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Pia’s house of style since 1963

PIA Passanisi celebrates 60 years of style in Fremantle. Each Thursday, the ‘retired’ hairdresser chips in to help her daughters at the Hair & Barber Room at 128 High Street. The family business still operates out of the same building…

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Paranoia or PR?

THE operator of Fremantle Markets took to 6PR today to talk up its bid for a 20-year lease extension ahead of the Fremantle council meeting tomorrow. Why? What would make Fremantle Markets Pty Ltd think the City will not extend…

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What’s in a survey?

“It is reasonable to presume that 88 per cent of the respondents ought to be at least human. Prime facie, about 40 per cent of the content is so similar it is either AI generated or someone had a few…

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Something rotten in …

COMMENT: IN a repeat of the Japingka parking debacle, the City of Fremantle refuses to move on freeloaders camped unlawfully, sometimes for weeks, on Marine Terrace, South Mole, Mews Road, Wilson Park and South Beach. Members of Fremantle Residents’ Against…

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Glory decision throws City plans offside

ANYONE interested in buying a soccer club? By now news that Perth Glory is in receivership has reached the disappointed masses, including in Fremantle. Despite concerns raised by StreetWise in August last year at http://bitly.ws/M7R and as recently as May…

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Old Wives’ Tales & Superstitions – Part 1

BLACK cats. Broken mirrors. Charms. And Buddha tummy rubs for Lotto luck. Why are people superstitious? Why ‘touch wood’, avoid number 13 or flick salt over your shoulder? Part one of ‘Old Wives’ Tales & Superstition’ invites StreetWise readers to…

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Love me tender, not

BURY the Fremantle Markets business plan and take the ‘People’s Palace’ to public tender. In a ‘time to wake up’ plea to restore the Fremantle Markets building, Fremantle Society president John Dowson said Fremantle Markets Pty Ltd has had the…

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Broken records & black holes



COMMENT: THE Fremantle Markets lease and CAT bus service represent lost opportunities in the wake of one of the biggest developments in the port city, Freo's Walyalup Civic Centre. Times have been COVID tough since 2019, the $65m-plus cost of…

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Freo folk group Zagreb to tour Croatia

NORTH Fremantle folk group Zagreb is dancing on sunshine today after locking in contributions from the cities of Fremantle and Cockburn to tour Croatia next year. Vice president Raymond Pecotic said the dance group was delighted, with 75 dancers and…

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