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“COCKBURN stays! Barnett goes!” chanted hundreds of angry Cockburners rallying outside the WA parliament Thursday. Protesting the proposed plan to divide the city between Kwinana and Fremantle they arrived in […]
“COCKBURN stays! Barnett goes!” chanted hundreds of angry Cockburners rallying outside the WA parliament Thursday. Protesting the proposed plan to divide the city between Kwinana and Fremantle they arrived in […]
FREMANTLE city council has quietly dropped plans to buy into Match’s redevelopment of the Fort Knox building. Earlier this year the council had looked into guaranteeing its purchase of an […]
IF you find wandering amongst thousands of zombie-like mall shoppers at Christmas bizarre, the Bazaar Markets at the Fremantle Arts Centre from December 6-8 could be your antidote. Fifty stallholders […]
FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL is likely to cost WA taxpayers $400,000 every single day for the next year—without one single patient going through its doors. WA Labor leader Mark McGowan says […]
LOCAL Greens pollie Lynn MacLaren says Fremantle doesn’t need “Little Creatures 2.0” on Arthur Head. Sunset Events asked Fremantle council at its Wednesday night meeting if it could lease land […]
JOHN DOWSON wants to be president of the Fremantle Society again. The former deputy mayor and outspoken heritage advocate is highly critical of the society’s current leadership and intends seeking […]
MELVILLE locals are deeply dissatisfied with the Russell Aubrey-led council’s consultation and its failure to involve the community in major decisions. Of 401 resident responses collected in 2012 for the […]
LONG awaited upgrades are on the way for Deep Water Point with Melville city council releasing a draft plan for comment. The jetty has been closed since 2011 after being […]
SUCCESS breeds success and it came in the form of large audiences and prolonged roars of applause for the Fremantle Chamber Orchestra over the past week. Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony and […]
Farcical I HAVE never been interested enough to comment on local government politics but councillor Bart Houwen’s description of the situation of the likely total elimination of Cockburn council as […]