Out of the Mouths of Babes?

Well, I doubt that anyone has ever called Rob Johnson, the disaffected Liberal MLA for Hillarys, a babe, but he does have a reputation for calling a spade a bloody shovel these days, without fear or favour for the party of which he is a member.

Here's the latest - from the Budget debate.
The government has taken measures in some areas to try to rein in expenditure, yet it is still spending tens of millions of dollars in non-essential areas. One of those areas is, of course, the forced amalgamations of metropolitan local governments. There are two things to consider here. The first is: can we afford to allocate tens of millions of dollars at this time, when we are in such a serious financial position, to something that neither the public nor, indeed, the local councils, have called for and in fact were promised would never happen?