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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: Coogee, Port Coogee (North Coogee) and Spearwood Street Press: Success, Yangebup, Wattleup, Jandakot, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com Beeliar, Bibra Lake, Atwell, South Lake, Henderson, Aubin Grove, Munster, Hamilton Hill and Coolbellup 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 board were three generations of the family boasting a haul of the big, clawless crustaceans. Sold out They quickly sold out, with those who hadn’t pre-ordered through the Western Rock 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 sales will help to offset losses created by the escalating trade dispute with China, although Mr Camarda says thankfully his business hasn’t been affected 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 Realty Plus “Absolutely wonderful!” Customer service “Easy to work with” “Professional and down to earth” “A stress free process” is my priority “Put our needs fi rst!” Starting as a sales agent 32 years ago, and specialising in the Cockburn and More great reviews available at Fremantle areas, I always put people first. ratemyagent.com.au The property market is moving, and I can promise you personalised service and top results! Call me anytime for a free, no obligation, market appraisal. 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[email protected] The Beloved is the latest work simonemcgurk.com.au S G A by filmmaker Joseph London, who grew up in Fremantle and A by S G S S emantle had many childhood friends whose parents became devotees of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree A S Song Rajneesh. London said the Sannyasins or Orange People were a “compelling mystery that remained in the fabric of the city” and 40 years later the issue still touches raw nerves. One-stop shop for Christmas “I think there is a lot of Coffee table Travel unresolved aspects of that Kids 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 what had happened, and many Crime 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 “That has been a lasting through a catharsis, but the after-meal dancing was legendary. Your local bookstore has a gift for everyone 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 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 lasting and it was all a major shock to those who spoke to him were legacy in the Upmarkets and Fremantle Herald.indd 1 Dr Carmen Lawrence: 4/11/20 11:55 am the system.” keen for an open dialogue. 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The Beloved will be having Se master.” “They did Kundalini just a single screening as London says trying to meditation in the evening and part of the Revelation Perth Y b understand the notion of being a they were charged and alive and International Film Festival at Fr Sy b R disciple was the area of the film there was parties. Luna SX on Saturday December FREE EVENT including one stiff drink. he found most intriguing and “They were a happy and 12 from 11am. If four hours Numbers strictly limited. foreign. extroverted and eccentric seems a long stretch, there will Members only, but anyone can join at the door. “Discipleship frightens me presence on the city of be intervals along the way. Tix Book now: 0409 223 622 or [email protected] because it’s such a surrender of Fremantle.” from lunapalace.com.au www.fremantleherald.com The Herald, Saturday November 28, 2020 - Page 3 c 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.