Archive for year: 2021
10,000 Trees In 10 Years – Increasing Freo’s Tree Canopy
in Architecture + Urban Design
Remember last summer, walking in oppressive heat, when the shade of the next tree looked too far away and the…
How 21 Covid months have flown by – or have they?
in Life, Law & Culture
Can you remember back to March 2020? Bet you can. You were free to attend a Freo Arts Centre concert…
Governing Freo-style
in Life, Law & Culture
We use the little ‘p’ on ‘political’, because politics in Freo seems always to have had an engaging, if occasionally…
Governing Freo-style – Interview With Fedele Camarda
in Life, Law & Culture
We are very pleased to bring you our latest podcast interview with the recently elected Councillor in the Beaconsfield Ward,…
Fifty years of protest: The Memories of the Movement
in Life, Law & Culture
Joining a protest for an environmental or social justice cause is familiar to many people in Fremantle and, in the…
Twin Poles
in Life, Law & Culture
First. A confession. Lately I’ve been feeling like a splash of colour in a Jackson Pollock artwork. A schizophrenic splash…
What a Biennale! What’s Next?
in Life, Law & Culture
Well, the third Fremantle Biennale, Crossings, has come and gone. And what an extravaganza it was. People are still talking…
A history of destruction: why the WA Aboriginal cultural heritage bill will not prevent another Juukan
in Life, Law & Culture
Western Australia’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill 2021 is set to become law, replacing the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. The Bill…
Signs of our times!
in Life, Law & Culture
Sometimes a photograph truly is worth many words. Here are three photographs. No more need be said! [gallery type="rectangular" size="large"…
No, Not The Funnel Web Spider – The Blue Funnel Liner!
in Shipping News
In the 1950s, the Blue Funnel liner, MV Charon sailed Singapore and north west WA ports to Fremantle. Along with…