RESIDENTS of Fremantle’s Fothergill Street—including some with life-threatening medical conditions—have been without telephone and internet services for almost two months. Street resident and local historian Ron Davidson says it’s a […]
‘It’s getting too expensive to run a business in WA’ SMALL BUSINESS owners who sell second-hand goods have been slugged with an extraordinary 600 per cent increase in their dealer’s […]
ANNA GARE jokes she and other members of the Jam Tarts may be a “little older and wider” but they can still belt out some decent harmonies. The outfit featured […]
ROAD to Rail campaigners say the Barnett government’s vague promise this week to putting 30 per cent of freight onto rail means nothing without a deadline or funding details. WA […]
A BRONZE statue of Pan, the horny Greek god of fertility and hunting, is turning a few heads at the Italian club in Fremantle. Built by Palmyra sculptor Vittorio Ulinovich, […]
You have been meeting with ministers behind our back—it’s outrageous!’ MORE than 180 East Fremantle residents packed the local town hall Monday night to oppose plans to redevelop the borders […]
THE Greens are pushing for strict heritage laws to protect buildings from “demolition by neglect”. The four-part package includes hefty fines to be levied on owners who allow heritage properties […]
FREMANTLE city council was slapped down by the National Trust this week after it reportedly accused the Trust of delaying the redevelopment of historic warders’ cottages on Henderson Street. In […]
CAPTAIN Fremantle sculptor Roderick Browton says the port city council should replace the founding father’s statue it abandoned in 1989. Mr Browton, 64, who grew up in South Fremantle and […]
ADELE CARLES says she will introduce a bill to legalise euthanasia if re-elected to Fremantle in four weeks. The commitment follows last weekend’s suicide of pro-euthanasia campaigner Barbara Harrison, a […]
