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…
BLOGTHIS! HENRY Cavill. Jay Leno. The late Kirk Douglas. American Dad. Humans are the only primates with a chin. Dimples, optional extras. No other human species developed a chin, not even Neanderthals, leaving scientists to wonder why we have one…
By Carmelo Amalfi and Michael Southwell COURT challenges. Failing administrations. Sacked CEOs, budget blowouts, rate rises and councils divided by politics and personal agendas. There is no shortage of ‘rot’ to reflect the dysfunctional state of local government in WA.…
GINGIN councillors Lincoln Stewart and Jason Weeks have been reported for breaching local government rules when they made comments at a court of disputed returns hearing covered exclusively by StreetWise. StreetWise approached Cr Stewart who said after the shire met…
