Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When former Nedlands councillor Andrew Mangano rose to call on the administration to intervene in earthworks on its most prestigious street in February 2022, more than two dozen people watched as he aired suspicions the works were unauthorised. Among them was Meredith McGarry, who was tuning in from her beachfront Eagle Bay abode 250 kilometres south of the council chambers in which the debate about her $12.
4 million Jutland Parade property was unfolding. The block at 52 Jutland Parade, Dalkeith. Inset: Rob Anderson KC with Paul McGarry (top).
Nedlands councillor Andrew Mangano with high-profile defamation lawyer Sue Chrysanthou (bottom). Credit: Jesinta Burton/Google Maps She was warned about the threat to their “forever home” on millionaires’ row by her property developer husband, Paul, who was monitoring the meeting from their address in Hong Kong. Mangano did not know it at the time, but his advocacy on behalf of concerned residents on the banks of the Swan River would see him slapped with a concerns notice.
Three years later, almost to the day, he would find himself in the David Malcolm Justice Centre fending off a gag order and a demand for damages, including aggravated damages, over comments he made at two subsequent council meetings that were later republished by the media. The pair accused Mangano of engaging in a sustained hate campaign underpinned by a vendetta, poisoning .