This is the personal blog of Ian Ker, who was Councillor for the South Ward of the Town of Vincent from 1995 to 2009. I have been a resident of this area since 1985. This blog was originally conceived as a way of letting residents of Vincent know what I have been doing and sharing thoughts on important issues. I can now use it to sound off about things that concern me.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Yet More Ministerial Chicanery

As readers of this blog will be aware, there are major and systematic conflicts of interests among the members of the Local Government Advisory Board in respect of the Ministerial proposals for local government so-called reform (http://ianrker-vincent.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/conflicts-of-interest.html and http://ianrker-vincent.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/thanks-to-chair-of-lgab.html).

So now, in his latest act of bastardry, Homer has used his ministerial powers to say that for the current metropolitan process such conflicts of interest don't matter.

He might well be right that all five members of the LGAB need to be able to  participate across the board - but that is because he is using the LGAB to perform a function it was not designed to do.

The LGAB was designed to deal with individual proposals for changes involving a small number of local governments. The Minister is forcing it to deal with a grand metropolitan plan for the total reorganisation of local government. This plan is so far-reaching and fundamental that the Minister should have the courage of his convictions and deal with through the Parliamentary process - not put the LGAB and its members in an impossible position.

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