the humanity of all people who have served and about honouring not
only their sacrifice, but also the sacrifice that was made by their loved ones and families
both during the war as well as afterwards.”
The Shaplands have made and continue to make associations with universities and
other research institutions as well as historians, authors, genealogists and students –
they are always keen to share information.
John and Kathryn’s collection is open for viewing by appointment for both individuals,
small groups as well as schools and makes an incredible cultural contribution to
the Great Southern’s already well established reputation as place of respect and
remembrance.
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ELLIE FISHER
Profile of a Young Author
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This month we profile local student and author Ellie Fisher. Ellie is eighteen years old
and studies at UWA, Albany. Eldest of Things, which you can read in full on the opposite
page, is her first piece of published writing.
Nature, writing and literature are Ellie’s main passions. She loves bushwalking near the
Kalgan River, on Middleton Beach and at the Ellen Cove walk. She adores stargazing
when the cloud cover clears, and bird watching and botanising in the diverse range of
flora and fauna found in the Great Southern. Ellie is a voracious reader, whose tastes
range from Tolstoy to Rowling, Kafka to Dostoevsky, and the Brontës to Sebald.
the region. After stumbling across John Milton’s enchanting words about the “sablevested
Night”, the concept for this story was sparked. “I usually know if an idea is right,”
says Ellie, “if the words flow through me onto the page. I’m just a conductor. The piece
speaks for itself in that respect.”
Ellie feels passionately about the need to stop the destruction of the planet and for
humans to fall back in love with the natural world. She wants to be an agent for change
and hopes that through the written word she can help you, the reader, to see the
natural world with fresh eyes.
Ellie has always loved writing. Her first taste of success was winning Albany Library’s As for the future, Ellie is still considering what paths she wants to pursue. The solitary
2011 Children’s Book Week writing competition with a story about a girl who goes writing life, however, appeals to her enormously, preferably in the middle of the bush.
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Eldest of Things was written in tribute to the night sky. Often illusive, when the stars do non-fiction, Sebaldian narrative on the unique plant and bird life of the south-west
show up in our southern skies the lack of serious light pollution is a real drawcard for region, which she hopes to be able to submit to Fremantle Press by the end of 2019.
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Eldest of Things
‘Sable-vested Night, eldest of things’
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
ABOVE: Ellie Fisher takes inspiration from the natural world.
Day is dying. The fossilised death-rattle of summer on this clement autumn
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Without reason, you find yourself walking out of your house, submerging
yourself in the night. The monochrome streetlights stare unblinkingly down
as your feet walk to a park you never knew existed. The scene has an air
of unreality about it; but just as in dreams, you accept it without question.
Chancing on a grassed slope perfectly angled to the sky, you spread out your
jacket and lie down.
The dark sky billows above you. The blinding pall of sunlight has vanished,
revealing what is unseeable in day. The magnitude of it all is giddying, inducing
an almost vertiginous feeling in your adrenaline-riddled veins.
The night is unusually black, the moon preoccupied; its face turned fully
sunward. It means the sky burns all the more vividly with numberless points
of dead and dying stars. That light travelled for millions of years before it
entered your pupils and sent an electrical charge along the branching, tree-like
structure of your nerves, and was translated by your brain as a star. You are its
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Never before have you appreciated how swiftly the planet revolves.
You’ve long understood the fact, of course, but have never before sensed it
this viscerally. It feels almost as if you might plummet from your comfortable
position into the vault of the sky. Panicked, you dig your fingers into the
perishingly dry grass, as if this will somehow save you.
Every single human being, beyond the bounds of history, has looked out
at the night sky you are gazing at now. Even the blind must have and still do
imagine this space, so familiar but incomprehensible to us all. It is not so much
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a contemporary new
gallery in a beautiful
heritage building on the
main street of albany
what’s on
showcasing new artwork
collections from local
and visiting artists
for art lovers and collectors
all works are for sale
Melbourne International
Comedy Festival Roadshow
Looking for a laugh? The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow is coming
to town. For 20 years the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been touring
far and wide, bringing giggles, guffaws and good times to Australia and further afield.
This year, on the 26th May, the festival is coming to Albany and will be on stage at the
Albany Entertainment Centre with a great line-up of artists to tickle anyone’s funny
bone. Tickets are available on-line or from the box office at the AEC, but will sell out fast
so don’t delay.
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CELLAR DOOR
Open Daily
WINES
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
(08) 9853 1152
VINEYARD CAFE WITH
DELICIOUS LOCAL AND
HOMEGROWN FOOD
Open Saturday and Sunday
424 MOORIALUP ROAD, EAST PORONGURUP, WA
WWW.ZAREPHATHWINES.COM.AU
Beauty and the Beast
Don’t miss the Albany Light Opera and Theatre Company’s production of the fairy tale
classic Beauty and the Beast, presented each weekend this month at the Port Theatre.
It’s a great show for all the family, put together by a fabulous local cast and directed by
Anne Davidson. Expect singing, dancing, amazing costumes and a fun and magical story
of mystery, romance and redemption. Tickets are on sale via www.paperbark.com.au
2017 City of Albany Award winner – Chelsea Hopkins-Allan, “Wing Scales
of the Southern Old Lady Moth” (detail), mixed media on paper.
Exhibition 19 April - 1 June
Open 9am-4pm Mon-Fri / 10am-3pm Sat
Over $10,000 in prizes
Enquiries 6820 3740 / arts@albany.wa.gov.au
www.greatsouthernartaward.com.au
vancouver
arts centre
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gig guide
Everything we put in the Gig Guide is correct at the time of printing, to the best of everyone’s knowledge.
But be warned, things can and do change.
WHO + WHAT WHERE WHEN WHO + WHAT WHERE WHEN
LIVE MUSIC | GIGS
Irish Music Session Liberté Thursday 2nd May
Blue Youngest Lizzard Freehand Cellar Door Friday 3rd May
Dig the Dust The White Star Friday 3rd April from 9pm
Myles Mitchel Freehand Cellar Door Saturday 4th May
Thunderwave The White Star Saturday 4th April from 9pm
Dougherty Music Three Anchors Sunday 5th May, 4-7pm
Evergone The White Star Sunday 5th May from 5pm
Irish Music Session Liberté Thursday 9th May
Billy Rufus Freehand Cellar Door Friday 10th May
Rastatrix The White Star Friday 10th May from 9pm
Benny Mayhem Freehand Cellar Door Saturday 11th May
The Hunting Birds The White Star Saturday 11th May from 9pm
Simone Keane Silverstream Wines Sunday 12th May, 12.30-4pm
New Roundabouts Freehand Cellar Door Sunday 12th May
Sartori & Gamble Three Anchors Sunday 12th May, 4-7pm
Josh Morphett The White Star Sunday 12th May, 5-8pm
Irish Music Session Liberté Thursday 16th May
Manoa Freehand Cellar Door Friday 17th May
Medicaine and Co The White Star Friday 17th May from 9pm
C.A.B. Freehand Cellar Door Saturday 18th May
Tre’ Amici The White Star Saturday 18th May from 9pm
Mary Jane Freehand Cellar Door Sunday 19th May
Rob V Three Anchors Sunday 19th May, 4-7pm
Wade Morrison The White Star Sunday 19th May, 5-8pm
Irish Music Session Liberté Thursday 23rd May
DnA Freehand Cellar Door Friday 24th May
Pinstripe The White Star Friday 24th May from 9pm
Lez Karski Freehand Cellar Door Saturday 25th May
Lost Dog The White Star Saturday 25th May from 9pm
Matt Cull Freehand Cellar Door Sunday 26th May
Katie J White Three Anchors Sunday 26th May, 4-7pm
Irish Music Session Liberté Thursday 30th May
ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
Born to be Blue Albany Entertainment Centre Wednesday 1st May
David Braid Albany Entertainment Centre Thursday 2nd May
The Big Hoo-Haa Albany Entertainment Centre Friday 3rd May
Flats and Sharps & Edgelarks Albany Entertainment Centre Friday 3rd May
Riccardo Tesi and Co Albany Entertainment Centre Saturday 4th May
Paul Fenech Thong Warrior Albany Entertainment Centre Saturday 18th May, 7.30pm
Comedy Festival Roadshow Albany Entertainment Centre Sunday 26th May, 6pm
EXHIBITIONS
Old Bones Petrichor Gallery, Walpole To 5th May
Freemantle Int. Portrait Prize 2017 Museum of the Great Southern To Sunday 26th May, 10am-4pm
Ancient Rome Museum of the Great Southern All of May, 10am-4pm
Pat McCarthy ‘Fish in Fish Skins’ The Gallery, Three Anchors All of May
Great Southern Art Award Vancouver Arts Centre All of May
Just Add Water Blush Retail Gallery All of May
MARKETS
Kwoorabup Community Markets Steiner Hill Hall, Denmark Every Sunday 10am-2pm
Albany Farmers Market Collie Street, Albany Every Saturday 8am to noon
Stirling Terrace Indoor Markets Old Auction Room Every Sat and Sun 9am to 3pm
Albany Boatshed Markets The Boatshed, Princess Royal Drive Every Sunday, 10am to 1pm
Kendenup Town Hall Markets Kendenup Town Hall Saturday 11th May, 9am-2pm
FESTIVALS
Tracmach Plough and Fun Day Chester Pass Road, Albany 4th and 5th May
Vancouver Street Festival Vancouver Street, Albany Saturday 11th May 11am-4pm
Denmark Festival of Voice Various venues – Denmark Starting Saturday 31st May
OTHER
Sydney Writers Festival Albany Public Library 3rd and 4th May
Film Harvest
– Independent and Arthouse Films
Orana Cinemas Albany
Every Wednesday 6.15pm
Beauty and the Beast Port Theatre, Albany Performances each weekend
Biggest Morning Tea Denmark Riverside Club Wed 29th May, 10am – 12noon
It’s FREE to promote your event in the
AURORA MAGAZINE Gig Guide!
If you would like to be included for the WINTER edition, contact us at
gigguide@auroramagazine.com.au before the Friday 7th June 5pm deadline.
Karri on Bar
SMALL BAR IN PORONGURUP
Pizza oven’s lit, the beers are cold and the tunes are playing!
Hope to see you down here for a casual afternoon
or evening drink and some tasty food!
OPEN THURSDAY 4PM TO 8PM AND FRIDAY TO SUNDAY 11AM TO CLOSE.
KITCHEN CLOSES AT 8PM.
1983 PORONGURUP RD, PORONGURUP, WA. CALL (08) 9853 1022
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