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Freo Today. 28 September 2026. There are various ways to avoid dealing with what happened Saturday afternoon. One way is to study the ships coming and going to and from Freo. For example, here’s Tiger Pathfinder- a Dry bulk/Supramax vessel on anchor ⚓️ in Gage Road last Thursday before she headed to Kwinana on Friday 25th. Possibly she was carrying salt from Dampier Salt loaded at Port Cuvier. A distraction from the angst! Pretty pic taken by Jean Hudson

After The Game With Snaps Truly – Grand Final 2026 in Uncategorised
Been here all week. Thousands of us. Filling the cafes and pubs and streets of Melbourne with our colours and our hope. Grinning like…
Rarely A Dull Moment – The North Freo Coastline in Architecture + Urban Design
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Fun and Games in NYC & DC – and at The G 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…

The Wednesday Poem

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! This week we are pleased to bring you Jenalup, 1996 by Adrian Glamorgan*. The Wednesday Poem Adrian Glamorgan emigrated from Wales/Cymru to the dusty Riverina, then studied in our bush capital Canberra. Since the 1990s, he’s worked with Reconciliation WA, CARAD, FAWWA, taught poetry at Curtin, produced RTRFM’s Understorey for 11 years and presently works with Quakers in Asia West Pacific. Adrian is a member of WGV’s Valley Verges, and OOTA. In his spare time Adrian…
AUKUS Angst Aloud in Our Environment
International Day of Peace: Mayors, Councillors and Campaigners discuss AUKUS nuclear safety and risks for Cockburn Sound Alongside the sunlit expanse of South Beach Recreation Reserve in South Fremantle, with happy…
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…
$150,000 Up for Grabs to Strengthen Fremantle Communities in Life, Law & Culture
Local community groups across Fremantle, East Fremantle and Cockburn have the chance to secure a share of $150,000 in federal…
Ports are where Australia’s freight transition can demonstrate net zero in Our Environment
Fremantle’s electric terminal trucks show why fuel security is no longer just about stockpiling fuel. Ports could be a earlystepping stone towards a much larger…
A Special Trees Edition of Rarely A Dull Moment in Our Environment
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
Italian Film Festival 2026 in Gig Guide
The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival returns to Palace Cinemas Raine Square, Luna Leederville, Windsor Cinema and Luna on SX from 24 September…

THE SEASON with SNAPS TRULY

Have you heard the big news - Fremantle Press are about to publish THE SEASON with SNAPS TRULY? As all Shipees know, Snaps Truly is Fremantle Shipping News’ multi-talented and amazingly insightful footy scribe who may or may not have been a fringe player at Fremantle Dockers. His After The Game By Snaps Truly reports on the exploits of the Dockers are eagerly anticipated by footy fans far and wide after each game during the season. Not surprisingly, Snaps has become something of a legend among his loyal readers for his sometimes very funny, sometimes bitterly acerbic, but always straight…
BONDS FLYING ROOS SECURE $2M GRAND FINAL SPOT AFTER GENEVA PODIUM in Shipping & Sailing
On Sunday, in Geneva, Switzerland, BONDS Flying Roos secured their place in SailGP’s winner-takes-all US$2 million Grand Final after finishing…
A lifetime of sailing the Swan River inspires Perth sculptor Tony Jones in Fremantle People
A great story on the ABC about Freo Sculptor Tony Jones by Freo-based Nicolas Perpitch and reproduced with the kind…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Second Preliminary Final 2026 v Sydney in Life, Law & Culture
I avoided just about all the talk in the build up. And then on Thursday night I couldn’t help meself.…

Data Centres and AI Infrastructure: A Snapshot (September 2026)

*Prepared by Claude (Anthropic) Our Editor posed this set of questions to Claude (Anthropic): Claude, you’ll know all about this. Data Centres are the talk of our times. I know we already have small ones here and there around the world, but the chatter is of course about big data centres here, there and everywhere, including in Australia. Can you tell me just how many data centres currently exist, and where, to support AI; and how many more, especially large ones, are apparently required to facilitate the growth of AI? Here’s Claude’s response. Credit Massimo Botturi for Unsplash Global data…