WA Opposition Leader calls for inquiry into polling staff debacle

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Opposition Leader Shane Love has formally written to the Corruption and Crime Commission requesting an investigation into political donations made by PersolKelly, valued at more than $60,000 in 2024. Video by Perri Polson.

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00:00This is an absolute sh** show. This actually is terrible and it is a threat to our democracy.

00:07Well, yesterday I wrote to the CCC outlining my concerns around the fact that the Australian

00:13Labor Party in Western Australia had received around $60,000 in donations through a subsidiary

00:20of a Singapore-based company, Purcell Kelly, of donations to win. At the same time, this

00:27company had been awarded an $86 million contract for the conduct of the 2025 and the 2029 state

00:35election. Something that was not disclosed to the Parliament during Budget Estimates,

00:40something that was unknown until we've seen the absolute schmuzzle that has been played

00:47out over the election this year. I've heard of whole busloads of people who have been

00:52turned away from a booth, a whole busload of people, because they didn't have any absent

00:59votes at the booth to actually handle it. They had no role to handle it. I've heard

01:04of other examples where electorate staff had wrongly informed people as to how to vote

01:10below the line on their ticket, which means that their vote will be informed, when in

01:16fact they were told that they could number up to 20 below the line, instead of up to

01:2220 at least below the line. It's actually disgraceful. I cannot think of anything in

01:28the entire time that I've been involved in moving alive that has been so fundamentally

01:35inappropriate in terms of the conduct of our democracy.

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