SHIPPING NEWS: Cruise ship season is in full swing in WA with a fleet of luxury hotels due to dock in Fremantle in the next couple of months. The multi-storey vessels carry thousands of people, generate jobs and millions of…

THE State solicitor. A former WA premier. Fremantle’s youngest councillor and two legal actions declaring the 2023 local government elections invalid because of a ballots blunder in central and coastal wards. More than 30 people attended the Court of Disputed…

COMMENT: IS a permanent shark barrier at Bathers Bay overkill for a site that has never recorded a shark death or serious injury? So what exactly are we keeping out? Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge has said “everything was on the table”…

FREO filmmaker Jane Hammond has brought to the world stage Western Australia’s black cockatoo crisis in which our threatened feathered friends face extinction. Sadly, this beloved species without science and conservation is one of many in WA that will leave…

The City of Fremantle tonight muzzled former councillor Marija Vujcic from speaking publicly at a planned council acknowledgement of her controversial time in local government. On Monday, Ms Vujcic accepted an invitation to attend tonight’s council meeting at 6pm to,…

TRAGEDY struck Australia on this day in 1941 when HMAS Sydney and its 645 crew, returning to Fremantle from escort duties in Sunda Strait, crossed paths with German raider HSK Kormoran. After a fiery encounter off Carnarvon, both warships (Kormoran…

THE CEO at the Town Of Victoria Park which voted Yes in the Voice referendum said during public question time on October 17 the Aboriginal flag would not be lowered as, “there are protocols for flags and the Federal Government…

'Flag at half mast for the death of the democratic process' IT appears Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge took it upon herself to make the highly contentious, political and dubious decision to lower the Aboriginal flag in response to a political event…

ASTRONOMERS have detected a cosmic ‘pulse’ that has travelled through space for eight billion years or more than half the age of the universe since the Big Bang to reach detectors on Earth. The source of the burst of radio…

I haven’t looked a diprotodon in the eye since 2002. In real life, this wombat-related herbivore grew up to 3.8m long, weighed nearly three tonnes and stood up to 2m high. I’d love to ride one, shaak style. Unfortunately, the…