Testing question
AN article in last week’s Mind, Body, Spirit notes that Caroline’s Cream may be about to go global (“Caroline’s creaming it”, Herald, June 11, 2016).
While it may be very exciting for Ms Monet to enter the Chinese market, does she know that her cream will be tested on animals there, regardless of whether [or how] it has been tested here?
This will involve the pain, distress and suffering of many animals.
Animal testing is banned in the European Union and in India, Israel and Norway.  Why not send the cream to these countries where it can be used and enjoyed without any animal having suffered for its benefits?
From July next year our federal government has pledged to ban any new products that have been tested on animals, or which contain ingredients that have been tested on animals. At last!
Jackie Curtis
Kanimbla Street, Bicton

Crash thanks
WE would like to say “thank you” to all who came to help us when we had an accident on Canning Highway on the bank holiday Monday.
Especially to a very kind lady called Helen who consoled us through our shock and her husband who rang the ambulance. Also to a gentleman who came out and swept away all the broken glass and remains of both cars.
Plus huge thanks to the paramedic’s who did and do a fantastic job. Many others stopped to help as well. Everything happened so fast that we didn’t get chance to thank these wonderful, caring people.
Rachel and Maria Binks
Tuart Place, Yangebup

Space bias
ON June 7 Melville council debated its strategic bowls plan for the city.
The proposal is to amalgamate bowls clubs and finish up with two major sporting hubs. This means the Melville and Mt Pleasant clubs are to be relocated to the Tonkin Sports Hub, currently used by rugby, cricket and fitness clubs.
This is very short-sighted and we need to consider the following:
• The population of Perth is to double by 2060;
• The ageing population is increasing rapidly. Demand for “age friendly” recreation is bound to increase;
• Strata titling and subdivision in the city is on a massive scale, causing a huge loss of trees, increasing the population and causing traffic conjestion; and
• Demand for public open space will increase.
Much of the land that the bowls clubs are currently on is bound to be commercialised.
The city already has one of the lowest levels of public open space.
The plan was based on the decline in bowling numbers. This is a generalisation, as the decline is principally in “pennant” bowls competitions.
Bowls organisations are designing new competitions that will be more attractive to all.
There are examples where the amalgamation of bowls clubs into a hub with other sporting clubs have failed.
Do we need to base our plans on current data or what the requirements will be in future?
Karl Kelers
Clydesdale St, Alfred Cove

Show us the money
IT’S all very good for Pierrette Kelly to express confidence in her ability to secure projects in the Fremantle electorate, but the fact is only Labor will support the Armadale/North Lake Road bridge.
A fortnight ago, Anthony Albanese and I made it clear that a Labor government would provide $80 million to help deliver this much-needed infrastructure at the same time that we said Labor wouldn’t waste more than $900 million in federal funds on the Perth Freight Link.
The Liberals are committed to Roe 8 and the PFL; they haven’t pledged a cent for the bridge or the outer harbour.
On the question of Labor’s record when it comes to supporting projects in the Cockburn part of the Fremantle electorate, Ms Kelly is simply wrong.
The Labor government invested critical funds to enable the Cockburn Integrated Health and Community facility, the Living Space affordable housing development, the new Jandakot Fire and Emergency Services HQ, the Coogee Surf Life Saving Club, and the fast-developing Aquatic and Recreational Centre, many of which were planned through a Liveable Cities grant-funded design process.
Josh Wilson
Labor candidate for Fremantle

Gopher help
THANK you to the good Samaritans who helped me after I had a small accident with my gopher in South Fremantle on Monday June 13.
I would have had trouble without your help.
Sonny
Fremantle

A father’s fear
LIKE all fathers, the safety of my child is paramount.
Crime and drugs are important safety issues, but far and away the biggest threat to our children’s future is climate change.
How are the main parties looking to reduce this huge threat? The choices are very clear. Vote Liberal and you vote to make climate change worse. Your vote, your choice. Scientists agree that, if the rest of the world adopted the weak Liberal carbon reduction target, we are heading for the disaster of nearly four degrees of warming.
That’s even without factoring in the Liberal fixation on exporting as much coal as possible – at a time when climate science is clear that to have any chance of keeping the warming increase below two degrees, at least 80 per cent of fossil fuels need to stay in the ground.
Of course Labor also wants to let coal mining rip. Their 45 per cent emissions cut by 2030 is better, though nowhere near the action required.
It is only The Greens who have responded to the evidence which demands decarbonising advanced economies such as ours by 2030. Some see this as extreme, but in many places such as California, Germany, Denmark it is simply bipartisan common sense and agreed smart economics.
For parents, there’s nothing more important than trying to ensure a safer and better world for our children. That’s why I’m devoting all my spare time in this election campaign to work for the election of Kate Davis in Fremantle and Greens Senate candidates for their responsible position on the greatest child safety issue of all.
Robert Delves
Gibson Street, Beaconsfield

Thanks
WE would like to say “thank you” to all who came to help us when we had an accident on Canning Highway on the bank holiday Monday.
Especially to a very kind lady called Helen who consoled us through our shock and her husband who rang the ambulance. Also to a gentleman who came out and swept away all the broken glass and remains of both cars.
Plus huge thanks to the paramedic’s who did and do a fantastic job. Many others stopped to help as well. Everything happened so fast that we didn’t get chance to thank these wonderful, caring people.
Rachel and Maria Binks
Tuart Place, Yangebup

Poncho pincher!
HAVE you seen your mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin or friend sporting a new, distinctive lilac woollen poncho?
I am sure someone has.
This item was stolen from a mannequin at the front of my shop last Friday morning.
It is hand-spun, hand-dyed and hand-made with love and took over 20 hours for me to create.
It belongs to me, not you, you mean-spirited thief and I would like it back please.
Stealing is such a nasty act and will no doubt attract lots of negativity to your life.
Have someone return it for you and you will surely fare better.
Name supplied
Ed says: If you know anything about the missing poncho, give the Chook a call on 9430 7727 and we’ll let the real owner know.

It’s our Ugg
EDDIE OYGUR of the famed Ugg Boots name should be applauded for his stance against the wicked US company pushing him around and claiming he can’t use the name.
If they do succeed and keep the name, then Deckers should be made to pay import duty of 35 per cent and this should be given to Eddie Oygur as his father created this name 25 years ago.
Why should he not receive recompense after spending so much to protect his right?
Knowing our weak-minded politicians, they just turn the other way and just ignore it.
Bring in Trump – he will fix it!  He will build a great wall so the boots cannot be imported into Australia by these crooks. Eddie Oygur must win this fight.
Marye Louise Daniels
Osbourn Place, Kewdale
The Ed says: We’re all for Eddie’s fight, but the reality is that the name Ugg existed well before his father started using the name. Historians have traced its origins back to the 1930s, where it’s speculated the name sprang up from numerous sources because the boots were simply referred to as “ugly boots”, which the first iterations most certainly were.

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