FREMANTLE council tonight voted to seek State funding for a $200,000 shark barrier for a beach where no shark has tread before. Bathers Beach. The decision is not based on the safety of swimmers, but elected members' push to attract…
COMMENT: Tree huggers united. Architects designers on call. And former Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt taking temperature readings around the ‘monster’ Moreton Bay fig tree overlooking 195 High Street. Seriously Freo citizens, take a Bex and chill. Including you Brad, not…
A COUNCIL decision to remove a Moreton Bay fig tree at 195 High Street from its register of significant plantings paves the way for property owners to cut it down before the historic site is sold and redeveloped. “Get the…
A MOTION of no confidence in Fremantle Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge over her handling of the City's finances and South Beach change rooms was carried tonight at the annual general meeting of about 50 electors. Moved by former Councillor Marija Vujcic,…
SHIPPING NEWS: Cruise ship season is in full swing in WA with a fleet of luxury hotels due to dock in Fremantle in the next couple of months. The multi-storey vessels carry thousands of people, generate jobs and millions of…
THE State solicitor. A former WA premier. Fremantle’s youngest councillor and two legal actions declaring the 2023 local government elections invalid because of a ballots blunder in central and coastal wards. More than 30 people attended the Court of Disputed…
COMMENT: IS a permanent shark barrier at Bathers Bay overkill for a site that has never recorded a shark death or serious injury? So what exactly are we keeping out? Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge has said “everything was on the table”…
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…
