Peter Dutton in Western Australia on day six of the election

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is in Western Australia talking up a road upgrade election promise which will aid the mining and agriculture sectors.

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00:00Peter Dutton has been on a tour of Wallace Drilling in WA this morning.

00:07This is a company in Perth, it's in the seat of Hasluck, it's generally a safe Labor seat

00:12but one the Coalition has its eyes on.

00:14And he's been here speaking to the business owners with a bunch of Coalition Senators

00:19about money that the Opposition wants to commit to the state that will help businesses like

00:25this one.

00:26Wallace Drilling, he says, is a mining company, one of the businesses that would benefit from

00:30a $600 million roads package.

00:33Those are for agricultural roads, for mining roads, it's money that Peter Dutton says would

00:38improve transit and supply chains to and from mines into town.

00:45In regional areas, making sure that truck and transport movements are done safely is

00:51an absolute essential for us.

00:53Getting that product to the port more efficiently, more quickly, means more export dollars for

00:58WA and if we can have a really vibrant economy in WA then we can keep the Australian economy

01:03going as well.

01:06Western Australia is going to be an interesting place in this election.

01:09In the recent WA state election, while Labor won, there was some movement in some of the

01:14seats towards the Coalition.

01:16For example, in the seat of Pearce in Perth, that was a seat that while it went to Labor

01:21had some swings towards the Liberal Party.

01:23And so Peter Dutton has been in the seat of Pearce launching his Liberal candidates campaign

01:28there and he's hoping to capitalise on some of that momentum, perhaps some anger about

01:33the cost of living and try and bring that forward to the federal election on May 3rd.