Stories - Untold Stories of Perth

Although he was half-Chinese, half-English and entirely Australian, people only ever saw entrepreneur and successful businessman Charles Washing as Chinese.

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.

Did you know that cameleers from present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and India helped to found Perth’s oldest mosque?

It took eighteen years for women to have a dedicated residential college to live in as they undertook their studies.

It was half a century ago that Perth musicians developed a culturally isolated and unique punk sound. Western Australia’s music scene would never be the same.