Archive for year: 2026

Freo Battles The Post-Bridge Blues
Here we report on the Post-Bridge Blues especially in North Fremantle, the latest from City of Freo in combatting them,…
Ships Happen – x 3 this weekend!
This weekend, Fremantle will welcome not ONE but THREE cruise ships: Arcadia, Silver Moon, and Azamara Pursuit. Our Shipping & Sailing Correspondent, Jean…
Interview with Richard Mackay AM – Cultural Heritage Guru
Don’t miss our great podcast interview with heritage guru Richard Mackay who has been visiting Freo this week - you’ll…
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…
Good news just slipped out
Professor Peter Newman of Curtin University has detected some good light rail news. Here is his report! The WAtoday article this morning ‘Could light rail…
Fackham Hall – Movie Review
All up, Fackham Hall is not particularly clever, not particularly funny, and not particularly worth seeing.  I suspect I’m showing…
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 10
The Catalpa Escape was the escape, on 17 April 1876, of six Irish ‘military’ Fenians from the ‘Convict Establishment’, now…
Here are the ‘Free’ Freo buses running up & down South Terrace
Not only the 532 but also the 511, 512, 513, 520, 531, 548, 549, 998, 999 When the Deputy Premier…
Fringe Festival Fever Keeps Firing Up Perth. 
Our Jean Hudson continues her Fringe summer! Here’s her latest report. Perth’s Fringe Festival is now in its third week. After a…
Main Roads WA Reports on the First Week after the Old Bridge Closure
Fremantle Shipping News inquired of Main Roads WA how things were travelling on the roads, especially over the Stirling Bridge…