High noon for council and FERN
FREMANTLE council has issued FERN an eviction notice from its Montreal Street home ahead of the upgrade of High Street. But the environmental group, now co-headed by Mucky Duck Bush […]
Wool trade flies under the radar
“FREMANTLE is the second biggest wool-selling centre in the world — but you wouldn’t even know.” The WA wool industry is worth nearly $1 billion a year and has been […]
Quay forum goes local
THE revitalisation of Fremantle’s Victoria Quay is one step closer after local architects and urban planners gathered last month to develop another vision for the precinct. The quay’s current use […]
Wheely tacky
A LOATHED advertising trend has come to Fremantle with garishly painted derelict bicycles being chained to bike racks. The bikes are in poor shape; their crossbars have been cut out […]
Green guru warns of tough times in suburbia
A PERMACULTURE pioneer who believes Australia is heading for another “Great Depression” in the next decade will be in Fremantle next month for a workshop on how to prepare suburbs […]
Pining for more protection
AN East Fremantle resident has called for stronger by-laws to protect significant trees after a huge pine which had been on a preservation order was cut down in his neighbourhood. […]
Growing identity
IT was a soil so productive it became Perth’s food bowl. Spearwood’s red/brown coastal sands were so important in supplying the fledgling city with fruit and vegies that the area […]
