Archive for month: March, 2023

View from the Round House with Martin Drum – NSW, Aston, Deeming, Climate Safeguard law, Dutton and The Voice, Palmer, Ben Dawkins and Trump
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. What a week it’s been -…
Free Ranging Thoughts: Pasture Provenance Preference
I read, with considerable interest, the piece in last week’s Shipping News titled Just How Free Range Are Freo’s Restaurants…
18 Months On – Interview with Mayor of Fremantle, Hannah Fitzhardinge
It’s coming up 18 months since Hannah Fitzhardinge was elected Mayor of Fremantle. How time flies! Back then, the Walyalup…
‘Port Beach Precinct’ Rezoning Gets Closer – A Big Deal For Freo
On Tuesday this week, the WA Government Gazette carried this notice - It means, unless something quite unpredictable happens along…
Interview with Commodore Peter Scott CSC, RANR – Author of Running Deep
Peter Scott joined the Royal Australian Navy as a Midshipman in 1983 and retired from the RAN as Commodore Scott…
The Annual Easter Chocolate Scorecard
At chocolate time, we’ve discovered what the brands that score best on child labour and the environment have in common. What…
Interview with Ron Waters – A Freo Person 94 Years On
Ronald Maxwell Waters turned 94 last Thursday. He was born in 1929 in Parry Street, Fremantle. Living with his parents…
Griffiths Park, Hilton
Key parts of Hilton - including Griffiths Park - as many residents of Hilton and aficionados of 1940s/1950s town planning…
Valley Park – WGV
In 1991, the City of Fremantle commenced a project to beautify the land now known as Valley Park and alter…
Short stay apartments DA – What do you think?
We are yet to see the details, height, design, density, etc, for this ‘Mixed use, short stay apartment’ development application,…