Fremantle Herald Official

14/02/2025

There's still time to catch the exhibition Hidden Treasures – 14 years of live music in Freo:

HIDDEN Treasures is my favourite music festival in WA. Every winter, local artists play left-field venues in Fremantle like The Buffalo Club, The Navy Club and the old Wyola Club. Crumbling heritag…

13/02/2025

Palmyra band Twelve Parsecs are releasing their debut EP:

AI-generated music has a lot of musicians, especially older ones, spooked. They’ve spent years learning their instrument and honing their songwriting skills, but now live in a world where they coul…

12/02/2025

Notre Dame cyber attack:

NOTRE DAME was hit by a cyber-attack last week, just two weeks out from the start of the West End university’s first semester. According to Notre Dame students and teachers, access to emails and t…

11/02/2025

Freo's independent candidate targets WA's housing crisis:

FREMANTLE’s community independent candidate Kate Hulett this week announced a range of policies which she says target WA’s housing crisis. As part of the policy, Ms Hulett says she will push to ba…

10/02/2025

Freo brewery boots Butler into touch:

POPULAR Fremantle brewery Gage Roads says it cancelled an anti-fracking event featuring musician John Butler after realising it would be more than just a concert. The internationally-famous rocker …

08/02/2025

This week's Freo Herald front page.

07/02/2025

Ange has a cool exhibition of her cartoons for the Fremantle Herald over the past 40 years:

IF I had to describe Fremantle to someone, I’d probably just show them one of Ange’s Fremantle Herald cartoons. They are a cryptic melting pot of satire, new age baloney, politics and sunshine. Som…

06/02/2025

Greens candidate Sophie McNeill says if the state election delivers a split Upper House, her party will use any balance of power leverage to ban fracking in the Kimberley:

GREENS candidate Sophie McNeill says if the state election delivers a split Upper House, her party will use any balance of power leverage to ban fracking in the Kimberley. At a press conference on …

05/02/2025

Election pledge for Hampton Road crossing:

HAMPTON ROAD will get a $700,000 signalised pedestrian crossing if Labor is re-elected at the state election, according to local member Simone McGurk. The road has long been a hotspot for accident…

04/02/2025

Circus is alive and well at Victoria Quay:

IT’S at least 40 degrees outside, the concrete and asphalt on Victoria Quay pushing the mercury a few notches above the Met Bureau’s prediction, while inside Fremantle Ports’ old mechanical worksho…

03/02/2025

Thieves rob Fremantle Theatre Company:

THE Fremantle Theatre Company is reeling after thieves broke into Victoria Hall last week and stole $40,000 worth of equipment. On either January 22 or 23, “persons unknown” to police are thought …

01/02/2025

The Chook checks out Seabreeze in East Freo:

WHO’S on a post-Christmas diet? Channeling Donald Trump, I’ve decided to alter reality and have passed an executive order to extend the festive period until the kids go back to school. That way I c…

31/01/2025

New campaign against live exports:

A COALITION of animal protection organisations, led by WA-based not-for-profit Stop Live Exports, have unveiled a new campaign against live animal export leading up to the looming federal election,…

30/01/2025

The Greens are officially up and running for the state elections:

THE Greens officially launched their campaign for the state elections in Fremantle this week. Candidate Felicity Townsend previously ran for Willagee in 2021 and had a tilt at the federal seat of …

29/01/2025

The iconic Woolstores in Freo is set to be turned into residential units. What do you think of the plans?

THE old Elders Woolstores on Cantonment Street is set to be turned into residential units with an internal “mews” style street, bringing the co-living movement to Fremantle. The co-living model wil…

28/01/2025

Plans afoot to turn Freo Port into a stunning waterfront precinct:

THE Cook government has endorsed an ambitious long-term plan to transform Fremantle Port into a globally significant waterfront precinct. At the core of the Future of Fremantle vision is the reloca…

25/01/2025

The Chook tackles one of the biggest food debates of our times:

KAILIS or Cicerello’s? It’s up there with – Coke or Pepsi, Beatles or The Stones, Trump or Biden, Missionary or… Sorry, I took that too far, but it seems that people visiting Fremantle for fish and…

24/01/2025

From the late 1970s to the mid 1980s, Fremantle was a vibrant and chaotic melting pot of art, music, theatre and political activism.
This tumultuous period is captured in the exhibition 'Desperate Measures: Art, Politics and Performance in Freo 1977-1985':

FROM the late 1970s to the mid 1980s, Fremantle was a vibrant and chaotic melting pot of art, music, theatre and political activism. For many it’s the city’s golden age, before it hosted the Americ…