There was always a question mark over how differently the West Australian public would vote come election day. The answer was: very differently | ANALYSIS from hamishhastie at WAtoday
Having travelled a different political path from the rest of the country behind its hard border under popular state Labor leader Mark McGowan, there was always a question mark over how differently the WA public would vote come election day.Labor’s victory in WA on the weekend was three years in the making.Nationally, Labor took a 0.5 per cent hit in its primary vote, but in WA it surged by 7.
A Labor strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the campaigns freely, said the party learnt a lot from the state campaign.“We learned a few things narrative and messaging wise and the parochial nature of Western Australia,” they said. “We decided to keep the structures and campaign architecture of the 2021 state campaign in place and run straight through to the federal campaign, including with key staff and the deployment of resources and tactics honed during that election,” Picton said. “We ran it with the same intensity and focus as a state campaign.
“As a result, it was important for us to point out what was at stake in this election, and what it might mean if Morrison didn’t pay a price for doing those things,” he said. “By October 2021 we had settled on our strategy – remind people to take their baseball bats out for Scott Morrison, they can’t trust him – and show them that a Labor government in Canberra can end the fighting and be a real partner to WA,” he said.
Christian Porter’s vacated seat of Pearce, retiring MP Steve Irons’ seat of Swan and Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt’s long-held seat of Hasluck were all selected because they were held with margins under 6 per cent.After a factional struggle, Labor’s left got their way and Zaneta Mascarenhas was preselected for Swan.“Everything is right about her ...
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