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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]
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.
Council representation was also changed to align with the population of the district, with council wards abolished for smaller councils. For all larger councils, the mayor or president will now be popularly elected, rather than appointed by councillors. [2] Almost all local elections were conducted via post. Eight councils held in-person elections:
The metropolitan region is defined by the Planning and Development Act 2005 to include 30 local government areas with the outer extent being the City of Wanneroo and the City of Swan to the north, the Shire of Mundaring, City of Kalamunda, and the City of Armadale to the east, the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale to the southeast and the City of ...
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]
An application for a new school located in Oakford was submitted by the Free Reformed Church School Association in 2023. The association already operates the John Calvin School in Byford. The proposed school would teach students from kindergarten to Year 12, with a capacity of 1,200 students. The application proposed that it would be built in ...
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
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]