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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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Cynical Ploy - Why Does City of Perth 'Need' QEII Medical Centre?

Treasurer, Mike Nahan, has said that Royal Perth Hospital might need to be demolished but that it would be rebuilt and remain a tertiary hospital. This begs the question of where the money might be coming from, especially as he also acknowledges that the Barnett government had done too much with the simultaneous building and rebuilding of 11 other hospitals.

 If we believe what he says, the obvious question is why the City of Perth 'needs' the QEII Medical Centre in order to be a world-class capital city.

 Forgive my scepticism, but it seems more likely to be a ploy to get us to accept demolition of RPH after which the government would say 'no money to rebuild' and, anyway, QEII is the City of Perth hospital.

 The State Government then has a prime central city landholding that it can sell to private developers in yet another asset fire sale to try to reduce the burden of public debt this government has saddled us with.
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