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PAULINE PANNELL is a member of Grandmothers for Refugees Fremantle. She can usually be found on a Friday outside the Scots Church on the corner of South Terrace and Parry Street, joining fellow refugee advocates calling for a more humane approach. FREO is distinctly different to other places I’ve lived. We have a lot…
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Dr Ingrid van Bremen is a senior lecturer in architectural conservation at UWA and consulting architect in conservation FRAIA. Author of the series – Western Building Construction: Roofs, Walls, Floors & Ceilings, and Friend of the Round House. This is part 2 of her review of Steve Errington’s new book The Round House 1831-1856, the…
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KATE DAVIS is a lecturer at the Murdoch University School of Law and Criminology and was previously Principal Solicitor at Tenancy WA (community legal centre for tenants). She is completing a PhD, “Is it lawful to evict children to homelessness from public housing in WA?”. Kate is a member of the Greens WA. THE minister’s…
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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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PAUL GAMBLIN is a spokesperson for the Leighton Action Coalition. In this week’s Thinking Allowed he responds to the Cook government’s grand scheme for the Future of Fremantle. WE’RE pleased this important document is out and we look forward to further discussions with the next government about it. There was much to commend the overall…
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TIM MUIRHEAD is a Fremantle resident and worked for several decades in the related areas of reconciliation, and community development. In both fields of work he’s spoken with thousands of people about ‘the date’. LIKE it or not, the party’s over for January 26. It’s just not fun anymore; it’s time to let it go…
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HERE we go again! Yes, it is that time of the year again where Australia Day is in the spotlight and under scrutiny, with supporters and opponents of it making a political football of the historic day. It is even worse this year because there will be a federal election soon, so Liberal leader Peter…
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AT the end of CHOOK reporter David Bell’s psychology honours’ year, he was back in the midst of reporting on councils grappling with ways to incentivise tree retention or discourage the use of natural gas, and got to thinking about a few of his favourite (often weird, sometimes terrible) policies proposed by behavioural sciences to…
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NORTH Perth resident MARY GRAY is a long-time advocate for bushland and its inhabitants. While many of us are focused on Christmas trees, this celebrated and seasoned scientist is urging us to take a moment to appreciate Perth’s unique local trees and the creatures that rely on them. PERTH is the only city in the…
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