Random thoughts and observations
The Independent Member for Murchison-Eyre, John Bowler, has a gift for saying what people are thinking. That’s what makes him a successful politician. In the Kalgoorlie Miner on Monday he described the State Government’s decision to keep the highway closed between Kalgoorlie and Perth as “backside covering”. He was referring to officials in the Department [...]
Western Australia is a BIG state, bigger than Texas, and that’s a fact. If you travel 300km from Melbourne you will either be across the state border or closer to one than you are to the capital in most cases. Drive 300km in WA and you’ve hardly gone anywhere. We travelled more than 1200km today [...]
I feel quite strongly now there should be a Royal Commission or a judicial inquiry into the WA bushfire deaths. A 19-year-old girl is the latest casualty, killed in a motoring accident on the alternative gravel route. Four lives have now been lost because of a poor decision and a failed system. Police are currently [...]
I started driving to work at 7.30 this morning thinking it would be an easy day. My biggest problem was wondering how to fill tomorrow’s paper given the scarcity of news. A call to my mobile shook that theory. I was told that three people were killed overnight in a tragic fire on the Great [...]
I sometimes fear that Western Australia is developing into a dysfunctional society. I don’t think it’s exaggerating to say there’s a large minority of people in this state who live outside the law and/or with little regard for it. It’s a bigger problem than in other states. Two recent examples: A 49-year-old farmer, William Rowe, [...]
