SCOTT LUDLAM is a Greens Senator for WA, based in Fremantle. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED Senator Ludlam reveals the extent of government snooping on our private communications—and Labor and […]

LYNN MacLAREN is a Fremantle-based Greens MP in WA’s Legislative Council. She wasn’t impressed by controversial academic Professor John Finnis’ lecture at Notre Dame University recently. The recent visit to […]

JOLLY READ is a long-time Freo local and journalist. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED she argues it’s long past time euthanasia was legalised in WA. MY friend Dawne died recently. […]

RIC CAIRNS is the parent of a student at John Curtin College of the Arts. Recently the school performed the controversial play The Laramie Project, which explores real-life reactions to […]

  Dr SUZANNE COVICH is a local author and high school teacher. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED she says we’ve lost something along the way to gentrifying our coast. I HAVE taken up […]

GARY HASLER is the president of the North Fremantle Football Club, whose young members marching in this year’s Anzac Parade caught the eye of Chook reader R Johnston (Herald letters, […]

MEREDITH HAMMAT is the secretary of UnionsWA, having replaced Freo local Simone McGurk who moved into the big house on the hill at the March 9 state election. Ms Hammat […]

AWARD-WINNING author JOHN DOWSON, a former president of the Fremantle Society, takes aim at the council and its plans for the nationally significant Arthur Head. The long-time West End resident, […]

‘Why is a cafe, planned for the southern end of J Shed, deemed fit for a full commercial lease yet we’re not?’ GLEN COWANS is an underwater photographer with a […]

TIM GREY-SMITH is a Fremantle councillor and chairs the Cultural Development Working Group which is behind plans to shake up Arthur Head and turn it into a dedicated arts hub. […]