3-strike move
by BRENDAN FOSTER A CHILD climbing a neighbour’s tree has scored a family one strike in a three-strikes-and-you’re-evicted clause in their WA housing department home. Anna Copeland from Murdoch University’s […]
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Heathcote dump anger
MELVILLE city council is dumping garbage including socks, cans, plastics, dirt and logs on the historic lower Heathcote foreshore reserve. More than a decade ago locals campaigned to save the […]
End in sight
‘It’s going to be a prick of a week’ by CARMELO AMALFI “THEY know what’s happening,” Fremantle social worker Chris Doyle says, counting down towards the WA coroner’s inquest into […]
Give human rights a sporting change
SAM WAINWRIGHT is a Fremantle city councillor, member of Socialist Alliance and a founding member of Action for Human Rights in Tamil Eelam & Sri Lanka. In this week’s THINKING […]
Rating Freo’s retail
COLIN NICHOL, who has a long retail and markets history, examines the latest development regarding vacant shops in Fremantle THE announcement by Fremantle’s mayor that the city will consider charging […]
Wowagee!
by JENNY D’ANGER IT’S often assumed the butler did it: Well, this home in Willagee’s Butler Street, tucked behind a cute white picket fence, certainly did it for me. There […]
Lumos is looking’ up
CAFE LUMOS, White Gum Valley by BRENDAN FOSTER: Apparently Le Whaf dining—where a machine transforms food into breathable vapour—is the latest fad in Europe. Crack for foodies. Well, those crazy […]
Double rates for greedy landlords
by Stephen Pollock FREMANTLE city council plans to penalise landlords with double rates if their shops are unoccupied for lengthy periods. Mayor Brad Pettitt took a short break from his […]
Freo beachfront a poissoned chalice?
by DAVID BELL SWANKY French beachfront restaurant Le Poisson D’or has shut, failing to tell customers who’d booked and turned up dressed to the nines only to be confronted with […]
New statue campaign
Was Fremantle a child rapist? by CARMELO AMALFI HERITAGE crusader John Dowson wants a statue to Captain Fremantle rebuilt on Esplanade Park, despite unsettled child rape allegations still attached to […]
