Why So Coy?

No prizes for guessing why the Government doesn't want to draw attention to the detail of the interest in and media coverage of the proposed changes to local government in Perth.

And to say that "some of the claims made in response to the proposals captured by the attention of Local Government Minister Tony Simpson" tells us what, exactly? One would hope that he is paying attention, but it would be more helpful to know what his responses to them are. In the two weeks since the proposals were released, Homer has issued no media releases on the subject and his occasional utterances have confused rather than clarified. As already reported here, just days after the Government of which he is a part released 'final' proposals for the dramatic reshaping of metropolitan local government, he stated that he thought there was 'a good case for a substantial variation from the proposal for the City of Stirling to lose Inglewood and Dianella'.