Banned from the Perth city centre without permits, Aboriginal people responded to discrimination by setting up their own club outside city limits. Hear how dance and politics combined at the Coolbaroo Club in the move towards self determination. 

Based on the oral history interviews in the City of Perth Cultural Collections.

Episode produced by Barking Wolf and Elsa Silberstein for the City of Perth Cultural Collections.

Banned from the Perth city centre without permits, Aboriginal people responded to discrimination by setting up their own club outside city limits. Hear how dance and politics combined at the Coolbaroo Club in the move towards self determination. Based on the oral history interviews in the City of Perth Cultural Collections. Episode produced by Barking Wolf and Elsa Silberstein for the City of Perth Cultural Collections.

A fresh approach to telling little known stories from Perth’s history. From snake charmers, planned segregation, and refugees desperate to fit in, this fascinating look at the Untold Stories of Perth is based on new and existing oral history interviews in the City of Perth's Cultural Collections.

A fresh approach to telling little known stories from Perth&rsquo;s history. From snake charmers, planned segregation, and refugees desperate to fit in, this fascinating look at the Untold Stories of Perth is based on new and existing oral history interviews in the City of Perth's Cultural Collections.

Little known stories from Perth’s history

Untold Stories of Perth

Banned from the Perth city centre without permits…

Episode 2 - The Coolbaroo Club

The rights of the LGBTQ+ community in Perth would not be where they are today without the instrumental campaigning of Campaign Against Moral Persecution, otherwise known as CAMP.

Speaking with some of the original founders of CAMP – Brian Lindberg, Graham Douglas and Vivienne Cass – we explore CAMP’s enormous fight for equality and gay rights that began in Perth in the 1970s.

Listen to the latest Untold Stories of Perth podcast episode to discover the story of these fabulously unflappable activists and LGBTQ+ champions.

The rights of the LGBTQ+ community in Perth would not be where they are today without the instrumental campaigning of Campaign Against Moral Persecution, otherwise known as CAMP.
Speaking with some of the original founders of CAMP – Brian Lindberg, Graham Douglas and Vivienne Cass – we explore CAMP’s enormous fight for equality and gay rights that began in Perth in the 1970s.
Listen to the latest Untold Stories of Perth podcast episode to discover the story of these fabulously unflappable activists and LGBTQ+ champions.

Episode 15 - A History of CAMP

Few entrepreneurs have left a physical legacy in Perth like Claude Albo de Bernales.

He built his fortune supplying mining equipment to Western Australia’s goldfields, then as a mining promoter, but today he’s best known for his most visible project, the mock-Tudor London Court shopping arcade.

Listen to the latest Untold Stories of Perth podcast episode to discover the story of this flamboyant and controversial character.

Episode produced by Two Feet and a Heartbeat for the City of Perth Cultural Collections.

Few entrepreneurs have left a physical legacy in Perth like Claude Albo de Bernales.
He built his fortune supplying mining equipment to Western Australia&rsquo;s goldfields, then as a mining promoter, but today he&rsquo;s best known for his most visible project, the mock-Tudor London Court shopping arcade.
Listen to the latest Untold Stories of Perth podcast episode to discover the story of this flamboyant and controversial character.
Episode produced by Two Feet and a Heartbeat for the City of Perth Cultural Collections.

Episode 14 - Claude de Bernales

Meet James Pinakis, the Porn King of his computer programming class at UWA during the early 90s.

For a young, geeky student of computer science during the early days of the internet, working out how to write a program to make and distribute porn meant you were scientific royalty.

This is a special Barefaced Stories episode produced for the City of Perth Cultural Collections.

Meet James Pinakis, the Porn King of his computer programming class at UWA during the early 90s.
For a young, geeky student of computer science during the early days of the internet, working out how to write a program to make and distribute porn meant you were scientific royalty.
This is a special Barefaced Stories episode produced for the City of Perth Cultural Collections.

Episode 2 - The Coolbaroo Club

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