Libby Mettam says she’s come out of a tough 2024 stronger, ready to face Roger Cook next year in a ‘David and Goliath’ battle she believes she can win.
Joe Spagnolo
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has made good on her promise to visit the Great Southern before the end of the year, meeting residents in Mt Barker and Albany this week with Albany candidate Thomas Brough.
Melissa Sheil
Older West Aussies who are looking to downsize will receive a $20,000 rebate on the stamp duty payment for their new home under a Liberal Party election policy designed to free up homes for families.
Dylan Caporn
This week’s failed leader spill will do nothing to sway any voters and can only cast a shadow over Basil Zempilas.
Paul Murray
Libby Mettam will put her leadership on the line at a partyroom meeting in State Parliament on Tuesday, after opinion polling described as ‘catastrophic’ ramped up pressure over her performance.
Jessica Page
Liberal Leader Libby Mettam has been put on notice by ‘catastrophic’ polling that warns the party is on the edge of a new record election disaster, unless she hands over the reins.
Senior Liberal Peter Collier has lashed out at calls that the party’s election candidates should get a vote on the leadership, saying they had to do their ‘apprenticeship’ first.
Dylan Caporn and Jake Dietsch
Senior Liberal Peter Collier has lashed out at internal leadership speculation over Libby Mettam’s future, pleading with colleagues and candidates to stop ‘navel gazing’ and focus on beating Labor.
Disgruntled Liberals are looking at each other and waiting for someone to lead the way. The problem is, no one really wants to lead the coup.
The teal movement is set to name local GP Rachel Horncastle as their independent candidate for Cottesloe — the Liberals’ last remaining metropolitan seat — at the State election.
More police overtime and a superannuation bonus are the centrepiece of the WA Liberal party’s $510 million election promise to crackdown on crime.
The Liberals believe there is overwhelming support for nuclear power in Collie as leader Peter Dutton says the party would ‘condense the timelines’ for building new technology power stations around the country.
Katina Curtis
The Albanese Government is planning to run a negative campaign against Peter Dutton’s ‘unlikeability’ and ‘hard man’ image as they switch up campaign tactics ahead of the election.
Councils and property developers with housing projects ready to go will be able to share $5 billion to build roads, sewers and power infrastructure under a Coalition plan to unlock half a million home sites.
A Liberal party candidate has sensationally withdrawn after Liberal leader Libby Mettam walked out of a press conference amid questions over his social media posts.
Jake Dietsch and Jessica Page
Steve Martin says ‘Western Australians are doing it tough and a free pass to the zoo or the Royal Show is not going to cut it’.
I’m not sure either of our major political parties covered themselves in glory during last week’s debate over new census questions.
Daniel Smith
Political foes Matt Moran and Holly Ludeman have joined forces to focus on winning the new seat of Bullwinkel for the Liberals with assistance from Keep the Sheep campaigners.
The Liberal Party has to create a political contest in WA, Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor has declared, as he embarked on a trip to the must-win State.
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam is under pressure over political donations, after weeks of attacking Labor’s union links.
Internal Nationals polling puts Labor ahead 52-48 in the crucial new federal seat of Bullwinkel but shows candidate Mia Davies is highly popular with voters.
Katina Curtis and Dan Jervis-Bardy
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton made an eleventh-hour pledge to support a bid for a Perth-based rugby league team in the latest sign his party is desperately trying to win over WA voters.
A pair of community independent movements believe they can replicate Kate Chaney’s success at the next Federal election despite the Liberals insisting they do not see any significant threat in WA.
The fight to win back the West is shaping up with the Liberals preparing to rollout a WA-specific election campaign for the first time, including brainstorming a big policy offering for the State.
