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FREMANTLE Ho ERALD Volume 31 N 48 Your local, INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday November 28, 2020 Letterboxed: Beaconsfield, Hilton, O’Connor, Samson, Sth Beach (North Coogee) and Sth Fremantle Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com Street Press: Fremantle, East Fremantle, North Fremantle Email: [email protected] Volume 31 No 48 Your local, INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday November 28, 2020 Letterboxed to: Alfred Cove, Attadale, Bicton, Melville, Palmyra, Kardinya, Murdoch and Willagee Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com Street Press: Applecross, Booragoon, Winthrop, Myaree, Leeming, Bullcreek and Willeton Email: [email protected] ET STRE , APP SS LEC RO RO D S R S A Call to double 9 0 2 .3 0 0A 2 M V O - 3. 8 N boat cray sales 30PM | SAT 2 by PIP WALLER LOCAL rock lobster sales Chinese have taken off in Fremantle THIS Harbour just as a Chinese trade halt has knocked the exports on WEEKEND! industry for six. 9.30am -3.30pm Legislative changes Presented by introduced in September allow hold over 100 lobsters to be sold from the back of crayfishing boats, and the experience has proven so tensions successful local fisherman Fedele Camarda wants the number doubled to encourage more boats to participate. On Wednesday almost 30 people gathered at Fishing Boat Harbour with bags and eskies in hand to greet Mr Camarda’s boat Neptune III as it came through the heads just after 11am. On ET STRE , APPL board were three generations of SS EC RO RO D S R S the family boasting a haul of the A big, clawless crustaceans. Sold out They quickly sold out, with 0 9 2 .3 0 those who hadn’t pre-ordered 0A 2 M V O - 3. 8 N through the Western Rock 30PM | SAT 2 Lobster Council website having to come back another day. Mr Camarda, a board member of the council, says this is just an indication of the demand ahead. “There is always demand in December,” Mr Camarda said. “The way I’ve looked at it, I’ve always believed that we need to be able to sell to the public in December.” Any increase in Christmas THIS sales will help to offset losses created by the escalating trade WEEKEND! dispute with China, although 9.30am -3.30pm Mr Camarda says thankfully his business hasn’t been affected Presented by critically. But lobster council CEO Matt • Five-year-old Success resident Hunter O’Hara is almost dwarfed by this monster Taylor said unless the full $700 from the deep, but with locals able to buy rock lobsters fresh from the boat and million trade was half the price of supermarkets, dinner’ll be huge tonight. Photos by Jane Grljusich • Continued page 6 JARRAH RECORDS PRESENTS Thursday 25th February Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WITH JACK DAVIES & THE BUSH CHOOKS Tuesday 2nd March Mandurah Performing Arts Ctr, Mandurah WITH BANJO LUCIA TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM THEWAIFS.COM Page 2 - The Herald, Saturday November 28, 2020 www.fremantleherald.com Dr Carmen Lawrence: Blood orange Doing Density Differently the + Design Freo Exhibition fremantle Fremantle Arts Centre Unpacking the Sannyasin aftermath society Wednesday 2 December at 5.30pm T Sy y Lawr y by STEVE GRANT y y y A NEW four-hour A y documentary which seeks war T S b emantle to unpack the colourful and y s controversial Rajneeshee S y movement in Fremantle N y T y b during the 1980s will premiere next month. Fr b y y. The Beloved is the latest work Befor by y Sy by filmmaker Joseph London, AG b b who grew up in Fremantle and Free event including one stiff drink. Members only event, but anyone can join at the door. Numbers had many childhood friends ar y “Thanks to the Herald for your support whose parents became devotees Book your seats now by calling John Dowson on 0409 223 622 or emailing: [email protected] of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree over the past 30 years!” Rajneesh. London said the Sannyasins or Orange People were a “compelling mystery that remained in the fabric of the One-stop shop for Christmas city” and 40 years later the issue still touches raw nerves. Coffee table Travel “I think there is a lot of Kids unresolved aspects of that history, because the movement came very strongly into the public focus, and a part of that was that they had a lot of backlash,” London said. “There was a lot of bad press, particularly when the crimes of the leaders were exposed; many were put on the spot to justify Crime what had happened, and many had difficulty doing that.” Shock He says the impact of removing children from their families and educating them at a school near Pemberton was still • The Sannyasin community ran the vegetarian restaurant Zorbas, being felt today. where you might have to wait for your meal while your waiter went Your local bookstore has a gift for everyone “That has been a lasting through a catharsis, but the after-meal dancing was legendary. wound for the community to Photo supplied come to grips with because a yourself,” he says. Interspersed with archival lot of kids who were sent down He said while some former footage are extended scenes ADVERTISEMENT there were too young, and many Sannyasins were reluctant to see of modern Fremantle, and the parents were recent annunciates the issues brought to the surface, Sannyasins still have a lastingFremantle Herald.inddThe 1McGowan Labor Government is delivering4/11/20 11:55 am and it was all a major shock to those who spoke to him were legacy in the Upmarkets and the system.” keen for an open dialogue. Norfolk Hotel which were $600 Household Electricity Credit The Sannyasins also ran a Many also came away from built by a communal company for every WA household commune in Collie Street which the movement with profoundly - which employed women For the first time in WA history, a one-off $600 Household Electricity Credit collapsed under the burden positive memories. amongst its foreman which was of supporting the Bhagwan’s a rarity back than. will appear on every WA household’s next Synergy or Horizon Power notorious Rolls Royce collection, But London says despite residential bill after 1 November 2020. sumptuous ranch in Oregon and Dynamic their high-visibility in the city, For more information, visit www.ourstatebudget.wa.gov.au growing scandals. London says “It was a huge experience, there were few photographs devotees are still trying to work and so intense and so available to draw on because the out what happened. challenging that it’s impossible one communal photographers “Taking responsibility was to have come out of that without images had all been lost, a very powerful scene in the having experienced a shift in something he describes as aftermath. yourself,” London says. “devastating”. “Many didn’t take “They started the morning “They didn’t stop to take responsibility; I think there with dynamic meditation you photos; it was all about being in were many who viewed it as could hear all the way up Collie the moment,” he says. a challenge set up by their Street. The Beloved will be having master.” “They did Kundalini just a single screening as London says trying to meditation in the evening and part of the Revelation Perth understand the notion of being a they were charged and alive and International Film Festival at Lisa O’Malley MLA Pierre Yang MLC disciple was the area of the film there was parties. Luna SX on Saturday December MEMBER FOR BICTON MEMBER FOR SOUTH METRO he found most intriguing and “They were a happy and 12 from 11am. If four hours [email protected] [email protected] foreign. extroverted and eccentric seems a long stretch, there will 9319 1732 9337 9176 “Discipleship frightens me presence on the city of be intervals along the way. Tix Authorised by P Yang, 273 South St, Hilton WA 6163 because it’s such a surrender of Fremantle.” from lunapalace.com.au www.fremantleherald.com The Herald, Saturday November 28, 2020 - Page 3 m Upsize your super herald letters downsizer contribution. The intention is that when 65 plus year Devastated olds sell their residence and downsize, I WAS devastated to read they can contribute up to $300,000 that the Hilton IGA – a lovely ($600,000 per couple) from the proceeds shop, bit cramped but with into super, regardless of the usual great service and product – is restrictions. to be replaced by Coles, in It presents a one-off opportunity to top what appeared to me to be up your super balance and access a lower a pretty curt manner by the tax rate on your future earnings. landowners. As well as being 65 or over, to access by Mark Douglas FCPA I am fed up with these the provisions you must sell a home Managing Partner of Francis A Jones conglomerates destroying local www.faj.com.au that has been your residence for at least businesses. 10 years. You’ll need to contribute the Woolworths did the same ost people know that the money into super within 90 days of in Coobellup and no doubt it is tax concessions within settlement and it doesn’t matter whether standard operating procedure in superannuation are very you buy another house or not. In fact large companies. M That it may be, however generous. despite the downsizer tag, you can even Firstly there’s a potential tax benefi t buy a bigger, more expensive house, and it does not seem to be good in making contributions of up to $25,000 use other savings to contribute into super.