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Optus Stadium
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The Perth Running Festival for the Harry Perkins Institute is WA’s newest mass participation community event.
Join Perth’s exciting new running festival with participants running or walking along the beautiful Swan River with all participants finishing inside Optus Stadium.
This is your only chance to run or walk on the Optus Stadium playing surface and see yourself on the big screen! Run over the new Matagarup Bridge and into the new Optus Stadium! Numbers are strictly limited and with affordable pricing, this event is sure to sell out so get the team together today and register to secure your position on the big screen!
An Event
for the whole family
Run to support the Perkins
Right now, in labs right here in Perth, hundreds of scientists are working toward the next medical breakthrough. When you make a tax-deductible donation to the Perkins it allows us to plan for our big goals, like making cancer non-lethal, discovering disease genes that give families answers they so desperately need and finding treatments for heart disease. Your donation supports brilliant minds at work with the best interests of your family and loved ones at heart. You provide researchers with stability and security so that they can focus solely on lifesaving research. With your support, the results of these hardworking researchers could one day help millions of people stand up to any number of devastating diseases, now and in the future. The breakthroughs Perkins researchers are making in the labs will lead to potential cures. Without research, there are no new treatments, no advances in medicine, no chance of finding that one thing that will stop a disease in its tracks.
