The Bondi Patrol Podcast: Episode 22: Mayor Paula Masselos: the power of local democracy, do we need beach bars and shark nets?

Bondi Patrol Podcast

The Bondi Patrol Podcast: Episode 22: Paula Masselos, Mayor of Waverley

Today, I’m delighted to welcome Mayor of Waverley, Paula Masselos to the podcast.

Paula is the Managing Director of Embrace Society which is a communications agency specializing in hard-to-reach audiences and in values based behavior change, community engagement, advertising and communications, and creative strategy and development. Paula is a highly experienced and award-winning communicator with a career spanning 35 years. She has held a number of senior positions including Director SBS Radio, numerous appointments to ministerial advisory bodies and sat on many boards. She was appointed to the Citizenship Test Review Panel to overhaul the Australian citizenship test. She was on the National Women’s Advisory Council and shaped multicultural TV broadcasting as a member of the Ethnic Television Review Panel.

In this podcast, we cover:

1. What does a Mayor do?

2. And what does the Council have responsibility for?

3. Favourite beach? (Apart from Bondi)

4. How does the Council view Bondi?

5. How does the Council view surf life saving?

6. The role of Shark nets

Thank you for listening to this episode. thank you to our long term supporters City Ford Sydney; we appreciate your support of the Bondi Blue Water Challenge – this enables our club to raise money for the life saving service we provide the community; you can learn all about Ford’s range of cars, vans and SUVs, including electric cars and SUVs at www.cityford.com.au

If you want to get involved, wether for our Nippers program if you have young kids, or you want to become a volunteer surf life saver, You can learn more at www.bondisurfclub.com

Finally, over 300 lives were lost at Australian beaches last year– So please, swim at a patrolled beach and swim between the flags.