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Dingo adopts dogs’ home By JACK MADDERN Cooee is too dingo for the suburbs but too dog for the wild.
The nine-year-old dingo is searching for a forever home after being surrendered to the Shenton Park Dog Refuge Home disguised as a kelpiecross. It did not take staff long to see through Cooee’s mask. “When he howls, we thought that’s unusual - there’s definitely dingo in there,” general manager Robyn Slater said. “As we got to know him, we thought that’s not dog behaviour. “By some miracle he passed the intake and started showing more and more dingo traits.” A DNA test confirmed their suspicions that Cooee was 100% dingo. They have been unable to find Cooee a home, even with dingo rehabilitation facilities available and viral social media exposure in 2024. “We did try and put him in a home and he acted like a dingo, but he is too dog for a dingo place,” Ms Slater said. For the past five years Cooee has been at Shenton Park, housed in a large double kennel. Dakota Power, who has cared for Cooee for two years said it would take a rare owner to handle him. “They are a lot of work,” Ms Power said. “At the end of the day dingoes are wild animals Dakota Power from the Shenton Park Dog Refuge Home is stuck with Cooee the dingo, and Cooee is stuck so it is pretty uncommon to see pet dingoes.” with the shelter. Photo: Jack Maddern
I won’t fight a Lib
By LLOYD GORMAN
Nedlands MP Jonathan Huston does not intend to seek re-election in 2029 but hopes the next state election will be a major turning point for WA politics.
“I can guarantee you I wouldn’t run against the Liberal Party,” he said. “I very seriously doubt I’d run as an independent.” Mr Huston’s resignation last week shocked the electorate and was condemned by his Liberal colleagues, but he claims the party had abandoned core Liberal principles and values long before. It left him no choice. The first-term MP – who was elected as a Liberal – has three years left in office and intends to use that time to advance traditional Liberal agendas and policies. “The people of Nedlands are going to get the best Liberal member they’ve ever had,” he said. “The last thing I want to do is hurt the Liberal Party and the first thing I want to do is act like
Jonathan Huston campaigning against a Nedlands re-zoning. a Liberal. “It’s what I owe to those people who are very disappointed in what’s occurred and in me. “I want to acknowledge their disappointment. “I just want to say that I was not acting as a Liberal for the last 15 months. “I want to assure them I think they would not be very happy about the lack of a Liberal agenda. “It wasn’t driving my actions and my voting because of the
constraints I was working under, but now unleashed as a Liberal the people of Nedlands will get the member they wanted. “I’ll be the most Liberal member of parliament, hopefully voting according to Liberal principals such as individual liberty, small business, reducing the reach of government and getting the best deal for Western Australia.” He said contentious issues such as ambulance ramping, the Burswood racetrack and school air-conditioning were important but completely dominated the party’s focus in Parliament. “In Parliament we’re talking about ramping and mould in hospitals and these two guys are shouting at each other and I’m sitting there thinking the reason why this is happening is because they haven’t got the right level of wealth being created in the state,” he said. “We’re not short of dough, the fact is that it hasn’t been distributed fairly among the people.” • Please turn to page 61
Tower of pain … Locals Robyn Stroud and Raoul Abrutat protest. Photo: Jack Maddern
Mayor’s trip was Mission Impossible
By JEN REWELL A local mayor’s mission to Canberra has failed to silence rumbling generators powering mobile phone towers in City Beach.
The diesel-powered generators at Ocean Village Park will continue to rumble around the clock, causing residents’ sleepless nights, despite face-to-face pleas from the council to the federal government. Cambridge mayor Gary Mack, CEO Lisa Clack and deputy mayor Ben Mayes met with ministerial officers of federal Communications Minister Anika Wells last week. Mr Mack said the Cambridge squad had highlighted a loophole in the Telecommunications Act that allowed telecom companies to leave temporary towers in place “virtually endlessly.” “We were advocating to close this loophole,” Mr Mack said. “The fact that we alerted them to that loophole was appreciated.” Residents say they have been sleep-deprived since the towers’ generators were powered up in Ocean Village Park last August. • Please turn to page 60
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