ARMED & DANGEROUS?
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.…
UNESCO ADVISER SCRUTINISES FREO HERITAGE
‘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…
AWARD WINNING NEWSHOUND JOINS STREETWISE
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…
FREO MAYOR ENJOYS 100-DAY ‘CHILL’
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…
MULTIPLE 2025 ELECTION RESULTS UNDER SCRUTINY
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…
FREO COUNCIL COMPLAINTS POLICY COMPROMISED
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…
VOTER BALLOT SAFETY CLOUDS FREO MAYORAL WIN
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…
CITY USE OF UNCODED SPARES UNDER SCRUTINY
THE City’s use of uncoded spare ballots is under close scrutiny after WAEC ended up in court following the botched Fremantle local government elections in 2023. StreetWise revealed yesterday that hundreds of blank replacements called overs have been issued to…
UNCODED BALLOTS RAISE CANDIDATE CONCERNS
EXCLUSIVE: THE WA Electoral Commission has issued hundreds of uncoded spare ballots called ‘overs’ to the City of Fremantle to cover any voting shortfalls in local government elections on October 18. Neither WAEC or the City will say how many…
