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Freo Today. 15 October 2024. We suspect many will enjoy puzzling over this pic of the port worker on the ship in front of the Port Authority building snapped yesterday by Deanna Shanahan of the famed Instagram duo @flotsamandjetsam6162. Just where was Deanna when she took it? And just what was the port worker doing?

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Roaming Among Monsters

in Life, Law & Culture
Early in 1962 the American author, James Baldwin, published an article in the New York Times Book Review. Articulating the responsibility of writers not to hide behind their pen and to deal honestly with the world in which they find themselves, Baldwin wrote: ‘Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced’. Two generations later, in his book, Here Be Monsters, Fremantle-based Richard King uses this quote to underline the snowballing dynamic involving technology, capitalism and human nature and the urgent need to face up to the reality of what is already…
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View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Mid-East, Albo, Australia’s Voice, Western Bears, Uni rankings, and FCoC winners in Life, Law & Culture
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Inaugural Coffee & Lyrics provides a wakeup call for local music fans

in Life, Law & Culture
It was the great Kris Kristofferson who famously sang about the “Sunday Morning Come Down.” While for some, the traditional day of rest is still devoted to regretting the night before, local musicians Bill Lawrie and Claire Moodie are setting about livening up Sunday mornings in the port city. Debuting at Fremantle’s Hybrid Warehouse this past Sunday was the pair’s new listening room experience, Coffee & Lyrics, where music aficionados filled the airy Quarry Street warehouse-come-venue for a delightful serving of, well, coffee and lyrics. Lawrie and Moodie also opened the proceedings, performing a short and…
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Meet Parker and Kwilena!

in Shipping News
Fremantle Ports today proudly launched two new locally built pilot vessels that will facilitate efficient ship movements fundamental to the operations of the port. The $7.6 million Berkeley Class pilot vessels are West Australian-built in Geraldton by Dongara Marine and have a proven reputation as fast, reliable, comfortable and suitable for local conditions. Fremantle Ports CEO Jodie Ransom said, with the launch of the organisation’s Strategic Plan in 2022, Fremantle Ports has pursued increased investment in assets to prioritise safety, capacity and efficiency. At the core of Fremantle Ports’ operations is the safe and dependable arrival and…

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