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Freo Today. 12 May 2026. ‘Artisan Place’ is the name of the upscale development happening in Burt Street, Fremantle. It’s been coming for years, with DevelopmentWA and Edge Visionary Living the longtime proponents. Here’s our report on it all from nearly 5 years ago! Gillam Architects are the architects. For an apartment complex with views to die for over Freo and the Port to the Indian Ocean, the name Artisan Place obviously has not been randomly chosen! It’s plainly intended to convey something about the quality and individuality of the design and the build and the complex’s location in a neighbourhood seeping Freo character. You’ll see some of the Artist’s impressions right here on the sale site. Seems there’s a couple left. Just how affordable they are, we leave to you, dear reader to ascertain. Anyway, it’s all happening, as this pic taken yesterday shows. (Small boys and politicians, and e-zine editors too, it has to be said, just love cranes!)

Wyn Carr House Complete in Architecture + Urban Design
Just 18 months ago, we were reporting on how many hands were turning the first sod on the Wyn Carr…
Wargul and Rivers artwork unveiled in Our Environment
Fremantle Shipping News was delighted to attend the unveiling of a new artwork by emerging Indigenous artist Lily Wilson, on 11…
Cruel Offshore Processing of Refugees a World Away  in Life, Law & Culture
Says Pauline Pannell of Grandmothers For Refugees and Friends Fremantle Last week as Fremantle clocked up its 300th vigil for refugee rights, the Senate Inquiry into…

After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 9 2026 V Hawthorn

Wharfie Time is real! All week there’d been a weird vibe. Not sure if you noticed it.  I sensed it on the Freo Massive social media page. Usually home to requests for a good plumber or anyone who might know the whereabouts of a stolen bike. But this week it was full of talk about chem trails.  And photographic evidence apparently, of white condensation streaks across beautiful blue skies that had nothing at all to do with departing aeroplanes but everything to do with a covert conspiracy of imminent mind control. Well, let me tell you wild-eyed wearers of the tin foil hat, there is only room for…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – UK Elections, IS Brides, Farrer By-Election, Iran, Il Papa, WA Budget, Federal Budget, the Dockers and Being Alive in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle  Today, our Editor, Michael Barker asks…
Arts Scene Around Freo in Gig Guide
Welcome to our feature - Arts Scene Around Freo - compiled by our Arts Editor, Gayle O’Leary. Here we will…
SailGP Bermuda 2026: BONDS Flying Roos Riding High in Shipping & Sailing
Jean Hudson reports on the fifth SailGP event for 2026 in Bermuda. The year’s first Sail GP in Freo is…
German Film Festival Review in Life, Law & Culture
Barry Healy reviews some of the films in the German Film Festival that caught his eye The 2026 HSBC German…
Emission Targets, LNG and an Electrifying Future in Our Environment
Following our Editorial decrying the abandonment by the State Government of the challenge of setting interim emissions targets for WA,…
The Latest Climate Change News in Our Environment
Here’s the latest On Good Authority roundup from Australia’s Climate Change Authority. Find more here on the Climate Change Authority ~…

EDITORIAL: When a Government Removes Its Own Climate Targets, It Tells You Everything You Need to Know

The ABC has just reported that the Cook Labor Government will no longer seek to introduce interim emissions targets in 2023 through its proposed Climate Change Bill, and will now replace it with the Green Energy Powerhouse Bill, which will scrap interim emissions targets and introduce a range of "decarbonisation" targets. It has to be said that this appears to be the second step of a ‘one step forward, two steps back’ energy emissions strategy. At the beginning of this week, the Shipping News was trumpeting - under the bold banner, Historic Renewable Energy Build A Big Deal - the…
FCO & Ellie Malonzo Play St Pat’s in Gig Guide
St Patrick’s Basilica in Adelaide Street, Freo is always a great venue to hear Hans Hug’s Fremantle Chamber Orchestra performing…
The Wednesday Poem in Life, Law & Culture
Fremantle Shipping News is pleased to bring you The Wednesday Poem. In this feature we post poems by Freo and Freo-connected…
Historic Renewable Energy Build A Big Deal in Our Environment
After all the talk and all the chatter, Western Australia is set for the biggest electricity boost in its history,…

The Pilbara Strike

Before mocking Welcome to Country, Peter Dowding says folk should learn some History - from 80 years ago this week. Those who deride Welcome to Country as divisive should first reckon with the truly divisive history of a State that once denied Aboriginal people wages, liberty and control over their own lives while profiting from their labour. Source pilbarastrike.org On 1 May 1946, more than 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers and their families walked off stations across the Pilbara. It was the beginning of Australia’s longest strike, but it was also a revolt against a system that had treated Indigenous people in Western Australia’s…