Fremantle

A not-for-profit publisher of Western Australian stories, run by a team of publishers, authors and artists. The list runs across fiction, crime, memoir, poetry and children's books, with a strong strand of First Nations writing and new editions of local classics. Titles sell through the site, alongside anniversary merchandise, and the operation raises funds toward a building and literacy programs.

Fremantle's oldest bottle shop, founded in 1928 by the Sgro family as the Oceania Trading Exchange and independently owned since 2006. The heritage building holds wine, craft beer, cider and spirits, from Western Australian bottles to rare international ones, alongside natural and low-intervention wines and non-alcoholic options. The team also supplies drinks for weddings, parties and events, plus keg hire and boat deliveries.

James Whineray and Lucy Byrnes opened their first wine shop on Thompson Road in North Fremantle in 2018, trading as Left Field Wine Store before renaming it Wise Child and, more recently, shifting the operation to Market Street in Fremantle's West End. The list runs almost entirely to Australian minimal-intervention wine — organically grown fruit, wild ferments, producers like Yume Wine and Basket Range moving fast off the shelf, pet-nats especially. Craft beer from makers such as Two Metres Tall and Rock Ridge sits alongside it, and the till also rings up milk, olive oil, newspapers and loaves from Bread in Common, the everyday stock of a shop that still thinks of itself as a corner store first. Timber floorboards, industrial shelving and landscape prints keep the fit-out plain and light-filled rather than precious, and an underground cellar hosts occasional tastings and wine events. Open Monday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm, in the thick of Fremantle's food strip.