HITLER. Manson. Putin. I’d ditch my family name. But what if you were born with the same name as one of the most iconic spy characters in the world? Bond, James Bond? It is why ‘The Other Fellow’ by Australian…
JIRO Muramatsu was 15 years old when he arrived in Cossack in 1893 - just 30 years after the town was established. His father Sakutaro arrived in 1890 and opened a store in 1891, riding the wave of new pastoral…
EXCLUSIVE: THE preserved remains of a 4.3m tiger shark has brought together the US family of its victim and the WA shipwreck author who salvaged the ‘man-eater’ caught at Cottesloe in 1925. The family reached out to StreetWise to say it…
THE lights dimmed, temperatures dropped and dusty dogs turned tail today when the Moon blocked out the Sun for 62 seconds in the first total solar eclipse in WA in nearly 50 years. Even the stars and planets appeared in…
BlogThis Freo. Eclipse chasers travelling north to Exmouth to view the total solar eclipse this week get a free coffee courtesy of the busy roadhouses along more than 10,000km of the North West Coastal Highway. Caravans, 4WDs and families towing…
STREETWISE first met Jack Mendes in O’Connor, at his successful Yarrick Street car dealership opposite Bunnings. Freo’s independent publication asked the Indian father of two to support the annual Freo StreetWise charity car cruise, the March 12 event this year…
GIANT squid, albino killer whales, sea serpents and Loch Ness-like creatures have occupied Earth’s oceans, rivers and lakes for the past 600 million years. And while most ‘monsters’ on land have been found, much of the deep ocean remains unexplored.…
EVERY edition of Freo StreetWise has featured images by amateur and award-winning photographers in WA. Tony Ashby, Leith Phillips, Patrick Baker, Hugh Edwards, Geoff Vivian, Roger Garwood, Paolo Gumina, Peter Zuvela, Amerigo Carrello, Bob Sommerville, Graeme Phillips and photography students…
PICKLED eel and kringles at Christmas, clogs, akvavit and Abba. ‘Sandgropers’ today would be enjoying a Scandinavian lifestyle had King Gustav III pursued plans to colonise the Swan River. In 1687, a year before English explorer William Dampier visited the…
