I ATTENDED the Remembrance Day ceremony on Fremantle’s Monument Hill last Saturday and it made me think about the many wars and the millions of people who died during them. […]

WHAT on earth are we doing?  Where did all the stress and hectic come from?  Why do we no longer take the time to listen to the birds and watch […]

THE rejection of the Voice referendum is deeply disappointing, but was predictable from the outset because Australians have believed in their own urban myth that we are a fair go, […]

LAST  Wednesday was the last Fremantle Council meeting for Cr Rachel Pemberton, Cr Su Groome and Cr Bryn Jones, as they resigned, after giving so much of their valuable time […]

DANIEL ELIAS is a local historian and unionist. He is writing his PhD on the History of Fremantle through the Perspective of Maritime Workers. This short piece draws from a […]

This week’s THINKING ALLOWED comes from JENNY ARCHIBALD and BRENDAN MOORE. Jenny is a councillor and former mayor of the City of Fremantle. Brendon is the senior Aboriginal engagement officer […]

VOTING on the Voice referendum on October 14 is just a fortnight away, and it does not look promising that it will get over the line. With all the nonsense […]

WHATEVER happened to the Triple C? When did we decide to scrap it? I don’t mean the Corruption and Crime Commission, but the public manners of courtesy, consideration and compassion.  […]

DOMINIQUE HANSEN is head of operations at the Women’s Legal Service of WA, who has shared this memory of former Fremantle councillor and Citizen of the Year, June Hutchinson, who […]

IS Fremantle still the city of arts, or are we living in the past and believing an urban myth?  There is little doubt that our port city lacks good, substantial […]