That is so s**t. This city is really starting to irritate me. Its so backwards and this party lacks any vision what so ever, no wonder WA is losing so many of their youths to other cities/countries. It is a retirement village and I am seriously considering moving.
Come over to Adelaide... where our water supply is being stolen by other states, where the government can't seem to get public transport right, the city is in a feud about whether we need a hospital or a stadium, and to top it all off we're the murder captial of Australia!
Come over to Adelaide... where our water supply is being stolen by other states, where the government can't seem to get public transport right, the city is in a feud about whether we need a hospital or a stadium, and to top it all off we're the murder captial of Australia!
How the hell is that a choice, obviously a hospital.
Come to Brisbane.. no daylight saving.. humidity of 90%..maroAn.. but hey, could be worse *cough* sydney *cough*
That is so s**t. This city is really starting to irritate me. Its so backwards and this party lacks any vision what so ever, no wonder WA is losing so many of their youths to other cities/countries. It is a retirement village and I am seriously considering moving.
Everything im interested in is being abbollished under this new government though. We are now unlikely to get a new stadium due to The Libs coalition with the Nationals party and a s**t load of money being poored into regional WA, even though 90% of our population lives in the city. This decision is going to f##k us over big time, legislation will be harder to pass having a minority leadership, and the basic governing of the state will be dictated by the country.
I think the big thing pissing me off is our sexy new waterfront will more than likely be scrapped. I study landscape architecture and Richard Weller, the designer of this concept, is one of my studio coordinators at UWA and this would have been something me and my colleagues would have been working on in the near future. If you have ever been to Perth you would realize how un-utilized the foreshore actually is. The "nimby's" of Perth argue it should be returned to it's natural state which some dont realize was stinky unhabitable swap flats. RRRR Stupid f###ing government, and even dumber state.
I agree, Dara, the country people of WA have been hard done by for years. 90% of the people might live in the city but 90% of the states wealth comes from the country.
Top lawyer Malcolm McCusker warns of WA police state * By PAUL LAMPATHAKIS * From: The Sunday Times * February 13, 2010 7:00PM
WARNING: Top Perth lawyer Malcolm McCusker warns that WA is in danger of becoming a police state with irresponsible law-making.
ONE of the state's most respected lawyers has warned WA is in danger of becoming a police state through irresponsible law-making.
In an expansive interview that Malcolm McCusker QC hoped would be a wake-up call for West Australians before parliament started for the year, he slammed as "absolutely deplorable" attacks by Police Minister Rob Johnson on critics of the Barnett Goverernment's proposed stop-and-search laws.
He said people should realise their rights would continue to be eroded by the Government's "populist" law-and-order platform of proposed stop-and-search laws, mandatory sentencing and vehicle confiscation.
"Maybe the public has just become hypnotised by the politicians' constant thumping of the law-and-order drum," he said. "
But the reality is that when people suddenly find that they, or someone they know, is subjected to these laws, then they will realise very rapidly how bad these laws are. What the Government is doing is not applying principles of law in the proper sense. It's enacting laws that it thinks will appeal to the general population."
He said the increase in power police would get by being able to stop and search people "without any grounds at all", and the powers they already had because of mandatory sentencing and confiscation laws, were "the kinds of attributes that we've given in the past to a police state".
"If we don't watch it, we'll find ourselves in a society that used to pride itself on adhering to the rule of law, but will now find itself being governed in some respects by police," he said.
"That's not what a democratic society is about."
Mr McCusker said police could already detain people if they had reasonable suspicion of criminal behaviour.
"The UK experience has shown that certain racial groups are more likely to be targeted with these types of laws," he said. "But any perfectly law-abiding citizen who hasn't done anything wrong may find himself or herself being stopped and searched for no good reason whatever.
"That would be a humiliating process in front of other people, who will immediately suspect, understandably, that the person who has been stopped and searched has done something wrong."
Mr McCusker applauded the courage of retired police superintendents Dave Parkinson and John Watson who said publicly that stop-and-search laws were unnecessary and open to abuse.
"It was absolutely deplorable that Rob Johnson attacked those two senior and very respected ex-policemen, who dared to come out and say what they thought," he said.
He said WA had yet to see the full impact of mandatory sentencing where "if a police officer is hit, no matter how mild the assault is", a person found guilty of bodily harm would go to jail.
He said judges already jailed people found guilty of causing serious harm to public officers and WA courts were already tough on offenders, reflected by the state's high rate of imprisonment.
Mr McCusker said vehicle confiscation under anti-hoon laws was "abhorrent" because innocent people could have a car stolen and then have it confiscated by police.
He had little faith that future governments would reverse the laws because they would be scared to be seen as being soft on crime.
Mr Johnson defended the proposed stop-and-search laws as "designed to help get weapons off our streets . . . I believe that's what the overwhelming majority of West Australians want".
He said he had never suggested Mr Parkinson and Mr Watson did not have a right to express their views, but he had "every right to disagree with them".
Good to see the WA Liberals hanging out on Rudd's Health reform. WA is already harshly hit with too much GST going straight to the federal coffers, generally more by percentage than the other states.
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RRRR Stupid f###ing government, and even dumber state. 
