‘Mate, it’s safe. I’m grateful I have it.’ THE stuffed remains of the first shark caught in WA after killing a swimmer at Cottesloe in 1925 has landed in the safe hands of a maritime history enthusiast in Bunbury. The…
HITLER. Manson. Putin. I’d ditch my family name. But what if you were born with the same name as one of the most iconic spy characters in the world? Bond, James Bond? It is why ‘The Other Fellow’ by Australian…
JIRO Muramatsu was 15 years old when he arrived in Cossack in 1893 - just 30 years after the town was established. His father Sakutaro arrived in 1890 and opened a store in 1891, riding the wave of new pastoral…
EXCLUSIVE: THE preserved remains of a 4.3m tiger shark has brought together the US family of its victim and the WA shipwreck author who salvaged the ‘man-eater’ caught at Cottesloe in 1925. The family reached out to StreetWise to say it…
STREETWISE first met Jack Mendes in O’Connor, at his successful Yarrick Street car dealership opposite Bunnings. Freo’s independent publication asked the Indian father of two to support the annual Freo StreetWise charity car cruise, the March 12 event this year…
GIANT squid, albino killer whales, sea serpents and Loch Ness-like creatures have occupied Earth’s oceans, rivers and lakes for the past 600 million years. And while most ‘monsters’ on land have been found, much of the deep ocean remains unexplored.…
PICKLED eel and kringles at Christmas, clogs, akvavit and Abba. ‘Sandgropers’ today would be enjoying a Scandinavian lifestyle had King Gustav III pursued plans to colonise the Swan River. In 1687, a year before English explorer William Dampier visited the…
FREMANTLE Ports today welcomed the State Government $20 million budget pledge to transform Victoria Quay into one of WA's top tourism and cultural precincts as part of the Westport project to build a new outer harbour and container port in…
DEPUCH Island, or Womalantha, has never been considered for inclusion on the World Heritage List even though its Aboriginal rock art and cultural importance has been known and studied since 1840. Greens (WA) MLC for mining and pastoral Robin Chapple…
