Post Asks The Difficult Questions - No One Else Interested, It Seems

The Subiaco Post has been the only newspaper to give consistent and comprehensive coverage to the City of Perth Bill, now Act.

For all the hype (from Barnett, Simpson and Scaffidi) about the importance of the City of Perth Act (https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2016/02/Capital-city-Act-passed-by-Parliament.aspx; http://www.perth.wa.gov.au/newsroom/featured-news/city-perth-bill-passes-parliament), I have been unable to find a single word about it in the West Australian since it passed the Parliament.

So much for "a landmark moment for the State" (Colin Barnett) and "the pathway for Perth to become an economic powerhouse" (Scaffidi).

The Post also questions how well ALP Leader, Mark McGowan (and, by implication, his local government spokesman, David Templeman) actually understood key elements of the Bill they were helping pass through Parliament.

Subiaco Post, 5th March 2016. Click to Enlarge

The CCCC believes that McGowan had no good reason for being unaware of the threat to Kings Park, given the amount of correspondence and communication we have had with him, with his Local Government Spokesman, David Templeman, and indeed with all Members of the WA Parliament.