Bondi Patrol Podcast
Welcome to The Bondi Patrol Podcast; a conversation with the people who volunteer their time to keep Bondi beach safe for swimmers, run the Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club as well as the Bondi community who embrace & support our club, and our values – I’m your host Glen Frost, I’m a Volunteer surf life saver at Bondi, and each episode I’ll be meeting with a local legend; either from our club, from the Australian surf life saving community, or from in and around Bondi.
We exist to save lives, create great Australians and build better communities, and we couldn’t do that without our 1500 volunteers and an engaged and supportive Bondi community, so thank you, we salute you.
The Bondi Patrol Podcast is owned by The Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club. All advertising and sponsorship revenues are paid directly to the Bondi SBLSC. Glen Frost is the Co-Founder and Host of the podcast, and does not profit in any way from the podcast. Glen donates his time to make the podcast happen.
Bondi Patrol Podcast
The Bondi Patrol Podcast: Episode 22: Mayor Paula Masselos: the power of local democracy, do we need beach bars and shark nets?
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.
