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Freo Today. 10 November 2026. The Perth Amateur Photographic Exhibition opened at Kidogo Arthouse at Bathers Beach in Freo on Sunday afternoon, and ends this Thursday, 12 November. Some lovely, catch your eye entries, including by FSN regular contributors Jean Hudson and Gayle O’Leary. So do get along – and vote for your fav to win the People’s Choice award while you’re there!

Fab Free Freo Harbour Tours – Book Today! in Shipping & Sailing
Jean Hudson reports on her big day out on a Freo Ports harbour tour and says ‘Don’t miss it. Reserve…
No such thing as coincidence in Fremantle People
It is perhaps no coincidence that a new book has been published on the eve of Remembrance Day, 11 November.…
Passionate Politics – Podcast with Jo Vallentine, Chilla Bulbeck & Brad Pettitt in Life, Law & Culture
Passionate Politics: A History of the Greens in WA by Shaun Salmon has just been launched by UWA Publishing. As…

Queer Walking Tour of Freo

in Life, Law & Culture
Ryan Steed invites ideas as he plans a queer walking tour of Freo. Only in my late 20s did I realise I was gay. At 31, I came out to friends and family. At 33, as a teacher, I grew sick of lying to my students, who generally assumed I was straight, and I wrote and shared a letter, my hands shaking as I talked to the class of Year 10s. I’ll never forget the affirming way they responded, how much easier I walked in my shoes after that moment. I know that for many queer people today, in Australia…
SEEING RED: Latency, the AI Bubble and Australia’s Prison Tattoo in Life, Law & Culture
SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, as Anthropic ponder an IPO to test…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – The Midterms Wrap, What Does The Future Hold? 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…
Rarely A Dull Moment – Hickory Dickory Dock in Architecture + Urban Design
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
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 Latest Climate Change Report in Our Environment
Just in from Australia’s Climate Change Authority who you can follow right here on Facebook ~ If you’d like to COMMENT on…
Seen In Freo … 👻🎃💀 in Seen in Freo
Last Saturday night, innocent South Freo folk, out on their evening constitutional in Atwell Street, were confronted with quite frightening…

Sand Returns to Port

in Beaches
Sand nourishment works underway at Port Beach If you’ve been near Leighton and Port beaches this last week, you’ll have seen temporary fencing and exclusion zones, earth movers working on the beaches, and trucks moving sand south along Curtin Avenue. It’s all part of a process of sand nourishment at Port Beach. The City of Fremantle is trucking 4,000 cubic metres of sand from northern Leighton Beach, adjacent to the Leighton pedestrian overpass near McCabe Street, to Pocket Beach and Sandtrax Beach at the southern end of Port Beach, to nourish the sand the Beach has lost to erosion. The sand from…
Interview with Lynsey McDonnell – Author of Bailey Street in Life, Law & Culture
Once you read this synopsis of Lynsey McDonnell’s debut contemporary and historical romance novel, Bailey Street, you will want to…
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…
Here’s The Latest From Main Roads! in Architecture + Urban Design
‘Wally’ is open for business, but work remains to be done adjusting all the modifications to the road network that…

Collaborate or Perish

in Life, Law & Culture
Says our regular contributing thinker Bruce Menzies* ‘Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.’ A poignant observation from the Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami. For repeat offenders, to which I plead guilty, it’s a teaching of the highest order. A bit like some of the Leunig cartoons that hang on my wall. This came into focus as I awoke to a Spring morning in Fremantle. If the birds were singing, I didn’t hear them. Instead, I lay inert,…

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