Fremantle Shipping News

13/11/2025

The Freo Biennale is officially underway. There’s something for everyone!

Fremantle Biennale 2025 kicked off last night, launching its SANCTUARY 25 program across Fremantle with immersive art installations and performances. A large crowd attended the open air event at Manjaree|Bathers Beach despite strong blustery winds. This year’s Biennale transforms the port city of ...

13/11/2025

So South Freo

Freo Today. 14 November 2025. So South Freo, hey? Cool people. Drips all. And as the Festive Season approaches we can expect to see more doing the Double Dark Dare like ‘George Hamilton V’.

13/11/2025

Great podcast interview with Richard King unveils his new book Brave New Wild. Can technology save us? You’ll
Have to listen to find out - and read the book!

Richard King is an author and critic based in Fremantle/Walyalup, whose work has appeared in The Monthly, Griffith Review, the Sydney Review of Books and Australian Book Review. He is a contributing editor to Arena Quarterly and the author of three books, including Here Be Monsters: Is Technol...

13/11/2025

Don’t miss Jean Hudson’s great story and pics on the arrival of Silver Nova at 7 am today, up now on the Shipping News. Link in bio.

12/11/2025

Welcome to Freo, again, Silver Nova!

Here’s Silver Nova gliding past me at my vantage point on North Mole into the safe embrace of Fremantle harbour just after 7:00 this morning. Her last visit to Fremantle was earlier this year on 16 February. She made a grand entrance then and again today. Silver Nova is Silversea Cruises’ n...

12/11/2025

Chasing the wind - at Leighton

Freo Today. 13 November 2025. Warm weather. Good winds. Especially for kite surfers! Jean Hudson captured this great scene at Leighton on Tuesday around 5.30 in the afternoon. Poetically, she calls it ‘Chasing the Wind’. Perfect!

12/11/2025

There are Open Days and Open Days and this is set to be an OPEN DAY to remember!

It’s on this Sunday Freo Mens Community Shed, as part of their 20th year of operation, are holding an OPEN DAY this Sunday 16 November between 9am -1pm at 70 Shepherd Street, Beaconsfield. If you have been too nervous to ask what they do at a Men’s Shed, here’s your chance quietly, even furtiv...

11/11/2025

Here’s the latest in our fav Freo Street series - Gold Street by Gerard McCann

In this popular Fremantle Shipping News feature – My Favourite Freo Street – we ask a range of Freo folk to nominate their favourite street and tell us why they chose it. In this contribution, Gerard McCann* – who once lived in Gold Street, South Fremantle – takes a journey down mem...

11/11/2025

One big container ship!

Freo Today. 12 November 2025. Here’s the Maersk Shekou, she of the infamous collision with STS Leeuwin II, leaving North Quay, Fremantle Port yesterday around 12 noon. She was in from Adelaide and departing for Port Klang, Malaysia. In the foreground you can see vehicles recently unloaded on the V...

11/11/2025

Where are the Woylies?

Bronze Woylie Sculptures Stolen from Courthouse Lane, Fremantle In late September, I wrote an article with photographs – Where’s Woylie? – about my favourite Freo Lane—Courthouse Lane and its twelve delightful bronze woylie sculptures by Ben Jones. The Woylies are gone apart from one perche....

10/11/2025

Green Iron and Steel and the GO Scheme

On 3 November 2025, the Albanese Labor Government drew attention to what it described as a ‘high-integrity emissions certification scheme’ which it explained will give a new competitive advantage to Australian businesses and exporters looking to capitalise on the growing demand for renewable ele...

10/11/2025

Remembrance Day

Freo Today. 11 November 2025. Remembrance Day. The day we observe a one-minute silence to acknowledge, honour and remember those who have served our country in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. More than a century ago, at 11am on 11 November 1918, silence fell across the Western Fro....