FREO filmmaker Jane Hammond has brought to the world stage Western Australia’s black cockatoo crisis in which our threatened feathered friends face extinction. Sadly, this beloved species without science and conservation is one of many in WA that will leave…
The City of Fremantle tonight muzzled former councillor Marija Vujcic from speaking publicly at a planned council acknowledgement of her controversial time in local government. On Monday, Ms Vujcic accepted an invitation to attend tonight’s council meeting at 6pm to,…
TRAGEDY struck Australia on this day in 1941 when HMAS Sydney and its 645 crew, returning to Fremantle from escort duties in Sunda Strait, crossed paths with German raider HSK Kormoran. After a fiery encounter off Carnarvon, both warships (Kormoran…
THE CEO at the Town Of Victoria Park which voted Yes in the Voice referendum said during public question time on October 17 the Aboriginal flag would not be lowered as, “there are protocols for flags and the Federal Government…
'Flag at half mast for the death of the democratic process' IT appears Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge took it upon herself to make the highly contentious, political and dubious decision to lower the Aboriginal flag in response to a political event…
ASTRONOMERS have detected a cosmic ‘pulse’ that has travelled through space for eight billion years or more than half the age of the universe since the Big Bang to reach detectors on Earth. The source of the burst of radio…
I haven’t looked a diprotodon in the eye since 2002. In real life, this wombat-related herbivore grew up to 3.8m long, weighed nearly three tonnes and stood up to 2m high. I’d love to ride one, shaak style. Unfortunately, the…
THIS preserved head and jaws of a 4.3m tiger shark has brought together the US family of its victim and WA shipwreck author Hugh Edwards who salvaged the ‘man-eater’ caught at Cottesloe in 1925. StreetWise spoke exclusively to the family which…
PIA Passanisi celebrates 60 years of style in Fremantle. Each Thursday, the ‘retired’ hairdresser chips in to help her daughters at the Hair & Barber Room at 128 High Street. The family business still operates out of the same building…
THE operator of Fremantle Markets took to 6PR today to talk up its bid for a 20-year lease extension ahead of the Fremantle council meeting tomorrow. Why? What would make Fremantle Markets Pty Ltd think the City will not extend…
