Archive for year: 2026

Another piece of the puzzle
Yesterday, another piece of the OFTB/NFTB project fell into place. The gap on the east side in the middle was…
Rolex SailGP – Freo Completely Abuzz As Racing Looms
SailGP’s Freo racing weekend is about to explode at Bathers Beach. FSN were there today to see just how the…
View From The Round House With Martin Drum – The Royal Commission, The Hate Bill, Iran, Greenland, Feeling Guilty – & A Big Q
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle  Today, in our second…
THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE SAILGP RACE WEEKEND
As we post this story, there’s a real buzz of anticipation around Freo as the start of the Rolex SailGP…
Matt Wearn’s Olympic Dinghy Secured for WA’s Cultural Collection
Fremantle Shipping News attended Royal Perth Yacht Club, Crawley, on the evening of Thursday 15 January 2026, for an event celebrating the acquisition by the…
Interview with Eileen Mahony – Darling, Darling
Don’t miss our great podcast interview with Eileen Mahony at the very end of this post! Eileen Mahony has spent…
Grinding – The SailGP Human Engine Challenge!
No, not the GRINDR human engine challenge, but the Grinder SailGP human engine challenge! This morning at Bathers Beach while the SailGP Trophy sparkled in the…
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 9
The Catalpa Escape was the escape, on 17 April 1876, of six Irish ‘military’ Fenians from the ‘Convict Establishment’, now…
The Official Hate Bill Factsheet
Here’s the official Australian Government summary of measures to be found in the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026…
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…