Archive for year: 2021
The Wait’s Nearly Over – ‘10 Nights In Port’ Festival Opens 15 July!
in Life, Law & Culture
Over 10 nights and days from 15-25 July, Fremantle will come alive in a feast of culture and storytelling with…
Sitting In Fremantle How Do You Make Sense Of Xinjiang?
in Life, Law & Culture
The Uyghurs in Xinjiang are experiencing one of the most intense persecutions in recent times. Despite the nominal legal protection…
Port Beach Takes Another Battering
Doesn’t seem like so long ago when they were ‘nourishing’ Port Beach to save it and the adjacent restaurant from…
Recommend _Ted: ABC, Art Works? No, Not Really …
in Life, Law & Culture
National arts coverage by the ABC is extremely hard to achieve for artists working from a base in Fremantle. It’s…
A Street(car) Named Desire … And Terrazzo, and Pulford, And Scolaro
The very annoying High Road Upgrade goes on and on. When it’s complete it will produce two new street frontages,…
As It Is Written – Love My Neighbour!
in Life, Law & Culture
When I first arrived to live in WA I was enchanted by the practice of the “haves” leaving surplus lemons…
What’s Happening Here – Landmark South Freo Site?
in Architecture + Urban Design
Every now and then something happens, like a planning application, or earthworks, or whatever that makes you wonder ‘What’s happening…
It’s Official – The ‘King’ has departed, the ‘Koort’ has arrived!
in Life, Law & Culture
Sounds a little like a revolution in some far-off land, doesn’t it? Well, in many good ways that’s just what…
It’s NAIDOC WEEK in Walyalup!
in Life, Law & Culture
It’s that time of the year when we who live in and around Walyalup/Fremantle in Whadjuk country celebrate NAIDOC WEEK.…
More Apartments For Queen Victoria? Let’s hope so!
in Architecture + Urban Design
We’re talking 8 QV Street, Fremantle, which has been an empty space between Toy World and Stella Maris for some…