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…
“It is reasonable to presume that 88 per cent of the respondents ought to be at least human. Prime facie, about 40 per cent of the content is so similar it is either AI generated or someone had a few…
COMMENT: IN a repeat of the Japingka parking debacle, the City of Fremantle refuses to move on freeloaders camped unlawfully, sometimes for weeks, on Marine Terrace, South Mole, Mews Road, Wilson Park and South Beach. Members of Fremantle Residents’ Against…
COMMENT: Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge just couldn’t let it go. In a slap down decision, the local government standards panel found South Ward Cr Marijia Vujcic breached the Act last year when she published a post the mayor found offensive, “regarding…
ANYONE interested in buying a soccer club? By now news that Perth Glory is in receivership has reached the disappointed masses, including in Fremantle. Despite concerns raised by StreetWise in August last year at http://bitly.ws/M7R and as recently as May…
BLACK cats. Broken mirrors. Charms. And Buddha tummy rubs for Lotto luck. Why are people superstitious? Why ‘touch wood’, avoid number 13 or flick salt over your shoulder? Part one of ‘Old Wives’ Tales & Superstition’ invites StreetWise readers to…
BURY the Fremantle Markets business plan and take the ‘People’s Palace’ to public tender. In a ‘time to wake up’ plea to restore the Fremantle Markets building, Fremantle Society president John Dowson said Fremantle Markets Pty Ltd has had the…
