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Freo Today. 17 September 2026. Only 2 sleeps to go until the Prelim v Sydney Swans. And community engagement is reaching fever pitch! Love this street mural at 80 East Street, East Freo. Truly inspired! Go Freo!

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

Roel Loopers reviews this must read book written by his friend Antonios Papaspiropoulos Beyond Joe Hari’s Window, by Antonios Papaspiropoulos, is a must read book, one that I can’t recommend highly enough! It also has a Freo connection. The manuscript was edited by former Fremantle Councillor Ingrid Waltham. What is the book about? Flashbacks of life by a man who tried to kill himself and is now in a coma, listening to the chatter of nurses. It is a firework of life, so full of joie de vivre, joy of life, a real lust for life. It is a huge affirmation…
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…
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…
Baltazar – Glimpsing the Future in Shipping & Sailing
John Hartley, our roving Fremantle Port sleuth, last evening, under a crescent Moon cradling Venus, found himself face to face…
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…
‘We Must Pace The Frontier’ says Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. But Does Everyone Agree? in Life, Law & Culture
Artificial Intelligence and its promise and the potential threat it poses to humankind are serious propositions that simply can’t be…
Four Exhibitions, One Statewide Journey in Life, Law & Culture
It’s wonderful to learn about ART ON THE MOVE’s 2027–2029 Touring Program, that’s sending four contemporary art exhibitions across Western…
Get Excited! The New Bridge To Open On 1 November in Architecture + Urban Design
The Albanese and Cook Labor Governments have today confirmed that the new Fremantle Traffic Bridge will open ahead of schedule on…

After The Game With Snaps Truly – First Semi Final 2026 V Geelong

After a week of slurs and insults, none worse than the Whateley slap that Freo’s performance against Hawthorn had caused the public to lose trust in them, I thought to myself, hang on … just a bloody minute. Maybe a wander down the hall of mirrors might be in order. I tell ya, the footy industry of today is filled with so many former players and scribes, pumped up with narcissistic self importance you can almost feel the hum of their hubris. And you can certainly smell it on their breath. And I reckon none of the big talkers who once wore the jumper; who so readily belittle others who fumble a mark or miss the…