End the elitism
John Curtin for all TRACI GAMBLIN founded High School Options for Fremantle, a lobby group calling for a shake-up of secondary education in the port city. After holding workshops with […]
Lived Loved
Wrap-around picture windows and high ceilings make this a peaceful, light-filled space. The vendors of this home in East Fremantle’s Fraser Street moved in shortly after getting married. Forty-three years […]
Sling Singapore, this is real glamour
I was deeply disappointed when I visited Singapore’s Raffles Hotel in the 1990s. I’d visited aeons ago and its faded elegance oozed imagined drama and intrigue. That colonial heritage is […]
Gohan cheap
GOHAN, Fremantle by STEPHEN PLLOCK: In January, everyone is skint and sweaty. Chook journo Brendan Foster had just clambered up the fiscal cliff and grazed his crotch, so we decided […]
The original odd couple
Are religion and porn in a symbiotic relationship? It’s the question posed by the electro-shock black comedy The Garden, part of this year’s Perth Fringe Festival. Sure to raise eyebrows, […]
Rear window view of a master in action
SEE THE TRAILER HERE! I was initially sceptical about whether Anthony Hopkins had the physicality and timbre to play Alfred Hitchcock. But five minutes into Hitchcock—with Hopkins loafing in the […]
Dowding slams Labor
by BRENDAN FOSTER FORMER WA Labor premier Peter Dowding has described the party’s preselection process in Fremantle as “appalling”. Mr Dowding, premier from 1988 to 1990 before resigning during an […]
Gangs torture sharks
by BRENDAN FOSTER GANGS of youths are torturing sharks caught off the Woodman Point jetty in Coogee. Yangebup local Phil Eva, who regularly throws in a line at the popular […]
Skater: Don’t mix us with the oldies
by CARMELO AMALFI We don’t want to mix with mums and dads,” the youngest of three skateboarders, Troy, tells the Herald, cruising in from North Fremantle. Pausing for shade outside […]
Skate heritage ploy
by CARMELO AMALFI OPPONENTS of a skate plaza on Fremantle’s Esplanade have bypassed the council and gone straight to the WA heritage council. They have asked for the reserve to […]