Well, the Royals fell at the final hurdle, but there's still plenty of passion about saving Vincent. Frankly the Royals appeared to have lost the passion that they showed the previous couple of weeks in beating teams that had finished above them on the ladder at the end of the regular season.
There was no doubting the passion shown by Vincent people at the rally on Sunday morning, though. And that's incredibly important. If we don't maintain the passion - and, as Alannah MacTiernan said on Sunday, it will be a long fight - we will succumb just as the Royals did.
It was very noticeable at Sunday's rally that there was more emphasis on, and optimism about, the possibility of saving Vincent, not just avoiding its being split between Stirling and Perth. One speaker, who lived in Glendalough, described her experience in being 'taken over' by Vincent a few years ago and becoming part of the Vincent community - and said she had no wish to return to Stirling. I doubt there would be as much difference as some people think between being absorbed into Perth and being absorbed into Stirling, since neither of them really wants us.
But the greatest thing for me was the unanimous vote calling on Colin Barnett NOT to remove the poll provisions that give local communities the right to reject amalgamations they don't want - or need.
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