Reece Harley for City of Perth | Public figure
Reece Harley for City of Perth
Phone: +61 421 793 031
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24.01.2022 Theres been a lot of talk about Langley Park this election. While walking down Terrace Road today I spotted a thousand (rough guess) primary school students singing. Feedback Ive received is that locals value Langley Park, that its heavily utilised, that a large public open space is a real asset and point of difference for Perth, that soccer clubs and large scale events treasure the space. Residents want to be closely consulted on any plans for the park, and dont support any large scale redevelopment. Meanwhile - these kids were real troopers and carried on despite the rain!
23.01.2022 Reece understands the issues of City trade. He knows the importance of supporting retailers and bringing people back to our city. Peter Mulé Owner - Mini Espresso London Court... West Perth Local East Perth Community Group Inc Northbridge Common
23.01.2022 Such a beautiful sunny morning in our city today. This morning were at Food Monkey Cafe. Owner Michelle has been here for seven years pumping out great coffee to the locals. Theyre at 101 Lake Street Northbridge in an old heritage cottage. Check them out!
23.01.2022 Though frozen to the bone Ive had a really great day dooknocking East Perth residents today! Some great conversations about what its like living on windy Adelaide Tce. Meanwhile - check out these retro signs circa 1950s. Love the old-school sign-writing and fonts.
23.01.2022 Great to see Miss Maud Perth reopened in Carillon City today. Theyve been closed since the COVID shut down and it seems theyre customers are pretty excited to get a sausage roll this morning!
22.01.2022 Federal Government live music grants are now available, designed to support quality original Australian live music with a focus on small to medium venues. Grants are available for projects commencing from November and the funding round is open until September 13. https://www.arts.gov.au/funding-and-su/live-music-australia
21.01.2022 Hey City of Perth. Your tenant directory on the train station concourse is about four years out of date - at least. Angus & Robertson hasnt been here for a long time. The digital display is also broken. Its these little details that matter and help to foster City pride.
21.01.2022 If ever I needed your assistance its at this election! There are 27 candidates for just 8 positions on the City of Perth Council - and I need your help! If youre able to spare 1 hour of your time (or 2, or 3!) sometime before Sunday this week, Id really appreciate it if you could help me drop some flyers into letterboxes throughout the City. Ill allocate you a street, give you a list of the addresses, and a corresponding number of flyers all bundled up. Even one street ...would help me a great deal. Please send me a private message on Facebook and I can arrange a street, suburb and time that suits you. Thank you so much! www.reeceharleyforperth.com.au
21.01.2022 THANKYOU! Ive been so heartened by all of your support over the last week. To the City of Perth residents and business owners, community leaders, and to my family and friends who have helped distribute my campaign leaflets to most of the city over the last few days, I just wanted to say how deeply appreciative I am for your support and your efforts. Unlike some of the other candidates in this election I dont have deep pockets, and I havent (nor have I ever) accepted any c...ampaign donations to help me meet the substantial costs of candidacy. You wont see any billboards, newspaper advertisements, professionally-recorded video presentations, flashy websites or addresses mail-outs during my campaign. Im relying on the communitys help to get the word out about my plan for our City. Signing off for the night from my Campaign Office (lounge-room )! Reece www.reeceharleyforperth.com.au
18.01.2022 Reece is available, quick to reply & help when Ive been dealing with issues in the City of Perth. If its an area out of his control, he has always done his best to point me in the right direction. Hes been a great support to us! Dave Lee Owner - Theory For Hair Hay Street, West Perth
18.01.2022 There are some changes proposed for heritage grants available to owners of rateable property within the City of Perth which are formally identified as heritage buildings or places. The City is asking for community feedback on the proposal by the 30th of September. Complete the survey here: http://ow.ly/klk550B48eM
17.01.2022 Emma Ferguson - Co-owner, Balthazar & No Mafia. Reece has always been quick to assist whenever Ive needed help dealing with the city. Hes a great supporter of city businesses like mine.
15.01.2022 Reece's leadership and comprehensive approach to homelessness in our city offers evidence-based solutions that put people first, addressing the cause and offering support, rather than the vilifying our city's most vulnerable. Fraser Johnson, Co-founder & Creative Director MITP Agency, Jack Rabbit Slim's, Lucy's Love Shack.
13.01.2022 "Reece has always made time to drop in and have a chat over the years I've been running my cafe in Hay Street. I mentioned to him how great it would be if the City could extend the footpath in front of my cafe so that I could create an alfresco area to brighten up the street and give my patrons somewhere to Sit. Since then Reece has worked tirelessly to advocate for my business and finally, after a four year wait, the City agreed. ... I''m now able to offer my customers somewhere to sit come rain, hail of shine. It's especially helped during the least few months as we've had to abide by social distancing requirements. Reece really understands the issues facing small business owners like me and he's always available to speak with him when I need advice. " Michael Ivanoff - Owner, Crib Lane Hay Street, Perth
13.01.2022 A new exhibition Gnarla Boodja Mili Mili (Our Country on Paper) at the Museum of Perth tells the stories behind 31 Noongar names for places around Perth. It draws on research done over the past five years by the Aboriginal history unit of WA which partnered up with the museum to deliver the exhibition. The research produced an online map launched in September 2019, and now the exhibition takes them into the physical realm and accompanies the stories with early portraits of ...Noongar people, paintings, early translation dictionaries, artistic impressions of how the land mightve looked, a model of the colonys early days, and with a soundtrack of kids from Bibra Lake primary school pronouncing the Noongar names. Museum executive director Reece Harley took on the project as his first solo curatorship. At the time of the colonists arrival in 1829, Indigenous languages and knowledge were essential for the survival of the colony, he says. Aboriginal place names tended to describe the usefulness or importance of that location, whether it was a good place to cross a river, to hunt, or to access clean drinking water. Mr Harley says in the early days colonists were eager to learn these Aboriginal names and interpreters regularly published columns in early newspapers giving dictionaries of place names and common words. He says understanding the original place names gives a greater connection to history and culture, and adds I hope our exhibition helps to rekindle this flame and encourages the people of Perth to learn more about the history of their city.
12.01.2022 Ballot papers arrive this week! Harley, Reece Heres why Annas voting for me: Reece has been a lone champion of the new Crawley/Nedlands area by working tirelessly to represent us and providing an open conversation between residents and staff to solve all our problems no matter how small (rubbish collection), or more complex issues of development applications. - Anna Vanderbom - President, City of Perth Western Residents Association
11.01.2022 HOMELESSNESS Essential reading in todays West Australian Newspaper - an opinion piece by Betsy Buchanan, a leading advocate for housing in WA. It may seem overly simplistic but... providing housing for the homeless is the single most effective way to tackle the issue. This approach is often also referred to as the housing first model. The evidence shows that first and foremost, providing a safe place for people to live should always be the first step to assisting them out... of homelessness. Once housed then other services can be offered and obtained. Stability and physical safety are paramount. In WA we have a public housing wait list of around 15,000. Meanwhile around 50% of rough sleeping people who are homeless on our streets are Aboriginal. The issues of race, social justice, dispossession of land, imprisonment, inter generational poverty and discrimination are inextricably linked with the homelessness crisis we see in our city. Up until the 1960s Aboriginal Australians were required to have a permit from the curfew imposed on them to be in the city after dark. Various pieces of State Government legislation and policy from the turn of the century onwards at various times prevented the education of aboriginal children, prevented the ownership or sale of land by Aboriginal people, prevented inheritance, business ownership and various other opportunities from being pursued, thats not to mention the issues of racism, discrimination after WW1 of returning Anzacs and a litany of others injustices. Aboriginal people are over-represented in the criminal justice system, leading to incarceration of children, fathers, mothers and brothers and the breakdown of families. These are complex issues that cant be solved by any one person, government, piece of legislation or departmental policy, but one thing the state government could do right now is commit to constructing thousands more public housing dwellings. We have COVID stimulus funding going towards the purchase of blocks in our sprawling suburbs while the federal government provides home renovation grants so people can build themselves an extension or new bathroom. The construction of 15,000 public housing dwellings over the next three years would create an estimated 60,000 jobs in the process according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and have an enormous flow on benefit to society. Its time for the State Government to meet this challenge. West Perth Local East Perth Community Group Inc Northbridge Common Property Council of Australia - WA Ruah Shelter WA
10.01.2022 I have written to Commissioners of the City of Perth expressing my concern for the integrity of the Citys electoral rolls. Given evidence provided to the City of Perth Inquiry by former Elected Members, a full audit of the Citys enrolments is required immediately. Without a full audit it is impossible to know just how many electors were fraudulently enrolled to vote or how many former councillors or council candidates might have been ineligible to stand. ... Corporate nominee electors are usually enrolled until 6 months after the second ordinary election after their enrolment. Any electors fraudulently enrolled between September 2017 and the Councils suspension in 2018 will likely be able to vote in the upcoming City of Perth election this October unless the Citys CEO has carried out a comprehensive audit and removed them. Any instances of suspected enrolment fraud that the City uncovers must be referred to the Western Australia Police Force. David Templeman MLA
08.01.2022 Ive just submitted my nomination as a candidate for the City of Perth Council. Im optimistic about the future of our City but Im also realistic about the many challenges we currently face. Ill work diligently as your voice on the Council if Im lucky enough to be elected. It would be a great honour to once again represent the city that I love. Its time to get our City back on track!... www.reeceharleyforperth.com.au
08.01.2022 New basketball courts have been constructed and painted with a vivid coat at Wellington Square. Featuring integrated skate walls, outdoor furniture and native ...trees for relaxation and shade, the courts are part of the new 3000m2 intergenerational playground supported by Lotterywest. A welcome addition for residents, workers and visitors alike, public access to the courts will occur in the coming weeks.
08.01.2022 BIG NEWS TOMORROW! Finally a large undergraduate university campus for our City. ECU has announced a $695m campus in the heart of the Perth City Link alongside Wellington and William Street. This campus will truly transform this part of our city. Read about it in the Sunday Times. ... A truly exciting plan for Perth. See more
07.01.2022 It was great to attend this evenings Lord Mayoral Debate hosted by the East Perth Community Group Inc at the Pan Pacific Hotel Perth. Six fierce contenders who all displayed their unique qualities and pitch to East Perth community members. Some very impressive questions from a very engaged and passionate audience. Congratulations to Anne-Maree and the Committee for all the work that went into the organisation.
07.01.2022 In 2016 the WA Police introduced a team of cops on bikes in our inner city. It made a big difference straight away - particularly for peoples feeling of safety in our arcades, malls and laneways. The team's approach to dealing with offenders and compassion towards homeless people in Perth has landed them a nomination for the Police Excellence Awards by the Nyoongar Outreach Service.
07.01.2022 It was great to catch up with Aboriginal Elder and City of Perth resident Uncle Ben Cuimara Taylor AM this evening at an event at the Museum of Perth celebrating Aboriginal place-names of the city, history and culture. Uncle Ben is an important community leader and advocate for his people. Hes a font of knowledge and generously shared stories of his childhood and life with tonights fellow attendees. Im so grateful to have his support in my campaign for Council.
06.01.2022 CITY CYCLING Cycling and more active forms of transport like electric scooters should play a much greater role in the future of our City. Perth, in recent decades, has been dominated by the motor vehicle, but it doesn't always have to be this way. Though the cities of Perth and Paris are different in a multitude of ways, the dramatic and rapid take-up of cycling in Paris in recent months demonstrates that they have reached a tipping point. Many years of concerted effort to bu...ild their cycling culture; car-free days in the inner city, construction of an integrated cycling network, and of course the famous bike-share system have laid the necessary groundwork. The leadership shown by the City Council and Mayor to seize the opportunity which COVID-19 provided was and remains an inspiration. Paris is not alone in this regard. Many cities around the world have invested heavily in cycling networks in recent months. The research is clear; cycling is good for the environment, good for public health and good for local economies. Perth faces a significant challenge however given that we are one of the most sprawling cities in the world. Building an effective cycling network must go hand in hand with other initiatives to increase residential density in our City, encourage and facilitate more local shopping venues for local residents, creating more interesting and vibrant town centres, incentivising the construction of more housing with lower car parking ratios, and mandating the provision of end-of-trip facilities and bike parking into new developments. Increasing the take-up of cycling is not just about painting white lines on bitumen, it's about building a genuine culture of cycling and a network of cycling infrastructure that connects key destinations, town centres and commuter routes while promoting the many benefits of cycling to the wider community. I see this as an essential goal for the incoming Council to whole-heartedly adopt. Perth Bike Tours Oz Electric Bikes Perth Bike Night Perth Cycling Group Cycling in Perth Womens Cycling Perth North Perth Cycling Club Perth Bike Hub Perth BikeLife WestCycle
05.01.2022 RIP 'Trinity Neil'. A group of officeworkers came together this morning to commemorate the life of one of Perth's homeless and lay a wreath at the steps of Tr...inity Church where he was known to spend most of his time. A memorial placed on the steps said Neil's dying wish was to return to the steps, to say goodbye to everyone he knew. "He didn't want anyone to worry where he had gone and that he was okay," it said.
05.01.2022 From todays The West Australian Former City of Perth councillor Reece Harley will run for council again. Mr Harley was a member of the last council which was suspended two years ago by Minister for Local Government David Templeman because of dysfunction at the City amongst staff and councillors.... The former councillor was a staunch opponent of former Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi and was part of a new majority on the council in the wake of the 2017 election. Mr Harley told The West Australian he had been thinking carefully about the decision to nominate but thought there was an enormous opportunity for the City, of which he wanted to be a part. Were going to have a new mayor, new CEO, new senior management and a new council and I relish the opportunity to be involved in that and get some great outcomes for the city, he said. I feel during my time on council I had great difficulty getting ideas up. What I see in mayoral candidates and council candidates is there is a unity of vision and people share a lot of ideas of what the city needs. I feel like my experience and corporate knowledge of the city would be of value to an incoming lord mayor and council. There were no major findings against Mr Harley out of a long-running inquiry into the former council that was finalised this year. Mr Harley said he would call out any factionalism or misbehaviour amongst councillors if he was elected again. That kind of behaviour isnt acceptable. Its not what the City of Perth ratepayers want, he said. Mr Harley said the greatest issue facing the City was the need for strong financial management with parking revenue in the doldrums because of COVID-19. We need to find diversified revenue streams, we also need to go through the budget line by line and make sure there is no waste of spending, he said. Office and retail vacancies, safety and dormant heritage buildings are other areas of concern for Mr Harley. Link: https://thewest.com.au//former-city-of-perth-councillor-re East Perth Community Group Inc West Perth Local Northbridge Common
05.01.2022 It was so good to drop in and say hi to Wendy at Pony Express-O on Mayfair St in West Perth this morning. Wendys been making some of Perths best coffee for the last six years in a very quirky and charming hidden gem of a building; the former Aston Stables built around the turn of the century (hence the name). If you havent already you must go and say hi. Its independent small traders like Wendy that make Perth so special and unique.
04.01.2022 "I am delighted to support Reece. He brings a wealth of experience and a passion for ensuring a safe, vibrant and sustainable city. Establishing the Museum of Perth, highlights his long-standing love of and belief in the city, especially its architectural, cultural and indigenous history." ~ Lyn Schwan East Perth Resident... East Perth Community Group Committee Member East Perth Local
04.01.2022 Situated in East Perth, the delightful little neighbourhood of Claisebrook is characterised by the Swan River that runs along its east side, dipping in to creat...e the lively Claisebrook Cove. Locals love this unique pocket of Perth, including our guide Darlene, a singer, performer and producer who has been living, playing and working in the area for over twenty years'. #visitperth Watch the full video via our website below
04.01.2022 The overriding consensus among the 100 peer-reviewed studies and agency reports was that housing stability brought a raft of benefits to formerly homeless individuals. Reducing the cost of non-shelter services also saved the public money. Stable housing generally came through a Housing First model. The first priority is to find people a safe and permanent home, with no strings attached. Wraparound support services are provided, which are critical in helping them adjust to a new life in a stable and permanent home.
02.01.2022 Edith Cowan University to relocate Mount Lawley campus into Perth CBD. Under the deal, ECU will vacate its Mount Lawley campus, relocating its law, business and technology divisions to the CBD, along with its hallmark arts school, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). The proposed new campus, which is slated to cost $695 million, is one of a spate of projects dubbed the "Perth City Deal".... It comes as Murdoch University plans to develop a "vertical campus" in the CBD, along with an eSports hub, while Curtin University is set to expand its city footprint beyond its business and law school. Planning Minister Rita Saffioti said the relocation of ECU's Mount Lawley campus to the CBD would "revitalise" the city centre. "I think it'll completely transform the city and bring that activity, that vibrancy, that we've all wanted and I think other cities have been able to achieve through having university campuses." Info: www.abc.net.au//ecu-to-relocate-mount-lawley-camp/12682536 The campus is expected to bring in more than 9,000 students and staff to the CBD.
02.01.2022 HARLEYS BACK ~ in todays WA Business News. Reece Harley has told Business News he will run to reclaim his position on council in the City of Perth's upcoming election.... Mr Harley along with the citys seven other councilors and lord mayor were suspended by the state government in 2018 following years of factional infighting on the council. The city subsequently underwent a two-year inquiry in which some councillors were accused of wrongdoing. Mr Harley was not accused of wrongdoing in the inquiry's final report. Speaking to Business News, Mr Harley said his experience on council and his knowledge of local government would put him in a good position to deliver results for the city. "It's obviously been very difficult in the last few years for the City of Perth, and I feel my time on the council saw me having to fight for outcomes a lot," he said. "I spent a lot of my time pushing good ideas and finding it quite difficult to get good outcomes. "With a new council, a new CEO, new staff in senior management positions and a new lord mayor, there's a genuine opportunity for us to achieve really positive outcomes." First elected to the City of Perth's council in 2013, Mr Harley ran a self-funded, grassroots campaign for lord mayor against the incumbent, Lisa Scaffidi, in 2015. While he lost that race, capturing 45 per cent of the vote, he held Ms Scaffidi to the lowest winning margin of any of her three campaigns for lord mayor. Mr Harley was subsequently re-elected to council in 2017. In addition, he was the founder of Museum of Perth and has served as its managing director since 2015. When asked about what policies he will pursue if elected, Mr Harley listed financial management, diversifying the city's revenue stream away from parking fees, reforming organisational culture, addressing office and retail vacancies and supporting community groups among his top priorities. Mr Harley now joins a crowded race for the city's eight vacant council positions that includes several candidates who have endorsed media personality Basil Zempilas' lord mayoral bid. They include local television presenter Gary Mitchell and Friends Restaurant owner Clyde Bevan. Mustang Bar managing director Michael Keiller and businesswoman Gloria Zhang, who had announced bids and subsequently endorsed Mr Zempilas for lord mayor, have reportedly been ruled inelligible to run due to the nature of their nominated lease agreements. Both candidates are now appealling those rulings. Mr Harley, who is eligible to run for council because he owns property in Crawley, confirmed he will not endorse any candidate in the lord mayoral race. Elections to the council's eight vacant positions and lord mayoralty will be held on October 17. www.businessnews.com.au/article/Harleys-back
