Archive for year: 2025
View From The Round House With Martin Drum – Trump, Albo, Ukraine, Gaza and West Bank, Bradfield, Hastie, Mayor of Freo
26 September 2025
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle Today our Editor, Michael…
Rarely a Dull Moment – The Caretaker Moment Stalls the old Hungry Jacks site
26 September 2025
A much abbreviated RADM this fortnight, especially compared with my last RADM, as we're dealing with a much shorter, operational…
An afternoon of ekphrastic Atomic Poetry
25 September 2025
Fremantle Shipping News is pleased to bring you Giles Watson’s ekphrastic poem Abo Elementary School and Fallout Shelter both as…
Vote Now For FREO’S BEST!
25 September 2025
No, not for the candidates in the Freo Council elections, but for the Finalists in the 2025 Fremantle Chamber of…
Interview with Tom Stephens – The Ferrolana
24 September 2025
We all know about the Batavia, Catalpa and the Krait; among other vessels that made it to Western Australia one way or another. But…
The Wednesday Poem
24 September 2025
Fremantle Shipping News is pleased to bring you The Wednesday Poem. In this feature we post poems by Freo and Freo-connected…
SEEING RED: The Roaring Twenties – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Karl Marx and Donald Trump
23 September 2025
SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry considers how Donald Trump’s 2020s…
My Favourite Freo Street – Paget Street
23 September 2025
In this popular Fremantle Shipping News feature – My Favourite Freo Street – we ask a range of Freo folk to nominate their favourite…
Who’s Winning The Electoral Gifts Flurry in Freo?
22 September 2025
Under the Local Government (Electoral) Regulations -• Any gift valued at $300 or more (or multiple gifts from the same…
How Did They Get My Number?
22 September 2025
The Curious Case of Campaign Texts It’s local government election season again, and if your phone has been pinging with…









