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CITY DEFERS DRUG INJECTION PLAN

THE City’s youngest elected member says Fremantle needs drug injecting rooms to make families feel safe? Speaking to the City’s proposed health and wellbeing plan 2026 to 2031, Cr Jemima Williamson-Wong told council this week that the Labor government did…

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CHINS: POINTLESS EVOLUTION OR SEXY SPANDREL?

BLOGTHIS! HENRY Cavill. Jay Leno. The late Kirk Douglas. American Dad. Humans are the only primates with a chin. Dimples, optional extras. No other human species developed a chin, not even Neanderthals, leaving scientists to wonder why we have one…

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BLOGTHIS!

THERE’S a new blog in town @BlogThis! Linked to Freo’s independent print and online publication at www.streetwisemedia.com.au, BlogThis! brings thousands of readers informed comment, criticism, praise and protest. BlogThis! is not a rumour mill or refuge for bias or bullshit.…

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LEGAL ACTION SOURS COUNCIL BICENTENARY PLANS

COUNCIL approval of bicentenary plans for a First Nations-led vision for Arthur Head were overshadowed tonight when it was threatened with legal action by The Fremantle Society over offensive comments by Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge. Cr Fitzhardinge used her attendance at…

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‘SISTERS’ ARE DOIN’ IT FOR THEMSELVES

‘Junket’: An extravagant, expensive and unnecessary trip or celebration enjoyed by a government official at public expense. JET-setting Fremantle mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge and councillor Ingrid van Dorssen will fly to Italy, Portugal and Croatia on a $20,000-plus junket to visit…

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FREO ELECTORAL DISPUTE DRAGS OUT TO OCTOBER

THE validity of the disputed 2023 local government elections in Fremantle will be tested in October - a year after thousands of ballot papers were mailed incorrectly to central and coastal ward voters. Parties returned to court on Monday. The…

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WA ‘Jaws’ anniversary

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…

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62 seconds of starry alignment

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…

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