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==Carpenter Government plans 2008==

In February 2008, Premier [[Alan Carpenter]] announced plans for a $300 million redevelopment including multiple high-rise buildings with joint private and public funding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-02-13/carpenter-announces-new-waterfront-plan/1042022|title=Carpenter announces new waterfront plan|work=ABC News|date=14 February 2008}}</ref>

The proposal included realignment of Riverside Drive.

He stated that work would start before 2012 if his government was re-elected. The then opposition leader Colin Barnett objected to the plans, saying "people did not want skyscrapers on the city foreshore and the plan would create an exclusive enclave for corporations and rich apartment owners".<ref>{{Citation | author1=[[Richard Weller|Weller, Richard]] | title=Boomtown 2050 | publication-date=2009 | publisher=UWA Publishing | isbn=978-1-921401-21-3 }} - quotes David Hatch, ''[[The West Australian]]'', September 3, 2008 : ''The Perth Waterfront Project and the State Government's NetowrkNetwork City planning policy would be scrapped under a Liberal government, Colin Barnett said yesterday. The Liberal leader said people did not want skscrapersskyscrapers on the city foreshore and the plan would create an exclusive enclave for corporations and rich apartment owners.''</ref>

HisThe Carpenter government was defeated at the [[Western Australian state election, 2008|2008 election]].

==Barnett Government plans 2011==