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The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus, housed in old warehouse and commercial buildings in the city’s heritage-listed West End, is often credited with saving that part of the port city from dereliction. In truth, concerned locals established the Fremantle Society in 1972 to protect and preserve the city’s built heritage, some of which dates back to the convict era of the mid-1800s and some from the gold-rush era of the 1890s.
As commercial activity moved to Perth in the 1950s and ‘60s, Fremantle’s fortunes declined. It underwent a renaissance of sorts when the America’s Cup was held offshore in
