Archive for year: 2026

Overheard on South Terrace, South Freo this morning!
A partly imagined conversation Love your cap, Mate Thanks very much. That’s a pretty smart T-shirt you’re wearing. Did you…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Immigration, AI, Interest Rates, Iran, Ukraine, Canada in the EU, What Crocs?
Welcome back to our regular politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Round House, Fremantle  What a busy…
Rarely A Dull Moment – Special Electors’ Meeting of 15 September 2026
Welcome back to our regular feature, Rarely a Dull Moment where we report on the highlights of City of Fremantle…
The Weight – Film Review
Directorial debut of Padraic McKinley, co-produced by Ryan Hawke and starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe. Gayle O’Leary reviews. The…
Coral Adventurer Sets Out on Abrolhos Adventure
Jean Hudson reports that cruising time is here again! Here’s Coral Adventurer leaving Fremantle yesterday morning at 10.00am for the…
Beyond Joe Hari’s Window – Book Review
Roel Loopers reviews this must read book written by his friend Antonios Papaspiropoulos Beyond Joe Hari’s Window, by Antonios Papaspiropoulos, is…
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
An important piece of new research A gathering on the Murray River depicted in 1858. Gerard Krefft, Corroboree on the…
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…
SEEING RED: All My Homies Hate War Pigs
SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry invites you to YAWF’s All My Homies Hate…
Baltazar – Glimpsing the Future
John Hartley, our roving Fremantle Port sleuth, last evening, under a crescent Moon cradling Venus, found himself face to face…