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26/09/2025

Totally Lit opens in Freo tonight and runs next two weeks!

The Totally Lit Festival kicks off tonight and runs for the next two weeks. After nearly two years of planning, Totally Lit is finally here! The festival goes live this evening with a very special event at the WA Maritime Museum featuring WA author Kim Scott giving the keynote address. Kim’s r...

26/09/2025

Yes, here it is - today’s VIEW!

Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Today our Editor, Michael Barker, discusses with the Prof: Trump @ UN, Albo @ UN, Trump on Ukraine, Trump on West Bank, Albo in UK, Bradfield, Hastie, and Freo’s Mayoral debate. Martin Drum is the Executive Dean fo.....

25/09/2025

Slow going at Council as voting heats up!

A much abbreviated RADM this fortnight, especially compared with my last RADM, as we’re dealing with a much shorter, operational Council meeting due to the caretaker period. The caretaker period is in place until counting concludes following the Council election on Saturday 18 October 2025. PUBLIC...

25/09/2025

Storm Rider in Gage Roads

Freo Today. 26 September 2025. Here’s STORM RIDER yesterday in Gage Roads. She’s a Bulk Carrier sailing under the flag of Cyprus. Her length overall (LOA) is 180.4 meters and her width is 30 metres. Next port of call – Adelaide. Pic by Jean Hudson on her way to Wadjemup on a plain sailing day.

25/09/2025

Let’s get ekphrastic! Great ekphrastic poem both written and recited by Giles Watson. Make sure to listen to Giles reciting it. Brilliant!

Fremantle Shipping News is pleased to bring you Giles Watson’s ekphrastic poem Abo Elementary School and Fallout Shelter both as written and recited by the poet. The Poetry Foundation explains that, in Greek, Ekphrasis means “Description”. And that an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of ...

25/09/2025

Time for all of us to vote in the FCC 2025 Business Awards!

Here are the Finalists in the 2025 Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Business Awards. Now it’s over to you, Freo Public, to cast your votes. The wait is over – the finalists for the 2025 Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Business Awards have been revealed, and now it’s up to the people of Freo to deci...

24/09/2025

What a story. The Ferrolana. A well kept Freo secret! Great podcast with Tom Stephens.

We all know about the Batavia, Catalpa and the Krait; among other vessels that made it to Western Australia one way or another. But do you know about the Ferrolana? Well, it’s our latest local dramatic ship-board story to emerge, recorded in the long lost diary of Franciso de Asis Marsá I Ami...

23/09/2025

You’ve gotta love galahs! So many good stories on the Shippijg News. Have you SUBSCRIBED yet for your FREE copy on THE WEEKLY EDITION straight into your inbox ox every Friday? Go on, do it now! Link in bio.

23/09/2025

Two pink and greys and a 28

Freo Today. 25:September 2025. Just had to share. Two pink and greys defending their position in a beautiful Tuart tree from a pesky 28 ringneck parrot!

23/09/2025

Don’t miss today’s tougher poem than usual - No Poem for Parents (after a mass shooting) by Rachael Petridis.

Fremantle Shipping News is pleased to bring you The Wednesday Poem. In this feature we post poems by Freo and Freo-connected poets and those who may not call themselves poets but love writing poetry or having a go! Today, we are pleased to bring you No Poem for Parents (after a mass shooting) by Ra...

23/09/2025

The New Roaring Twenties!

SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, Barry considers how Donald Trump’s 2020s seems to have a lot in common with Jay Gatsby’s 1920s and Emperor Napoleon III On September 17, the ABC news site posted a short video of their reporter, John L.....

23/09/2025

And here’s the latest in our very popular My Fave Freo Street feature - Paget Street, by Vivien Encel

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, Vivien Encel* – who has lived in Hilton for the past 27 years – explains why she has chosen P...