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A NATIVE wetland weed that could become a building material is among the ideas being explored as Fremantle Design Week challenges people to imagine a different future.

The third biennial festival, running from October 16 to 25, will feature more than 60 exhibitions, talks, tours, workshops, open studios and special events across Fremantle.

DesignFreo director an...


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A PLANT that is often regarded as a problem in Perth’s wetlands could become an unlikely new building material, thanks to research by UWA architecture lecturer Lara Pinho.

Ms Pinho has been working with Typha, commonly known as bulrush, to investigate how the plant could be transformed into materials for use in the built environment.

She will bring some of the r...


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AN attempt to put part of the historic Shacks site on Fremantle’s heritage list has fallen through after owner Doug Carr told councillors the listing would put a handbrake on development of the East End.

Fremantle council staff had recommended adding the Robert Jowitt & Sons Warehouse, at 64 Queen Victoria Street, to the Heritage List with a Level 3 “some significa...


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HIGH school students have pushed back against One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s claims their classrooms have become overly “woke”. 

Around 1000 students walked out of classrooms to gather at Yagan Square last week for a protest against the surging right-wing party.

The students at the protest consistently said schools were not teaching the “woke agenda”, arguin...


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FREMANTLE councillor Melanie Clarke has revealed herself as a proud member of the city’s “geek” community while backing a new small bar where drinks will be very much secondary to \dice, cards and tabletop battles.

The council’s planning committee on Wednesday approved a small-bar licence for Hightide Tabletop Gaming on Josephson Street, one of the first such applicati...


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