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Freo Today. 6 July 2025. Ship Happens: when the cycle path leads straight to the high seas  🚴 🚢. Positive leader is a regular visitor to Fremantle. She’s a vehicle carrier currently en route to the port of Incheon, Korea and expected to arrive there on 16 July. She was built in 2006 by Mitsubishi heavy industries LTD, Kobe, Japan, and sails under the flag of Panama. she was snapped by Jean Hudson at H Berth just she left for Jakarta on Saturday afternoon.

The Children of Gaza in Life, Law & Culture
As a father and grandfather, it has been harrowing to see the daily suffering experienced by the children of Gaza.…
“A Nice Indian Boy” Film Review in Life, Law & Culture
I left the the Luna Leederville theatre grinning ear to ear with tears in my eyes after this one. Naveen,…
Fremantle Press and CircusWA IMAGINES IF – A New Unique Forever Home in Architecture + Urban Design
Two Fridays ago, a collective of visionary people gathered at PS Artspace to ask ‘What If’ - what could Fremantle…

Here’s some good Freo social housing news

The Albanese and Cook Labor governments yesterday were pleased to share news they are delivering more homes under the Commonwealth’s $2 billion SHAP fund - the Social Housing Accelerator Payments fund - with 38 new social housing dwellings now under construction in North Coogee at 54 Reinforcement Parade. The WA Department of Communities has entered an off-the-plan contract with PARC Developments to acquire all dwellings in the $23.54 million project, providing new homes for people on the public housing waitlist and boosting Western Australia's social housing stock. The development marks the first Australian use of commercial prefabrication masonry, an innovative…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 16 2025 v St Kilda in Life, Law & Culture
Let me begin, by introducing you to Mrs Norma Grimbergen who in season 2025 sits to my immediate right. We…
HMAS Arafura hits the water sailing! in Shipping News
Today marks a major milestone of the Australian Government’s implementation of the Surface Fleet Review with the commissioning of HMAS…
SEEING RED – Fremantle Youth Rage Against the War Machine in Life, Law & Culture
A newly formed group of Fremantle young people have set out to stop Australia’s involvement in US wars in general…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – More Iran, NATO, Ukraine, Gaza, Trump – and Roger in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Today - well what else could…
Rarely a Dull Moment – Budget Time, Laws, Parks, and Painting the Town Purple in Life, Law & Culture
As the dark, chilly fingers of Makuru reach in and pinch what depleted energy reserves remain, I note a proliferation…
HMAS Arafura Arrives In Freo For Commissioning in Shipping News
Today, right on 1 pm, the HMAS Arafura came though the Heads, North and South Moles, into Fremantle Harbour. Our…

Freo Ports Honours Day of the Seafarer

Today, Fremantle Ports was proud to support Fremantle’s Seafarer Welfare Committee who delivered a celebratory treat to all seafarers isiting Fremantle, in honour of the Day of the Seafarer. Crews were delighted throughout the Port of Fremantle as the Committee made 24 cake deliveries to vessels at anchor and at berth. Seafarers are crucial to global trade, transporting over 80 per cent of the world’s goods by sea. The Port of Fremantle receives 1500 ships each year, hosting more than 33,000 crew. Ships’ crew spend many days at sea away from their homes and loved ones…
Interview with Richard Sowada – Revelation Perth International Film Festival Director in Life, Law & Culture
The Revelation Perth International Film Festival is a cracking 11-day celebration of cinema, showcasing over 200 international films. It will…
Win 1 of 10 double passes to the Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2 – 13 July in Life, Law & Culture
From outrageous animation and genre-defining horror to poetic coming-of-age tales and restored cinematic landmarks, the 2025 Revelation Perth International Film…
Reckless in Fremantle in Life, Law & Culture
NITV, SBS, Screen Australia and Screenwest have just announced that production has commenced locally on BBC Studios Productions Australia’s Reckless,…

The Wednesday Poem

Deluge Horizon sits dark, a surging smudge of cloud. A cold front moving fast, streams in to shore over a pewter sea. White rods are falling into water fracturing surface, sweeping over sand, over us, stinging our faces flooding our eyes drenching us completely. Running for shelter is futile. Instead, we surrender laughing, holding cupped hands to sky catching drops in our mouths. Inhibitions dissolved, we dance to the wild rhythm of pelting rain. Exhilarated, fluid, transformed, We are sleek soaked seals cast up on a new cleansed shore Veronica Lake Veronica Lake is a Churchill Fellow, awarded in 2010…