Does This Premier Know Anything?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-04/city-of-perth-boundaries/5068710

In an earlier post on this blog ('How Not To Understand A Community'), I took Local Government Minister, Tony (Homer) Simpson, to task for effectively saying that his only experience of Beaufort Street was driving up and down it on one occasion.

Now we have Colin Barnett, who, let's face it is pulling Simpson's strings, saying: "I mean go and drive, walk around Vincent, you know you can see the city skyline at the end of every street, clearly that's an inner city suburb … [A] different composition of people, not the same as you would have in the broader suburban area of Stirling. There is a functional, social, demographic difference."

Well, as Tony's alter ego would say, "Duh!"

Nothing's changed, Col. Vincent was like this when you started the process. Do you know your State so poorly that this comes as a revelation? You don't have to live here to know that. You don't even have to come here - you can see Vincent clearly from the upper levels of the Governor Stirling Tower where you had your office until recently - but yours was almost certainly on the river side so you probably didn't get to look out at where people actually live.