Fremantle has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate.

Fremantle has seen many industrial conflicts, the most famous of which occurred in 1919 when rioting broke out during " the lumpers ' strike ", resulting in one death and many injuries.

The City of Fremantle has published a range of sheets related to the history of the port including:

The Fremantle Surf Life Saving Club has been active since the 1930s.

Fremantle also has an independent local radio station Radio Fremantle 107. 9FM.

Fremantle has subsequently served as a stopover in the Clipper, VELUX and Volvo round-the-world yacht races, and hosted the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships, a major qualifying event for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

East Fremantle Oval has been the team's home ground since 1953.

As in many other parts of Australia, Fremantle has seen a rise in popularity of association football ( soccer ) since the arrival of Southern European immigrants.

Alternative rock / folk groups The Waifs, Little Birdy and Eskimo Joe all have connections with Fremantle, and belong to what has been dubbed the ' Freo Sound '.

Fremantle has twin-town relationships with five other cities.

Fremantle also has friendship-city relationships with three cities:

Australia has three architectural listings on UNESCO's World Heritage list: Australian Convict Sites ( comprising a collection of separate sites around Australia, including Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Port Arthur in Tasmania, and Fremantle Prison in Western Australia ); the Sydney Opera House ; and the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

Over 100 years of continued use of Fremantle Harbour by heavy shipping has erased all doubt concerning O ' Connor's technical judgement.

Fremantle has not won a premiership, nor played in a grand final, during its time in the AFL.

For over 100 years it has been represented by two strong clubs in the West Australian Football League: East Fremantle and South Fremantle.

However, since the introduction of two Western Australia-based clubs into the VFL ( later renamed the Australian Football League ) – the West Coast Eagles in 1987 and the Fremantle Football Club in 1995 – the popularity and standard of the league has decreased to the point where it is considered a feeder competition to the AFL.

The Socialist Alliance has had only one electoral success, electing Sam Wainwright to Fremantle City Council in 2009.

The University has campuses in Fremantle, Western Australia, Broome, Western Australia and in two locations in Sydney, New South Wales.

The University of Notre Dame Australia opened in Western Australia in December 1989 and now has over 9000 students on three campuses in Fremantle, Sydney and Broome.

It has a population of about 14, 300 people ( 2011 census ), of whom about 25 % were born overseas, mostly in the United Kingdom, and has a landmark high-rise hotel, the Rendezvous Observation City, originally built in 1986 for Alan Bond whose intention was to profit from anticipated accommodation demand when the 1987 America's Cup challenge was held at nearby Fremantle.

Chris Tarrant ( born 18 September 1980 ) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club, and has also played for the Fremantle Football Club.

Two schoolfriends, who had also been evacuated from Singapore to Batavia, heard that Gorton was in hospital, arranged for them to be put on a ship for Fremantle, which left on 23 February and treated Gorton's wounds.

Songs by these and other artists have been written about Fremantle ; the city is the setting for the title track of Paul Kelly's 1987 album Under the Sun, and The Waifs ' 2004 single " Bridal Train " follows a World War II-era war bride on a journey from Fremantle to the USA.

Episodes of the BBC World documentary television series Peschardt's People have been filmed in Fremantle, including an episode with Australian actress Toni Collette and another with Fremantle-based English comedian Ben Elton.

Morshead arrived in Fremantle on 19 February 1943 where he was welcomed home by Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett, who had been his division commander between the wars.

Fremantle is a safe Labor seat which had once been held by Labor Prime Minister John Curtin, and later, Whitlam-era Education Minister Kim Beazley senior.

Two vessels of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Fremantle for the city of Fremantle, Western Australia:

*, an S class destroyer of the Royal Navy transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1919 was to have been renamed HMAS Fremantle, but the renaming order was rescinded in 1920

The possible move to Fremantle had been heavily criticised in some circles, partly as a result of the club's recent history in drafting mature-age recruits, but it has been applauded in other circles as the club gave up virtually nothing to land him.

Prescott's replacement is former assistant coach, Roger Kerr ( former East Fremantle player and father of West Coast Eagles player, Daniel Kerr ), who has been given a two year contract.

RTRFM established the Fremantle Winter Music Festival in 2004, which has since been held annually in multiple venues throughout Fremantle.

The 1969 edition has been wiped but the 1972 edition – featuring a goose that the cast are chasing for Christmas dinner – exists in the Thames TV archive which is owned by Fremantle Media.

Over the years, Fremantle has been held by a succession of senior Labor figures.

On arriving in Western Australia, the Bussells found that all of the good farm land around Perth and Fremantle had already been granted, and were advised by the Governor, Sir James Stirling, to form a sub-colony in the vicinity of Cape Leeuwin.

Fremantle, despite unspoken rules of engagement which did not require him to engage ships larger than his own, used his superior speed to overtake the 80-gun Ça Ira, which had been damaged in a collision.

Fremantle Station has been undergoing a program of staged conservation and restoration works in line with a conservation plan prepared in 1999.

Carmen Lawrence, the first female premier of an Australian state, later represented Fremantle in the federal House of Representatives.

Today Fremantle is represented in the Australian Football League by the Fremantle Dockers, who train at the heritage-listed Fremantle Oval, shared with South Fremantle, and play their home matches at Patersons Stadium in Subiaco.

He joined East Fremantle Football Club and represented Western Australia in the 1997 U18 Championships where he earned All-Australian honours.

Before 1949, much of this area was part of the Division of Fremantle, which Curtin represented for most of the time from 1928 to 1945.

2007 was a much better season for Essendon, in which, despite significant wins over Adelaide ( twice ), Fremantle, St Kilda, Sydney ( by one point in Sydney ), the previous year's premiers West Coast ( their second successive win by a solitary point ) and Carlton, they missed the finals for the third year running.

The season was soured by three 63-point defeats, two to Hawthorn and another by Fremantle at Subiaco Oval ( this occurring after the second of those hidings by Hawthorn ) plus a 50 point hiding from eventual premiers Geelong ( for which captain Matthew Lloyd was suspended ).

* Fremantle Arts Centre Press – My Place by Sally Morgan

On January 2012, an app developed by Fremantle subsidiary Ludia and based on Press Your Luck debuted on Facebook.

From Fremantle, the network licenses Match Game ( currently only the 1973-82 versions ; the 1990-91 version aired on the network in the past ), Family Feud ( all except the 1999-2002 version hosted by Louie Anderson ), Password ( all versions ), and Card Sharks ( all except 2001 – 2002 syndicated ).

Most Price reruns are held not entirely by FremantleMedia, but also through CBS Television Distribution, as CBS currently licenses the American Price franchise from Fremantle.

The Demons then travelled to Perth, where after a poor start, they fought back, but fell away to lose by 11 points to finals aspirant Fremantle.

In 1801 while aboard the 74-gun HMS Ganges ( commanded by Captain Thomas Fremantle, a personal friend of Brock's ), Brock was present at the Battle of Copenhagen where it was intended that his troops would lead an assault on the forts at Copenhagen.

Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829.

Fremantle lies on a series of limestone hills known by the Nyungar people as Booyeembara ; the sandplain to the east is Gardoo.

Fremantle is the end of the Fremantle railway line which runs from Perth to Fremantle, run by the Western Australia's Public Transport Authority.

The Fremantle state seat was continuously held by the Australian Labor Party from 1924 until 2009, when it was lost at a by-election to Greens candidate Adele Carles.

The Fremantle Arts Centre is another building constructed in the 1860s by convicts from locally quarried limestone: it is a former lunatic asylum building on Ord Street, and is one of Fremantle's most significant landmarks.

In the 2006 Australian Census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Fremantle had a population of 24, 835 people.

A chain of islands listed as A Class nature reserves lie within 20 km ( 12 mi ) of Fremantle, and are accessible by ferry or private boat.

Fremantle is served by a Community Newspaper Group paper, The Fremantle-Cockburn Gazette, and by an independent local newspaper, the Fremantle Herald.