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Anglican Dean John Shepherd should be made Lord of Perth. I always knew that Anglicans were cooler than Catholics.
Check out the article from todays West:
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Enliven city with pubs: top priest
One of WA’s most senior Anglican clergymen has contradicted conventional Christian philosophies to call for looser liquor licensing laws and deregulated retail trading hours as ways of enlivening Perth.
Perth Anglican Dean John Shepherd said yesterday Perth also needed more inner-city living to help create the “atmosphere and ambience” associated with more energetic cities such as Sydney and Melbourne.
“It’s all about the quality of people’s leisure time and we’ve somehow got it in our minds that if we make liquor less available we’ll improve our lifestyle,” the Very Rev. Dr Shepherd said. “But that assumes that people are going to misuse liquor. People are grown up, you can’t treat them as though they are juveniles.”
Asked if he believed his views were controversial given he was a religious leader, Dr Shepherd said they were just common sense.
“People use family values as the argument (against longer retail trading hours), somehow they got the idea that the family would be better catered for if the shops were shut,” he said. “I don’t see the logic of that at all, I would think that for many families they would get a buzz out of coming into the city after work.”
Dr Shepherd said he had long supported changes to the State’s liquor laws, particularly those that force patrons at some restaurants to buy a meal in order to be served alcohol.
“The current restrictions in liquor licensing laws and in shopping trading hours and the lack of buzz and atmosphere that comes with having more restaurants and arcades - it all adds up to an atmosphere and an ambience that people think is just not happening here,” he said.
Dr Shepherd said young professionals were increasingly looking for jobs in more energetic cities, where there was a better atmosphere and a plethora of restaurants and theatres open late into the night.
Perth suffered because there was a mass exodus from the city once the working day ended, partly due to a lack of attractions.
“At 5 o’clock everybody gets on a bus or a train or a car and drives out to the suburbs, where there’s probably more life in the Karrinyup shopping centre,” he said. “I think it’s disgraceful that there’s only one late night shopping night - the shops need to be open more.”
Dr Shepherd will take part in the Vision 2021 Forum at the Parmelia Hilton next month, where prominent WA residents will debate how the city can rid itself of the “dullsville” tag pinned on it by some critics.
Tourism Minister Mark McGowan and Australian Hotels Association executive director Bradley Woods were not available to comment on Dr Shepherd’s views.
Perth Deputy Lord Mayor Michael Sutherland said it was interesting that a religious leader wanted to relax liquor laws. He agreed with Dr Shepherd, saying WA’s liquor licensing laws were ludicrous.
Latham's lamentations bring one question to mind; qui bono?
Timed to perfection, his poisonous, bitter diaries have knocked the massively unpopular sale of Telstra - actual news - off the front page. It will also continue to serve as a stick with which the Liberals may beat their opponents. So Biff sells his book, Howard's off the hook and Labor, and more importantly the Australian people, suffer.
Latham is the worst of all the rats, at least Billy Hughes believed in conscription and Joe Lyons got the prime ministership. Biff just gets a few dollars in royalties, and believe me Biff it will only be a few.
If the country desperately needs an end the Howard administration, Mr Latham, as you said it did during your brief stint as leader of the opposition - why fling a load of personalised and ultimately irrelevant muck on to the only alternative government?
Honestly - Kevin Rudd gets some stick because he cried the day after his mother died? Beazley has no integrity - so Latham put him on his front bench? The diaries are a demonstration of the politics of a desperately sore loser.
Biff never could handle the fact that his belief in his own hype proved to be misplaced, and now lashes out like an angry child at the people who he thinks stole his favourite toy.
It makes you wonder if he ever believed in anything other than Mark Latham.
Or at least, that's what I wrote to The West and the oz. I know Latham never believed in shit - there's no wondering about it. And yeah, Beazley is a fucker, but what's there to gain now? Revenge? What a cunt-throat.
Hawthorn's Mark Williams, the 180cm full-foward and Australia's answer to “Shooter” McGavin (not to be confused with David McGann), has been awarded the Doc Wheildon Medal for being the leading goal-kicker from the bottom four clubs.
Last year, Richmond's Matthew Richardson won the inaugural “Doc” with 60 goals.
Williams, who scored 63 goals in only 19 games, was unavailable to comment on his receiving the AFL's least known but arguably most important honour.
The medal is named for Darren “Doc” Wheildon, who played 70 games and kicked 160 goals in his 1989-1994 career at the Fitzroy Football Club.
The bogan/drug-dealer/serial killer unholy trinity has triumphed with massive bribery and blackmail securing a Port Adelaide “win”. Shame.
Melbourne pulled a similar scam and denied the Dogs - the second best team in the league after St Kilda - their rightful finals berth. Shame.
So now - The Saints will smish Adelaide, despite the massive corruption that will occur. The Dirty Birds will claw the Swans. North will mince Port and send them packing back to their ground of ill-repute. The clash of the also-rans (GFC vs Dees) will end with a narrow Cats win. It's all academic though, as the unstoppable Saints will march on to the flag.
Saints - first since 1966 and second since 1897 - in 2005.