This action cleared the way for the arrival of Captain James Stirling and the first party of Swan River Colony settlers a few weeks later.

The 1949 expansion of Parliament made Fremantle even safer for Labor by shifting most of its northern portion to the newly created Division of Curtin.

It was nearly lost in the landslides of 1975 and 1977, but since the 1980 redistribution when the suburbs of Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove and Cottesloe were transferred to the Division of Curtin,[4] the Liberals have only twice garnered 45 percent of the two-party vote, in 1996 and 2013.

Since World War II, Fremantle has been held by a succession of senior Labor figures.

She was succeeded by Melissa Parke, a former United Nations lawyer and a minister in the second Rudd government.