Biggest issues in Australia's newest electorate of Bullwinkel, WA

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YouGov polling has Labor's Trish Cook and Liberal Matt Moran running neck and neck in WA's seat of Bullwinkel, with 32 per cent of the vote each and the Nationals' Mia Davies - a previous state opposition leader - with eight per cent. Video via AAP.

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00:00What issues are important to you so far?

00:03Well, it's important to look out for your old people, better medical things.

00:11Yep.

00:11Should go to Europe and see what I do here.

00:15And there's only two of us at home now that, like, I have two children with children.

00:21And watching that, I know how much our costing our weekly shoppers cost,

00:25how much that's increased, let alone for people with families and school fees and all of that.

00:31Just trying to get two adults that are both working to make it work is impossible.

00:35Alone having families where perhaps, you know, you've got four mouths to be and school bees and ever gives.

00:42Not being so rigid with the gun laws and our guns.

00:47Like, as farmers out here, like, a lot of farmers need their guns.

00:50And a lot of the other people that are around doing hunting, like, hunting and target shooting and all that.

00:57We need the guns.

00:58Mental health is a massive issue that I think needs to be addressed a lot here, a lot more.

01:05Support for regional areas as well.

01:08Violence at school.

01:09Obviously, I'm a teacher and I experience that and see it firsthand.

01:15And I think it is a massive issue that needs to be addressed, so the education.

01:20Healthcare, I heard, I just heard from my GP today that they might be scrapping,

01:25or one of the parties might be trying to scrap the chronic health and chronic pain management healthcare.

01:32Yeah, and I think that's, yeah, that's going to be a big issue for a lot of people to access services.

01:41The live sheep export ban, is that in any way swaying who you might vote for?

01:46And, you know, is it an issue that you're enlivened to or have an opinion on?

01:50Yeah, I'm enlivened to it.

01:52In that opinion, I've worked with legislation involving live sheep export.

01:56I've seen some of the sheep that are on the ships, which are not very good.

02:01However, I think the only way we can do it is to do it cold, refrigerated.

02:07We understand that people overseas don't like that from different countries.

02:10They want them live.

02:11But I think we've got to change our way of shipping those sheep out.

02:15Very not good.

02:16A lot of our farmers around here rely on the sheep export,

02:19and a lot of them are losing money because of this.

02:22Yeah.

02:22And, like, I'm sitting there watching a lot of it, and everyone's catering, gee.

02:27The people down in the city and in the suburbs,

02:29which don't have a clue about farms and don't have a clue about, you know,

02:33what actually, how, what it takes to get this stuff on your plate.

02:36I think a lot of exports should keep going because it keeps a lot of people employed.

02:42And if they stop the export, what's going to happen to all our farmers?

02:48Even though I never lived on a farm, I know that people to live in that area.

02:51That's a huge thing for them.

02:53I know that they will have to their animals.

02:54I know that they wouldn't ship them if they weren't being looked after incredibly well.

02:58People don't realise how much attention goes into those animals

03:01to make them healthy enough to sell on the market.

03:05And so that's it.

03:06That's a worrying bee for me.

03:07So that's a big point, that tip as well.

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