Commenting on the story: Top cops blasts ‘selfish’ traffic-stopper

I disagree with Grant Stevens. As a doctor and scientist and seeing what is coming our way with ignored climate change, the only thing I am pissed off with is that we host a gas and oil exploration conference in the Convention Centre.

Humanity can not afford to engage in any more fossil fuel exploration, I am sorry. – Hubertus Jersmann

Frankly, pissing people off is a byproduct of practically every single effective protest. As far as I can see and my experience goes, asking politely achieves absolutely sweet FA! – Pam Gurner-Hall

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I do admire the commitment of ER though I sometimes question their choice of tactics. Instead of creating traffic chaos for citizens who mostly want more climate action, why not target the APPEA conference?

Madeleine King’s dismissive comment was pretty silly – what’s worse: a tube of glue or burning hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon-based fuels? Think I know. – David Everett

Commenting on the story: Govt considering ‘all options’ to park lands police barracks site

The Premier’s hint that the eight-hectare land seizure of Golden Wattle Park (Park 21West) may be set aside in favour of another park lands site is only the beginning of his government’s self-imposed debacle.

In passing the New Women’s and Children’s Act 2022 last year, Labor enabled the police minister to grab any other park lands site, and any amount of that land, for construction of a replacement police barracks (section 10 (1)). This was because the current barracks are on four hectares of land identified in the Act to be raided for a huge new hospital project.

The Act makes clear that Malinauskas and his ministers want only free land for the project, and the park lands fits the bill. But even if he nominates an alternative park lands site, his legislation and the lure of cheap land will see him mired in an arrangement of his own making.

The political solution to the barracks problem is simple. Announce abandonment of the Park 21West option, and then announce that no part of the park lands will be seized. Instead, choose one of the alternative SAPOL-nominated sites in a secret Police Commissioner’s report that does not include raiding any part of the park lands.

There is another good reason for this. Seizure of any new part of the park lands recklessly compromises recent advances towards listing of the whole of the park lands as a state heritage area. – John Bridgland

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Thanks for the poem. As someone happily in a decades-old marriage, it resonated with me. – Donald McKinnon