Archive for year: 2022
Making Freo Even More Bicycle Friendly- Are we ready for 30 kph speed limit?
2 July 2022
When driving near a cycle lane, do you speed up or slow down? Where you’re from may influence your answer? Here’s…
The flotsandjets Gallery #7
1 July 2022
Winter kept pretending around the Port this week. Not that the famous Instagram duo @flotsamandjetsam6162 minded one bit. Their shutters…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – #10 Anyone for tennis?
1 July 2022
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Seems like every political leader worth…
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . .
30 June 2022
A couple of weeks ago I was loitering in Hilton’s hipster haven, Charlie’s Coffee Bar, reading James Joyce’s Ulysses (not…
So, are we who we think we are?
29 June 2022
The latest Census info on Freo is down. [caption id="attachment_27404" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Credit Australian Bureau of Statistics and OpenStreetMaps and…
FIVEIGHT SUBMITS PLANS FOR LANDMARK LIFESTYLE HOTEL ON HISTORIC SPICERS SITE
29 June 2022
Fiveight, a wholly owned company of Tattarang, companies associated with Andrew and Nicole Forrest and Minderooo Foundation, has submitted its…
The ‘Dampier’ Drama
29 June 2022
“She’d roll on a wet lawn,” I was told when assigned to duty on the 13-metre Fisheries patrol vessel, Dampier.…
What’s happening here – A bomb site?
27 June 2022
Looks a bit, well, a lot like a bomb site. And in Upper South Freo. My goodness! Is it about…
War & Peace – Lessons to be learned from history
27 June 2022
Should Australia join the United States in a war against China to prevent China taking the US’s place as the…
Maritime Movements – ShoreTension & Other Things
26 June 2022
TENSION INCREASES SAFETY IN WILDER WEATHER Do you recall when the RORO, Grand Pioneer and the general cargo ship, AAL…









