Heritage Phillistine McGinty was Bropho’s Bunny

The Desert Rat was not surprised to read in The West Australian that Robert Bropho was convicted for a string of sex offences. The Judge Peter Nisbet, described Bropho as “a paedophile, a bully and a liar”.

Unfortunately he only got 3 years jail for a string of child sex offences and will be out on the streets in 18 months.

Not a peep from McGinty about the adequacy of this sentence. The Desert Rat asks if this sentence is accomodated in the Left's notion of "social justice"?

The Desert Rat was reminded how Jim McGinty was well and truly sucked in by Bropho’s and his cabal’s campaign to destroy the wonderful Old Swan Brewery heritage buildings in Mount’s Bay Road. A cause celebre of the Left.

In his maiden speech in 1991 McGinty said in support of Bropho and his mob:

“ .. the old Swan Brewery site dispute needs to be reconsidered. In my view it is a social justice issue rather than a simple question of whether one ought to preserve an old building.”

McGinty supported the demolition of the Old Swan Brewery, which is probably the finest piece of industrial architecture of its type in Western Australia. The lines, structure and brickwork of the old building are brilliant. Now restored, the Old Swan Brewery is a fine asset to our city and river landscape.

Bropho’s claim that the old brewery was supposedly a sacred site was not supported by anthropological evidence. It was built on reclaimed land; there wasn’t a native tree anywhere along the foreshore and the Mt Elisa Spring, the home of the mythical Waagl was over 100 metres away towards Perth and on the other side of Mount Bay Road and was sealed.

Geoff Gallop was the first of the Leftist thinkers to change their view on Bropho and thankfully pulled the plug on his taxpayer funded fiefdom. McGinty in true philistine form has his electorate office in the most modern designed building in the heritage Port of Fremantle.

Not surprising that McGinty did not appreciate the heritage listed Woodside Hospital in East Fremantle which he is now keen to dispose of.

Heritage buildings should be appreciated and not be destroyed for phoney reasons.