Newly elected Cottesloe MP Sandra Brewer and former Liberal leader Libby Mettam will take on two of the biggest shadow portfolios — treasury and health — in Basil Zempilas’ new line-up.
Joe Spagnolo
WA Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash didn’t pull any punches in her opening broadside of the election campaign, accusing Anthony Albanese of leading the most anti-mining and anti-WA government ‘we have ever seen’.
John Flint
In news that came as no surprise to anyone paying attention, Basil Zempilas has been announced as the new leader of the WA Liberal Party.
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The WA Liberals are on track to claim a seventh lower house seat with Adam Hort likely to narrowly win the final undecided seat in Kalamunda, guaranteeing its official opposition status.
Dylan Caporn
Scott Leary — a former Liberal Party candidate — has won the seat of Albany for the Nationals, getting the edge over the Liberal Party’s controversial nominee Thomas Brough.
Libby Mettam has stepped down as Liberal leader in the wake of the party’s disastrous State election defeat, clearing the way for Basil Zempilas.
Jessica Page and Dylan Caporn
Rising from the ashes, the WA Liberals are relying on a core team to form a solid opposition to beat Labor in 2029.
Jake Dietsch
The West has calculated the party has racked up $6.1 billion in pledges, with the figure not inclusive of the billions in promises made by their governing partner, the Nationals.
The knowledge that Libby Mettam is unlikely to win has dulled the voter impact of Labor’s best attacks and allowed the Liberal leader to shine.
Jessica Page
WA Liberal’s candidate for Albany answers our questions in his own words — find out what matters most to the people vying for Albany’s seat in the lower house with this nine-part series.
Tom Brough, Liberal Party
With an election nearing, there’s been a distinct increase in politicians doing silly things on social media in a bid to win the attention of voters.
Katina Curtis
Thomas Brough has been referred to a medical tribunal over a professional misconduct complaint.
Mark Butler has accused the Coalition of ‘student politics’ over its criticism of the Government’s response to Chinese live-firing exercises in international waters in the Tasman Sea
Caitlyn Rintoul
Well behind in the polls and swamped by Labor’s resources and majority, WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam is refusing to make the same blunder as one of her predecessors by admitting defeat.
All prisoners and parolees on the run will be named and shamed under a new Liberal Party policy if it wins the March State election.
The WA Liberals have pledged $7.25 million for a new Geographe Leisure Centre if elected in the upcoming State election.
Sofia Fimognari
The Liberal candidate for Geraldton has promised to build a dedicated home for cricket in the Mid West if his party succeeds at the 2025 State election.
Matthew Paddick
From confidantes to battle-hardened campaigners, this is who the leaders listen to as they battle for votes.
Libby Mettam has revealed a $210 million plan for education, if the Liberals achieve an upset election victory on March 8.
The Liberal Party has admitted it was ‘not appropriate’ to call an election fundraiser the Lord Mayor’s Cup spruiking Basil Zempilas’ dual roles as Liberal for Churchlands and Perth Lord Mayor.
Cost of living support for WA seniors would be doubled under a Liberal Government, Libby Mettam has revealed, saying they were the group hit hardest in the affordability crisis.
Two construction workers, a nurse, a parent and her child, and a farmer are all sitting on milk crates in the middle of a building site - it’s not the start of a joke though.
Sitting on a milk crate with coffee-drinking tradies on a dusty worksite, Libby Mettam has promised in a new election ad to focus on the ‘right priorities’ if the Liberals defy the odds to win the poll.
Liberal Tom White admits he’s the underdog to win back the plum seat of Curtin from the teals.
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