Mack avoids the sack
September 20, 2026 10:09 am Mayor Mack avoids the sack In a week when the Northern Suburb Weekly was launched with so much fluff that I coughed up a hairball while reading it – the POST Newspapers continues to do real reporting. #wakeupjoondalup
Cambridge moves on Mack
September 20, 2026 3:25 pm References and resources Cambridge Agendas and Minutes – See 25 August 2026 minutes In the midst of all the talk of billions of litres of bin juice and DWER issuing EPNs, on 25 August 2026, the Town of Cambridge considered a Notice of Motion from the Town’s own Deputy Mayor, […]
Joondalup – the MRC beast of burden
September 22, 2026 7:18 am References and resources Perth Now article with quote from Chair, Gary Mack Joondalup – it looks to me like we might have been left holding the donkey card in this game. In my opinion, a responsible, functioning governing body would take in the latest findings of DWER and be moving […]
Tamala Park’s costly clean-up
August 30, 2026 7:23 am References and resources City of Perth 25 August Council Meeting Minutes Think the Tamala Park mess isn’t your problem? Think again. Mindarie Regional Council isn’t some private waste company that can be left to clean up its own mess. It’s a regional local government, owned by seven member councils: Joondalup, […]
MRC Chair unaware
August 29, 2026 3:37 pm References and resources WAtoday Trash to Power From City of Perth minutes – 25 Aug 26 MRC Chair Gary Mack says he “wasn’t aware” of the revised leachate estimate of 2.07 billion litres at Tamala Park. How? How is that possible?I knew it from the City of Perth’s 25 August […]
How are we going to clean that up?
August 27, 2026 3:55 pm References and resources City of Perth – 25 August Council Meeting minutes MRC Minutes – 27 August 2026 – Appealing EPA MRC Minutes – 27 August 2026 – Waste to Energy vote The true figure has just leaked out. As per the City of Perth’s (CoP) agenda, the MRC’s estimate […]
Not fit for human consumption
August 20, 2026 10:27 am References and resources DWER’s Contaminated Sites Mapping website Satterley Masterplan MAR page 125 – contaminated bores If you take a look at the Catalina Masterplan that is currently live on Satterley’s website, you will see a version of this map. It will have the same proposed future dwellings and sports […]
No way to run a tip
August 17, 2026 10:54 am References and resources The Cobra Effect If I wanted to build the most dysfunctional governance model I could imagine, I think I would struggle to come up with something more outlandish than a Regional Council model like the one the MRC is based upon. Just imagine a think tank pulling […]
Something in the water
August 13, 2026 2:04 pm References and resources Mandatory Audit Repot April 2025 (MAR) EPN November 2024 EPN August 2026 The curious amongst you may wonder what happens when you don’t extract the leachate from a tip. By October 2024, it was estimated that more than 167 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of bin juice had […]
Bin juice issues
August 8, 2026 2:33 pm References and resources In Lesson 1 we looked at the stink coming from Tamala Park. Now we need to talk about what sits underneath it. Leachate is the contaminated liquid created as rainwater passes through waste, picking up chemicals and organic material along the way. Think of it as bin […]