Regular readers of Fremantle Shipping News may (or may not) remember about a year ago, November 2023 actually, I...
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Port Hedland is not everybody’s cup of tea. Recently, I visited Port Hedland for five hours. Many people will...
On 8 June 2023, Senator Sue Lines (ALP, WA) sent out an email inviting folk to participate in an...
The telling of this story would not have been possible without the input of Ian “Forrie” Forrest, as it...
I enjoyed reading about Esperance – Sibling Port to Freo by Jean Hudson on Fremantle Shipping News recently and...
It is a very difficult, almost impossible activity for those of us born in this lucky country to imagine...
After a time it was no longer the Swinging 60s, and one day I found myself as the Boarding...
Customs and Excise had always been a male domain. Except for the typing pool that is. In the 60s,...
As well as being a Customs BO – a Boarding Officer – sometimes I was a wharf EO –...
The recent excellent report on Port Hedland by the Shipping News’ Shipping Correspondent, PA Sinclair, set me to thinking...