SOUTH metro MLC LYNN MaCLAREN joined about 200 protestors on Wilson Park, South Fremantle on Sunday to call for a ban on greyhound racing in WA. The sport has already been outlawed in NSW and the ACT after numerous media and official reports uncovered horrific abuses of dogs and mass euthanasia. Unwary wildlife was also…

BRAD PETTITT is mayor of Fremantle. Last week his council considered a motion to review the much-maligned development assessment panels, but in this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER, he says simply scrapping them is not the way to go. DEVELOPMENT assessment panels are a contentious issue in Perth right now. You might have read about a growing…

IAN CARTER has been the CEO of Anglicare WA since 1995. He has held the positions of deputy president of the ACOSS, president of  WACOSS and president of Family Services Australia; and was also chairman of both the state taskforce on poverty and the social housing taskforce.  He was a member of the prime minister’s…

FARIDA IQBAL is a founding member of Save  Safe Schools WA and a Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate. Her political views do not necessarily represent Safe Schools WA, a broad coalition encompassing people of all stripes. Photo supplied | Greenleft Weekly ON March 18 this year the federal government announced devastating attacks on the Safe Schools Coalition. Safe Schools…

ANTONIA TAYLOR is the WA State Manager for Oxfam Shop (Hay Street, Perth and Queen Street Fremantle) and Co-Convenor for Fair Trade Freo. In this SPEAKER’S CORNER Antonia explains how you can help make a world of difference this Christmas IT is staggering to think that Australians will spend $46.7 billion this Christmas, according to…

ERIC MOXHAM is the convenor of the Rottnest Society. He says the WA government’s plans for a big private marina on the island are a risk to its status as a holiday getaway for ordinary Western Australian families. OF all the development thought bubbles proposed by the WA tourism minister and Rottnest Island Authority, a…

JEFF KENWORTHY is a professor of sustainability at Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute. Having lived in a German city with similarities to Perth, he says the Barnett government’s decision to axe the northern suburbs’ light rail project and replace it with more buses will simply create more congestion in the city. THE debate over buses…