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…
A THROWAWAY comment about City Ward candidate Claudia Green during the 2017 local government elections is causing ruptures in the 49-year-old Fremantle Society. As reported in the latest edition of Freo StreetWise, ‘Committee on Notice’, the FS Committee has decided…
A CLAYTON’S review of Fremantle council’s financial management practices found while “generally sound”, its procurement policies fell short of achieving best value for ratepayers’ money. The review by Avant Edge Consulting supports a recent motion by South Ward Councillor Marija…
DEPUCH Island, or Womalantha, has never been considered for inclusion on the World Heritage List even though its Aboriginal rock art and cultural importance has been known and studied since 1840. Greens (WA) MLC for mining and pastoral Robin Chapple…
A FEDERAL parliamentary committee will this week begin its inquiry into the destruction by Rio Tinto of 46,000-year-old cave shelters in Juukan Gorge, about 60km north-west of Tom Price. Unfortunately, its narrow terms of reference and plans to build a…
EXCLUSIVE: Westport Taskforce chair Nicole Lockwood engineered the appointment of a close friend as CEO when she was a councillor and shire president at the City of Karratha from 2007 to 2011. Ignoring legal advice condemning the selection process, Cr…
KIM North is Pilbara’s ‘sand king’. Old school, Tonka tough, the father of two a giant in construction and earthmoving with a passion for precious metals, Harleys and choc milk. ‘Northie’ says it straight, the outspoken miner of more than…
THE WA Corruption and Crime Commission in 2012 found the Pilbara cities of Karratha and Port Hedland were exposed to the highest risk of misconduct. Not only because of their strategic importance to WA, “engine room of the Australian economy”,…
