FREMANTLE Ho ERALD Volume 31 N 40 Your local, INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday October 3, 2020 Letterboxed: Beaconsfield, Hilton, O’Connor, Samson, Sth Beach (North Coogee) and Sth Fremantle Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com Street Press: Fremantle, East Fremantle, North Fremantle Email: [email protected] Willing Residents angered by walkers wanted! THE school holidays will be over soon so let’s get crossing buck-passes back to work. We have paper delivery areas to fill, especially in Hami by STEVE GRANT Hill for a hard-working EVEN Wattleup – sort – perhaps someone emptied out Wattleup – looking to get a bit fit has a maze at its railway earning some readies. crossing. You’ll get to meet all sorts of colourful characters So why are there only and business in this a couple of lines of lifting historic suburb. Email your yellow squares to guide interest to distribution@ Spearwood’s pedestrians safely over the tracks fremantleherald.com crossing busy Rockingham Be quick! Road, wonders Monique These jobs go fast. Gray and a growing number of the suburb’s residents. Ms Gray is spearheading a new push to get the Sell from crossing upgraded, saying years of neglect and buck- passing have left it looking home? a shambles and posing a safety risk. It sounds too good to be “There is a primary true, but that’s exactly school 600 metres from what we’ve got on offer. this open double railway We’re after someone track, with only a dotted who wants a family- pedestrian line – if you can friendly working life but call it that – protecting the can sell advertising like small children who walk to hot-cakes. school,” Ms Gray said. If you’re an active and “There is also a bus stop resourceful person who on the other side of the road can sell across multiple mere metres from the track • Monique Gray and concerned Spearwood residents say the railway crossing on Rockingham Road is dangerous and platforms including print, which the public use every needs an overhaul. Could a better crossing have prevented one fatality? Photo be Steve Grant online and social media, day. we want to hear from you. she discovered a myriad of own, particularly given meeting between the Mr Glamuzina says We need an energetic, Dangerous other issues at the crossing – the “precedent” of the council, Arc and the there’s a concrete ‘well’ just bright, competitive, warm- and the ducking. government having to landowner in mid-August near the crossing which is hearted, fast-walking, “There is no fencing She went to railway damaged fences along resolved nothing. only partially covered, and hard-working self-starter. separating the tracks from operator Arc Infrastructure the state’s long railway With nowhere else to he worries some local kid Email your irresistible the footpath making it very which initially told her its corridors. go, she started a petition will come to strife there if pitch to bryan.zemunik@ dangerous for everyday lease on the railway line Local Labor MP Fran calling for an upgrade and it’s not dealt with. fremantleherald.com people, including pensioner stopped short of the fence. Logan was similarly soon caught the attention of Ms Gray says as of scooters, getting across.” When she pointed out their pessimistic and pointed the Spearwood Residents Thursday afternoon, 593 The Coolongup resident own maps said otherwise, the finger at the Barnett Association, which had people had signed the life at the same spot in May became involved when Arc put up a temporary government. previously campaigned for petition. last year. she agreed to help out an fence, but denied any a crossing upgrade without One of the crossing’s Ms Gray says while the elderly friend whose fence further liability and said Pessimistic success. starker elements are two elder man’s death had been next to the railway line blew that’s as far as its assistance Association stalwarts small wooden crosses that brushed aside because it over during a storm earlier would go. “This matter is being John Cunai and Len tell the story of a shattered was a suicide, she wonders this year. A letter from transport taken up by the City of Glamuzina grabbed hard family. In January 2009, whether a physical barrier, Believing vibrations from minister Rita Saffioti’s office Cockburn and as this is copies of the petition. Mr 23-year-old Terry Malho better lighting and a less freight trains had weakened set the tone early: “This one only a freight line privatised Cunai says after just two was killed when a mate depressing atmosphere what she considered to is not an easy one to help by the previous Liberal/ hours of banging on doors who he’d been drinking around the crossing might be a dividing fence, Ms with,” it starts. Nat government it is very they’d added 120 signatures. with crashed his car into have prompted him to take Gray looked for some help It concludes with the difficult getting upgrades “It’s been decades and the boom gates. Consumed a different path. getting it replaced. “general advice” that the done on this line,” he said. nothing improves,” Mr by grief, the young man’s The petition’s at http:// She said that’s when landowner was on his But Ms Gray said a Cunai said. father Horacio took his own chng.it/7J65NLbS ­­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Join the SOS PROGRAM and support a local school every time you shop at Gilbert’s Fresh. We donate 1% of the total spent by you to your nominated school. It’s so easy! erything! is ev Freshness Gilbert’s Focaccia Baked fresh in-store Gilbert’s Homemade Hummus Made in-store with simple fresh ingredients e fresh in-store NEW Mad ters - Gilbert’s Nut But Nothing but Nuts Select from Peanut Butter - Smooth or Crunchy, Cashew Butter or Almond Butter We are Victor St Victor here! 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Just hours before the council’s monthly meeting went into it third instalment on Tuesday evening, minister David Brn N Templeman wrote to Mr Gear and councillors to say the debate Ini would be “closely observed”. R tr “Any significant variations • Local government minister David Templeman warned Melville between the way the bowling council its decision over a bowls club lease would be “closely Arr ! club is treated (particularly in observed”. File photo regard to future terms of lease), compared with other such Customer Rewards! community organisations could – the vote went through just provide the impression of bias before 11pm. FREE GLASS OF HOUSE WINE WITH ANY MEAL ORDERED DURING LUNCH SERVICE and a lack of impartiality on Cr Woodall later put the part of the council and/or forward a rescission motion to be considered at the next EARLY BIRD DINNER SPECIAL councillors,” Mr Templeman DINEIN BETWEEN 56.30 PM TO RECEIVE 10% DISCOUNT wrote. council meeting, supported by “Given the use of the land Crs Wheatland, Nicole Robins, 15% DISCOUNT ON TAKE AWAY BETWEEN 56.30 associated with the bowling club Duncan Macphail and Clive OFFER ENDS 31ST OCTOBER has been the subject of ongoing Robartson. contention for many years, it Former mayor Russell Aubrey also reacted angrily to OPEN 6 DAYS CLOSED MONDAYS is all the more important that • Waiting in the wings? Former LUNCH 11.30am 2.30pm DINNER 5pm TILL LATE objectivity and integrity in the the lease approval, releasing an mayor Russell Aubrey has urged open letter to Mr Templeman council’s decision making is Mr Templeman to intervene. 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The Herald understands CEO thousands of dollars they’d SFPA founder and former 4/18-22, Riseley Street, Ardross Marten Tieleman told councillors received from groups associated chairman Clive Ross was part BYO Wine and Fully Licensed | BOOK NOW 9364 2499 at a briefing before the full with the bowling club during the of a delegation with bowls club meeting it was the first such last election. president Tim Smith at the start letter he’d seen in his career, Noting the minister’s recent of the council’s meeting three sparking an angry response from comments about drawing a “line weeks ago, but Mr Gear says Mr Gear’s faction. in the sand” about governance that doesn’t mean he should The mayor initially blocked standards following the have declared a financial interest Cr Karen Wheatland’s attempts damning inquiry in the City of and stayed out of the lease to have the minister’s letter Perth, Mr Aubrey appealed to debate. tabled during the meeting, Mr Templeman to step in. “It’s a pretty thin argument, I although he later relented. “I therefore call upon would have thought,” Mr Gear you as the minister for local Following extended debate told the Herald.