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Freo Today. 6 November 2026. ‘Wally’ is standing proud after its official opening last Sunday, 1 November. And it has no shortage of admirers, including this night fisherman on the south side hoping Wally will improve his luck!

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…

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…
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…

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 small Fremantle studio has pulled off a clean sweep at Australia's national awards for screen music. Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley, who run Envelope Audio in Fremantle, won four awards at the 2026 Screen Music Awards in Brisbane last Wednesday for their music for Tales from Outer Suburbia, the ABC animated series based on the book by Perth author Shaun Tan. Here are some great pics from the night taken by Cassidy Cloupet. The guys were nominated in four categories…
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…

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 Barker asks the Prof about elections in Israel, Serbia, Brazil, the Midterms in the US, Hanson on Super, the tragedy in Spain - and the new Freo Wally Bridge. Professor Martin Drum, expounding on an issue during the recording of View from the Round House Martin Drum is the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, Law and Business and Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Notre Dame Australia, a frequenter of Fremantle, and a well known…

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