Doug Thompson

Elected until 2025

Doug Thompson was first elected in 1988 and is the City’s longest serving councillor.

Doug is currently retired after a successful career in Technical and Further Education as Principal Lecturer at South Metropolitan College of TAFE. He holds a bachelor’s degree in the Humanities and a master’s degree in education.

He believes that cooperative work to achieve environmentally proven solutions to reduce waste is a pressing issue for local government. He is committed to facilitating cooperation between councils to achieve circular economy goals in approaches to waste minimisation.

Doug aims to implement, as far as possible, the vision, outcomes, and objectives from the 2029 Community Visioning Project and our Strategic Community Plan 2015–25. He looks forward to carrying out his duties under the Act and make good transparent decisions in Council based on sound advice and consideration of community input and impacts.

Doug loves how complex and many faceted Freo is. He loves our community that embraces a diverse range of people who are opinionated, passionate, and vocal. Most importantly he feels that Fremantle, as a place and as a community, is never ever boring.

Committees and groups

• Western Australian Local Government Association South Metropolitan Zone (WALGA Zone)