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…
A FEDERAL parliamentary committee will this week begin its inquiry into the destruction by Rio Tinto of 46,000-year-old cave shelters in Juukan Gorge, about 60km north-west of Tom Price. Unfortunately, its narrow terms of reference and plans to build a…
DEPUCH is a ‘punishment’ island covered in extraordinary rock art and Aboriginal legend. Described as WA’s ‘Uluru at sea’, Depuch Island is located just 3km off the historic ghost town of Balla Balla between Karratha and Port Hedland. You can…
FIVE Indigenous brothers Edgar, Arnold, Albert, Elliott and Eric Lockyer were among thousands of Aboriginal men who enlisted in WW2 in the hope of returning as equals to a country free of peril. Having grown up on Mallina Station near…
THE legendary Lockyer brothers of Port Hedland. Onslow-born stockman poet Thomas Gray. And Marble Bar shearer Sandy Jackson. This Anzac Day, StreetWise honours the memories and service of hundreds of Indigenous Diggers in the Pilbara who fought for and defended…
CHARLES Burns was a Wyndham orphan raised since age six by explorer Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman and wife Grace. He was the first Aboriginal student to attend Guildford Grammar School. The family moved to Bridgetown in 1913, Charles working as a…
DRIVEWAYS at dawn. This year, thousands of Pilbara residents from Exmouth to Karratha and Port Hedland to Newman and Tom Price will honour Anzac Day - at the end of their driveways. Observing COVID-19 distancing, they will pause at first…
