Western Australia Party MP Charles Smith today launched a suburban policy to legislate larger minimum property lot sizes to alleviate high-density living in Perth.
Mr Smith said the city needs more affordable family-friendly block sizes of 500 metres squared or above, not tiny homes that are now pushed on young home buyers.
Western Australia Party MP Charles Smith said today that the death of a strawberry farm worker yesterday in Bullsbrook, is the result of weak occupational health and safety for foreign workers.
Western Australia Party MP Charles Smith said he will pledge a 5 per cent increase on the existing Gas Reservation Policy (GRP) ensuring higher supply and less demand, while capping the cost of gas for WA consumers.
Western Australia Party MP Charles Smith and party leader Julie Matheson say a 25 per cent rezoning tax applied to large development profits could reduce council rates.
The tax would be applied to land banking profits with funds collected being injected into an infrastructure and amenity fund for the public’s benefit.
If the tax is implemented there would be less pressure to raise council rates.
Western Australia Party MP Charles Smith said Labor’s 2021 Budget could be improved with increasing mining royalties for offshore mining corporations and investing in a local manufacturing industry.
The Eastern Metropolitan representative said global mining giants should pay higher taxes for investment into state infrastructure, paying down debt and putting money aside for the people of WA via a new sovereign wealth fund.