And Lisa Agrees - No Surprise There

City of Perth Lord Mayor,Lisa Scaffidi, who not so long ago stood atop Central Park and proudly endorsed Colin Barnett's vision for the City has turned on her former partner in crime after his volte-face on the City of Vincent. In doing so she, perhaps inadvertently, gives credence and credibility to the widespread opposition to how the WA Government is mismanaging the whole process.

"Perth now joins a growing list of adversaries on the way this process is being managed, while previously we had been…in sync with the Government on this matter", she said.

The City of Perth must bear some of the responsibility for its own discomfort, though, as it submitted a proposal that took less of Vincent than the Government's one, in a blatant cherry-picking asset grab.

But, however you look at it, the Government is in disarray on local government so-called reform as well as being out of touch with the community. It's only a matter of time before the whole edifice comes tumbling down like a pack of cards.

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