On the eve of Western Australia’s state election, the Labor, liberal and nationals leaders have all been out making their final pitches to voters before the polls open tomorrow. Despite an expected and likely comfortable Labor victory, the liberals and nationals remain confident they're still in the race.
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00:00Now, the major party's leaders were all out today making their final pitches to voters
00:06ahead of the poll tomorrow.
00:09Current Premier Roger Cook was out in Wangarra and he said despite that really positive pre-polling
00:14numbers that's tipping in favour of Labor, he's remaining humble.
00:18He also had a bit of a quip about tomorrow being like a job appraisal and that he's hoping
00:23that his boss, the people of Western Australia, will decide that he can keep his current position
00:28and remain the Premier of Western Australia.
00:31Of course he reiterated Labor's main lines of keeping the WA economy strong, having a
00:36steady hand at the wheel during global times of uncertainty and the fact that Labor wants
00:42to make things in WA, repeating that line of only things being made in WA.
00:48The Liberal leader Libby Metham on the other hand was out in Warwick giving her last pitch
00:53and she was handing out how to vote cards there at that pre-polling centre.
00:57Now she's described the battle tomorrow as a David and Goliath battle.
01:01She said it's an uphill battle but she's not ruling herself out of the race just yet despite
01:05that favourable Labor pre-polling that we have seen so far.
01:10Now she said that she's comfortable with her leadership and she's pushing aside the pollsters
01:15and of course Roger Cook himself that say that Labor already has this in the bag and
01:19she reiterated her main lines, the Liberal Party has done so throughout this election
01:24campaign that people aren't well off after eight years of Labor, that there's a housing
01:29crisis, she said a broken health system and cost of living pressures.
01:34Now the Nationals leader Shane Love, he was out at polling booths in Durian Bay throughout
01:38the day, that is of course in his own electorate that he's contesting, the electorate of the
01:43Midwest.
01:44He's hoping of course to maintain that seat and keep himself in the leader of the Nationals
01:49position.
01:50He also spoke on the ABC this morning.
01:53He said that it is a seat by seat contest and despite the fact that Labor picked up
01:5753 of 59 seats last state election, all of those seats are a contest and nothing is for
02:04certain at the moment and they will be contesting each one of those that they do have candidates
02:08running.
02:09He said though that it is more achievable that there will be less of a landslide to
02:13Labor, given that Roger Cook is contesting and trying to become Premier, not his predecessor
02:18Mark McGowan.
02:20Shane Love said that there will be a quiet swing away from Labor and he said that hasn't
02:25been reflected in polls so far.
02:27It will be interesting of course to see whether the Nationals can pick up more seats than
02:31the Liberals like they did last time, as we found ourselves in an interesting situation
02:36where the opposition was actually the Nationals party, not the Liberals party.
02:40However, it is looking likely that it will go back to the Liberal party.
02:43However, the story of the day tomorrow will be whether the tide will turn, whether Labor
02:48will be able to hold on to its total control it's had of both houses over the past four
02:53years or whether the Liberals and Nationals are able to claw back some of those seats
02:58and particularly for the Liberals to be in a better position to contest the state election
03:02in 2029.