ELECTORAL Affairs Minister Jim McGinty’s decision to embark on a costly High Court challenge to the weighting of WA’s rural electorates provides a suitable opportunity to revisit this issue.
IT’S an old chestnut, a centuries old law that is a key plank in our legal system – the fact that someone acquitted of a charge may not be tried again for that particular offence.
SOMETHING resembling a Mexican stand-off appears to have developed between Perth City Council (PCC) and Planning Minister Alannah MacTiernan, just when they should be in close contact.
The PCC, for more than a year, has made it clear that it believed M
A COUPLE of weeks ago our political columnist Joe Poprzeczny wrote a column for State Scene entitled “That sinking feeling” about the rail line that separates Northbridge and the CBD.
INNOVATION is a strange concept in Australia.
I have written before that our innovation is often the bush mechanic style of being able to keep things together with wire and string.
JOE Poprzeczny’s State Scene article ‘Wedged on the Reef’ of January 16 2003 was very appropriate considering the timing of current announcements concerning the Ningaloo Reef developments.
DICKENSIAN England gave us the blood-curdling Tale of Two Cities.
Not to be outdone, WA is giving us the intriguing ‘Tale of Two Nor-West Resorts’.
Back in the Dowding years the Labor government called for expressions of interest to develop a resort at
THE Fremantle Dockers, now even more firmly anchored at the bottom of the AFL ladder, run around every week with AlintaGas on the back of their jerseys. Is that causing angst for these long-time sponsors? Not a bit of it.