Ben Lawver, Felicity Newman, Sue Foster, and Nyanda Smith are all members of the Hilton Organising Committee which formed to encourage community participation in how the Hilton Town Centre grows […]

STEVE KEPERT is a Melville councillor. In this week’s Thinking Allowed he goes behind the scenes on what he says shouldn’t have been a particularly controversial imotion. He says: “The […]

RACHEL PEMBERTON is a Fremantle councillor. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED she reflects on the decision to rename its town square to reflect the traditional owners of the land.  NGALA […]

UPDATED Wed Jun 2: Last week the McGowan government extended the deadline for submissions on its Fitzroy River water discussion paper for three months, so readers now have until August […]

ESTHER HILL is director of Djoowak: The Beyond Boundaries Institute at All Saints’ College. A researcher and thought-leader in educational innovation, Ms Hill has led the team, powered by All […]

SIMON DOYLE recently published, along with co-author Jenny Mills, a biography of his great-grandfather George Barber, a doctor who served with the Fremantle Garrison before sailing off to run a […]

KATE LAWSON is a long-term resident of the Coogee Park Caravan Park and a teacher with an impressive list of credentials: an Honours in Linguistics, a Grad Dip Ed and […]

WORRIED about the future for your kids? Bothered by climate change, bushfires, floods and cyclones – or Covid? They were issues that certainly came up on Sabena Lund and Jen […]

This week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER is by Legalise Cannabis Western  Australia Party spokesperson Moshe Bernstein. “A historic victory for legal cannabis” argues that his party’s success in winning two seats during […]

KEN ADAM is an architect and fourth generation Fremantlian. His convict great grandfather Henry Atwell became a successful Fremantle merchant, with the Atwell Buildings and Atwell House part of his legacy […]