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Freo Today. 14 July 2026. Kaya! Pelican on duty to welcome morning ferry arrival at Thomson Bay, Wadjemup, in from Walyalup. And as coincidence would have it, that vessel behind the pelican is named ‘Kaya’, and is one of the busy Rottnest barges. The Rottnest Barge Service’s two dedicated landing craft, Kaya and Spinifex, are capable of providing all the freight requirements to Rotto, including all utilities, supplies and construction materials. Pic by Jean Hudson at 8 am.

After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 18 2026 V Sydney in Life, Law & Culture
I didn’t feel very comfortable ahead of this one. Some very dear friends flew in from Sydney to stay with us and then watch…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Secret Harbour, China, Iran, NATO, The Gift, Modi, Le Pen, World Cup, Origin, Freo 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…
Rarely a Dull Moment – The Budget and The Respite Centre in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…

A Freo Love Story From Pemberton

in Architecture + Urban Design
This week we received this lovely email and photograph from Sabrina King of Pemberton, for whom Freo is also a special place. Sabrina writes - Dear FSN Team, I'd love to share a photograph I captured of Fremantle Harbour at sunset. Although I live a few hours away, Fremantle has become a place I return to whenever I need to slow down and reconnect. There is something about its streets, its history and its harbour that always draws me back. On this particular evening, I was driving through Fremantle with my teenage daughter when I suddenly saw this view. I…
Arts Scene Diary Notes – A Tale of Two Galleries in Gig Guide
Last Friday night, Gayle O’Leary, our Arts Editor, was out and about - as she reports here! It's Friday night…
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…
Les Moyle’s Bridge Essay in Architecture + Urban Design
On the basis that a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s an 8,000 word Bridge essay by Les Moyle,…
Henderson – Home of Frigates and Now a Blue Mussel Rock Wall in Our Environment
Fremantle Ports has partnered with Byssal and DevelopmentWA to trial an innovative nature‑based pilot project designed to enhance marine biodiversity…
Movie Review – Colours of Time in Gig Guide
Or as our reviewer Bruce Menzies experienced it, Remembrance of Times Past ‘We can’t move forward if we don’t look at 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…

After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 17 2026 V Greater Western Sydney

in Life, Law & Culture
The prospect: The inconsistent but talented GWS Giants in Canberra. To be watched presumably from the couch, mid morning on Saturday in South Fremantle. Not exactly a heart racing proposition. No, I rather fancied something more immersive today. Maybe some gonzo journalism. Some fear and loathing in Fremantle and to quote Hunter S, the promise of  ‘madness in any direction, at any hour.’ And so I headed to a much talked about Fremantle hostelry that has earned a dangerous reputation recently as the place Freo fans go to be whipped into a frothing frenzy. I wondered if it would require me to take large amounts of drugs or get kidnapped or fire an elephant gun. The place was already packed by…
Movie Review – Tenor: My name is Pati in Gig Guide
Jean Hudson and her opera loving friend Lizzie attended the Media Screening of Tenor: My name is Pati on Saturday…
Rarely a Dull Moment – More Trees Stuff in Life, Law & Culture
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 – Huston, Hastie, Opinion Polls, Libs, Victoria, Ukraine, Iran, Happy 250th USA! 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…

Interview with Brendan Kelly – Biographer of ‘Jerry’ Hart

in Fremantle People
In the last couple decades of the 19th century, the 1880s and 1890s, as Western Australia earned Responsible Government, the Gold Rush became a thing, and Federation approached, a 19 year old Francis Jerome Ernest Hart arrived in the Swan River Colony from London to take up a teaching position. Before long he had assumed the career of a journalist, first on the Fremantle Herald and later in Geraldton and Perth, as well as venturing into the world of the theatre. Along the way he married the lovely Lilian and the became musical friends of the Governor of the period,…

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