Nahan Doesn't Understand - Are We Surprised?

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Mike Nahan, Treasurer and Member for Riverton, clearly doesn't understand the local government so-called reform process that he has been making a lot of noise about.

He criticises the 'Fight for Canning' campaign on the grounds that it "failed to submit a proposal to remain as it was".

Sorry, Mike, but that isn't an option under the Local Government Act - you can only submit a proposal for change.

If you want to remain as you are, all you can do is make a submission opposing any proposal for change. If Nahan had read the LGAB report, he would know that the vast majority of submissions from Canning residents and ratepayers supported retaining the status quo.

Nahan also wants to prolong the uncertainty by continuing "to fight for the boundary to be shifted east, so that the suburbs of Riverton, Shelley and Willeton are not split".

What is it about this Government? First we had Barnett (and a reluctant Simpson), after all he/they had invested in the LGAB process, rejecting the Vincent/Perth recommendation on the grounds that it wasn't what he wanted - and then saying he will introduce a City of Perth Act to get something closer to what he really wanted, including a blatant gerrymander.

Now we have Nahan saying he doesn't like the recommendations affecting Melville and will use 'other means' to make further adjustments.

Get over it, guys - as the song goes "You can't always get what you want"