Archive for year: 2025

Annoying But Necessary – More Road Closures Etc
Here’s the latest from Main Roads WA on New Bridge associated things happening on roads around Freo. The most annoying…
CATALPA: Flight to Freedom at WA Maritime Museum
EXTRA SHOW ADDED - TONIGHT 7pm. BOOK NOW, Due to popular demand an extra show for CATALPA: Flight to Freedom…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Sussan Ley, COP30, Mamdani, The Rog and Rita Show, the EPBC Act, Ukraine and Gaza
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle  Today our Editor, Michael…
Interview with Richard Rossiter – Longtime Hungerford Award Judge
Chemutai Glasheen, Marcella Polain and Richard Rossiter are the 2026 Hungerford Award judges. Alongside Fremantle Press publishers Georgia Richter and…
The Freo Running Festival ROAD CLOSURES
Freo folk will have seen the notices up and down Marine Terrace from Cliff Street in the West End to…
Perth Sky Sculpture Park
New Perth Hills Cultural Landmark Announced: Perth Sky Sculpture Park to Launch at Historic Observatory We at 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…
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 7
The Catalpa Escape was the escape, on 17 April 1876, of six Irish ‘military’ Fenians from the ‘Convict Establishment’, now…
Leeuwin Comments on ATSB’s Final Collision Report
Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation Welcomes Release of ATSB Final Report  The Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation (LOAF) has noted the release…
Ineffective bridge resource management, distraction contributed to container ship’s collision with Leeuwin
Ineffective coordination and monitoring by the crew and harbour pilots on board the container ship Maersk Shekou contributed to its collision with…