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Freo Today. 5 February 2025. Last night a perfect night. The wind dropped after dark, but there was still enough to make the Australian flag atop the 1887 Freo Town Hall flutter. A lovely sight, all in all!

Fremantle Dockers Players kick-start new homelessness hub in Life, Law & Culture
Fremantle Docker’s players have donated $20,000 from their charitable giving fund to kick-off St Pat’s fundraising campaign to fit-out a…
The Wednesday Poem in Life, Law & Culture
Why Does This Happen​ I want to love my family but I’m tired of them waiting for me to die.…
Fox Watch Continues – Fox On The Run in Our Environment
Now, as all Shipping News readers know, foxes, those sly, dastardly, vermin intruders and snarers of things native and precious,…

PE – The Second Last Departure Gallery

in Uncategorised
Yesterday afternoon, Pacific Explorer commenced a 4 day cruise to Exmouth and back. It’s her Farewell tour, so to speak, as after this we will see her no more, as our Shipping Correspondent, Jean Hudson, reported here in her Cruising February story. And yesterday afternoon Jean was out at South Mole to watch her depart Fremantle for the second last time. Pacific Explorer is due back in Freo on Friday, 7 February at around 7 am and then will depart our shores on for the very last time at 6 pm the same day. Here’s a gallery of more of…
North Freo heritage home goes up in smoke in Life, Law & Culture
A beautiful heritage home known locally in North Fremantle as Albert Hall, at 3 Pearse Street, has burnt to the…
Gallery of Pacific Explorer’s arrival in Freo today in Shipping News
Here’s a gallery of photographs of the arrival of P&O’s Pacific Explorer in Fremantle just before 5 am this morning.…
Snook of Snook Crescent – What’s in a name? in Streets of Freo
Snook Crescent curves around the centre of the garden suburb of Hilton. The street’s name is a reminder of Fremantle’s…
Cruising into February 2025 and farewell to Pacific Explorer in Shipping News
Cruising is becoming more and more popular, with larger ships carrying thousands of passengers and more and more new cruise…
The Future of Fremantle Report – ‘A Vision …. hopefully not a Mirage?’ in Architecture + Urban Design
The report to Government of the Jane Bennett chaired Future of Fremantle Committee, bearing date November 2024 - the Bennett…
Labor launch campaigns for Simone McGurk for Freo and Lisa O’Malley for Bicton in Life, Law & Culture
Well, the Shipping News was quite on the edge of our seat heading off to the launch of Simone McGurk’s…

The Future of Fremantle Report – ‘A wider foreshore reserve is required to safeguard our beaches’

in Architecture + Urban Design
The report to Government of the Jane Bennett chaired Future of Fremantle Committee, bearing date November 2024 - the Bennett report - was, as exclusively reported on Fremantle Shipping News, finally released. The Leighton Action Coalition is pleased this important document is out and we look forward to further discussions with the next government about it. There was much to commend the earlier overall Future of Fremantle process, however, by the time it considered the Port Beach and south Leighton sections, it felt rushed, constrained, unimaginative and under-baked. The resultant Future of Fremantle indicative scenarios for this section were underwhelming,…
Interview with Ilaria Mazzoleni – NAHR & Transect of Coexistence in Our Environment
Ilaria Mazzoleni is the General Editor of Transect of Coexistence: Inquiry into Nature, Art, and Habitat, a recently published book…
Rarely a Dull Moment – AUKUS Petition, AUKUS Delegation, Public Question Time in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to Rarely a Dull Moment where today we cover the Ordinary Council Meeting of 29 January 2025. A…
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – The Brutalist, Trump & Inflation in Life, Law & Culture
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Last week we focused on the…

Trees, Trees, Trees

in Architecture + Urban Design
Regular readers may recall the City committed to advertising this draft Tree policy last year at the 27 November 2024 Ordinary Council Meeting. You might also recall the story of the infamous Fig Tree at 195 High Street, behind Coccolico, and the debate that ensued after the landowners sought to have it removed from the existing Significant Tree Register. The draft Tree policy is now out for comment on the City’s MySay page, with the following disclaimer: The draft Local Planning Policy 2.26: Tree Retention (Tree Retention Policy) aims to retain existing mature canopy trees on private property, by requiring…

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