A Real Capital City for Western Australia: A New Light on the City of Perth Committee?

WE NEED YOUR HELP

The Capital City Citizens' Committee is firmly of the view that the current City of Perth Act is fatally-flawed and a missed opportunity to create a great capital city for Western Australia. BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Write, email, phone or lobby your local Member of the Legislative Assembly and Members of the Legislative Council. You can find their names and contact details at http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/memblist.nsf/WebCurrMembElectorate Just type the name of your suburb or your postcode into the 'search' box and click on the 'Search' button.

Feel free to use information on this blog to help you make the case.

Thank you all.

The WA media have been full of reports about the Crime and Corruption Commission's report on Perth Lord Mayor, Lisa Scaffidi (eg https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/29723044/lisa-scaffidi-failed-to-declare-gifts-travel-ccc; http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-06/perth-mayors-beijing-olympics-trip-with-bhp-unwise-barnett-says/6830684; http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/perth-lord-mayor-lisa-scaffidi-signally-failed-in-duties-corruption-and-crime-commission/story-fnhocxo3-1227557825976?sv=db7d3f447044c1010f885e64ef91dd9e&utm_source=Perth%20Now&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial).

It is interesting that the Premier reportedly has said that "if one of his ministers had behaved in this way he would probably look at resignation"(https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/29725980/lord-mayor-digs-in-over-ccc-findings).

This has been hanging over the Lord Mayor for some time. Does it cast new light on the way the City of Perth Committee has been framed in the City of Perth Bill - vaguely enough to allow an effective state government takeover of the City of Perth on major development and infrastructure issues?

Do the findings of the CCC potentially give the Premier 'justification' for doing so if the City of Perth Bill passes the Parliament?

Of course the Bill has yet to pass the Parliament - and there are strong doubts as to whether it will - but the CCCC will continue to be vigilant and lobby for rejection of the Bill in its entirety.