A promise by a McGowan Government to clean up the murky system of political donations in WA has fallen to the wayside as his party rakes in'dark money'ahead of an election.
Pauline Hanson said the party would field candidates for the upper house but were finding it"extremely hard"to get good candidates for lower house seats.
Under the plan,the maximum price a passenger would pay for a standard trip would be $4.90,or $4.40 if using the standard Smartrider,and $3.90 for the Smartrider auto-reload.
Mark McGowan has undertaken a $368.3 million regional spending blitz with an eye on taking control of the upper house while Zak Kirkup tries to minimise himself as a target.
The new year has only just begun,but the COVID-safe elbow bumps with voters and pork-barrelling have been building up for months.
A $19.8 million plan to subsidise regional flights in WA could see more West Australians who move to the regions,stay in the regions.
As one enemy falls,a new one can always be created with Mark McGowan reinvigorating old fights over GST and continuing to poke New South Wales over its COVID-19 measures.
The Liberal and National parties are at odds again over the running of the Royalties for Regions program and a potential $2.8 billion hole in the state budget.
Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer has pledged not to spend one dollar on the upcoming WA election whilst launching an extraordinary spray aimed at opposition leader Zak Kirkup.
Despite being 10 days into the New Year,Mr Palmer said Christmas was a time of forgiveness on Sunday,and advised Mr McGowan to take some time off.
About $344.5 million of election commitments have been thrown around in the first week of January as West Australians wake up to 2021 to find the politicians hitting the hustings.