What motivates WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam ahead of the WA election?

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Labor continuing to pressure the Liberals to reveal how much their election commitment will cost before pre-poll voting starts next week. The ALP has promised to support the growth of the states manufacturing sector while the Liberals focus remained on law and order.

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00:00Labor continued its high-vis theme, this time at a steel fabrication plant in Forrestfield.

00:09Announcing plans to grow the industry by setting up two plants to build power lines and towers

00:14locally to enable the green energy transition.

00:18One in Forrestfield and one in Picton, just outside Bunbury, to create thousands of jobs

00:23for the future and to make more things here.

00:26$75 million committed to get the ball rolling, but that could grow if the sector needs more

00:32support.

00:33We'll work with industry and we will look at what is in the best value and the best

00:38circumstances for the state.

00:40The Liberal's promising to introduce laws to tackle elder abuse and implement a judicial

00:44commission to handle complaints against judges.

00:48Labor says it's already committed to a judicial commission and that elder abuse laws are being

00:53reviewed.

00:54Labor had promised to introduce elder abuse laws about a decade ago and despite the dominance

01:02of two houses of parliament, have failed to do so.

01:06The Law Society has been calling for these changes for a number of years now and we see

01:10advantage in the judicial commission in the sense that it will deal with complaints in

01:15a clear, transparent way.

01:18But the Leader spent much of her media conference defending her candidates, including one who

01:22made derogatory social media posts about women a decade ago.

01:27Candidates like many people across the community make mistakes and it is regrettable.

01:33It wasn't just candidate controversies continuing to distract the Liberals with Labor keeping

01:37the pressure on over election costings, demanding the party reveal who's doing their sums and

01:43what cuts they plan to make.

01:45We will be announcing and releasing our costings in the usual manner.

01:49The usual practice from my understanding is in the last week of the campaign and that's

01:54what we'll be doing.

01:55More people are voting early so that practice needs to change.

01:59Early voting begins across the state on Monday.

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