A BEACONSFIELD mother of two is in hospital after she was knocked down by a large dog at Leighton Beach on Sunday. Speaking from her hospital bed with 12 weeks of rehab ahead of her, former Fremantle council candidate Sally…
HUNDREDS of StreetWise readers have spoken (posted). The Cappuccino Strip needs a serious spray and wipe. StreetWise’s two-part report on the state of the iconic strip has attracted more than 260 comments since part two, ‘Freo on the menu?’, was…
NEWS FEATURE: For the past 10 years, StreetWise has worked the ‘Cappuccino Strip’ with traders who, particularly after COVID-19, changed the way they did business in Fremantle. Staff shortfalls, rising rents and now fuel costs, homelessness on the front door.…
by Carmelo Amalfi CROATIAN VC war hero Leslie Thomislav ‘Tom’ Starcevich was one of eight brothers from WA who served in WW2 and Korea. Wounded, shot, sent to prison labour camps, they survived to tell extraordinary tales of bravery and…
DOES Freo’s iconic cafe strip need a name change? Is calling and promoting it as the ’Cappuccino Strip’ false advertising? In this two-part report, StreetWise publisher Carmelo Amalfi explores the rapidly changing future of WA’s famous al fresco destination. NEWS…
HOW many Christmas staff parties can a council host in one month? At Gingin, three ratepayer funded shindigs in nine days including topless night at a local watering hole. Shire financial records show the council spent a total of $2575…
GINGIN shire is under fire for holding a ratepayer-funded celebration on skimpies night at a hotel run by a family member of a sitting councillor. The pre-booked end-of-year bash was held on December 16 at Gingin Hotel and attended by…
BUSHLAND at King’s Park could hold the clue to one of Australia’s most baffling missing persons cases? The ‘Nannup Four’. by Carmelo Amalfi EXCLUSIVE: ON an unusually chilly July 15, 2007, a taxi driver delivered a pizza to a man…
EXCLUSIVE: Gingin and Lancelin have one bank. Bendigo and Adelaide. They also have one shire council of nine elected members, two of whom at the wheatbelt community bank 80km north of Perth. Shire president Linda Balcombe and Cr Robert Kestel…
EXCLUSIVE: GINGIN shire will consider a motion tomorrow to ask the department of local government to investigate a social media page formerly run by two sitting councillors. Council also will consider a new draft policy dictating councillors’ use of social…
