With the Fremantle Society’s new funny but serious Sock it Colin anti-amalgamations Facebook campaign underway I thought it is worth sharing some more thoughts on amalgamations from a City of Fremantle perspective.   First is  Cr Jon Strachan’s thoughtful piece on his blog I have pasted below and second is this clip from WAMN News where I talk about it from a Fremantle Council perspective just after the 2 minute mark.

What all these have in common is we agree with the need for local government reform but simply sticking Fremantle together with Melville is not smart reform that any of us can support.

I’ll be making this clear to the Minister when the CEO and I meet with him in a couple of weeks.

Click here for Freoville Story on WANM News

Reform not Amalgamations

Posted on July 4, 2013by jonstrachan

http://jonstrachan.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/reform-not-amalgamations/

Last week’s Herald front page has…