THE validity of the disputed 2023 local government elections in Fremantle will be tested in October - a year after thousands of ballot papers were mailed incorrectly to central and coastal ward voters. Parties returned to court on Monday. The…
TWO State Government departments have denied StreetWise FOI access to public documents related to infected trees and the use of blank ballot papers in Fremantle. The WA Electoral Commission says it is not in the public interest to release election…
WAEC has further muddied the electoral waters following a Freedom of Information request for the number of blank ballots the City of Fremantle used in the 2021 and disputed 2023 local government elections. Hundreds of spare ballots were used by…
THE department of primary industries and regional development cannot explain why it cleared the Moreton bay fig tree at 195 High Street of shot-hole borer a day after its pest and disease experts said it was infected. On April 29,…
‘Mate, it’s safe. I’m grateful I have it.’ THE stuffed remains of the first shark caught in WA after killing a swimmer at Cottesloe in 1925 has landed in the safe hands of a maritime history enthusiast in Bunbury. The…
SPECIAL REPORT: The City of Fremantle used hundreds of uncoded ‘spare’ ballot papers to influence the balance of power in the 2021 and disputed 2023 local government elections. StreetWise Media can report the WA Electoral Commission last year issued the…
COMMENT: The City of Fremantle today flew the Australian flag at half mast to commemorate as part of its truth-telling journey the execution of Nyoongar leader Midgegooroo on May 22, 1833. Council also ‘decided’ to lower the flag in 2023…
SOMETHING is rotten at 195 High Street. In what appears to be the left branch not knowing what the right is doing, the WA department of primary industries and regional development says the 135-year-old Moreton Bay at 195 High Street…
MATTERS of mathematics and due process (democracy) will be tested in June following a hearing last month over the botched 2023 local government elections in Fremantle’s central and coastal wards. On April 12, lawyers for the WA Electoral Commission, Greater…
“We can’t be seen as belting up on an old lady like this and seeing this happen. The tree of this size in anyone’s mind does not fit the block of this size and that’s the problem.” - Silverleaf Gerard…
