Under Treasurer Michael Barnes has warned adding projects to the state’s infrastructure schedule could lead to time blow-outs as Labor’s election plan adds $1 billion to WA’s net debt.
Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup says a Liberal wipeout could be bad for democracy and concedes he might not be re-elected but hoped his election efforts would be for the greater good of his party.
The Shooters,Fishers and Farmers Party’s prospects in regional upper house seats have improved after securing Labor’s first preferences in the agricultural and mining and pastoral regions ahead of the Greens.
Political parties in Western Australia have splashed more than $200,000 on social media advertising in the three months leading into the election,with the underdog Liberals accounting for close to half the spend.
Collie is WA’s traditional home of coal and the policy will make it nearly impossible for the Liberals to take the marginal seat of Collie-Preston where thousands of voters are still connected to the industry in some way.
If Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup’s compassionate homeless policies raised eyebrows,his solar-powered coal closing energy policy is spinning heads.
Wind and solar energy plants,hydrogen export and a revived steel industry are part of a ‘mega-project’ by the WA Liberal party said to tackle energy security and climate change in the state.
The WA and federal governments will plough on with three road and rail projects worth a combined $1.067 billion despite the costs exceeding the expected community benefits.
Household power and water bills in Western Australia would remain in line with increases in the consumer price index over the next three years under a returned McGowan government.
WA Labor announced on Sunday it would spend $14.3 million on turning the YHA Perth hostel into a transitional and crisis accommodation facility.
Outgoing Treasurer Ben Wyatt labelled the impact on gross state product ‘negligible’ but the opposition and Chamber of Commerce and Industry still want targeted business grants.