00:00This federal election comes hot on the heels after Labor's thumping win at the state election
00:07here and that's given the ALP some hope of holding on to those four seats that it won
00:12off the Liberals at the last federal election. Seats that helped it get over the line and
00:16form government. The Liberals of course want to claw back some of those seats. They also
00:20want to get back the seat of Curtin which was won by Teal independent Kate Cheney. But
00:25we're here in the seat of Bullwinkle, a new seat formed after the last redistribution.
00:30It's on Perth's eastern fringe. It extends from the Perth Hills all the way to the Wheat
00:34Belt and the town of York. And now this is notionally a Labor seat but the Liberals hope
00:39that they can win it because at the state election there were some very strong swings
00:42towards the Liberals in some of the state seats within Bullwinkle and it could actually
00:47come down to a competition between the Liberal candidate Matt Moran and the Nationals candidate
00:53Mia Davies who is a former leader of the Nationals at the state level. Labor's most
00:58marginal seat in WA is the seat of Tanganyi in the city's inner south. Now that's interesting
01:03as well because at the state level Labor more or less held its ground. It did quite well
01:08in some of the state seats throughout Tanganyi but the margin there is very small. It's under
01:12three percent so that will be one to watch closely. And of course the seat of Curtin
01:17which is on Perth's eastern or western coast there, some of the wealthier suburbs in Perth
01:23and Kate Cheney only holds that by 1.3 percent. The Liberals are desperate to win that back.
01:28That's a blue ribbon seat. It used to be held by Julie Bishop and they're doing everything
01:32they can to win it back. The other seat to watch is the seat of Fremantle which is a
01:36very safe Labor seat held by Josh Wilson, the Assistant Minister for Climate Change.
01:41Now he has more than a 16 percent margin but he has a challenger, an independent candidate
01:46Kate Hewlett who stood at the state election where she almost beat a sitting Labor minister
01:52in Simone McGurk who had a 26 percent margin. And Kate Hewlett came within just a few hundred
01:59votes of toppling Ms. McGurk. So she's standing at the federal election hoping to do one better
02:05and actually overthrow Josh Wilson. But it's a much bigger electorate, much more difficult
02:11challenge.
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