DOES Freo’s iconic cafe strip need a name change? Is calling and promoting it as the ’Cappuccino Strip’ false advertising? In this two-part report, StreetWise publisher Carmelo Amalfi explores the rapidly changing future of WA’s famous al fresco destination. NEWS…
HOW many Christmas staff parties can a council host in one month? At Gingin, three ratepayer funded shindigs in nine days including topless night at a local watering hole. Shire financial records show the council spent a total of $2575…
GINGIN shire is under fire for holding a ratepayer-funded celebration on skimpies night at a hotel run by a family member of a sitting councillor. The pre-booked end-of-year bash was held on December 16 at Gingin Hotel and attended by…
BUSHLAND at King’s Park could hold the clue to one of Australia’s most baffling missing persons cases? The ‘Nannup Four’. by Carmelo Amalfi EXCLUSIVE: ON an unusually chilly July 15, 2007, a taxi driver delivered a pizza to a man…
EXCLUSIVE: Gingin and Lancelin have one bank. Bendigo and Adelaide. They also have one shire council of nine elected members, two of whom at the wheatbelt community bank 80km north of Perth. Shire president Linda Balcombe and Cr Robert Kestel…
EXCLUSIVE: GINGIN shire will consider a motion tomorrow to ask the department of local government to investigate a social media page formerly run by two sitting councillors. Council also will consider a new draft policy dictating councillors’ use of social…
BLOGTHIS! Bunbury: Confidential meetings, closed door briefings and council decisions passed in mere minutes. Ratepayers’ elected representatives get paid well in WA so why meet in ‘secret’ and so briefly. Bunbury council met for the first time on February 3.…
By Carmelo Amalfi A CEO suspended while under investigation. A shire president’s husband in court accused of threatening a sitting councillor. Local government breaches, VROs, death threats and social media calls for Gingin’s dysfunctional council to be put into administration…
‘Live your life by a Compass and not a Clock’ By Carmelo Amalfi DOCUMENTS whether in paper, timber or stone have allowed people to travel beyond their birthplace since the written word. Such documents were used in ancient times to…
BARISTA, guitar ace and tennis pro Scott Arnold-Eyers is my go-to menu master for food, wine and hospitality in Western Australia. The 54-year-old founder of Menu Magazine has just released Issue #39 after more than 20 years of publishing, the…
