Imagine this - WALabor Government is in BIG need of a good news story. They've had more backflips than the Olympics, more fails than snowflake in hell. SO dear old Lisa Baker comes up with this pearler. And Pearler it is because who dislikes improving the environment. Who doesn't love rivers, wetlands and the like?
No one.

Now with all the current swirl of ka-ka with WALabor looking far more like the PerthLabor Government I had to ask the question...
"Are any of the recipients outside the Perth Metro Area? Most rivers are..."
And this is 100% true, there are many many more times the river miles outside the Metro area than in it. In fact most rural shires have nearly the same or more.
Of course, when we look at areas with Rivers & Wetlands with the most amount of Labor voters, Greens voters or potential voters of either...well yes THEN we're looking at the metro area.
So it was a fair question to ask just to see if Labor is sticking to its core values of being fair or just sloppy lazy pork barrelling at the expense of others, hang all the fairness bollocks.
























Now as you can see, Lisa Baker replies "Hi Peter. All details in the link - some fantastic regional projects have received funding"
Well so we did as she suggested, we clicked the link and below are the recipients on the Community Rivercare Program - Updated on 12th of Jan 2017 (same day the twitter posts were made)

Scroll through them all and see who was successful in "Round One" of the funding.

Baigup Wetland - Bayswater
Bannister Creek - Lynwood
Bennett Brook - Whiteman Park
Bardon Park - Maylands
Blackadder/Woodbridge Catchment Group - Middle Swan
Canning River Residents Environment Protection Association Inc - Rossmoyne/Shelly Foreshore
Ellen Brockman Integrated Catchment Group - Chittering
The Friends of Astley River Park - Gosnells?
Claughton Reserve - Perth
Restoring Lion Mill Creek - Mt Helena
The Friends of Piesse Brook -Kalamunda
The Friends of Pioneer Park - Mt Helena
The Helena River Catchment Group - Kalamunda
The Katharine Street River Gang - Helena Valley
Millennium Kids Inc - Based in Nedlands
Ozfish Unlimited, Canning River - Perth
The Swan Estuary Reserves Action Group - Attadale

Notice anything?
None in the South West, Pilbara, Kimberly, Murchison nor anywhere else in regional areas.
Closest it gets to a non Perth regional area is Chittering, on top of the Darling Scarp to the north, approximately 65km as the crow flies from Hay Street Perth.

I dunno call me old fashioned but "some fantastic regional projects have received funding" sounds like more than one in the regions and its actually only one and its only just outside Perth metro area.

The desire to look like they're WALabor & not PerthLabor I get, but being a bit dodgy about it to achieve is pretty appalling.
Maybe the regions didn't apply, maybe they didn't know, maybe they knew but thought it was pointless because they felt Perth would be favoured...who knows, we don't know who applied and who failed.

We do know Lisa is a little loose n floppy with the truth here in her possible eagerness not to look like a typical PerthLabor-ite MP happy to rip the regions off as they have a record of doing already.

So make an assessment. Ask her the question.
Why we don't know, but it is what it is, not what Lisa suggests.
There are not projects (plural) in the regions on the list.

They have earned their title of PerthLabor party & of being city centric and anti WA.
They're gunna have to do a lot better than this.

We'll see.