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…
STANDING in line at the ATM in Garden City Booragoon, I noticed a well-built dude walk past carrying a fat money bag and sporting a firearm on his left hip. This was a few days after Bondi. BlogThis! was nervous.…
‘DIRECTOR of Possibilities’ Richard Mackay says he will ‘triage’ the city’s cultural heritage sites, particularly in the West End, when he visits Fremantle next week. Invited by The Fremantle Society, the founder of Sydney-based Mackay Strategic told StreetWise heritage assets…
ONCE a journo, always a journo … Michael Southwell reckons he was born to be a reporter. He was half way through a journalism course at Curtin University (then WA Institute of Technology) when he was sent for a week…
By Carmelo Amalfi FREO’S new mayor Ben Lawver looks at home tucked into a pub booth, tapping on his phone and just chilling out with a pint before the Australia Day heatwave. His first 100 days since elected in October…
By Carmelo Amalfi and Michael Southwell CHALLENGES to the 2025 local government election results in five WA councils including Fremantle were heard in the Court of Disputed Returns today. Complainants including the cities of Swan and Kalgoorlie-Boulder and shires of…
THE City of Fremantle has breached its complaints and code of conduct policies by censoring findings upholding a complaint against former mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge. StreetWise was told the City received the results of an independent investigation on November 7. Under…
ONE of the lowest voter turnouts in Fremantle has elected a new mayor and two new councillors amid claims ballot packages were opened without proper scrutiny on local government election night. “Someone without any scrutiny has opened mayoral ballots at…
