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.
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