Talk:Charles Court

message: I have a couple of quibbles with this article on Sir Charles.  The first one is that the railway was closed in 1979, not 1980, as is mentioned in the article on the Fremantle Railway.  It was certainly shut before the 1980 election (early 1980) with Ron Davies the ALP Leader saying that "an ALP Government would put the trains back" in election commercials, and promising gradual electrification of the whole system.  The Friends of the Railways were collecting signatures in 1978 and 1979 to stop the closure and presenting the then largest petition in WA history (which Court ignored), and were largely invisible in the early 1980's.  The issue was still there, with Ray O'Connor talking about "rail buses" in 1982, but it wasn't quite as described in the article.  The railway issue was not one that was extensively campagined on in 1983, which was largely over the level of unemployment and the state of the economy, but it was ALP Policy to restore the service, which they ultmately did roughly 6 months after forming government.
I'm not so sure about the Nookanbah dispute, so cannot comment on that timeline.
I think the article should make some further comment upon his overwhelming dominating presence in politics during his Premiership, and his dominating presence in his own party.  It could be argued the WA Liberals still haven't "gotten over" him and his departure has left them rootless.  His autocratic nature has been hinted at by reference to the Fremantle Railway (but ignoring the petition isn't mentioned), Nookanbah, and the Tresillian Centre, but his dominance of the politics of the period (and the authoritarian nature of his rule) is not emphasised enough.  For example, his dominance led to the split in the WA Country Party, with Hendy Cowan and a couple of others forming the breakaway WA Nationals.  His WA parochialism was generally backed by the bulk of the population, even those would couldn't stand him.  I suppose I'm waffling a bit, but some mention of his dominance with repect to such things as it being responsible for the formation of the breakaway nationals etc should be mentioned, and the railway part should be corrected to the right dates, and mention that he so single minded he ignored the largest petition in WA up to that time, and got away with it at the subsequent election.  It wasn't just the NW Aboriginals he ignored.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.39.162.130 (talk) 14:57, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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message: The Hale School article from which I derived the recently created List of Old Haleians article claimed, and still claims, that Sir Charles Court attended Hale School.  However, the Charles Court article says that he attended Perth Boys School.  Although the Charles Court article then goes on to claim that Perth Boys School is now Hale School, that is not the case (Hale School was located in The Cloisters, Perth, and later in West Perth, and is now in Wembley Downs; the now-defunct Perth Boys School was located in the Old Perth Boys School building, and later in the now Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts building).  It therefore appears that the Hale School and List of Old Haleians articles, and this article, will need to be changed once a reliable source can be found. Bahnfrend (talk) 04:32, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
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