MELVILLE CITY HEo RALD Volume 25 N 19 Melville City’s own INDEPENDENT newspaper li treet, remantle Saturday May 10, 2014 Leeming to Kardinya Edition - etterboed to eeming, ateman, ull ree, ardinya, h a www.fremantleherald.com/melvilles urdoh, urdoh niversity, illagee and inthrop *Fortnightly Email: [email protected] B ell tolls for etla d s by STEVE GRANT • Save Beeliar etlands members are reeling following speculation eeliar etlands says te bbott government is set to the arnett government should fund the construction of Roe 8 stop pushing oe until appeals by making it s first toll road against its environmental Teyre promising mass action to approval have been heard stop te proect Photo by Matthew heir all follows transport Dwyer minister ean alder onfirming he’s negotiating funding with the Find the Fake Ad & WIN a bbott government that would Chance for a Feast for 2 be tied to the highway slugging 42 Mews Rd, truies with ’s first toll road Fremantle (The Sunday Times, May 4, 2014). member andi hinna told the Herald her group was still trying For details, please see Competitions to digest the information, given premier olin arnett had said the Want good pay? Some easy, gentle long-planned etension through the exercise? Deliver the Herald to amsar-listed wetlands wouldn’t local letterboxes! It’s perfect for be built in this term of parliament all ages, from young teens to She says the announcement seniors looking to keep active. If maes a moery of government proesses, with appeals against you’re reliable we may just have the ’s environmental approval a round near you (we deliver of the road still to be heard. throughout the Fremantle, East Fremantle, Cockburn and Melville municipalities—that’s a lot of Ignored suburbs!). Call the lovely Marie on s hinna says hairman 9430 7727 for more. aul ogels ignored sientifi advie Log onto www.fremantleherald.com to watch a spiky encounter with an echidna in the wild near Bibra Lake. and relied on flawed data when preparing the approval report proposal e would want to see hey had unior staff, not the uantum of the toll to wor out nowledgable eperts, olleting whether the advantages in moving data, she said freight more effiiently would he also ritiised r ogels ompensate for the toll, he said Council accused of for taing on the report in the He said the industry already first plae, saying his role put him wored on sinny margins and in a position where he ould be a toll ould push smaller operators influened by senior politiians, to the wall. rather than stiing to the siene He said some might try to get pro-Roe push poll ommunity ampaigner ate around it by stiing to eisting elly alled the ineetive as slower routes, assuming the an environmental wathdog and government doesn’t blo them as by CARMELO AMALFI highways, and when arnaby’s bla and ed-tailed flagged onservationists would eastern states governments do IH oe ba on the agenda he ounil strongly supports the bla oatoos simply not aept its verdit r rownell said the industry as a possible toll road, elville etension, believing its onstrution he iberals have long supported here governane proesses fail was supportive of oe and will alleviate tra on eah and oe but struggled to find the in their duty to onserve and protet would develop a position on the ity ounil has posted a survey anning Highways ash ow there is speulation the eologial and ultural heritage toll element when it met again in a asing ratepayers whether they It’s not a new idea, but we’d bbott government may alloate for all est ustralians, ordinary month’s time. have ever been stu in tra on love to hear what you have to say in uesday’s federal udget the itiens may be fored to tae Mr Nalder’s office didn’t two of erth’s busiest highways on the oe Highway etension, hundreds of millions of dollars etraordinary measures respond to the Herald’s questions, ne of the uestions ass it states, adding the proposed needed to onstrut the m he group wants more eort put but the premier told the Herald he whether people support the etension through wetlands etension, on the proviso it be built into shifting freight onto rail and ould rule out his government ever etension, to alleviate ongestion, inluding ibra ae, provides as ’s first ever toll road freeing up roads from trus broadening the toll to inlude mum while another, referring to the a better solution to help redue he survey has been attaed by eanwhile, the state’s pea and dad motorists level of impat from tra, defines the inreasing ongestion, as well the ave eeliar etlands group, freight organisation has been aught hen the hoo pointed out largely negative impat as as provides a more appropriate who claim it is blatantly biased, with o-guard by the announement of this wasn’t a guarantee that future ourneys tae longerI am very route for heavy haulage, whih is uestions designed to su people a toll. When the Herald spoe to governments wouldn’t see it as frustrated by tra nother ass inreasingly being seen in this area into looing lie they support oe ar rownell, eeutive oer of a potential revenue stream, he whether they had ever eperiened If built oe will atten more It’s disgraefully biasedso ’s freight and logistis ounil responded ou’re putting words ongestion on maor roads suh than 230 hectares of land, home to give em a blast I did, says o-nn on Monday, he hadn’t heard of the in my mouth as to and eah and anning endangered speies inluding the Whalley. LIST AND SELL WITH US Homemade Pasta • Fresh Local Seafood and Produce BY 31ST JULY Excellent Customer Service Authentic Italian Dishes AND RECEIVE A THIS TUESDAY NIGHT SPECIAL AT THE VISA RESTAURANT $500 GIFT CARD Gnocchi $20.00 CONTACT US TODAY! 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Budget bucks for new Dockers HQ prices out any new homeowners and $1.5m for Fremantle Prison by STEVE GRANT from Cockburn. restoration works. COCKBURN has edged closer Across the border in Fremantle, Roe 8 doesn’t crack a mention in to its dream of wooing the there’s almost $5m over the next the WA Budget—all eyes will turn Dockers from Fremantle, two years for the development of to Joe Hockey on Tuesday—but award-winning Victoria Quay into a commercial there’s money for WA Main Roads with the Barnett government precinct, rising to $10.8m in the for the High Street widening, with designs committing $16 million to following two years. $3.8m this year, rising to $19.9m the proposed training With its Rous Head and rail next year, then $52m and $42m headquarters at Cockburn projects completed, the port’s across the forward estimates. Central. infrastructure budget drops to its Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren WA treasurer Mike Nahan’s lowest in five years reckons it’s protestors who’ve first udget inludes a m grant There is no money for the kept Roe 8 off the books for for the aquatic and recreation WA housing department to shift another year, but she’ll still keep centre which is part of the Dockers to Fremantle, which local Labor a careful eye on the federal Budget deal, with another $6m to be MP Simone McGurk says is to see whether speculation about funded from existing programs.