FREMANTLE Liberal candidate Miquela Riley says the City’s ‘tent city’ fiasco should be independently investigated if elected members and council staff knew it was a political stunt. “The suggestion the City of Fremantle may have known about tent city prior…
EXCLUSIVE: TENTS and supplies for the homeless camped without council approval in Pioneer Park on Boxing Day were stored at the back of Acting Mayor Andrew Sullivan’s 'office' in Fremantle. Cr Sullivan shares space at 11 Pakenham Street with activist…
COMMENT: Children seriously assaulted. Property damaged and stolen. The homeless moved on. But not a word in his last blog as Mayor Brad Pettitt about the victims left behind - and the serious damage to the Freo brand. Only contradictions…
EXCLUSIVE: BRAD knew. Freo StreetWise can confirm Greens Mayor Brad Pettitt and City Ward Councillor Rachel Pemberton gave activists without authority verbal approval to set up a 24-hour street kitchen for the homeless on Pioneer Park opposite State Labor MP Simone…
Q1. When was the minister advised about the potential problems with tent city and by whom? “The activities of the Pioneer Park camp organisers became an issue as soon as it became clear that activity at Pioneer park had shifted…
EXCLUSIVE: GREENS Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt must resign or explain how tent city organisers were allowed to camp for 30 days outside State Labor MP Simone McGurk’s office in Market Street. The Greens WA candidate for South Metropolitan told Freo…
COMMENT: ELECTED members will meet Wednesday after a horror week over the Fremantle ‘tent city’ debacle in which their attempts to politicise the homeless issue in WA backfired badly. As police moved in to clear Pioneer Park today, the McGowan…
STATE Labor member for Fremantle Simone McGurk has accused ‘tent city’ organisers of deliberately choosing Pioneer Park opposite her office to score cheap political points. Responding to the alleged sexual assault of two girls, aged 13 and 14, by two…
BACKPEDDLING Fremantle Council has moved to shut down ‘tent city’ after weeks of highlighting the plight of the homeless and disadvantaged in WA. Faced with a festering political sore and condemnation by local residents, visitors and businesses in the port…
WA Premier Mark McGowan said “anarchists” are taking advantage of disadvantaged people camped since December 23 at ‘tent city’ in Fremantle. Mr McGowan said many of the people at Pioneer Park already had accommodation and services available to them and…
