EXCLUSIVE: Alarm bells should be ringing for both political parties with the release of new data showing the most — and least — important issues to WA voters. See how your electorate rates.
Sarah Martin
To help you survive the campaign, please find herewith an election guide to keep on hand for the next six or seven weeks. Hang on to your (hard) hats, it’s going to get ugly.
“You can’t bury all the the carbon footprint from livestock into the soil without turning the paddock back into bush.”
Zach Relph, Sarah Martin and Cally Dupe
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will attempt to recast the election contest into a fight over health care, using his Budget in reply speech tonight to launch a revived “Mediscare” campaign.
Liberal Andrew Hastie has clashed with an Anglican priest in his local area of Mandurah after the conservative MP sought to rally support among religious leaders before the election.
Federal Defence Industry Minister Linda Reynolds wants new military ports built along the WA coast, positioning the State to become a key defence and industrial hub for Australia’s regional allies.
Last night’s Budget is not an economic blueprint, it’s an election manifesto.
Pay boosts to low and middle income earners could be felt in a matter of weeks after the Government used its pre-election Budget to offer $19.5 billion in tax relief.
Trust is now the catchcry of the Coalition as it seeks to promote its economic credentials, while needling a weak spot of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten who voters still have doubts about.
WA’s biggest industries are calling on Labor to release more details of its climate change policy, as the Coalition attacks the new pollution plan as a “Trojan Horse for a carbon tax”.
EXCLUSIVE: Up to 10 million low and middle-income earners will get an extra cash payment when they lodge their tax returns this July as a centrepiece of today’s Budget.
Treasurer rejects suggestions that tomorrow’s Budget will be a pre-election “cash splash”, as Labor pledges to match spending measures aimed at easing cost-of-living concerns.
