Albanese announces an upgrade to Perth hospital amid election campaign in Western Australia

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The Prime Minister and opposition leader are campaigning on opposite sides of the country today with energy and health top of the agenda. Anthony Albanese is in western Australia to announce funding for an upgrade to one of Perth’s busiest public hospitals.

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00:00WA has been good to Labor in recent years and Anthony Albanese has travelled to Perth

00:06early in his campaign to try and keep that relationship up.

00:09He's in the seat of Hasluck today, one of four that Labor picked up at the last federal

00:13election that the party is desperate to hang on to.

00:16WA's Labor state government recently won a resounding election win and Anthony Albanese

00:20is hoping some of that momentum might roll off.

00:24He's come with an election offering, $200 million for the St John of God Midland Public

00:28Hospital.

00:29But while Labor is always happy talking healthcare, questions on energy prices are proving trickier.

00:34The PM has been distancing himself from a pledge at the last election to lower power

00:37prices by $275 a year.

00:41Modelling once spruced by Labor to back up their promise now appears to have been dumped.

00:45Our energy policy offering is all out there, Reputex Modelling was Reputex Modelling that

00:50they put out.

00:51Our policy...

00:52But you adopted your 43% target based off that modelling and your 82% target, why are

00:58they still your targets if you're now distancing yourself from the modelling?

01:00I hope when you get the chance on the next leg, where I assume you'll be following around,

01:11to ask Peter Dunne what his 2030 target is.

01:14He doesn't have a 2030 target.

01:18A key question this election is what both major parties would do if they don't reach

01:21a majority of seats.

01:23The PM tried to clarify that he wouldn't work with the Greens, but wound up muddling that

01:27message.

01:28Both Labor and the Coalition know the cost of living is at the centre of this campaign.

01:32Labor will continue to point to their $150 energy price rebates, but questions on where

01:36power prices will go once those rebates run out are likely to continue to be asked.

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