THE issue with Manning Park is not that there are trails, nor that there are people using the trails – it’s the sheer number of trails that dissect the bushland.  […]

THE Manning Park Trail Runners are a free, volunteer-led running and hiking group who’ve been using the park since 2016. With Cockburn council’s vote on whether to close down most […]

PAULINE PANNELL is a member of Grandmothers for Refugees Fremantle. In this week’s Thinking Allowed she uses Refugee Week to highlight the plight of Afghan refugees stranded in Indonesia. WHAT […]

JOHN DOWSON is the president of the Fremantle Society. He’s previously flagged that the congregation at St John’s Church is not thrilled with plans to instal an Indigenous-themed artwork on […]

ETHAN CLEMENTS is a 15-year-old writer from Fremantle – and a former Surf Life Saving Nipper. He’s uncomfortable about kids promoting a fossil-fuel company every time they dive in to […]

ROY LEWISSON is a member of Wilbinga Advocates and a White Gum Valley resident.  WITH the current global geo-political state of play, action on climate change seems to have ground […]

PERSPECTIVE, the place from which we view something – use it or lose it someone once said to me.  This is a very personal perspective on homelessness.  No doubt it […]

JESSICA CLANCY is a local independent artist participating in the Fringe. I RECENTLY read the Fremantle Herald’s Thinking Allowed questioning the trajectory of the Perth Fringe Festival (“Why Fringe is […]

Artrage/Fringe World CEO and creative director JO THOMAS responds to Rowan Keene’s Thinking Allowed “Why Fringe is a farce” about his belief the festival has being pursuing untrammelled growth at […]

ROWAN KEEN is a Fremantle-based arts worker. EVERY January and February, Perth is painted pink and we’re instructed to feel grateful.  Fringe World is here.  The tents go up, the […]