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Freo Today. 7 July 2025. Not Spring yet, but … Waxing poetic on a grey day near Officeworks, Freo by Jean Hudson. 🌸 ☁️  as Jean says, Geraldton Wax provides a pop of pink when the sky won’t play along.

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

Fremantle Ports is joining in the nation-wide celebrations of the world’s oldest living culture with the launch of a new Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan or RAP during NAIDOC Week at events in Fremantle and Kwinana. At Victoria Quay, Fremantle Ports has incorporated elements of the Noongar culture and heritage into public art landscape. A mural depicting the Waugal can be found at the Western Australia Maritime Museum Forecourt, along with a sculpture of the Dwerda (Dingo Spirit) and artwork representing the six Noongar Seasons. This year’s NAIDOC Week theme is ‘the next generation, strength, vision and legacy’.…
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! in Life, Law & Culture
This Friday night at 6 pm at the Buffalo Club in High Street, Fremantle you can hear a pitch for…
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 in Architecture + Urban Design
Here’s the latest from Main Roads WA - You’ll see they say the traffic changes and night works are required…

Navy Commissions Caffeine-Fuelled Arafura

The Royal Australian Navy has officially commissioned HMAS Arafura, one of the new Arafura-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) into operational service, as we recently reported. The moving ceremony took place at Fremantle’s Passenger Terminal on Saturday 28 June. Lieutenant Commander Marc Beecroft RAN, who has taken command of the ship, proudly conducted a media tour of the magnificent new vessel on Friday 27 June, and Fremantle Shipping News was delighted to be there. So here is a ‘sneak-peak . . .’ The vessel was not open to the public…
After The Game With Snaps Truly – Rd 17 2025 V Sydney in Life, Law & Culture
A few years ago, I was watching Freo playing at home. We weren’t at our best. Neither was I. From…
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 Luna Leederville theatre grinning ear to ear with tears in my eyes after this one. Naveen, child…

Fremantle Press and CircusWA IMAGINES IF – A New Unique Forever Home

Two Fridays ago, a collective of visionary people gathered at PS Artspace to ask ‘What If’ - what could Fremantle be some time in a future far far away. If you missed it, the concept is currently available to view at Fremantle Library. Then just a week later, a special announcement was made by CircusWA and Fremantle Press together to a gathering of kindred spirits in the old SEC Substation on Parry Street in Freo’s up-and-coming East End of a match that might otherwise have been made in heaven. The inspired idea for the pairing originally sprung from a chance…