Home

Home

FREO TODAY

Freo Today. 12 May 2026. As the Freo days become more autumnal during Djeran season, our Jean Hudson has gone on assignment to the Kimberley to suss out places where the sun continues to shine and the water is always inviting. Here’s her latest despatch – Emma Gorge, East Kimberley, ‘a very special place’. Sure is! Especially when you swim out under the waterfall, as Jean did.

View from the Round House with Martin Drum – The Politics of the Budget, What Farrer Means, Are the Libs on Life Support, Is Starmer the canary, Xi & Trump, Are the Freo Dockers the Answer to Everything? 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…
Rarely A Dull Moment – Planning, Trees, Differential Rates, Other Stuff in Architecture + Urban Design
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
Letter to the Editor: 2030 Operational Date Questioned in Our Environment
Recently, we reported that HISTORIC RENEWABLE ENERGY BUILD A BIG DEAL, indicating that the WA State Government with the Federal…

BONDS Flying Roos Clean Up In Bermuda

in Shipping & Sailing
Congratulations to the Australian F50 Team at the Bermuda SailGP - that’s two wins in a row! Jean Hudson reports. They’ve done it again! Tom Slingsby’s BONDS Flying Roos won again at the Apex Group Bermuda Sail Grand Prix on 9-10 May 2026. That’s two in a row and their third event win in the 2026, Rolex SailGP Championship – can anyone catch them? Racing on Bermuda’s Great Sound, Australia defeated Los Gallos (Spain) and Germany Deutsche Bank in a winner-takes-all final to extend their overall championship lead to10 points.  The two-day event got underway with 11 of the expected 13 boats, with New Zealand's Black Foils remaining sidelined…
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…
The Bridge: The Very Latest From Main Roads WA in Architecture + Urban Design
 Things seem to going gangbusters! Here’s the latest report from Main Roads WA First Deck Pour Complete for the New…
Freo May Day March in Seen in Freo
May Day returned to Fremantle on Sunday, 3 May 2026! WA unions and workers assembled at the Esplanade 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…
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 Offshore Processing and Resettlement Arrangements was holding public hearings.   Standing in the mild autumn sunshine in front of Scots Church on Friday, with passersby talking and laughing as they headed into town after work, it was hard for me to believe that the abuse of asylum seekers that I had been reading about was real. For 13 years, violence, hunger and fear have characterized the experiences of the those who have suffered through Australia’s offshore detention process in Nauru and PNG. There are currently around 100 asylum seekers on Nauru and near 30 on PNG where a humanitarian crisis has been unfolding.  The testimonies are painful to…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 9 2026 V Hawthorn in Life, Law & Culture
Wharfie Time is real! All week there’d been a weird vibe. Not sure if you noticed it.  I sensed it…
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…
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 Film Festival returns to Luna on SX from 8 to 27 May. There are other screenings at Palace Cinemas Raine Square and Luna Leederville. The festival has. over 20 films to choose from in its programme. The opening night party on May 7 at Palace Raine Square Perth, features the new film, Berlin Hero (Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße) by Wolfgang Becker, whose Good Bye, Lenin! wowed audiences in 2003. Becker died shortly after production wrapped on this drama/comedy that again satirically examines the relationship between modern, unified, capitalist Germany and its relationship to the old, socialist East Germany. The closing night film is the director’s cut of…

© 2026 Fremantle Shipping News / Site by Super Minimal

© 2026 Fremantle Shipping News / Site by Superminimal