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Freo Today. 30 September 2026. The beautiful Freo weather yesterday, not to mention the red, red bottlebrushes, are helping to stem the sense of loss Freo folk are continuing to suffer following last Saturday at the G. The bottlebrushes in particular are quite radiant.

Meet Jessica Kennedy, One of the Hungerford Four in Life, Law & Culture
City of Fremantle Hungerford Prize shortlister Jessica Kennedy is one of four writers in the running to win a $15,000…
Totally Lit is Coming! Are you ready? in Life, Law & Culture
Sharon Flindell, Totally Lit’s Curator/Producer lets us know what’s in store starting 2 October! Fremantle, you have just one week…
Mourning Has Broken in Life, Law & Culture
Bruce Menzies* reflects I awake to clouded skies. The streets of South Fremantle are silent. Sunday morning coming down, to transplant the name…

Lovely Leeuwin Lives!

in Shipping & Sailing
All Hands-on Deck: STS Leeuwin II kicks-off just before the AFL Grand Final. Jean Hudson reports. On 22 Saturday 2026, just before the AFL Grand Final throw up, I watched STS Leeuwin II set sail on its first voyage with full rigging since the crash that de-masted her in 2024. And of course, a huge Docker’s Flag flew from her rigging. Credit Camilo Mejia Ahead of the departure, invited guests climbed onboard for speeches and welcome to country by Walter McGuire, OAM. Proceedings came to a brief halt when the massive MSC Alamira container ship sounded her horn and motored past us accompanied by two tugs. Father Ernest Lennon from St John’s Anglican Church then blessed the Leeuwin…
SEEING RED: The Selfie and the Empire in Life, Law & Culture
SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry is inspired by ‘the selfie’. Recently,…
La Scala: The Force of Destiny in Gig Guide
The Italian Film Festival is on at Luna in Freo. Here’s Barry Healy’s review of La Scala. He likes it!…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Grand Final 2026 in Life, Law & Culture
Been here all week. Thousands of us. Filling the cafes and pubs and streets of Melbourne with our colours and our hope. Grinning like…
Rarely A Dull Moment – The North Freo Coastline in Architecture + Urban Design
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Fun and Games in NYC & DC – and at The G in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our regular politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle  Today, our Editor, Michael…
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…

AUKUS Angst Aloud

in Our Environment
International Day of Peace: Mayors, Councillors and Campaigners discuss AUKUS nuclear safety and risks for Cockburn Sound Alongside the sunlit expanse of South Beach Recreation Reserve in South Fremantle, with happy families supervising children in the nearby playground, a critical conversation unfolded on Monday 21 September 2026, in the International Day of Peace. Local government leaders and peace advocates gathered at Bistro 21 for an exclusive round-table discussion convened by Nuclear Free WA. The 90-minute forum zeroed in on the rapidly evolving issue of nuclear safety risks confronting Cockburn Sound and its surrounding communities under the AUKUS pact. The meeting brought together invited Mayors and Councillors from Perth’s south-west metropolitan region. It served as a platform for voicing urgent community concerns and stripping away the layers of secrecy around the defence agreement. A…
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…
$150,000 Up for Grabs to Strengthen Fremantle Communities in Life, Law & Culture
Local community groups across Fremantle, East Fremantle and Cockburn have the chance to secure a share of $150,000 in federal…
Ports are where Australia’s freight transition can demonstrate net zero in Our Environment
Fremantle’s electric terminal trucks show why fuel security is no longer just about stockpiling fuel. Ports could be a earlystepping stone towards a much larger…

A Special Trees Edition of Rarely A Dull Moment

in Our Environment
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle Council and other meetings. On this occasion we bring you a Special Edition on Trees by our reporter, Jenny Archibald. Jenny is well known to Freo folk as a former Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Councillor of the City of Fremantle and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her RADM reports. To tree or not to tree? That certainly is the question right now. This special RADM looks at this topic which has been simmering for a few months in one form or another.  Thecurrent tree discussion started…

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