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Freo Today. 4 May 2026. So many parts to High Street. Less fashionable than the West End but becoming more so. Josephson Street nearby, a fancy wine bar, dining and meeting place over the road, and a long vista east with golden leaves. Slick pic by Gayle O’Leary.

Historic Renewable Energy Build A Big Deal in Our Environment
After all the talk and all the chatter, Western Australia is set for the biggest electricity boost in its history,…
The Pilbara Strike in Life, Law & Culture
Before mocking Welcome to Country, Peter Dowding says folk should learn some History - from 80 years ago this week. Those who deride…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 8 2026 V Western Bulldogs in Life, Law & Culture
Forever Young It’s always curious to watch Fremantle in a prime-time Friday night game. Not just to see how they soak up…

View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Farrer, Opinion polls, the Budget, Bondi interim report, Iran, The King and AUKUS

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 the Prof about the Farrer bye-election, opinion polls, Budget expectations, Bondi Royal Commission interim report, the topic we don’t talk about any more -Iran, The King and AUKUS - was that all about? Professor Martin Drum, expanding 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…
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…
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.…
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 Life, Law & Culture
Giving thanks On this ANZAC Day, when we give thanks and remember and rather mistakenly link young footballers to old warriors, I Snaps Truly offer this page modestly and with some, but please don’t thank me, sacrifice. A shoulder injury – a torn rotator cuff and a torn bicep has been nagging away at me for years.  I’m not sure where it came from.  It could have been Mal Brown trying to rip my shoulder out of its socket to hit me over the head with it or the day Mark Jackson let fly with a karate kick, or perhaps that time I was bitten by…
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 fingers. And wrap fish and chips in. And pack the crockery in when you move house. He has just spent 5 weeks poring over newspapers, old and newer, national and local, in England and Scotland. He loved every minute. Here’s his homage to newspapers. I love newspapers. They have been central to most of my life - after publishing my first newspaper as a teenager back in the 1970s covering the news of my local street in Esperance - and…

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