Joseph Poprzeczny

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

AS January 2003 recedes we approach the Gallop Government’s half-way mark.

An outcome of Labor’s Burke-Dowding WA Inc years was a promptly forgotten report by one-time under-treasurer Les McCarrey – The Report of the Independent Commission to Review Public Sector Finances.

THERE’S a ticklish problem currently before the upper house.Several months ago the Government announced the appointment of a new electoral commissioner.

AT last it’s published – four years after his sudden death in August 1998.

WEST Aussies love winners.Look at the response when WA’s North-West Shelf last month beat Gulf States and Indonesian based LNG suppliers to meet China’s needs with a $25 billion long-term contract.Understandably that story splashed across newspape...

DID you know WA has a chateau d’eau?Do you know what a chateau d’eau is?It’s French, for water castle.Geographers use the term to describe high terrain, particularly regions from where rivers originate.

IF Labor is removed in February 2005 it may be because Premier Gallop is leading what is emerging to be the most unimaginative government WA has had since the 1930s.It has yet to surface with an original idea.

FOR much of past century planners and civic-minded people urged the linking of Perth’s hemmed-in CBD to Northbridge by sinking the Perth-Fremantle railway line.