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Freo Today. Late 18 September 2026. Freo wins. Now to the Big Dance. Thanks to top Freo fan Rob Biddiscombe for this super shot.

After The Game With Snaps Truly – Second Preliminary Final 2026 v Sydney in Life, Law & Culture
I avoided just about all the talk in the build up. And then on Thursday night I couldn’t help meself.…
Data Centres and AI Infrastructure: A Snapshot (September 2026) in Our Environment
*Prepared by Claude (Anthropic) Our Editor posed this set of questions to Claude (Anthropic): Claude, you’ll know all about this.…
URGENT: TEMPORARY ACCESS CHANGES TO VICTORIA QUAY in Architecture + Urban Design
Here’s an important notice from Fremantle Ports There are currently temporary access changes in place at Victoria Quay affecting parking…

Overheard on South Terrace, South Freo this morning!

A partly imagined conversation Love your cap, Mate Thanks very much. That’s a pretty smart T-shirt you’re wearing. Did you design it yourself? Nah, the missus found it in an op shop up the road the other day. She reckons it’s a leftover from the 2013 grand final. Maybe it is! Amazing; anyway, I think we’ve got this one in the bag. Yeah, for sure - three goals, I’d say. You’ve heard about hubris, haven’t you? Nah. Is he a late inclusion? Nah. Doesn’t exist, I heard JL say. Three sounds about right, but could be five. Who do your…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Immigration, AI, Interest Rates, Iran, Ukraine, Canada in the EU, What Crocs? in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our regular politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle  What a busy…
Rarely A Dull Moment – Special Electors’ Meeting of 15 September 2026 in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
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 in Life, Law & Culture
Roel Loopers reviews this must read book written by his friend Antonios Papaspiropoulos Beyond Joe Hari’s Window, by Antonios Papaspiropoulos, is…

More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research

An important piece of new research A gathering on the Murray River depicted in 1858. Gerard Krefft, Corroboree on the Murray River, 1858. Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Alan N Williams, James Cook University; Lynette Russell, Monash University; Sean Ulm, James Cook University, and Shane Ingrey, UNSW Content warning: This article discusses mass death, epidemics, frontier violence, and the structural violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. More than two million Indigenous people probably lived in Australia at the time of the British invasion in 1788, according 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…
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!

Here’s our report on the Big Freo Spring Clean organised by the Good Fund Freo. Sarah Booth from Good Fund Freo tells us that the big spring clean went so well - and that the common thread between the participants afterwards was how good it felt to participate in doing something positive for the Freo centre! Here’s a great gallery of pics taken by Adam Kenna on the day, last Saturday morning, that give you the feel. About 100 people showed up and did everything from picking up rubbish and weeding, to cleaning the shop windows left dirty by absent owners.  And…