BEFORE photography, police only had physical descriptions of offenders to work with. Name, age, build, height, hair, eye colour, scars, deformities and tattoos. Retired forensic chief superintendent John Horton said this changed when Lieutenant Colonel George Braithwaite Phillips was appointed…
VIDEO footage of the destructive moment a container ship smashed into STS Leeuwin II will form part of Fremantle Ports' investigation into the inner harbour collision on Friday. Available on the StreetWise page, the 50-second video shows 332m Maersk Shekou…
‘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…
HEADSTONES could be removed from graves at Fremantle cemetery within the next five to 10 years. Documents sent to StreetWise by Saving Family Headstones at Karrakatta confirm plans by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board plans to expand its Karrakatta ‘renewal’ program…
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.…
