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RUTH GOURLEY is a spokesperson for Stop Live Exports, a WA-based, community-led organisation that advocates for the end of live animal exports from Australia. IF you don’t have facts or public opinion on your side, try to manufacture a culture war. So the reasoning seems to go among the live animal export lobby, which in…
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RUTH GOURLEY is a spokesperson for Stop Live Exports, a WA-based, community-led organisation that advocates for the end of live animal exports from Australia. TO those who support live sheep exports from Australia, Craig Baco is an animal activist, a born and bred city dweller with no idea about farm life. But Craig Baco is…
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I LOVE my kids, but it was time for them to go back to school. After eight weeks of Mr Beast, Timezone and Minecraft, I was ready to be sectioned under the mental health act. However, we did enjoy one last end-of-camp hurrah – an afternoon out in Freo. We kicked off with lunch at…
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AI-generated music has a lot of musicians, especially older ones, spooked. They’ve spent years learning their instrument and honing their songwriting skills, but now live in a world where they could be replaced by a few clicks of a mouse. Paul McCartney is the latest high-profile artist to raise concerns about the technology, warning AI…
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HIDDEN Treasures is my favourite music festival in WA. Every winter, local artists play left-field venues in Fremantle like The Buffalo Club, The Navy Club and the old Wyola Club. Crumbling heritage mingles with neo punk and alt rock in a strange and intoxicating brew. It’s an odd juxtaposition, like historian John Dowson shredding on…
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RED DRESS workshops at Fremantle Arts centre are helping Aboriginal women process the disappearance of loved ones and family who have been murdered. At the workshops, leading Wadjak Yorga artists teach women how to make red patchwork pieces, which will eventually be combined to create a giant red dress – honouring murdered and missing Indigenous…
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YOU will feel at one with nature in this gorgeous Embleton home. It’s situated directly opposite McKenzie Reserve and from the first floor balcony you can enjoy relaxing views of the towering gums and grass across the road. This three bedroom two bathroom property lives up to the glorious view and is a fantastic family…
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YOKINE’S Holocaust Institute of WA has welcomed $2 million pledges from both major parties leading up to the federal election, but says the circumstances behind the announcements puts a cloud over them. The announcements, made on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, were aimed at curbing a rise of anti-Semitic attacks around the country and follows this…
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CONSTRUCTION has begun on a new urban forest at Riverside Gardens, with City of Bayswater officials marking the occasion with a ceremonial turning of the sod. The project, aimed at tackling the urban heat island effect, will see the introduction of extensive greenery to provide much-needed shade, cool the landscape, and create new habitats for…
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GREENS candidate Sophie McNeill says if the state election delivers a split Upper House, her party will use any balance of power leverage to ban fracking in the Kimberley. At a press conference on Wednesday, Ms McNeill says her party will haggle with the elected government to push through a series of legislation, but that…