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Freo Today. 8 November 2026. Yesterday morning was the perfect morning for Round 1 of Swimming WA Open Water Series at Fremantle Surf Life Saving Club, Leighton. Jean Hudson’s snap says it all.

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…

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…
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…
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,…
Freo studio brings home four national music awards in Fremantle People
Local composers Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley win every category they were up for at the Screen Music Awards A…
Children Have One Childhood – Poverty Should Not Define It in Life, Law & Culture
Fremantle Shipping News is pleased to publish this Opinion Piece by Tony Pietropiccolo AM* WA is rich in resources and…
Daytime homelessness support services to begin in Rockingham in Life, Law & Culture
We hear and talk a lot about homelessness, so here’s a State Government initiative just south of Fremantle, at Rockingham,…

‘Wally’ opens for business

in Architecture + Urban Design
Walyalup Bridge - her birth name - otherwise affectionately dubbed ‘Wally’, opened today to great fanfare. Here’s our story and pics of the morning. As you’ll see, Rita, quite reasonably, took centre-stage! At more or less exactly 9 am this morning, Sunday, 1 November 2026, Rita Saffioti, the Minister for getting things done around WA, and Josh Wilson MP, the Federal Member for Fremantle, officially opened the new Walyalup Bridge linking North Fremantle and Fremantle across the Derbarl Yerrigan.  L-R Simone McGurk MLA, Rita Saffioti, Lisa O’Malley MLA, the be-hatted Josh Wilson As soon as they did, there was a…

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