Clause 37 certainly needs to go - this is a cancer that would allow the City of Perth to grow on its own terms (http://capitalcitycitizenscommittee.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/cop-bill-clause-37-would-be-cancer.html.)
And there is a need for more effective accountability - although I'd prefer to see Councillors who knew right from wrong without having to be told.
But there is so much more in the City of Perth Bill that is not in the interests of the community (http://capitalcitycitizenscommittee.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/why-city-of-perth-bill-is-fatally-flawed.html), including:
- The Bill would force 3000 Subiaco residents into a dysfunctional City of Perth that has repeatedly said it doesn't want residential areas.
- The Bill would give an unelected official (the Executive Director, Public Health) local government powers over Kings Park and threatens the integrity of Kings Park.
- Creation of an ill-defined and unaccountable City of Perth Committee that meets at the behest of the Premier rather than being a collaboration between state and local governments.
- It is possible that the Bill disestablishes the City of Vincent and the Towns of Victoria Park and Cambridge by repealing the City of Perth Restructuring Act, 1993
- Extension of City of Perth boundaries to the middle of the river - setting the scene for cost-shifting for river foreshore management - in the City of Perth for now but eventually for other local governments.
- Jurisdictional separation of UWA and QEII from their surrounding communities.
The ALP has raised these issues in Parliament but has not said how it proposes to address them or whether they will cause them to defeat the Bill.
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