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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Friday, November 7, 2014

Not Quite Right - But Scandalous Anyway

Post Newspapers, 8th November 2014
I applaud the Councils for Democracy for so graphically highlighting the inequity in who gets the opportunity for a poll - but even they haven't got it quite right.

According to the Local Government Advisory Board only South Park (South Perth and Victoria Park), Fremantle (Fremantle and East Fremantle) and Jervoise Bay (Cockburn and Kwinana) have the opportunity for a poll.

But the law says that Vincent/Perth and Riversea (Nedlands, Claremont, Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove and Mosman Park) also have the right to a poll (see http://ianrker-vincent.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/lgab-is-wrong-wrong-wrong.html).

Councils for democracy appear to fall between the two.

Even if all five are eventually granted their legal right to a poll, it is still scandalous that the same right is denied to all those others who are going through essentially the same process.
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