Archive for month: August, 2025

Not a ship, a yacht – Le Soleal
We missed this sleek, cruising yacht belonging to the Ponant cruise ship line when she departed Fremantle at 6 pm…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – More Ukraine & More Gaza & The Roundtable
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle Today our Editor,…
No longer Beacy, now Lefroy!
The creation of Lefroy, a large residential and commercial development, is underway with civil works commencing on the former Beaconsfield…
My Favourite Freo Street – Cliff Street
In Fremantle Shipping News’ new feature – My Favourite Freo Street – we ask a range of Freo folk to nominate their…
Is it appropriate for former High Court judge Dyson Heydon to speak at Perth legal conference?
An Opinion Piece by Madeleine Cox* Former High Court Judge Dyson Heydon KC will speak at The Samuel Griffith Society’s…
Freo Is About To Be Totallylit
Are you ready? Between 26 September and 10 October 2025, Fremantle will become WA’s City of Literature. Fremantle Shipping News…
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…
My Country Stays in My Dreams | JANET DREAMER
My Country Stays in My Dreams, an exhibition of works by the late East Kimberley Jaru artist Janet Dreamer (1959–2021), presented by Artitja…
Where is Spirit of Tasmania IV now?
Our recent post on Spirit IV’s brief visit to Fremantle and Les Moyle’s great pics of her in Gage Roads…
Climate Action – In Our National Interest
May I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of this land that we’re gathered on tonight, the Gadigal people. I…