Rights are won, not given
MEREDITH HAMMAT is the secretary of UnionsWA, the peak organisation for the state’s various unions. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED she says while May’s a time when the weather cools down, it’s usually […]
MEREDITH HAMMAT is the secretary of UnionsWA, the peak organisation for the state’s various unions. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED she says while May’s a time when the weather cools down, it’s usually […]
THE AJRAK RESTAURANT, Fremantle by JENNY D’ANGER: Greasy fish and chips at the old Domenic’s on Hampton Road have been consigned to the deep fryer of history, with Ajrak emerging […]
IT was like someone had pushed a “mute” button the minute I stepped into this South Fremantle home: traffic noise simply stopped. “No, there’s no double glazing,” the vendor said, […]
THE sheer awesomeness of this turn-of-the-century Duke Street home gave me writer’s block. How do I describe something as unique, quirky and just downright gorgeous? It was the wrought-iron spiral […]
DIGGER CLEAK can’t see it coming. It’s 3am and pitch black on the South China Sea. But he knows it’s there; his headset crackles into life with coordinates and an […]
FACING a firing squad after months of torture and deprivation, WWII POW John Milton Mews escaped death only because Hitler’s orders to shoot him were not followed. Now 92, the […]
NEARLY all the WA diggers who joined the first Anzac convoy from Albany to Turkey in 1914 embarked at Fremantle. Most waited for two days on two ships anchored in […]
Go postal REGARDING removal of the post box from the East Fremantle council (Herald, April 12, 2014). At 1am, surely there would be a bit of traffic about? I know what […]
FORMER Herald editor BRIAN MITCHELL visited Bali with his family for the first time a few weeks ago. While there he became increasingly edgy about the glaring inequality between the […]
WHEN school is out getting the average teenager out of bed before 10am can be nigh on impossible. But Fremantle’s new skate park has them getting their skates on—literally. And […]