ABOUT 30 Australians are diagnosed with skin cancer every day and more than 1000 people die of the disease each year. In a bid to reduce that number, the Cancer Council of Australia has recently changed the guidelines for diagnosing melanoma, adding elevation, firmness and growth to the assessment list. The previous diagnosis of moles…

Make your way down to George Street, East Fremantle on Sunday 3 December between 1pm and 7pm for the annual street festival. This year’s festival theme is ‘Come Celebrate our Community’ with local performers (and those that grew up in Fremantle), performing on both stages. Kids will be spoilt for choice with free fun activities…

If you missed out on tickets for the Freo Long Table don’t worry. You can still come down to High Street for fabulous entertainment, late night shopping and even free gelato! It’s the perfect opportunity to get a head start on your festive shopping, while enjoying the vibrant atmosphere. There’ll be circus acts, fire-eaters and…

LAST year there was dancing in the street…what will this year hold? High Street will be filled with 800 diners on November 30 for the Fremantle Long Table Dinner. The dinner is the brainchild of the National Hotel’s Karl Bullers and the Fremantle Business Improvement District, who wanted to create a special event in support…

MORE than 100 people have volunteered to help at this year’s Long Table Dinner. Whether it’s waitstaff, kitchen-hands, or muscle to set up the tables, there’s a whole host of willing bodies ready to do their part to support St Pat’s major annual fundraiser. “We have had an overwhelming response,” said St Pat’s Volunteer Coordinator…

THIS year’s Pride Parade is going to be bigger than ever, with a new route that takes it through the heart of Northbridge. The parade, which is on Saturday, November 25, now also goes past both of Perth’s main LGBTIQ+ venues, starting at the Court Hotel and sashaying past Connections Nightclub for the first time…

IT’S all over bar the shouting. But from all reports that clamour should be the joyful celebrations of marriage equality supporters when the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the results of the national plebiscite on marriage equality this coming Wednesday. With almost 80 per cent of the nation’s voters making the effort to have their…

THIS is what HIV looks like in 2017” This is the powerful tagline on this year’s AIDS day billboard campaign, featuring photos of six ordinary-looking people living with the condition. It is the first campaign of its type in Australia and WA AIDS Council’s Mark Reid is hopeful that featuring people confident enough to go…

Indulge your senses and invigorate your spirit at Chapels on Whatley. Not only does it serve up the biggest range of artisan teas in Perth, plus superb speciality Toro Black coffee, it also does fabulous Eurasian cuisine and kick ass cocktails. The amazing menu offers tastes from exotic eastern British colonies of the past like…