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Malcolm QuekettOpinion Editor, The West Australian

Malcolm Quekett is the Opinion Editor of The West Australian. Starting at The West in 1986, Malcolm has been a police reporter, environment writer, worked in the Sydney and Canberra bureaus, covered State politics and been News Editor and the paper's Deputy Editor.

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A kayaker navigates Bells Rapids. Insert: The occupants of the steel dinghy Bwap check their position while trying to navigate down the Avon in 1956.

Untold History PremiumHow four men in a tub became the Avon Descent

The crew had to force a passage through the dense undergrowth in the river course by using their hands.

Malcolm Quekett

Two previously unknown Australian soldiers who were both killed on August 8 in different wars and on opposite sides of the world have been formally identified. Pictured: Lieutenant Hercules William Crawford (left), Archibald Hanley (middle) and brother John Hanley.

AustraliaMystery of unnamed Diggers solved amid eerie coincidence

Two previously unknown Australian soldiers who were both killed on August 8 in different wars and on opposite sides of the world have been formally identified.

Malcolm Quekett

Shearers stand on wool bales and on a truck during a break in shearing at Yardie Station, 1924.

Untold HistoryPremiumTough times on the road in shearing’s early Truck Days

Teams looked forward to their evening ration of beer - often one bottle, a ‘King Brown’ - mostly drunk warm, or ‘Kimberley cool.’

Malcolm Quekett

It has been 56 years since Graham Edwards life changed forever in a jungle clearing in South Vietnam.

Untold History PremiumSurviving a land mine led to Digger’s vow to embrace life

It has been 56 years since Graham Edwards life changed forever in a jungle clearing in South Vietnam.

Malcolm Quekett

Commonwealth Games athletes Ellen Fife, Col Pearse, Luke Pople, Jaydon Page, Hani Watson, Emma Sue Greentree, Sienna Toohey and Sophie Dwyer.

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Commonwealth Games glory awaits

When it is all over there will no doubt be new and exciting Aussie champions to add to a long list.

Malcolm Quekett

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The piano in the foyer of Government House. It was installed in 1876.

Untold History PremiumThe Governor, two journalists and a piano

The collaboration was part of a flowering of the musical and dramatic arts in the small and still remote Swan River Colony.

Malcolm Quekett

The Peet & Co poster promoting blocks at Garden Island.

Untold History PremiumThe posters that ignited early property dreams in WA

Back in the early 1900s there were plans to sell blocks of land on Garden Island and turn it into an ocean-side playground.

Malcolm Quekett

St Georges Terrace in 1905.

Untold History PremiumPerth’s historic streets tell stories of change

Making a building useful is the best way to make it loved and thus protected.

Malcolm Quekett

Legendary WA ballet dancer Terri Charlesworth, whose 90th birthday will be celebrated by a special show at His Majesty’s Theatre. Terri Charlesworth (centre) with students (Back) Holly Jarvis, Rory Taylforth, Ella Smithson (Front) Grace Cusworth, Amelia Marson.

Untold History PremiumHow globally-renowned WA ballet icon got her State dancing

Flicking through a scrapbook about WA ballet doyenne Terri Charlesworth is to take a trip through the history of dance in this State, but also a story of the legendary ballerina’s international acclaim.

Malcolm Quekett

Migrants played an important role clearing land in Rocky Gully's early days.

Untold History PremiumHow hard graft and community created a little WA town

As the first 10 farms neared completion a ballot was held. Names of former Diggers in one box and farm numbers in another. 

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Ross O’neil and Jenny Jones both had polio as young children.

Untold History PremiumThe ‘forgotten disease’ that was every parent’s nightmare

The doctors had my mother go in and said ‘where would you like your daughter to die’.

Malcolm Quekett

Heirisson Island after the opening of the causeway, 1952.

Untold HistoryPremiumCauseway bridges formed a gateway to the city

There was ‘an unrehearsed incident’ at the opening which livened up proceedings.

Malcolm Quekett