Life, Law & Culture

Our laws fail nature – New Federal EPA proposed
The Albanese government has just released its long-awaited response to a scathing independent review of Australia’s environment protection law. The…
Poetry Lives in Primo Lux 2022
Poetry explores what is best in our language, its images, word patterns, rhythms and sounds. It is the distillation of…
Bathers Beach To Host Australian Refugee installation
Fremantle will see a special celebration at Bathers Beach this Saturday afternoon, 10 December to mark 75 years since the…
Join Soroptimist’s Big Christmas Wrap – A Wonderful Cause
Many Freo folk know that Soroptimist International Fremantle is a wonderfully active Freo women’s organisation that supports women and girls.…
Covid stats as of 1 December
WA Health is reporting a total of 11,762 new cases in the past week to 4pm yesterday 1 December 2022.…
First the Birds, now the Frogs!
First it was the song of threatened birds that made it to No 2 on the ARIA charts in 2021,…
The Last Hurrah?
In the olden days, which some of us vaguely remember, there would often be some fellow, astride a soapbox in…
Forget Black Friday, Welcome Everyday Sustainability
Australian consumers are rejecting the throwaway culture, instead snapping up sustainable options, according to new research from Monash University. A…
‘This case has made legal history’: young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine
In a historic ruling last Thursday, a Queensland court has said the massive Clive Palmer-owned Galilee Basin coal project should…