The City of Subiaco is a local government area in Perth, Western Australia. It was established on 10 April 1896 as the Subiaco Road Board, with a chairman elected by the board members as its leader. The first chairman was Charles Hutt, who was the secretary of the Subiaco Progress Association. By the end of 1896, the population of the Subiaco Road District was above 2000, allowing the Road Board to apply to become a municipality. The government granted the request, and so the Municipality of Subiaco was gazetted on 26 March 1897. The first mayor of the Municipality of Subiaco was Henry Doyle.[1][2] By 1952, the Municipality of Subiaco had reached a high enough population that it was eligible to become a city. Thus, on 8 February 1952, the City of Subiaco was gazetted.[1][3]
The longest serving mayor is Joseph Abrahams, who served from 1949 to 1974.[4]
Evelyn Parker, who was mayor from 1975 to 1977, was Western Australia's first woman mayor. She was honoured with the naming of the Evelyn H Parker Library in 1990.[5][6]
Subiaco Road Board
| Chairman | Term | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Hart | 1896–1897 | Secretary of the Subiaco Progress Association | [2] |
Municipality of Subiaco
| Mayor | Term | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Doyle | 1897–1898 | Chair of the Subiaco Board of Health | [2][7] |
| Charles Hart | 1898–1899 | [8] | |
| Austin Bastow | 1899–1902 | [9][10][11]: 4 | |
| Henry Daglish | 1902–1904 | Member for Subiaco from 24 April 1901 to 3 October 1911 Premier of Western Australia from 10 August 1904 to 25 August 1905 Honoured with the naming of the suburb of Daglish |
[12] |
| John Henry Prowse | 1904–1905 | Later served as the member for Swan and Forrest in the Parliament of Australia | [13][14] |
| Austin Bastow | 1905–1907 | [10][11]: 4 | |
| Henry Daglish | 1907–1908 | Member for Subiaco from 24 April 1901 to 3 October 1911 Honoured with the naming of the suburb of Daglish |
[12] |
| Thomas Harold "Shirley" White | 1908–1910 | [15][16] | |
| James Chesters | 1910–1912 | [11]: 10 | |
| Joseph Duffell | 1912–1915 | Member for the Metropolitan-Suburban Province from 22 May 1914 to 21 May 1926 | [17][18] |
| James Theophilus Guy | 1915–1916 | [19] | |
| William John Berryman | 1916–1917 | [20] | |
| Lionel Boas | 1917–1920 | [21][22] | |
| William John Berryman | 1920–1921 | [20][23] | |
| Walter Richardson | 1921–1922 | Member for Subiaco from 12 March 1921 to 8 April 1933 | [24][25] |
| Arthur Keene | 1922–1923 | [26][27] | |
| Roland Astill Robinson | 1923–1926 | [28][29] | |
| John Charles Roydhouse | 1926–1929 | [11]: 54 [30][31] | |
| G. H. Olney | 1929–1931 | [31] | |
| H. L. Downe | 1931–1936 | [32][33] | |
| Walter Richardson | 1936–1943 | Member for Subiaco from 12 March 1921 to 8 April 1933 | [34][35] |
| J. P. Bathgate | 1943–1949 | [35][36] | |
| Joseph H. Abrahams | 1949–1952 | [37] |
City of Subiaco
| Mayor | Term | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph H. Abrahams | 1952–1974 | Longest serving mayor of Subiaco, at 25 years | [37] |
| Evelyn Helena Parker | 1974–1977 | First woman mayor in Western Australia; second in Australia Honoured with the naming of the Evelyn H Parker Library in 1990 |
[5][6][38][39][40] |
| Alf Fernihough | 1977–1978 | [41] | |
| Richard Diggins | 1978–1989 | [42][43] | |
| Helen Passmore | 1989–1994 | [44][45][46] | |
| Tony Costa | 1994–2005 | [47][48] | |
| Heather Henderson | 2005–2017 | Chose not to contest 2017 election | [49][50][51] |
| Penny Taylor | 2017–2021 | Chose not to contest 2021 election | [52][53][54] |
| David McMullen | 2021–present | [55][56] |
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