Archive for month: June, 2020

Bloody Victorians!
We thick-skinned Freo folk are well-used to out-of-towners taking pot-shots at our beloved Port City.(Don’t you just love hyphenated words!)…
Book Review and Podcast – Father of the lost boys
What an amazing story - it just had to be told! And thanks to Fremantle Press, Yuot A Alaak’s account…
What’s In A Name – In This Case ‘Mícheál’?
Micheal? Actually, Micheal where both the ‘i’ and the ‘a’ have a little accent over them - as in Mícheál.…
Interview With Doug Thompson
As part of our continuing Governing Freo-style series of interviews with Councillors of the City of Fremantle, we are pleased…
Layla O episode 11 – Show me the Guru
Layla O, the incomparable, the irrepressible, the irresistible, the sometimes irritating, and very famous Agony Aunt, now weaves her particular…
Places I Love – Dublin On Bloomsday
Bloomsday is celebrated on 16 June each year. There is a carnival vibe around Dublin on Bloomsday. When I lived…
Fine Photography – Georgina Barker
This week we feature Georgina Barker. Georgina lives and breathes Fremantle. She started out her professional life as a journalist,…
COSCO SHIPPING – What A Story!
COSCO Antwerp (IMO: 9246396), a pretty blue container ship sailing under the flag of the United Kingdom, was in Fremantle…
Coming! Anthology Of First Nations And Black Fiction For Young Adults
Now for something really interesting: Fremantle Press has called for submissions to a new anthology of First Nations and Black…
Let’s kill all the lawyers!
Well, let’s not. Shakespeare started the whole thing about ‘killing all the lawyers’. Quite unfair. They’re not all that difficult…