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Freo Today. 15 July 2025. Wonder how often these ‘legacy’ means of communicating are used these days? East Street, Fremantle.

Freo helps Perth to 13th Most Liveable Global City in Life, Law & Culture
The fascinating 2025 Global Liveability Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is just out! Perth ranked 15th most liveable…
Testing Times In The New Mexico Desert in Our Environment
On the morning of 16 July 1945, a plutonium implosion device was detonated atop a 100-foot tower in a remote…
Significant new social housing initiatives in East Freo & Subi in Architecture + Urban Design
The Cook and Albanese Labor Governments are partnering to deliver another 481 new affordable and social homes across two major…

Sail GP Set To Thrill Freo 17 & 18 January 2026

Those Magnificent Men and Women in their Flying Machines – actually fast-foiling catamarans - are coming to Fremantle. The global Rolex Sail Grand Prix (SailGP) Championship will take place off Manjaree|Bathers Beach in January 2026. Event organisers have released a preview of the 2026 season calendar, with Perth and Fremantle as the first stop in the 11- month competition. SailGP is one of the world's most fast-paced and prestigious sailing events, featuring - as this gallery of supplied pics shows - 50-foot one-design catamarans raced at mind blowing speeds of over 100 kilometres per hour in…
Interview with Hannah Fitzhardinge in Life, Law & Culture
The Freo local government elections will soon be upon us in October, and already there is movement at the station…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 17 2025 V Hawthorn in Life, Law & Culture
Look friends, I have to get this off my own ample and pleasingly barrel-like chest. Do you remember David King,…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Will Trump Win The Peace Prize? and other musings 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 – Navy Club, Tree Changes, and Your Neighbourhood Carwash in Life, Law & Culture
Plenty of things are making a comeback around Fremantle. Lolly shops (or candy, if you’re from over the water), vinyl…
Fremantle Ports celebrates NAIDOC Week in Life, Law & Culture
Fremantle Ports is joining in the nation-wide celebrations of the world’s oldest living culture with the launch of a new…
Do you still get confused about what goes in what bin? in Our Environment
Fremantle’s three-bin system can be a bit of a puzzle, but here’s a clear breakdown to help sort it all…

WA Socialists Invite You Along!

This Friday night at 6 pm at the Buffalo Club in High Street, Fremantle you can hear a pitch for WA Socialists. The pitch goes along these lines - Politics in WA is rigged for the rich. Mining companies make super-profits and pay little tax while our schools and hospitals languish. Rents are skyrocketing while wages and welfare stagnate. Join this launch to hear how WA Socialists is trying to shake up the status quo and fight for socialist solutions. Featuring Victorian Socialists senate candidate and housing activist Jordan van den Lamb and local activists. [caption…
The Wednesday Poem in Life, Law & Culture
One With the Land​ The promise of light Peeps through the spinifex On the crest of the hill The heart…
Letter to the Editor – Youth Against War and Fascism in Life, Law & Culture
Dear Editor: How good to see our youth taking an active interest in world affairs. Their activities could be usefully…
St Pat’s Receive Extra Emergency Relief Funding in Life, Law & Culture
St Patrick’s Community Support Centre will receive a Lotterywest grant of $360,000 to support people experiencing financial hardship through the…

Here are the latest Bridge road works annoyances

Here’s the latest from Main Roads WA - You’ll see they say the traffic changes and night works are required to remove concrete medians to prepare for construction of a temporary roundabout. That’s when things will get really annoying, one suspects! ~ If you’d like to COMMENT on this or any of our stories, don’t hesitate to email our Editor. ~ WHILE YOU’RE HERE - ~ Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to receive your free copy of The Weekly Edition of the Shipping News each Friday!