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FREO TODAY

Freo Today. 18 January 2025. Easily missed. Or, if spotted, avoided. It don’t. Enjoy the stroll. From Adelaide St through to Cantonment. Or reverse. Have a look at the art on display as you go. Interesting arcade, Woodson’s.

What Really Matters in Our Environment
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View from the Round House with Martin Drum – The Ceasefire in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. So, 2025 is the year. The…
The Great Debate. 19 February 2025. Be there! in Life, Law & Culture
Don’t miss The Great Debate at Notre Dame University in 19 February at 6.30 pm, featuring the candidates vying for…

The Round House has Friends

The Round House, at Arthurs Head at the very west end of High Street, Fremantle, has regular visitors, wedding parties, experienced guides, many admirers, and now some more formal ‘Friends’. A meeting of these Friends in Freo on 8 January 2025, resolved to form a new group called ‘Friends of the Round House’, with the avowed aim of lobbying for the needs of the Round House. We have to…
LISTEN – an anthology of poetry and prose: A Review in Life, Law & Culture
It is good to know the written word is alive and flourishing in Fremantle. Members of OOTA, the Out of…
The Kate for Fremantle Campaign Launch in Life, Law & Culture
Well, along with an avalanche of very enthusiastic younger, and some older, Kate for Fremantle supporters, Fremantle Shipping News and…
Salvos Christmas Thank You Letter to the Editor in Life, Law & Culture
Dear Editor, With the start of a new year, 2025 offers us a chance to reflect on the year that…
Loving South Beach – A Poem in Life, Law & Culture
Loving South Beach - A Poem The sun’s still rising A summer sun Early Feels like I’m the only living…
Up There Walyalup Walking Tour in Architecture + Urban Design
An auditory experience and love letter to Fremantle. Where else in Perth can you expect to be serenaded and cajoled…
Gallery of Regatta’s Arrival in Freo in Shipping News
Regatta, a smaller but very cute cruise ship, ended a 20 day cruise out of Sydney, via Bali, in Freo…

View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Welcome to 2025!

Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. What a year 2024 was. Welcome to 2025!. Today we review the two elections coming up - Federal and WA State. And then of course look at Trump and US politics. It’s going to be a BIG year… Martin Drum is the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, Business and Law and Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Notre Dame…
47 Pakenham Street Redux – And Letters to the Editor in Architecture + Urban Design
Many readers, especially in the West End of Fremantle, will recall the controversial tavern proposal for 47 Pakenham Street that…
Sydney Express – From Freo to Port Klang in Shipping News
The Sydney Express, big container ship, recently in from Adelaide departed Fremantle this morning at 7 am for Port Klang,…
Interview with Grant Revell – Loving Place Fremantle in Fremantle People
The creative force behind the Loving Place Fremantle project, Grant Revell, has a wonderful background in town and regional planning…

Voices4Freo Choose KATE FOR FREMANTLE

It seems just the other day that we posted the news that a Voices4Fremantle group were actively seeking a Candidate or Candidates to run under the Voices banner in the upcoming State and a Federal general elections. Well, we have now learned that Voices have tapped Freo gal-about-town Kate Hulett of Kate & Abel fame to run in the State seat under the banner KATE FOR FREMANTLE. The State elections will be held on Saturday 8 March 2025. Here are the key dates. Fremantle Shipping News has been invited to the launch of the Kate for Fremantle campaign this Friday…