THE EXAMINER, FEBRUARY 11TH, 2015 – Page 3
Business as usual despite $1.5mn fire
Reform has failed: Barnett From page 1
A fire caused more than $1.5 million at a Canning Vale equipment hire business last week. The fire was reported about 2.30am on February 6 at Access Group Australia’s Catalano Road premises. About 40 firefighters attended before getting the fire under control about 3.30am. They stayed until 5am to monitor the scene. A department of fire and emergency services spokesman said the damage was mainly structural and was believed to be worth between $1.5 and $2 million. Access Group general manager Tom Fraser said the company had crisis management plans in place and business had since resumed. He said the fire damaged the rear part of the building but not the equipment.
“When you consider the effect of remaining boundary adjustments, orphan suburbs, questions around the proposed City of Perth Act and the fact some councils will actually reduce in size, this process is clearly no longer delivering on its objectives.” Minister for Local Government Tony Simpson would not confirm if local government reform would no longer go ahead across the metropolitan area but said it would be hard to develop a better system through economies of scale if three local governments were left behind. He said the issue would be addressed in the party room this week. It was expected that local government reform would be abandoned. The Canning Vale business was fully operational the same morning of a fire that caused more than $1.5 million in damage. Photograph — Matt Devlin.
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“We put him on notice that the electorate wants people like me to come to Canberra and tell the minister and the Prime Minister what the issues are and that they want them acted on,” he said. “If they feel they’ve been left out, not considered or not heard, then we have to do something about that and if that’s not done I suspect it will be reflected in the polls. “If that goes into the long term and past June 30 or even later then that’s time for us to say this is either working or not working and we’ve got the opportunity to revisit it.” Mr Randall said one of the issues for backbenchers had been Mr Abbott’s chief of staff Peta Credlin, who he believed should be removed from her position for the leadership situation to be improved. “I believe that she’s there in a conflict of interest with her husband Brian Loughnane, who is the federal director of the Liberal party,” he said. “It’s a bit like complaining to Caesar about Caesar’s wife, you just can’t get a serious hearing while you have that sort of conflicted position in place. “I’ve told him she needs to go, I can’t be clearer than that.” Mr Randall said the spill had come to a head following a large number of complaints from within his electorate, con-
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