It's all in the timing ....

While $atterley and the Anglican Church prepare $olutions to their North $toneville Disaster Plan - IN PRIVATE, other important bushfire-related business is taking a back seat... Big questions hang over the Wooroloo Bushfires...

After almost 3 months we still don’t know - What ignited the blaze that destroyed 87 homes? When will the inquiry occur? What are the Terms of Reference? Will PLANNING and DEVELOPMENT be included? (Surely?) Will the inquiry be DFES-led - or, Independent? Will those who fought the fires be allowed to speak up? Will new Emergency Services Minister Reece Whitby MLA meet us, as requested, to discuss?

Those answers could dramatically impact - even over-turn, ‘$olutions’ being made about North $toneville - right now. But there’s not even a whiff of the Inquiry in the wind...

Interestingly, WA’s peak body, for our 20,000 INCREDIBLE Bushfire Volunteers, says Wooroloo’s Inquiry MUST be INDEPENDENT to avoid fuelling - “the unhelpful perception it has something to hide.” So what do you think? https://www.bushfire.org.au/wooroloo-fire-must-have-open.../

FYI Bushfire Volunteers WA

Save Perth Hills Update - 27th April

As we came out of another lockdown, we were reminded of February’s lockdown, when thousands were confronted by Perth Hills' worst-ever bushfires.

Since then, around 1500 of you rallied against the Anglican Church's North $toneville DISASTER PLAN, and Save Perth Hills have been rallying politicians to SAFEGUARD bushfire prone communities.

We've asked new Emergency Services Minister, Reece Whitby MLA, and Swan Hills' Jessica Shaw MLA, to help us secure PLANNING in the Wooroloo Bushfire Inquiry.

And last week, Australia's Governor-General toured Wooroloo meeting some of the 300 bushfire victims.

All this, while $atterley and the Church drag their Disaster Plan through ‘mediation’ hearings - the next which is on the 9th of June...

But what’s happened in the 4 hearings so far, where discussions and decisions are being made on ‘our behalf’?

Well - we don’t know, because they’re closed to the public.

We believe private hearings are no place for significant and impacting COMMUNITY decisions.

Ultimately, lives will depend on decisions about North Stoneville.

North $toneville MUST be decided in a FULL OPEN PUBLIC HEARING to demonstrate transparent and democratic decision-making.

The June 9 ‘closed mediation’ MUST BE THE LAST. Satterley and the Church have had 5 years to prove their case.

And our Community has said ‘NO’ for 30 years.

It's time to lay this dangerous and destructive plan on the line, publicly and put an end to the nonsense that is North $toneville, once and for all.

What will 2021 bring?

In the words of Premier, McGowan, Election 2021 was ‘monumental.’ Will 2021 be equally monumental for Perth’s Hills? Will 2021 finally see our unique and much loved Hills recognised as -

a place to discover, not destroy? a destination to visit, not violate? an environment to respect - not bulldoze? at risk of bushfire catastrophes that we learn from - not repeat? deserving of protection, not dangerous urbanisation?

a community who desperately needs to be safeguarded not endangered.

We look forward to a safe and exciting future for Perth’s Hills...