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| UpdatedWA Premier Colin Barnett says he is "extremely disappointed" by the City of Fremantle's decision to abandon its Australia Day celebrations in favour of an alternate event two days later, calling the move "a disservice to our country".
Topics: australia-day, government-and-politics, fremantle-6160, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe City of Fremantle axes its Australia Day festivities in favour of a "culturally-inclusive alternative" celebration two days later.
Topics: community-and-multicultural-festivals, australia-day, local-government, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedAustralian Wool Innovation gives the greenlight for a new, modern selling platform online, giving wool sellers and buyers access 24/7.
Topics: agricultural-prices, wool, sydney-2000, fremantle-6160, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAlmost 200,000 square metres in Fremantle's West End is placed on WA's heritage register, to protect the precinct's unique gold boom era buildings.
Topics: history, urban-development-and-planning, architecture, fremantle-6160, wa
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Spiders in outside loos and $1.53 a week rent — that's a little of what life was like in the prison warders' cottages of Fremantle.
Topics: history, urban-development-and-planning, family-and-children, people, fremantle-6160, perth-6000
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An alliance of six southern councils step up their campaign to build an outer harbour at Fremantle Port, as the March state poll nears closer.
Topics: local-government, unemployment, community-and-society, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedDockers player Shane Yarran is charged with assault after an incident involving a family member on the weekend, the club says.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, law-crime-and-justice, assault, perth-6000, wa, fremantle-6160
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Western Bulldogs Premiership player Joel Hamling finds the lure to move home to Western Australia to be closer to his ill father too strong.
Topics: australian-football-league, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedThe first study of hundreds of poems and pictures scrawled on the walls of one of Australia's oldest convict prisons sheds light on the inmates' day-to-day hardships.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, visual-art, human-interest, fremantle-6160, wa
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| UpdatedMidfielder Michael Barlow is set to continue his AFL career in Queensland as the discarded Fremantle Docker signs a deal with the Gold Coast Suns.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, fremantle-6160, surfers-paradise-4217, wa, qld
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| UpdatedThe first of the restored warders' cottages in Fremantle is being offered for public sale by the West Australian Government.
Topics: community-and-society, history, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's Dutch community prepares to welcome its Royal family for the first time in nearly two decades, with King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands set to begin a two-day trip to Perth.
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, history, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, geraldton-6530, west-swan-6055
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| UpdatedA truck crash on Perth's Stirling Highway Bridge is cleared after it closed the road in both directions, banking up traffic for kilometres and leading to major delays near Fremantle.
Topics: road, fremantle-6160, perth-6000
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Notorious bank robber and prison escapee, Brenden Abbott, applies to a Perth court to put a permanent hold on a charge over his breakout from a Fremantle prison almost 30 years ago.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedToday Rottnest Island, off Fremantle, is a popular holiday spot, but few realise the island's dark past as a prison for Indigenous men.
Topics: history, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, prisons-and-punishment, fremantle-6160, wa, australia
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| UpdatedMichael Barlow says he is "off to find a new jumper" as the Fremantle Dockers confirm the AFL midfielder's contract will not be renewed after seven years at the club.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, fremantle-6160, wa, perth-6000
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Perth woman Christine Stroner died just hours after being discharged from Fremantle Hospital where she had undergone "uneventful and straightforward" gall bladder and hernia surgery, an inquest is told.
Topics: health, death, courts-and-trials, fremantle-6160
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WA Labor will seek legal advice on the termination clause of the $330 million contract for Roe 8 before deciding whether it will axe the project if elected to government.
Topics: road-transport, urban-development-and-planning, political-parties, wa, fremantle-6160, beeliar-6164, bibra-lake-6163
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| UpdatedThe Barnett Government comes under pressure from WA's most senior Liberal Party figure Norman Moore to resolve uncertainty over its plans to link Roe Highway to Fremantle.
Topics: liberals, government-and-politics, palmyra-6157, fremantle-6160, perth-6000
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| UpdatedJon Sanders sets sail from Fremantle on his 10th and final circumnavigation of the world, at the age of 77.
Topics: sailing, sport, fremantle-6160, perth-6000
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| UpdatedPolice arrest one man and search for another over an alleged extortion attempt on popular Fremantle restaurant Ruocco's.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, wa, fremantle-6160
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The regeneration of Hawthorn's list after falling short of a fourth consecutive premiership continues with Bradley Hill traded from the Hawks to Fremantle.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, hawthorn-3122, fremantle-6160
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Palmyra residents who were told their houses would be demolished to allow for the Perth Freight Link fear the WA Government's decision to push on with Roe 8 has again placed their homes under threat.
Topics: states-and-territories, human-interest, palmyra-6157, perth-6000, fremantle-6160, beeliar-6164, bibra-lake-6163, north-lake-6163
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Environmental groups opposing the controversial Roe 8 project believe the Premier will expose WA to huge financial risks by signing construction contracts before a potential High Court challenge has been decided.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, road-transport, state-parliament, bibra-lake-6163, beeliar-6164, fremantle-6160, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe Fremantle Dockers finalise a trade with Greater Western Sydney for forward Cam McCarthy, with the Giants receiving the third pick in the AFL draft as part of the deal.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, sydney-2000, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa, nsw