Posts Tagged ‘Fremantle Port’
Live pain trade
 Sat November 20 2010
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ELECTRIC prods are being used illegally on Fremantle wharf, with the painful devices being shoved into the faces of sheep and cattle during the loading of live exports. It is illegal to use prods on the face or genitals. Footage received by the Fremantle Herald shows the prods being used indescriminately.
Stop live export: pollies
Sat October 16 2010
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FREMANTLE federal Labor MP Melissa Parke is supporting a growing movement amongst Labor backbenchers to defy the party hierarchy and call for an end to live animal exports. NSW Labor MP Janelle Saffin is set to move a motion opposing the trade, with the support of Ms Parke and Tassie rural MP Dick Adams.
Meet to save sheep
Sat October 9 2010
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A PUBLIC meeting to oppose the live export of animals will be held 6pm, Tuesday October 12 at the Fremantle Town Hall.
Quay win
Sat September 25 2010
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FREMANTLE PORTS’ berth 10 has won a WA engineering excellence award for 2010.
Birth of a berth
Sat July 24 2010
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FREMANTLE PORTS’ $43 million reconstructed berth 10 on North Quay was officially opened Thursday morning. The reconstruction is part of a $250 million inner harbour deepening and other berth works.
Stevedores join CFMEU rally
Sat July 24 2010
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FREMANTLE Port’s stevedores downed tools and marched on parliament Tuesday demanding better safety in the workplace.
Old port spruce up
Sat July 17 2010
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FREMANTLE city council will spend $1.2 million upgrading the historic old port precinct in preparation for the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships.
Baan it plea
Sat June 26 2010
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DOGS dressed as sheep and placard-waving protestors were at state parliament this week with a 5000-signature petition demanding an end to the live animal trade. Fremantle council recently voted to promote phasing out the trade.
The City The Boom Forgot
Sat May 29 2010
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FREMANTLE MP Adele Carles has slammed the State Budget for propping up the port but ignoring the city’s cultural and retail centre. In her budget reply speech in parliament Thursday the ex-Green now independent MP said there was a tonne of money for the port but very little for locals.
Hotel With Creature Comfort
Sat April 3 2010
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PLANS for a Little Creatures’ boutique hotel are in the pipeline for Fishing Boat Harbour next to the brewery/pub. In a statement to the stock exchange last week Little Creatures said it was looking at building a small hotel on surplus land.
