Lisa Really Doesn't Have a Clue

Perth Voice, 15th February, 2014. Click to enlarge.

Lisa Scaffidi still hasn't twigged to the fact that the Local Government Advisory Board can't recommend the City of Perth's proposal to asset-strip the City of Vincent.

One might hope that the LGAB would not recommend the CoP asset-grab on economic, governance, equity or even moral grounds - but even failing all that, the proposal leaves the rest of Vincent in limbo.

I'm not sure that Eleni Evangel gets it, either. The issue of interim governance is not simply decisions that are made on development applications during that time - it is more about the governance structures (including wards) and the culture that will start to take root.

The only fair way to implement amalgamation is to have a complete spill of elected member positions so that the new entity can be genuinely representative of its community  - and, yes, that does mean one-vote, one value. In the interim period, some form of representation that does not disenfranchise one community (Vincent) to the benefit of the other (Perth) has to be found.