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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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Expect A Lot More Of This, Too

Eastern Reporter, 4th November 2014
Winners are grinners and losers, well, who cares. But there is one issue that winners and losers largely appear to agree on - and that is that lack of a ward structure, as recommended by the Local Government Advisory Board, will be detrimental to local government effectively serving its community.

Eastern Reporter, 4th November 2014
Baywater sees itself as a 'winner' and Bassendean as a 'loser' from the so-called reform process, but both see lack of wards as taking the local out of local government - as reported on this blog previously (http://ianrker-vincent.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/single-ward-fetish.html).

The Mayor of Bayswater is a bit more upbeat, saying that Council can revisit wards after election in October 2015, but fails to mention that this Council would contain a gerrymandered majority from the 'continuing' council (ie Bayswater) - see http://ianrker-vincent.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/another-gerrymander.html
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