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The Serpentine-Jarrahdale Road District was established on August 8, 1913 with the merger of the Serpentine Road District (1894) and the Jarrahdale Road District (1902). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On July 1, 1961, it became a Shire following the passage of the Local Government Act 1960 , which reformed all remaining road districts into shires.
Rob Coales (born 1975/1976) is an Australian politician and the current president of the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale since winning a landslide election victory in 2023, becoming the Shire's first directly-elected leader. [1] Coales is also a member of the Western Australian Police Force as a police sergeant. [2]
Lowlands Homestead is a group of heritage buildings in the locality of Mardella, in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Western Australia. The origins of the homestead date back to the 1830s, Thomas Peel and the Peel Estate .
The Saint Stephen's Church in Serpentine is an Anglican church part of the Diocese of Perth's Parish of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. [15] The church's foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of Perth, Charles Riley on 10 May 1913, with the church being consecrated on 6 December 1913. Plans for a stone church in Serpentine dated back to 1885. [16]
Byford and the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale's only secondary-only school is the government Byford Secondary College, which opened in 2014. The Byford Community Kindergarten was built in 1978. In March 2017, Department of Fire and Emergency Services deemed it high risk to bushfire due to surrounding bushland. It reopened in 2019. [56] [57]
The 2023 Western Australian local elections were held within the City of Kwinana and marked the first time a new system was used. [17] Optional preferential voting was used to replace the first-past-the-post system used under previous local elections. Another first in this election was the appointment of Peter Feasey as mayor - the first time ...
State Register of Heritage Places in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale (2 P) Pages in category "Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Jarrahdale is a small historic town located 45 km south-east of Perth, Western Australia in the Darling Range.The name is derived from its situation in a jarrah forest. . Established in the late 1800s as the state's first major timber milling operation, it played a key role in the development of Western Australia through the exportation of jarrah around the worl