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Election eve polls indicate WA Labor to take third term in government
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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3/7/2025
It's election eve in Western Australia, where voters will soon decide if WA Labor deserves a third term in government, as the polls are indicating.
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Well, it's one more sleep until WA votes, and the choice is between Roger Cook's incumbent
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Labor government, they currently hold 53 of the 59 seats in State Parliament after Mark
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McGowan led the party to a history-making landslide victory in 2021, and the Liberals
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and Nationals, who have a mountain to climb.
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And while the polls are showing a big swing back to the conservative side of politics,
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it's unlikely going to be enough to overthrow Labor's dominance.
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The Premier says they're taking nothing for granted, while Libby Metton, the Liberal leader,
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says she can defy the odds and win on Saturday.
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The Cook Labor government have their priorities all wrong, and we've seen that with a project
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for Metronet, which was meant to be $3 billion, it blew out to over $13 billion.
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The fact under this government we've had the highest rate of spending in 15 years.
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WA Labor has a comprehensive plan to deliver cost of living relief to all Western Australians.
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And in this election, we've committed to another $1 billion in cost of living relief measures
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to make sure that we take the burden off West Aussie families that are doing it tough.
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The top issues for voters heading into this election are the cost of living, health and
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housing affordability, WA Labor promising a billion dollars worth of spending on cost
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of living relief, while the Liberals have been focusing heavily on fixing the state's
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health system by slashing ambulance ramping hours and cutting elective surgery wait times.
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More than 20% of WA voters have already made up their minds, with more than 380,000 pre-poll
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votes cast already.
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