Does The Premier Even Understand Fairness?

Early in the piece, the Premier stated that only minor changes to the government's proposals for local government would be considered. He subsequently changed that (although without telling his Local Government Minister) to all all of Vincent to joint the City of Perth if both local governments could agree - knowing full well that the City of Perth had a clearly-stated position of only being interested in the asset-rich parts of Vincent.

Now we have the Premier proposing that (almost - but not quite) all of Vincent should be amalgamated with the City of Perth.

The ground rules are changing - and I wonder how that can be considered fair to those local governments who either said the whole thing is a farce so we won't put in a proposal or who chose to put in 'minimal-variation' proposals on the basis that anything that differed more substantially from the Government's initial proposals would be given short shrift.