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Freo Today. 13 May 2026. The work on the Fremantle Traffic Bridge proceeds apace. Good Main Roads WA job, if you can get it, is in a big tinny on the river holding up a SLOW sign directed at oncoming river traffic!

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The Bridge: The Very Latest From Main Roads WA in Architecture + Urban Design
 Things seem to going gangbusters! Here’s the latest report from Main Roads WA First Deck Pour Complete for the New…
Freo May Day March in Seen in Freo
May Day returned to Fremantle on Sunday, 3 May 2026! WA unions and workers assembled at the Esplanade on the…
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…

Wyn Carr House Complete

in Architecture + Urban Design
Just 18 months ago, we were reporting on how many hands were turning the first sod on the Wyn Carr House project in Freo. Well, now the plan of Uniting WA and HAA to assist older, vulnerable women is a reality. Here’s our story! On 30 April 2026, Wyn Carr House was formally opened by the state Minister for Housing and Works, John Carey and Minister for Homelessness, Matthew Swinbourn.  Wyn Carr House is a very impressive project to assist the housing of older, vulnerable women. The idea is now a reality, and has come about because so many wonderful…
Wargul and Rivers artwork unveiled in Our Environment
Fremantle Shipping News was delighted to attend the unveiling of a new artwork by emerging Indigenous artist Lily Wilson, on 11…
Cruel Offshore Processing of Refugees a World Away  in Life, Law & Culture
Says Pauline Pannell of Grandmothers For Refugees and Friends Fremantle Last week as Fremantle clocked up its 300th vigil for refugee rights, the Senate Inquiry into…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 9 2026 V Hawthorn in Life, Law & Culture
Wharfie Time is real! All week there’d been a weird vibe. Not sure if you noticed it.  I sensed it…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – UK Elections, IS Brides, Farrer By-Election, Iran, Il Papa, WA Budget, Federal Budget, the Dockers and Being Alive 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…
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…
SailGP Bermuda 2026: BONDS Flying Roos Riding High in Shipping & Sailing
Jean Hudson reports on the fifth SailGP event for 2026 in Bermuda. The year’s first Sail GP in Freo is…

German Film Festival Review

in Life, Law & Culture
Barry Healy reviews some of the films in the German Film Festival that caught his eye The 2026 HSBC German Film Festival returns to Luna on SX from 8 to 27 May. There are other screenings at Palace Cinemas Raine Square and Luna Leederville. The festival has. over 20 films to choose from in its programme. The opening night party on May 7 at Palace Raine Square Perth, features the new film, Berlin Hero (Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße) by Wolfgang Becker, whose Good Bye, Lenin! wowed audiences in 2003. Becker died shortly after production wrapped on this drama/comedy that again satirically examines the relationship between modern, unified, capitalist Germany and its relationship to the old, socialist East Germany. The closing night film is the director’s cut of…
Emission Targets, LNG and an Electrifying Future in Our Environment
Following our Editorial decrying the abandonment by the State Government of the challenge of setting interim emissions targets for WA,…
The Latest Climate Change News in Our Environment
Here’s the latest On Good Authority roundup from Australia’s Climate Change Authority. Find more here on the Climate Change Authority ~…
FCO & Ellie Malonzo Play St Pat’s in Gig Guide
St Patrick’s Basilica in Adelaide Street, Freo is always a great venue to hear Hans Hug’s Fremantle Chamber Orchestra performing…

EDITORIAL: When a Government Removes Its Own Climate Targets, It Tells You Everything You Need to Know

in Our Environment
The ABC has just reported that the Cook Labor Government will no longer seek to introduce interim emissions targets in 2023 through its proposed Climate Change Bill, and will now replace it with the Green Energy Powerhouse Bill, which will scrap interim emissions targets and introduce a range of "decarbonisation" targets. It has to be said that this appears to be the second step of a ‘one step forward, two steps back’ energy emissions strategy. At the beginning of this week, the Shipping News was trumpeting - under the bold banner, Historic Renewable Energy Build A Big Deal - the…

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