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A COALITION of animal protection organisations, led by WA-based not-for-profit Stop Live Exports, have unveiled a new campaign against live animal export leading up to the looming federal election, while claiming cruelty has continued to this week. The Keep The Sheep Here campaign will feature a digital advertising and billboard blitz, and election discussion paper highlighting the…
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FREMANTLE’S community-backed independent candidate, Kate Hulett, has launched a suite of climate policies, citing overwhelming support for climate action as the community’s top concern. The announcement, made ahead of the March 8 WA state election, sets the tone for what Hulett describes as a “grassroots response to government inaction” and followed several months of interviews,…
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I HAVE experienced many journeys in my 72 years of life. A current one is the Parkrun adventure, incorporating community, outdoor activity and visiting beautiful sites at various Park Runs in metropolitan Perth. A growing movement, there are now 34 parkrun sites around the city, 21 of which I have made my way around with…
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ARTISTIC swimming is back in Melville as the SupaNova club returns to its home at Booragoon LeisureFit. Founded in 2015, SupaNova had called Booragoon home until the centre’s year-long renovations, having to relocate to the Perth High Performance Centre in Mount Claremont. SupaNova vice president Lesley Enzor says the “combination of athleticism and endurance” of…
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Atrocities I AM writing to inform the local community about the atrocities witnessed at Fremantle Port over the past month, as live exporters continue to ship Australian cattle and sheep overseas on long, arduous and cruel journeys. On Monday, December 23, as temperatures neared 41 degrees, I was horrified to see footage of thousands of…
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WHO’S on a post-Christmas diet? Channeling Donald Trump, I’ve decided to alter reality and have passed an executive order to extend the festive period until the kids go back to school. That way I can keep drinking every night and eat unhealthy food for another week. It all makes sense in some JG Ballard novel…
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BOB DYLAN in the mid-1960s personified the political commitments and feelings of his generation. That now-grey-haired generation flocked to the Luna on SX special preview screening to see Timothée Chalamet star in the project that took him, as producer, more than five years to get to the screen. Chalamet does not disappoint. He has Dylan’s…
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MELISSA Clements’ latest exhibition is like Caravaggio crossed with a Netflix murder mystery. Most folk associate oil paintings with Renaissance classics like the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, but 26-year-old Clements has taken the art form and given it a 21st century twist – exploring issues like female oppression, liberation and violence. There’s a…
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AFTER 40 years in the cosy bosom of public service, former punk rocker Neil Fernandes has emerged from his creative cocoon and is enjoying an Indian summer as a singer-songwriter. Back in the late 1970s, Fernandes played with Kim Salmon and Dave Faulkner in Perth’s first punk rock band The Cheap Nasties. The band broke…
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WHEN this Chook was a young spring chicken, it always fancied living in a townhouse. You’ve got the space of a home, but don’t have to worry about gardening and are close to all the fun in the city. This two bedroom one bathroom townhouse is situated in the heart of Mt Lawley on the…
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