The residents of Cockburn are rightly up in arms about the huge changes made to the Government's initial proposals for local government, which would have seen Kwinana and Cockburn combined. Despite saying, when the original proposals were released, that only minor changes would be considered, the Government has now released proposals showing Cockburn dismembered, with three parts going separate ways.
This is by no means the only time that the Government has said one thing and done another (starting with Col Pot's original election promise not to force amalgamations on local governments) - and even now the Local Government Minister, Tony Simpson (who does more every day, it seems, to justify the nickname Homer), can't agree with himself. On the one hand he says that a final decision on the mergers has not been made. At the same time he says: "the Government has put in a submission to the advisory board, we haven't put in a final map, only a decision".
Does anyone in this Government listen to him/herself, let alone listen to other Ministers or the Premier? Of course, when so much that is said by them is nonsense, there might well be something to be said for not listening - if it wasn't all so serious.
One thing we do know is that none of them is listening to the communities that elected them.
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