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Western Australia · Western AustraliaSHOPPERS on their lunch break at Wesley corner got more than buskers and bubble tea on Friday — they got a crash course in why nuclear war would ruin everyone’s day. About 40 anti-nuke campaigners gathered for the Hiroshima–Nagasaki Never Again remembrance, marking 80 years since the 1945 bombings. Organised by Politics in the Pub Perth and co-hosted by everyone from the Independent Peaceful Australia Network to the Greens WA, the rally mixed s…Read Article
Bells toll in CBD
United Nations · Western AustraliaPERTH councillors have voted 5–3 to endorse a global appeal urging Australia to sign a United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons — but not without some debate over whether the issue belongs at Town Hall. The motion, moved by councillor Clyde Bevan, marked the 80th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also signed the City up to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Cities Appeal, which calls on t…Read Article
Anti-nuke vote ignites debate
Fremantle · FremantleFREMANTLE councillor Ben Lawver wants to see “tiny house villages” set up across the city to help people sleeping rough — and he’s making the idea one of the centrepieces of his campaign for mayor in October’s council elections. “One of the things that I’d like to see us do immediately or as soon as possible, is — in Seattle, they do these little tiny house villages,” Cr Lawver said. “They have about 14 of them… about 50 per cent of the people …Read Article
