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Freo Today. 21 October 2026. The Fremantle District Police Complex is coming along. Looks like they are nearly ready to fix the razzle dazzle to the outside structure?

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…
Interview with Greg Taylor – 2026 Hungerford Prize Winner in Life, Law & Culture
Greg Taylor has a PhD in Ecology from Monash University, an MSc in Conservation Biology, and a BSc in Biology.…
The MV Cape Don – Are Her Days Done? in Shipping & Sailing
John Adderley, once second mate and later chief officer of the Cape Don in the 1970s, and later again a…

The 2026 Soroptimist Arts Scholarship Goes To … Kitty Wallwork!

CONGRATULATIONS to Fremantle artist Kitty Wallwork (19) who has been awarded the 2026 Arts Scholarship by Soroptimist International Fremantle (SIF). Kitty is an established artist and works across many mediums through her business KaiArts, using digital and traditional mediums creating detailed digital illustrations and paintings to customised skateboards, clothing, bags and merchandise. Inspired by Japanese and Chinese culture, Kitty’s winning artwork – Where the Yatu Sleeps – uses symbolism and colour to create a peaceful yet powerful scene. A Tora (tiger) rests atop a red Torii gate, a traditional Japanese shrine gate symbolising spirituality, protection, and the connection between the…
Seen In Freo … AFL Grand Final Day in Seen in Freo
Grand Final Day from the ground and the air in Fremantle on Saturday, 26 September 2026. Colour of bruises and…
Some Sunshine, A Sou’wester and Sirene: The 2026 Fremantle Harbour Classic in Shipping & Sailing
What a great event! The sun came out, the Fremantle Doctor did its thing, and the Harbour Master closed the…
A quick pirouette, a curtsy, and then she was gone! in Shipping & Sailing
At around 4 pm yesterday, Crown Princess departed Freo, having arrived around 6 am in the morning. Our Shipping &…
The Bridge Naming Suggestions So Far – Updated Version in Architecture + Urban Design
UPDATED AS OF TUESDAY MORNING! On Sunday18 October, we launched The Great Fremantle Bridge Naming Contest and what an enormous…
Her Royal Highness Drops Anchor: Crown Princess Returns to Freo as Carnival Loses it Aussie Crush in Shipping & Sailing
A regal visitor, Crown Princess passed through the heads of North and South Moles into Freo Port at just on 6 am this…
The Great Fremantle Bridge Naming Contest in Architecture + Urban Design
In exactly 2 weeks today, the new Fremantle Traffic Bridge will be opened, with great fanfare, to the public travelling…

Creatures and critters take centre stage in Hungerford Award winning manuscript

Greg Taylor has won the 35th Hungerford Award for Wildlife in the Open Eucalyptus Forests.  Written from the viewpoint of 24 species – none of which are human – this collection of narrative non-fiction essays is an invitation to see the world from a different perspective. Greg Taylor After growing up in Miami and living in San Francisco, Greg came to live in Perth after a Goldilocks moment in which he found Melbourne too cold and Brisbane too humid. He is an ecologist and a passionate birder who has stalked fairy-wrens at the foot of the Great Dividing Range, captured black-legged kittiwakes atop an abandoned radio tower on an island off the coast of Alaska and chased Caspian terns from the ocean to the desert.  It’s…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – MUWAC, Roger, Josh, Jim, Mark, Don – and Katie 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 – What happened at the Strategic & General Services Committee Meeting on 14 October 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…
Don’t Miss The Harbour Classic This Sunday in Shipping & Sailing
The Fremantle Harbour Classic Yacht Race is on this Sunday. Take the family to the Port! “Head on down to Victoria…

Don’t shoot the Orca!

Our Shipping & Sailing Correspondent Jean Hudson has been getting up close and personal to Orca, the apex predator of our oceans, lately. Here’s her report first from Bremer Bay, WA, and then from Portugal. Bremer Bay, West Australia, 2026. Five months ago, I witnessed the first ever observed Fin Whale predation by Orca in Australia. I was on a Bremer Bay Orca Whale Watching trip. We motored out to ‘The Patch’ – an area offshore in the deep waters of the Bremer Canyon, the Orca’s usual hunting ground. Between January and April, more Orca gather in one place than almost anywhere else on earth. Suddenly we…