THE Heritage Council of WA has severed a significant cultural link to generations of horse racing families in Fremantle and Cockburn after it deemed Hollis Park unworthy of joining the State’s register of special places. On June 23, StreetWise asked…
THE old South Fremantle power station in Cockburn is one of 10 sites entered on the State’s register of significant cultural heritage places. It is also up for sale. The other sites which have played a role in the built…
COMMENT: This image of Fremantle local Claudia Green was copied from the StreetWise website on May 27 and published without permission on the Fremantle Community Forum Facebook page launched in 2020 by Mia Kriznic and Mark Woodcock. The copyrighted content was…
CITY of Fremantle payments to Pindan accelerated in the weeks before the construction company collapsed on May 18, leaving out of pocket by up to $100 million hundreds of contractors on nearly 90 projects in WA including the $42 million…
CONSTRUCTION of two new bridges across the Swan River will begin this year as part of a $230 million project to build a dedicated Fremantle freight rail line and replace the historic traffic bridge opened in 1939. The third and…
COMMENT: THE financial health of any council in WA, including Fremantle, can be scrutinised at mycouncil.wa.gov.au/Council/ViewCouncil/51. The Department of Local Government page includes information about population, rates of growth, revenue, staff numbers, assets and a financial health indicator (out of…
COMMENT: FREO’S ‘sustainability journey’ is over. The 10-year experiment in socially engineered ‘terraforming’ and feelgood politics has left ratepayers with a debt-ridden council unable to maintain precious assets and provide basic local services. With a 2020 financial loss of nearly…
A CITY without a mayor or CEO. Increased rates, deteriorating assets and a $32 million loss the City of Fremantle wants to conceal after nearly 10 years of financial mismanagement under a Greens-led council. Freo is not shipshape. The latest…
FARMERS, labourers, camel drivers, horsemen and one of the few indigenous members of WA’s 2/28th Battalion in WW2. Lit by the goldfields sun, their names are honoured on the war memorial at Menzies where the bust of ‘Rat of Tobruk’…
GREAT or small, the future of Australia’s iconic wildlife appears uncertain in the face of climate change and human impacts such as habitat loss and environmental degradation. A new paper on Australia’s megafauna (extinct animals 45kg-plus), shows contrary to expectations,…
