Curtin game changer – cancel light rail?

July 20, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

Yesterday’s Ch 7 news report on Canning’s CBD makeover dropped off affiliate The West Aust’s site quickly. It is a little hard to believe. All this for $70m and in just 10yrs? Press image to view Are there devils in the lack of detail? Its likely. Increasingly there is the sense WE need YOU more than you […]

Curtin University pushing Cannington for light rail link

July 29, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

Upon receiving a media release from Member for Cannington, Bill Johnston, that puts a particular emphasis on connecting Cannington with Curtin University, I wondered how realistic this call was, especially at a time when the Barnett Govt’s just released Transport Plan is described as aspirational at best and doesn’t indicate any light rail incorporating the City of […]

$3m Elec Vehicle sales, but Canning in dark ages?

March 14, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

So I was at Electrikhana 2016 on the weekend and heard the word a deal for $3 million in Tesla’s Model S electric vehicle (EV) was going through. That’s 20 cars of the future at $150k each, to power a new limousine service. But the real news was this year’s Australian Electric Vehicle Assoc’s car show was packed, from young […]

Commissioner/CEO seek to influence who new councillors will be?

September 15, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

Canning has not fared well under administration. It failed to seize the day on local govt reform, a valuable developer partnership was lost and costs skyrocketed. We now have a CEO who apparently served less than full term at both preceding appointments – and a Commissioner who seems to act beyond his station as a “short-term, unelected government appointee“. The State Govt’s […]