COMMENT: THE role of mayor includes providing leadership and working with the CEO to ensure local government affairs are in order. The Act also bestows a critical function in which elected members must abide by the Act or, “any other…
A NEW book on the extraordinary petroglyphs at Depuch Island off the remote Pilbara coast has been shelved by its WA author because traditional custodians feel its publication would be too ‘dangerous’ and culturally insensitive. Mike Donaldson told StreetWise he…
FREMANTLE Mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge today ‘absented’ herself from the Japingka parking saga in which her mother is one of five people who for the past year have flaunted local laws and obstructed neighbouring tenants behind the former Union Stores building…
COMMENT: SO much for council vigilance and good governance at the City of Fremantle. Just a week after StreetWise exposed the unlawful parking habits of Japingka Aboriginal Art tenants, it seems CEO warnings against unauthorised parking of four cars in…
EXCLUSIVE: HOW many cars can you fit into three bays? In Fremantle, where parking breaches are taken very seriously, the answer apparently is four (pictured above). High Street tenants sent StreetWise images of the foursome huddled behind the former Union…
WALYALUP Civic Centre's multi-million-dollar overruns, high risk staff access to supplier accounts and overdue debts, some five years old, worth $778,540. The City audit & risk committee members had a lot on its plate last night, none of which is…
ARE political registers necessary in local government in WA? The cities of South Perth, Belmont and Bayswater think so. They have moved to have elected and committee members declare their political affiliations as they do with gifts, travel and political…
FREMANTLE Ports today welcomed the State Government $20 million budget pledge to transform Victoria Quay into one of WA's top tourism and cultural precincts as part of the Westport project to build a new outer harbour and container port in…
THE City of Fremantle has a new propaganda channel. Instead of announcing its new CEO via its ratepayer funded council website, council today chose to leak the information to a local blogger’s site that describes the Australian PM as brain…
“This is not an Academy Award, it’s a freak out ladies and gentlemen.” - US comedian Bob Hope at the 42nd Academy Awards 1970 A COMEDY: Multi-Oscars MC Bob Hope described the 37th Academy Awards in Santa Monica, California, in…
