The Town of East Fremantle in Perth, Western Australia was originally established on 2 April 1897 as a municipality with a mayor and councillors under the Municipal Institutions Act 1876. With the passage of the Local Government Act 1960, all municipalities became Towns effective 1 July 1961.
Mayor | Term |
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Matthew Moss | 1897–1900 |
Francis McDonald | 1900–1903 |
William Angwin | 1903–1906 |
Stuart Thomson | 1906–1909 |
Joseph Francis Allen | 1909–1914 |
Leonard Burlington Bolton | 1914–1919 |
Harry Woodhouse | 1919–1924 |
Herbert John Locke | 1924–1931 |
Joseph Francis Allen [1] | 1931–1933 |
John Munro | 1933–1934 |
Herbert John Locke | 1934–1944 |
William Wauhop | 1944–1961 |
Mayor | Term |
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William Wauhop | 1961–1964 |
Victor Ulrich | 1964–1974 |
Ian Gilbert Handcock | 1974–1991 |
Andrew Bruce Smith | 1991–1994 |
Timothy Martin Smith | 1994–1997 |
Andrew Bruce Smith | 1997–2001 |
James O'Neill | 2001–2007 |
Alan Ferris | 2007–2013 |
James O'Neill | 2013–present |
Perth is the capital and largest city of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth. It is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with the majority of Perth's metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which its central business district and port of Fremantle are situated.
There are 137 local government areas (LGAs) in Western Australia, which comprise 27 cities, 102 shires, and 8 towns that manage their own affairs to the extent permitted by the Local Government Act 1995. The Local Government Act 1995 also makes provision for regional local governments (referred to as "regional councils", established by two or more local governments for a particular purpose.
Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo.
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The Town of East Fremantle is a local government area in the southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located immediately northeast of the port city of Fremantle and about 17 kilometres (11 mi) southwest of Perth's central business district. The Town covers an area of 3.1 square kilometres (1.2 sq mi), maintains 46 km of roads and had a population of over 7,000 as at the 2016 Census.
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Canning Highway is an arterial road in Perth, Western Australia, linking the inner Perth suburb of Victoria Park in the north-east, to the port city of Fremantle in the south-west.
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The Western Mail, or Western Mail, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia.
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The Town of North Fremantle was a local government area in metropolitan Perth across the Swan River from Fremantle.
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William Charles Angwin was an Australian politician who was Deputy Premier of Western Australia from 1924 until 1927, and Agent-General for Western Australia in London from 1927 until 1933. Born in Cornwall, England, he worked as a carpenter and builder before moving to Australia. He was a founding member of the East Fremantle Municipal Council and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party from 1904 until 1927, representing the seats of East Fremantle and North-East Fremantle.
The 1933 WANFL season was the 49th season of the Western Australian National Football League in its various incarnations. It was the last year of a seven-team senior competition, and saw George Doig, during the second semi-final, become the first player to kick one hundred goals in a season.
Matthew Lewis Moss KC was a lawyer and politician who served in the Parliament of Western Australia on three separate occasions – in the Legislative Assembly from 1895 to 1897, and in the Legislative Council from 1900 to 1901 and again from 1902 to 1914. He was a minister in the governments of Alf Morgans (1901), Walter James (1902–1904), and Hector Rason (1905–1906). Moss was born in New Zealand and arrived in Western Australia in 1891. He left for England in 1914 and spent the rest of his life there, although he maintained connections with Australia, on two occasions acting as Agent-General for Western Australia.