FEW people in Fremantle attend council meetings, particularly now with COVID on the loose. Those who can have the privilege of listening to elected members and City staff discuss important issues such as Freo’s lingering ‘tent city’ saga. On Wednesday,…
'TENT city’ was a regrettable event that failed to help nearly 100 homeless people camped at Pioneer Park, according to the City of Fremantle CEO. In a report to full council on Wednesday, the CEO says the Boxing Day lunch…
SAMSON veteran Arthur Stanton OAM’s email must have got lost in translation at the City of Fremantle. The 82-year-old former sergeant wrote to then mayor Brad Pettitt and his elected ward members Crs Frank Mofflin and Sam Wainwright asking for…
REFLECTION: StreetWise Media was launched in High Street in Fremantle in 2015, its publishing debut attended by local business leaders, historians, archaeologists, artists, students and filmmakers. Getting there took more than a year of planning, hard work and ‘prodding’ to…
ANALYSIS: This is not a blog. This is StreetWise Media: Fremantle’s fiercely independent magazine and online publisher. Followed and shared by thousands of 'friends' and readers across WA, StreetWise draws on more than 30 years of journalistic endeavour and experience…
ACTING Mayor Andrew Sullivan’s defence of his role in the ‘tent city’ fiasco confirms the urgent need for an independent inquiry into why the City of Fremantle allowed the 24-hour homeless camp to stay open without approval for nearly a…
FREMANTLE Liberal candidate Miquela Riley says the City’s ‘tent city’ fiasco should be independently investigated if elected members and council staff knew it was a political stunt. “The suggestion the City of Fremantle may have known about tent city prior…
EXCLUSIVE: TENTS and supplies for the homeless camped without council approval in Pioneer Park on Boxing Day were stored at the back of Acting Mayor Andrew Sullivan’s 'office' in Fremantle. Cr Sullivan shares space at 11 Pakenham Street with activist…
COMMENT: Children seriously assaulted. Property damaged and stolen. The homeless moved on. But not a word in his last blog as Mayor Brad Pettitt about the victims left behind - and the serious damage to the Freo brand. Only contradictions…
EXCLUSIVE: BRAD knew. Freo StreetWise can confirm Greens Mayor Brad Pettitt and City Ward Councillor Rachel Pemberton gave activists without authority verbal approval to set up a 24-hour street kitchen for the homeless on Pioneer Park opposite State Labor MP Simone…
