Not only Kings Park under threat

Post News, 17th October, 2015

Stephanie Clegg, from the 'Friends of Bold Park, rightly expresses concern that proposed sites for a new (actually, recreated) high school for the western suburbs are in bushland, including two that are in Bold Park itself.

Those, including Local Government Minister, Tony Simpson (http://capitalcitycitizenscommittee.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/kings-park-simpson-playing-man-not-ball.html), and Perth MLA, Eleni Evangel, who deny that Kings Park could be under threat from the powers that would be granted to the Executive Director Public Health under the City of Perth Bill, currently before the Parliament, would do well to look at the proposals for a new (actually, recreated) high school in the western suburbs.

Both Bold Park and Kings Park are A-class reserves, which supposedly have the highest class of protection in WA.

Colin Barnett, as Minister for Education, was responsible for closing Hollywood, Swanbourne and Scarborough High Schools and is now frantically trying to undo the consequences by raiding valuable bushland.

Colin Barnett, as Premier, has been responsible for building the new Perth Children's Hospital with what, according to doctors, is too little capacity and doing so on a site with no scope for expansion - except over the road into Kings Park.

UPDATE 20th October 2015. Letter as above published in the West Australian today - long with a tongue-in-cheek one about Charlie's Chairlift.