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25/09/2026

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24/09/2026

David Moran is a television producer, artist and former gallery manager for sculptor Greg James.

"Six thriving arts-based business have been told to vacate their premises at Arthur Head within 12 months.

One of these has only been given six months notice to vacate.

Why would a City, purporting to be arts-centric, throw out its most successful artists and six functioning businesses?

In my view it beggars belief.

So why are they doing it?

They all pay the rent, and the rates.

They don’t ask the City for grants or subsidies.

Does anybody know what is going on here?

I am still trying to work it out.

The City comes up with a few very shaggy reasons.

They have been there too long.

They need to let younger artists have a go.

What the hell does that mean in the real world??

This was first muted in 2012, so these artists have had the sword of Damocles dangling above their heads while the COF failed to make a decision."

Read full story at https://tinyurl.com/29wcr93u.

23/09/2026

East Freo is set to get its own farmers market, with the first East Fremantle Farmers Market scheduled for Locke Park on Saturday, November 7.

The market will run from 8am to noon on the first and third Saturday of each month during a summer trial, with organisers to review the arrangement after the season.

Market director Kylie Wheatley said the idea followed a difficult period for Freo Farmers Market, which was displaced from Bruce Lee Reserve for 10 weeks last year because of a sewerage spill.

Ms Wheatley took the market to temporary locations including Fremantle Arts Centre and Frank Gibson Park, where she said locals repeatedly asked for a permanent second market.

A pop-up market at Leighton followed, before East Fremantle mayor Tony Natale suggested Locke Park as a possible site.

“Weekends are for community, local food and connection,” Ms Wheatley said.

“As we look towards a future that has to wrangle with rising mental health struggles and loneliness, the simple joy and hope that a farmers market brings is more important than ever.”

Read full story at https://tinyurl.com/3v42yhaw.

22/09/2026

Fremantle council’s planning committee has once again rejected a request to demolish an old outdoor dunny, saying it was too important to Fremantle’s heritage.

The owner of a house on Attfield Street wanted the dunny gone to add a double story and an extension to the back of their Federation cottage.

Council staff had argued the demolition would breach the City’s Local Planning Policy for historical buildings which aimed to protect outbuildings such as dunnies, laundries or stables from the wreckers.

Their report said the thunderbox was built circa 1907-08 from materials including limestone, brick and galvanised iron roofing.

The owner claims the outhouse is too far gone to salvage: “Unfortunately I am on a tight budget and would love to restore to its optimum condition for purpose use,” they said in their application.

Design Freo founder Pippa Hurst said these old buildings share a lot of history and can tell “a lot of stories”.

“Something that is physically deteriorated can still have heritage value,” Ms Hurst said.

“The structure is only a part of the story; the heritage value is also in what that structure represents.”

21/09/2026

Fremantle is set to get a new fashion festival next month, with more than 30 indi labels, pre-loved fashion, upcycling and a choreographed flash mob runway taking over the city on October 17.

The inaugural F.RE.O Fashion Festival will be held at Walyalup Koort from 10am to 4pm.

Event director Carolyn O’Driscoll said the festival grew out of conversations with Fremantle Markets general manager Natasha Atkinson about reviving a small spring fashion event outside the markets.

“I only went to meet with Natasha about the possibility of doing that little Spring Fashion Festival run by Fremantle Markets,” Ms O’Driscoll said.

The idea quickly expanded after Ms O’Driscoll was introduced to Fremantle Chamber of Commerce president Chrissie Maus who had some big ideas.

“Chrissie came into the conversation three days later and it was, ‘I want what you did for [Circular Fashion Festival]. I want that here’,” she said.

“The City of Fremantle came on board, Destination Perth came on board, everyone came on board, and it’s happening. It’s going to be really big, actually.”

The festival will feature three runway showcases, more than 150 fashion market stalls, workshops, a clothes swap and industry talks.

The RE.IMAGINE runway will combine pre-loved and vintage fashion with work by upcyclers, while RE.VOLUTIONISE will showcase the latest work of more than 20 independent labels, fashion students and graduates.

Read full story at https://tinyurl.com/3swwufma.

18/09/2026

What's your prediction for the big game tonight?

Can the Dockers beat the Sydney Swans and make the Grand Final?

17/09/2026

Hundreds of National Servicemen who died while serving their country have been all but forgotten by authorities, according to a WA Nasho campaigner calling for their names to be formally recognised.

David Butterfield, WA coordinator for National Servicemen 1965-1972, says although the men weren’t killed in active combat in Vietnam, they still deserved recognition.

Mr Butterfield says his campaign is based on a 2011 study by military researcher and former National Serviceman Neil C Smith which included a detailed listing of National Servicemen who died while serving from causes including training and vehicle accidents in Australia and elsewhere.

The Royal Australian Regiment Association’s bibliography describes Smith’s research as covering 380 young men who died while serving either on part or full-time duty, noting that they were not found on conventional honour rolls.

Mr Butterfield says Smith’s research identified 181 Nashos who did not serve in Vietnam but died during training or corps unit accidents, motor vehicle accidents, su***de, gr***de incidents, sickness and other causes.

He says he has since tried to obtain the names and details through freedom-of-information applications to the National Archives of Australia and the Department of Defence, without success.

Read full story at https://tinyurl.com/5c33ktjj.

16/09/2026

Retired journalist, now political commentator Peter Kennedy has had a front row seat to the rise of One Nation.

Mr Kennedy, who scored his first gig as an anchor with the ABC just a week before Pauline Hanson first won a seat in Parliament, will speak at the University of Notre Dame on September 23 at 6pm in the Michael Keating Room at Cliff Street about his perspective on the party’s journey from the 90s to now.

Mr Kennedy says One Nation is a “news phenomenon in Australian politics” and its growing influence warrants “close examination”.

With more than five decades in journalism, Mr Kennedy has been state political reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and ABC News and press secretary to former WA deputy premier Mal Bryce among other notable roles.

He has reported on Ms Hanson since the beginning of her career, first interviewing her and liberal member Wilson Tuckey in 2001 for ABC News.

Mr Kennedy says Ms Hanson remains central to the party; in one sense it is “personality driven”.

The party’s recent win in the Secret Harbour by-election and Farrer in NSW had “taken their political influence to another level”, he said.

“They want a seat in the House of Representatives, the federal parliament,
“It’s big test will be Victoria in November."

Read full story at https://tinyurl.com/5y4n2m6k.

15/09/2026

At 20 years old, Leighton Bradfield fell to the ground and felt a divine intervention enter his body.

“Something just said: mental health is your thing. Just do that. And it was so clear.”

Now almost 29, Mr Bradfield is the CEO and founder of Fremantle-based 20Talk, a mental health charity for young adults aimed at equipping them with the skills to navigate life and its challenges.

The charity was created in 2018 and was already making a mark before its first 20Hour challenge in 2024 took it to the next level.

Participants in the challenge are confined to a two-by-two-metre square with nothing but their thoughts and time to self-reflect.

It’s now become 20Talk’s main fundraising platform, earning $400,000 in last weekend’s event from around 340 participants.

But the idea did not begin with a charity, a CEO title or a 20-hour challenge.

It began with loss.

After finishing high school, two of Mr Bradfield’s close friends died by su***de just months apart.

Their deaths changed the course of his life, eventually becoming the catalyst for 20Talk.

It’s Saturday, August 5, the first day of 20Talk’s 20-hour challenge.

Inside Claremont Showgrounds’ exhibition centre, it’s 8am and freezing cold. People sit inside squares marked out with masking tape, wrapped in blankets or curled up asleep in swags.

Read full story at https://tinyurl.com/3nzkkfe2.

14/09/2026

When sustainability campaigner Chris Ferreira first proposed adding two eco-apartments to his Hamilton Hill property, the idea was to show that infill housing didn’t have to mean bulldozing established gardens and cramming more buildings onto a block.

Six years later, the homes are finished, but Mr Ferreira says the experience has demonstrated just how difficult it can be to turn an innovative approach to housing into reality.

The Forever Project director received initial approval from the City of Cockburn in 2020, with the two new apartments completed by October 2023.

But almost three years later, he is still waiting for the final pieces of the process to fall into place.

The last hurdle is obtaining separate titles for the new homes, with Mr Ferreira waiting on his bank to complete the process.

Once that is done, he will be able to sell the additional homes, although he plans to retain one as an investment.

Mr Ferreira says the project has cost more than $40,000 in approvals and compliance costs and required six different kinds of building approvals, along with sign-off from three different building surveyors.

The surveyors, he says, at various times demanded additional work including completely replacing the stairs, installing a $7000 fire-rated structure beneath the upstairs balcony and reshaping pathways.

Read full story at https://tinyurl.com/32ed3e3w.

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