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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.

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…
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…

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…
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…
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…
Rarely A Dull Moment – What Happened At The Planning Framework Committee on 19 October? in Architecture + Urban Design
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
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. He is the author of multiple academic publications on bird ecology, including on the breeding behaviour of shorebirds. And he also writes short stories. Greg Taylor And on Saturday night, he was announced as the winner of the prestigious City of Fremantle 35th Hungerford Award for his unpublished manuscript, Wildlife in the Open Eucalyptus Forests.  As a result of which Greg receives a cash prize of $15,000, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press, and a Centre for Stories fellowship. His work has…
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…
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…
The 2026 Soroptimist Arts Scholarship Goes To … Kitty Wallwork! in Life, Law & Culture
CONGRATULATIONS to Fremantle artist Kitty Wallwork (19) who has been awarded the 2026 Arts Scholarship by Soroptimist International Fremantle (SIF).…

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 harbour for this year’s Fremantle Harbour Classic Yacht Race. 20 boats from sailing clubs around Perth were invited to race, 19 rocked up on the day. Gage Roads Brewery and the A Shed Wharf were heaving with yachties and spectators. Dr Ed Fethers and Laurie Flynn provided brilliant race commentary, keeping everyone up to speed on what was unfolding. A loud boom – the start gun - and the race had begun. The start and first leg were downwind (spinnaker, wind…

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