THE WA Liberals have pledged $500,000 towards the restoration of Fremantle Round House, WA’s oldest colonial building. Future funding will support both colonial and Indigenous historical interpretation and critical conservation efforts at the popular site visited by more than 100,000…
MAGISTRATE Trevor Darge today dismissed invalidity claims against the botched WAEC local government elections in Fremantle in 2023. He said the WA Electoral Commission made a “terrible mistake” when it mailed thousands of incorrect ballot papers to voters in central…
EXCLUSIVE: LIBERAL Party member and North Coogee businesswoman Serena Kipling will contest the seat of Fremantle at the state election on March 8. The Lower House candidate will take on sitting Labor MLA Simone McGurk, Greens candidate Felicity Townsend, 'independent'…
SPECIAL FEATURE: Snake charmer. Tattooist. Court-martialled for desertion in NSW, incarcerated in Fremantle for stealing a set of wrenches and busted in Boulder for abducting a 16-year-old girl. The life and troubled times of ‘Rocky Vane’ remained largely unknown in…
PERTH lawyer Sandra Boulter has launched a public fundraiser to fight a decision by WA’s Freedom of Information Commission that the WA Local Government Association is immune to FOI. The Local Government Elected Members’ Association chair said Commissioner Catherine Fletcher…
COUNCILLORS will be asked Wednesday to endorse the WA Electoral Commission to run a $162,581 postal vote in Fremantle in October two years after it botched local government elections in the new central and coastal wards. On February 11, Magistrate…
UNDERWATER photographer Rowan Dixon says he is lucky to have lived in Exmouth most of his life. The 28 year old told StreetWise: “Living here has been great for my hobby of photography which eventually evolved into a hobby for…
ELECTED members called on the City of Fremantle last night to scrap its toothless significant tree register and find out whether the 135-year-old Moreton Bay at 195 High Street is infected with beetle borer. In a clear push back to…
MEMBERS of the Cattalini family tonight put the City of Fremantle on notice that it did not give council consent nor was it consulted when it listed a 135-year-old fig tree on its significant tree register in 2019. The owners…
NGARLUMA and Yindjibarndi caretakers of Cossack today walked away from the historic town after it claimed the State Government refused to transfer ownership of the popular tourist site to the Roebourne-based community 1500km north of Perth. The decision after four…
