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Freo Today. 30 April 2026. When the river begins to trick you, blurring the line between real and reflection. Pic by Jean Hudson taken at Swan Yacht Club, East Freo. Yesterday morning.

Arts Scene Around Freo in Gig Guide
Welcome to our new feature - Arts Scene Around Freo - compiled by our Arts Editor, Gayle O’Leary. Here we…
Welcome to Country in Life, Law & Culture
Bruce Menzies offers some thoughts about Welcomes to Country Shivering in the predawn chill, I stand on Monument Hill in Fremantle.…
Bondi Royal Commission Interim Report Comes Down in Life, Law & Culture
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has made 14 recommendations in its Interim Report, which was today presented…

Farewell to the Freo Big Top

in Architecture + Urban Design
🎪 An end of an Era Since 2017, the CircusWA training and development centre has called the Freo Big Top on Princess May Park, home. The Freo Big Top was installed as a short term (3 year) survival strategy for the circus after losing Old Customs House as a training facility.  But the transition from this temporary solution into a permanent home ended up taking 9 years. The transition was impacted by a pandemic and a decade of diminishing funding to the arts sector. Against all odds, and with extraordinary fortitude and resilience, the circus community transformed a tent in a park into the Freo Big Top. A safe…
Spirit of Tasmania V: From Finnish Shipyard to Fremantle to Dark Mofo in Shipping & Sailing
Last August here on the Shipping News we had the privilege of covering Spirit of Tasmania IV on her way…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 7 2026 V Carlton in Uncategorised
Giving thanks On this ANZAC Day, when we give thanks and remember and rather mistakenly link young footballers to old warriors, I…
A Schooner or a Barquentine? in Shipping & Sailing
That is the question! An avid Freo ship, boat, vessel and craft watcher has written in and posed a question…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – ANZAC Day, Iran, The NDIS, The Budget, The Farrer By-Election, and Bye Bye Boomers in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle  Today, our Editor, Michael Barker asks…
Rarely A Dull Moment – Community Safety, Community Health, Seasonal Trading Policy Updated in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
My five weeks in newspaper heaven! in Life, Law & Culture
Tim Slater loves newspapers. The ones you can hold in your hands and finish up with ink smudged on your…

Investigating The Investigator Investigating The Sea

in Shipping & Sailing
Next Generation Marine Experts Set Sail  You may have seen the bright blue (RV) Investigator in Fremantle since last weekend. She’s Australia’s only research vessel and operates out of Hobart. CAPSTAN (the Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea-Training Alliance Network) Voyage Manager, Dr Ben Arthur from the CSIRO Marine National Facility conducted a media tour on Wednesday and Fremantle Shipping News was delighted to be there. The vessel wasn’t open to the public on this occasion, just the Media. Here she is alongside Absolute, the Port of Fremantle fuelling ship. Investigator is heading off today on a 13 day research and training voyage to Hobart. Twenty students from universities across Australia are joining the CSIRO…
Shmoozing with the Mayor in Life, Law & Culture
Our Editor, Michael Barker caught up with the Mayor of Fremantle, Ben Lawver yesterday to find out how he has…
Freo Press Get Early 50th Birthday Pressie! in Life, Law & Culture
Fremantle Press shortlisted for Australian Book Industry Award in lead up to 50th Birthday Party and Open Day this Friday 24…
Interview with John Kinder – The Canon of Ancona in Life, Law & Culture
John Kinder is Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies at University of Western Australia. He taught at UWA for 33 years.…

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 poets and those who may not call themselves poets but love writing poetry or having a go! Today, we are pleased to bring you These fall days by Christine Owen. *Dr Christine Owen is a Freo resident, freelance writer and poet, and former senior lecturer in literature and creative writing at Murdoch University and University of Melbourne.  ~ Look here for other poems in The Wednesday Poem feature. ~ And don’t miss our podcast interviews with other poets in our Poets Paddock feature. ~ If you’d…

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