Local Government Minister, Tony 'Homer' Simpson, accuses Councils of spreading "blatant lies" and "scaremongering".
This is in obvious contrast to the total lack of any information from the WA Government on the reasons for or the costs and benefits of the various local government amalgamations (or 'boundary adjustments') it is attempting to force on local communities.
Does it not even occur to the Minister that a modicum of 'correct' information would show up the 'blatant lies' for what they are?
Apparently it does not. Homer prefers that we take the Government's case on trust and his assertion of Council "lies" with blind faith.
Or could it be that the statements from Councils and others are not lies after all.
I have been to quite a few community meetings on proposed amalgamations and have been presented with information that certainly appears credible. If Homer wants to convince me that this information is "lies" and "scaremongering", he needs to do more than simply say so.
At most of these meetings, person after person has stood up and said, in one way or another, "I am a life-long Liberal voter, but there is no way I'll be voting Liberal at the next State election". Even if Barnett and Simpson don't care about this, others in the Liberal and National Parties ought to, if they value their political futures. Now is the time for them to stand up and be counted, before this house of cards collapses around them.
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