Good News - Some Libs Have Principles

But whether it's principles or small electoral margins that guide the voting behaviour of Liberal MPs, Col's proposed City of Perth Act, as it stands (trampling on democracy, with no poll and with vote-weighting or gerrymander) should be consigned to the dustbin of history before it even gets to the Parliament.

Liberal MPs with a conscience should tell Barnett, fair and square, in the Party Room that this Bill will never pass - and if he wants to avoid the embarrassment of a defeat, not only in the legislative Council (which governments and premiers can survive) but in the Legislative Assembly (which a Premier, in particular, is less likely to survive) he should abandon it.

And all credit to those Liberals who have come out and said it publicly already - it's time for others who have been saying similar things in private to stand up and say them publicly, too, so that we know who they are and they won't suffer the opprobrium of electors at the next election.

And as for Lisa Scaffidi, she needs to understand that a capital city based on unfairness and anti-democratic electoral processes is not a 'stronger capital city' but is one that will destroy itself from within.