Centre for Stories
Stories
Stories are at the heart of what we do. The aim of our story archive is to make good stories available to a wide audience in the hope of strengthening connections between people and encouraging a more inclusive and informed community.

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- Story Collections:
- All Stories
- Death and Dying
- Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home
- Zooming In
- Side Walks 2021
- Backstories 2021
- Forbidden Love
- Words to Live By
- Untold Stories of Perth
- Out of Touch: COVID Stories from WA
- Journal
- Rule Breakers
- On The Page
- 16 Days, 16 Stories
- Saga Sisterhood
- Food, Faith and Love in WA
- Roaring Nineties
- Bright Lights, No City
- A Mile in My Shoes
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Untold Stories of Perth
Perth Mosque
Did you know that cameleers from present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and India helped to found Perth’s oldest mosque?
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Untold Stories of Perth
St Catherine's College
It took eighteen years for women to have a dedicated residential college to live in as they undertook their studies.
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Untold Stories of Perth
Perth Punk Scene
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.
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Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home
Jonathan Shapiera – 'More Than Four Walls'
“If you know of people who are living on the street, it’s not just about picking them up and putting them in four walls and a roof. The sustainment of help and community service runs for years after that because of what you don’t see that they’ve been through.”Read More -
Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home
Victor Adeseolu – 'Based On My Visa'
“We know that the definition of homelessness is living in an unstable environment – living in a place where you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, living in a place where you don’t know if you’re welcome.”Read More -
Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home
Matilda G – 'Dwelling'
“Because she’s everywhere I go – homelessness lives in my shadow. It used to be that every decision I made was soaked in the idea of avoiding it. But now I know better – I know that there are no good choices and bad choices, there is just misfortune. I am a highly educated, intelligent woman who made every right choice, and even I couldn’t avoid her.”Read More -
Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home
Zena Ibrahim – 'Resilience Is Not An Achievement'
“People tell me how much they admire me, how the trauma made me strong and resilient, but it didn’t. It stole the light from my eyes, energy that I needed and could have been spending on other things. It made me weak, exhausted, distrustful, anxious, and unwell. It broke me. Because who are you without a place to call home?”Read More -
Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home
Trish Owen – 'Finding Home'
“Hopelessness is death – whether it leads us to physical death or death of soul and spirit. But what was a hopeless situation can be turned around, but only when community stands together, when those gaps in our system are filled, and there is no reason for, in a country like this one, for us to have the homelessness crisis that we do.”Read More -
Heartlines
Franchesca Walker
"When I think of the Centre for Stories, two Māori concepts come to mind: manaakitanga and whanaungatanga. Manaakitanga is the process of showing respect, generosity and care for others while whanaungatanga is a relationship that’s developed through shared experiences and ultimately results in a shared sense of belonging."Read More