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…
FREMANTLE Ports today welcomed the State Government $20 million budget pledge to transform Victoria Quay into one of WA's top tourism and cultural precincts as part of the Westport project to build a new outer harbour and container port in…
MAYORAL candidate and South Ward festival goer Marija Vujcic says she will bring back the fireworks on Australia Day 2022. It will be the first of many events she says she has planned to make Fremantle a festival city, starting…
A selection of images supplied and posted by the South Fremantle Community Association which held the successful 'Festival of Lights' that attracted up to 30,000 people in November. The brainchild of South Ward Councillor Marija Vuycic, the street festival is…
