If The Natural Boundary Is the Railway…

Western Suburbs Weekly, 24th June 2014

Charles Johnson is quoted as saying, "the key barriers for the City of Perth are the Swan River, Kwinana and Mitchell Freeways, Kings Park and the train lines". He goes onto say that these "also suggest the edges of communities and often the best boundaries of local government".

So how can he support Vincent being absorbed into the City of Perth?

If anything, he should be saying that the City of Perth should contract within those boundaries and focus on its big-business and CBD functions.

This is typical of the lack of rigour in almost all of the 'debate' on the Barnett/Simpson local government so-called reform - it focuses on a particular outcome (in this case, the answers sought by the Town of Cambridge and the City of Vincent, which commissioned this report) rather than looking objectively at the evidence.