A HAMILTON HILL family being threatened with deportation by the Albanese government because of their son’s Down syndrome say Australia immigration laws are discriminatory and need to brought into the […]

THE state local government department has fired a warning shot across Melville council’s bow, saying tensions between staff and councillors is leading to “dysfunction”. Five years after the department oversaw […]

DEVELOPMENT WA has released a draft concept plan for the redevelopment of the old Beaconsfield Tafe site into 150 new homes. A slight rejig of the Heart of Beaconsfield masterplan developed […]

A QUARANTINE area for the shot-hole borer first discovered in East Freo has been extended to cover most of the metropolitan area. The tiny, destructive beetle attacks a wide variety […]

TWO years ago Fremantle Surf Life Saving Club parent Tahlia Stolarski scrubbed out the Woodside logo from her daughter’s uniform; now she’s back in a new campaign to push the […]

THE controversy about Fremantle Council wanting to financially support the Voice referendum made me think about how important reconciliation is, and if we could do it better.  Reconciliation is such […]

‘Terrified’ of speaking in public COCKBURN’S deputy mayor has convinced his fellow councillors to give him an additional $10,400 for public speaking classes after the City’s CEO told him the […]

THE prospect of increased visits from nuclear submarines and eventually housing Australia’s own atomic fleet just off the Cockburn coast has set off a reaction in Fremantle’s once-powerful anti-nuclear lobby. […]

ILLEGAL camping has popped up in Melville, with the council set to launch a crackdown at Dyoondalup Point Walter. Residents say that more than 20 campers are lined up in […]

BRITISH artist Gali May Lucas says she is saddened by the vandalism of her newly installed sculpture Absorbed by Light at FOMO Fremantle.  In the very early hours of last […]