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Freo Today. 18 September 2026. LET’S GO FREO!

URGENT: TEMPORARY ACCESS CHANGES TO VICTORIA QUAY in Architecture + Urban Design
Here’s an important notice from Fremantle Ports There are currently temporary access changes in place at Victoria Quay affecting parking…
Overheard on South Terrace, South Freo this morning! in Life, Law & Culture
A partly imagined conversation Love your cap, Mate Thanks very much. That’s a pretty smart T-shirt you’re wearing. Did you…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Immigration, AI, Interest Rates, Iran, Ukraine, Canada in the EU, What Crocs? in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our regular politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle  What a busy…

Rarely A Dull Moment – Special Electors’ Meeting of 15 September 2026

Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle Council and occasionally Committee meetings and on this occasion on a Special Electors’ Meeting. We would have titled the feature Never a Dull Moment, but didn’t want to overpromise! In 2026, we are very pleased to welcome Jenny Archibald to the RADM desk. Jenny will be well known to many Freo folk as a former Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Councillor of the City of Fremantle. Jenny brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her new role as our RADM reporter and…
The Weight – Film Review in Gig Guide
Directorial debut of Padraic McKinley, co-produced by Ryan Hawke and starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe. Gayle O’Leary reviews. The…
Coral Adventurer Sets Out on Abrolhos Adventure in Shipping & Sailing
Jean Hudson reports that cruising time is here again! Here’s Coral Adventurer leaving Fremantle yesterday morning at 10.00am for the…
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…
Beyond Joe Hari’s Window – Book Review in Life, Law & Culture
Roel Loopers reviews this must read book written by his friend Antonios Papaspiropoulos Beyond Joe Hari’s Window, by Antonios Papaspiropoulos, is…
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research in Life, Law & Culture
An important piece of new research A gathering on the Murray River depicted in 1858. Gerard Krefft, Corroboree on the…
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…

Baltazar – Glimpsing the Future

John Hartley, our roving Fremantle Port sleuth, last evening, under a crescent Moon cradling Venus, found himself face to face with the state-of-the-art MV Baltazar as she entered Fremantle Harbour and wondering just what she was. As you’ll see, she has an unusual feature - or two! She was just in from Etajima, Japan (near Port Hiroshima) and is soon off to Geraldton. As John surmised, after taking his fab photos of her arrival and then consulting Prof Google, she is very likely on her Maiden Voyage having only just been completed and delivered in August 2026 by Yangzijiang Shipbuilding…
SEEING RED: All My Homies Hate War Pigs in Gig Guide
SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry invites you to YAWF’s All My Homies Hate…
Congrats To The Big Freo Spring Cleaners! in Architecture + Urban Design
Here’s our report on the Big Freo Spring Clean organised by the Good Fund Freo. Sarah Booth from Good Fund…
Four WA Writers Up For The Hungerford in Life, Law & Culture
Four Western Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 35th City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, selected from 128 manuscript submissions…

The Founding Father and The Voice

Mike Lefroy celebrates his great grandfather CY O’Connor, legendary AC/DC singer Bon Scott and the Mighty Freo Dockers! The rider and his horse. Charles Yelverton O’Connor 1843 - 1902. The Founding Father. Ronald Belford (Bon) Scott 1946 - 1980. Lead singer AC/DC 1974-1980. The Voice. Charles Yelverton O'Connor and Bon Scott both died tragically - one on a lonely beach south of Fremantle in 1902 and the other 78 years later, on a wintery night in London, half a world away. Now they lie just a couple of drop punts apart in Fremantle Cemetery. Both inspirational men are part of the…