To address the rumors that have been swirling through our local online communities, we want to set the record straight regarding the recent activity at the Esplanade Reserve. It has come to our attention that some citizens believe the City of Fremantle has cut down a healthy Norfolk pine during the demolition of the old Carriage Café. We understand why seeing a stump where part of the café stood might be alarming, especially given how much we all value the greenery that defines our beautiful coastal landscape. However, we want to offer full transparency: this claim is entirely false. The…

To capture the essence of the UK’s position at the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council regarding disinformation, we must look beyond the sterile diplomatic language and focus on the fundamental tension: how do we protect the truth without accidentally silencing the skeptics? The British delegation approached the draft resolution on disinformation not merely as a technical exercise in regulation, but as a precarious high-wire act. They correctly identified that while disinformation—the deliberate spread of false information to cause harm—is an undeniable scourge, the legal tools used to combat it are frequently weaponized by authoritarian regimes. The UK’s…