Drug dealers who operate within Western Australia’s social housing dwellings have been put on notice after the state’s premier, Mark McGowan, said his government attempted to stamp out dealers’ business activities during his first term as premier.
This follows questions directed to McGowan during the state’s budget estimates over why there was a fall in social housing properties from 44,087 in 2016-17 to 42,932 in 2019-2020.
In his response, McGowan said the decline “depends on the approach you want to adopt to social housing,” reported The West Australian.
He described apartment blocks—such as the Brownlie Towers in Bentley and Stirling Towers in Highgate—as “ghettos” that led to crime and dysfunction, as well as being a hot spot for “drugs and other things.”…