INSINCERE, calculated and evasive is how Bob’s Shoe Store in Fremantle describes Cr Andrew Sullivan’s apology for his role in a disputed parking fine he allowed to turn into a bureaucratic nightmare for the Market Street family business. One of…
By Carmelo Amalfi COULD microscopic grains of pollen embedded in submerged timbers at the Endeavour wreck site in the US confirm it was the ship James Cook sailed in when he explored the east coast of Australia in 1770? StreetWise…
FREMANTLE Acting CEO Glen Dougall is being ‘coached’ by a professional development company closely associated with Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge’s leadership consultancy Integral. StreetWise can confirm Mr Dougall receives professional training, funded by the City, from Modal Pty Ltd. According to …
THE year in Freo began as it ended - with a leak. From ‘tent city’ the State Government forcibly closed on January 23 to a faulty fire pump that delayed the opening of the new $45 million Walyalup Civic Centre…
THE City of Fremantle will legitimise volunteer events such as ‘tent city’ under a new ‘Voluntary Goodwill Service Provider Policy’ to be presented to full council on Wednesday. The proposed policy will include a registration process to provide, “a place…
BLACKOUTS, school closures, storefronts painted black, sandbagged or boarded, anti-submarine and anti-torpedo nets installed across the harbour entrance. Even road signs within 30km of the coast were removed as the fear of war spread to the biggest submarine base in…
TRIBUTE: Of the many tragic tales of war at sea, none hits closer to home in WA than the loss of HMAS Sydney and all 645 crew on the evening of November 19, 1941. On November 11, Sydney left its…
SHARK expert Hugh Edwards today cautioned the public to stay alert over the next few weeks following the fatal attack on Saturday of a 57-year-old man off Port Beach in North Fremantle. “We need to be careful where we put…
COMMENT: I’M with Greta. Climate talk is cheap. There may be a will to change, but the way forward has proved elusive since the historic Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997. World leaders, scientific experts and environmental activists have converged…
