ANOTHER SUNDAY IN FREO PARADISE
Just another beautiful Sunday morning in gorgeous Fremantle! I took this photo at the East West Design warehouse in South Fremantle a couple of hours ago.
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PARMELIA PARK FIESTA ON TODAY!
The Parmelia Park Fiesta is on today in Chester Street in South Fremantle, so make sure to take part if you live down that way.
It is on from 2-6pm with a long table dining experience, live music, Croatian dancers, acr=ivities and the unveiling f a new mural by Olivia Samec and Kerry Stack.
There is food for sale and pony rides and a welcome to country by Trevor Stack.
See you there!
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LAST CHANCE TO VOTE SOUTH FREO!
The Fremantle South Ward by-election will be decided today after the unforgivable blunder by the WA Electoral Commission.
It is the last day today for voters in the ward to cast their vote at the Fremantle Townhall till 6pm. Votes will be counted straight after that, so we will know by 7pm if Andrew Sullivan retained his seat or if one of the two other candidates comes over the line first.
It was interesting to hear on SBS this week that voters in the Netherlands are turning away from mainstream political parties, with more and more people voting for candidates representing local parties for their local governments, while in WA there appears to be the trend of the big political parties becoming more interested in local government politics.
VOTE! It’s a privilege and duty!
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LOW BENCHMARKS FOR SOUTH WARD BY-ELECTION
It was a kind of groundhog day and deja vu all over again feeling at the Fremantle South Ward candidate forum at The Local, that was attended by less than twenty members of the community.
We have basically heard it all before and a lot of it is based on ignorance and the fact that candidates can’t be bothered to attend council meetings, so they have an opinion based on hear say.
The accusations flew wild; There is only one narrative at Fremantle and councillors are too close so there is only rubber stamping. Council looks after developers and businesses but not after residents. There is no due process, community participation, or consultation.
The elected members set themselves low benchmarks, one candidate who has never been to a council meeting said, and that it was questionable if the new South Beach basketball court was a good return for money.
Ignorance always annoys me, but it annoys me even more when it comes from people who want to be our next councillors. If they are too lazy to do their homework and attend council meetings and inform themselves, what benchmark do they set themselves then to be an elected member one has to wonder?
I left the meeting when they started to dig in why there was a by-election and if maybe council or the incumbent should have done more to prevent the inexcusable blunder by WA Electoral Commission staff who allowed an non eligible person to be a candidate.
Did I hear any new ideas about where Fremantle should go, any long term plans? No, none, just good old council bashing. Very disappointing!
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SOUTH WARD BY-ELECTION FORUM
There will be a candidate forum for the Fremantle South Ward local government by-election this Thursday March 1 at 7.30pm at The Local hotel on South Terrace.
I won’t be attending though as I have already voted, and so have most people who bother to take part in the council election.
Ballot papers were delivered 10 days ago and according to the WA Electoral Commission the vast majority of people vote during the first five days of receiving their ballot paper, so Thursday’s exercise seems a bit futile.
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NEW SOUTH FREMANTLE APARTMENT DEVELOPMENT
Preparations are now under way for the three storey residential and commercial M/28 development on the corner of South Terrace and Charles Street.
The new building developed by the MATCH group will be opposite the The Local hotel in South Fremantle and will add to the vibrancy of South Freo.
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LOOPY ON YET ANOTHER FREO ELECTION FLYER
Look who made it onto the flyer of Andrew Sullivan for the Fremantle South Ward by-election.
It’s a young(er) looking Roel-Loopy-Loopers when he received the Australia Day Fremantle Citizen of the Year Award in 2013..
Vote for Andrew. He is the best candidate for the job by many country miles!
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JOIN FREMANTLE SOUTH CITY PRECINCT
Do you or friends live in this area and would be interested in joining the South City precinct group?
They will meet this Thursday February 15 from 7pm at the Fremantle Primary School (Science Rooms). There is plenty to discuss!
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SHOCK DEPARTURE FROM SOUTH FREMANTLE ELECTION
It comes as a big surprise to read in the Fremantle Herald this morning that Liam Carter will not re-nominate for the March City of Fremantle South Ward by-election.
Carter came only 57 votes behind Andrew Sullivan at the October election, which has since been declared invalid because of a huge blunder by the Electoral Commission, which wrongly accepted the nomination of Ben Moodie.
The election results were challenged in court by Maria Vujcic, who came third after Sullivan and Carter.
It will be interesting to see if new candidates will nominate now that it looks to be only a two people race between Sullivan and Vujcic.
Roel Loopers
SOUTH BEACH BASKETBALL COURT
The new Fremantle South Beach basketball, futsal and volleyball court is near completion and should open mid January.
It’s looking good and will be a great addition to the very popular beach, that also received a net against pesky stingers I was told yesterday.
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