StreetWise Scoops

BUDGET blowouts, local government election shenanigans, serial parking offenders, ‘tent city’ political stunts and a dumpster diving councillor. There is no shortage of news when it comes to the City of Fremantle.
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Highlights of StreetWise Media’s news exclusives include the decision by the Barnett Government to move into the new Walyalup building (formerly Kings Square). At the time, Fremantle State Labor MP Simone McGurk posted, “I hope you’re right Carmelo”.
She need not fear. Six months later, the State Government announced the move, formally.
StreetWise also called out a candidate posing as a Fremantle resident in the 2017 local government elections. And more recently, StreetWise exposed the hypocrisy of the City’s parking policies that allowed the mayor’s mother to park behind Japingka Aboriginal Art gallery for more than a year and City Ward Cr Rachel Pemberton’s dietary preference for food waste from the local Woolies.