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Freo Today. 27 October 2026. Did you know the sailing ship Emily Taylor landed settlers at Augusta on 2 May 1830, and then 19 days later was wrecked at South Bay, Fremantle? True as. Here’s a plaque at Augusta recording the Augusta arrival. The best record of the calamitous end of the Emily Taylor today is her namesake restaurant in Freo! Oh, the ship in the distance in this pic? It’s the cruise ship Coral Geographer at anchor just off Augusta and Flinders Bay today, having departed Fremantle Friday bound for Albany and beyond.

View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Israel, Serbia, Brazil, US Midterms, Hanson on Super, Spain, Wally Bridge 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…
And the Winning Name in The Fremantle Shipping News Bridge Naming Competition is … ‘Wally’ in Architecture + Urban Design
 On Sunday 18 October, we launched The Great Fremantle Bridge Naming Contest before the WA Government announced the official name of…
Rarely a Dull Moment – Draft Local Planning Scheme 5 – A Big Deal in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…

From Freo to Sihanoukville: The Odyssey’s Last Voyage?

in Shipping & Sailing
Remember the ship Villa Vie Odyssey? She arrived in time for the Easter weekend and the Fremantle International Street Arts Festival earlier this year and left again on Easter Monday for Bali. I reported on the ship’s story then under the heading Sailing into a Trump Free Sunset. Odyssey, Fremantle, April 2026. Credit Jean Hudson. She was on an extraordinary 3.5-year global circumnavigation, visiting 425 destinations across 147 countries — taking in the Caribbean, South America, North America, Japan, the South Pacific, and Australia, before continuing through the Middle East, Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Africa, and the Mediterranean through 2027. I’ve often wondered how it was going for…
New creative hub opens at Fremantle Arts Centre in Life, Law & Culture
A new recording studio and performance space at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre is set to help nurture the next generation…
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…
Colorado in Port for Major Maintenance in Shipping & Sailing
US submarine visit puts Stirling on track for AUKUS role HMAS Stirling has taken another step towards becoming the home…
More on the Don – A Scouting Future? in Shipping & Sailing
Recently we posted MV Cape Don – Are Her Days Done? by Freo local John Adderley. John drew attention to the Sea…
SEEING RED: Walking The Long March in Life, Law & Culture
SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry is inspired by the Long March…
A tale of bridges over the Derbarl Yerrigan at Walyalup in Architecture + Urban Design
As the new Walyalup Bridge is due to open this coming Sunday, 1 November 2026, Kristi McNulty and Jenny Archibald…

MV Cape Don charity named DCN Diversity and Inclusion Award finalist

in Shipping & Sailing
Recently we posted MV Cape Don - Are Her Days Done? by Freo local John Adderley. John drew attention to the Sea Heritage Foundation in whose care the Cape Don has been for many years before the recent seizure by the NSW Government of the vessel due to pollution concerns. Today we post a Letter to the Editor from Harold Van Haltren concerning the Cape Don and the Sea Heritage Foundation and the Cape Don’s future. Dear Editor, Sea Heritage Foundation has been named a finalist for the Diversity and Inclusion Award at the 2026 DCN Australian Shipping & Maritime…
Castaways is on again! in Gig Guide
Castaways Sculpture Awards 2026 kicked off at Rockingham over the weekend and our Jean Hudson was there to spot her…
It’s Officially ‘Walyalup Bridge’ in Architecture + Urban Design
In an announcement made today on behalf of the Government of Western Australia, Rita Saffioti, Transport and Major Infrastructure Minister,…
VIEW FROM THE ROUND HOUSE WITH MARTIN DRUM – HELEN HAINES, GREENPEACE, UKRAINE AND TRUMP, VICTORIA, MUWAC – AND FRANCE BURNING 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…

Totally Lit 2026

in Life, Law & Culture
Never one to snub a festival, especially when it's about literature, Gayle merrily marched along to as many Totally Lit events as she could muster and offers her highest compliments to brilliant Sharon Flindell on the excellent festival now in its second year. Here's a snap from each of them. 6 October: Borderlines - Rashida Murphy, Mohammed Massoud Morsi, Sisonke Msimang, and Tineke van der Eeken reflected on the borders they crossed in their lives to get here and the boundaries they continue to face in their efforts to be recognised and published in a world of upheaval. This powerful…

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