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| UpdatedThe Brisbane Lions make it three from three with a win over Collingwood while GWS and Fremantle play out the first ever AFL Women's draw.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, brisbane-4000, blacktown-2148, nsw, qld, collingwood-3066, vic, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedThink sport and art don't mix? The artists behind a PIAF show described as "a large-scale public artwork that culminates in a huge party" in Fremantle want you to think again as they celebrate women in football.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, arts-and-entertainment, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedNat Fyfe is appointed captain of the Fremantle Dockers as they seek to rebound from a dismal campaign last year — and maintains he wants to remain at the club after his contract runs out at the end of this season.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, fremantle-6160, wa
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| UpdatedTwo-time Olympic athlete Kim Mickle will miss the remainder of the inaugural AFLW season with Fremantle Dockers because of a knee injury.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, athletics, olympics-summer, fremantle-6160
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Former Fremantle Docker Shane Yarran pleads not guilty to a charge of assaulting a family member.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, assault, law-crime-and-justice, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa
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A critical flaw in traffic modelling for Perth's Roe 8 highway extension underestimates the number of trucks that will use the road by up to 16,500 and invalidates the noise management plan and road design, new analysis suggests.
Topics: states-and-territories, environmental-health, health, elections, perth-6000, wa, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedFremantle mayor Brad Pettitt claims a victory of sorts in his bid to move Australia Day festivities to another date, saying the move helped improve people's understanding over why January 26 was not a day of celebration for Aboriginal Australians.
Topics: australia-day, event, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, wa, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedThe port city of Fremantle is set to effectively become a litmus test for the #changethedate movement when the local council holds its "culturally inclusive" alternative celebration to Australia Day two days later.
Topics: australia-day, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedNotorious bank robber and prison escapee Brenden Abbott is handed a five-month concurrent jail term for breaking out of Fremantle prison in Perth almost 30 years ago.
Topics: courts-and-trials, prisons-and-punishment, armed-robbery, perth-6000, fremantle-6160, wa
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| UpdatedThe Sea Shepherd conservation group says it has caught the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru in Australian waters with a slaughtered minke whale on board.
Topics: whaling, fremantle-6160, asia, japan
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| UpdatedMore than 2,000 people turned out to watch Fremantle secure a convincing win over Adelaide in the first AFL Women's pre-season clash in Darwin.
Topics: australian-football-league, darwin-0800, fremantle-6160, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA 3-kilometre tunnel to Fremantle will be built as part of the next stage of the $1.9 billion Perth Freight Link if the Barnett Government is re-elected in March, but critics say it remains a "road to nowhere".
Topics: states-and-territories, beaconsfield-6162, white-gum-valley-6162, hilton-6163, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, palmyra-6157, wa
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A Perth woman is sentenced to more than six years' jail for stealing $2.1 million from a law firm to fund her "pathological gambling", buy clothes, pay off her mortgage and support her lifestyle.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, wa, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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The extraordinary and varied career of Frank Norton is at the heart of a new exhibition in Fremantle.
Topics: history, world-war-2, painting, library-museum-and-gallery, people, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedOrganisers pledge to ensure the security of patrons as the popular Falls Festival arrives in Fremantle following a crowd stampede in Victoria and sexual assault incidents at the Tasmanian event.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, events, arts-and-entertainment, fremantle-6160, wa
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WA Labor's decision to commit to scrapping the Roe 8 project will have far-reaching impacts and debate around the proposed heavy haulage route will form a large part of the looming state election campaign.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, state-parliament, elections, beeliar-6164, fremantle-6160, perth-6000
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A 57-year-old man dies after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest while swimming near Leighton Beach, south of Perth.
Topics: death, fremantle-6160, iluka-6028, perth-6000
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| UpdatedAn environmental group loses its last avenue of appeal against the Western Australian Government's plans to build the controversial Roe 8 highway extension, which goes through a wetlands area.
Topics: federal---state-issues, courts-and-trials, environmental-impact, perth-6000, beeliar-6164, fremantle-6160, bibra-lake-6163
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The former owner and skipper of a Perth charter boat, Daniel Lippiatt, is convicted of illegally selling alcohol on a cruise linked to the mysterious death of a passenger.
Topics: courts-and-trials, alcohol, fremantle-6160, rottnest-island-6161
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Researchers in Western Australia are using new techniques to build a 3D model of a shipwreck site from the 1840s, which they hope will build a public appreciation of the heritage that lies beneath the waves.
Topics: 19th-century, history, archaeology, research, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedThe wreck of a nearly 300-year-old former slave ship lying just off the coast of Perth is scoured by maritime archaeologists using new technology to help learn more about Australia's underwater past.
Topics: conservation, maritime, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedFrenchman Sebastien Josse's round-the-world journey ends in Fremantle after he was hit by seven-metre waves which damaged his yacht.
Topics: racing, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedA couple who were tasered by police in Fremantle eight years ago are awarded more than $1 million in damages after suing the state for false imprisonment and assault.
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, fremantle-6160, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA Western Australian artist creates intricately detailed, rainbow-hued landscapes, using sugar as her key medium.
Topics: visual-art, installation, arts-and-entertainment, perth-6000, fremantle-6160, wa
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| UpdatedGuests on a day-long cruise, linked to the mysterious death of a 35-year-old man, were "inebriated" and "staggering around" the boat, a Perth court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, rottnest-island-6161, perth-6000, fremantle-6160