Switzer Daily
9 April 2021
Now that every vote has been counted and every seat
determined the time has come for me to give my thoughts on the results of the
Western Australian general elections held on Saturday 13 March. The first point
is to note the strength of the Labor vote which is without precedent. Labor
scored 59.9 per cent of the first preference vote for the Legislative Assembly.
The two other currently successful Labor premiers scored only 42.9 per cent in
Victoria in November 2018 (Daniel Andrews) while Annastacia Palaszczuk could
only get 39.6 per cent in Queensland in October 2020. In the two-party
preferred vote Mark McGowan secured 69.7 per cent. Andrews could only manage
A storm front ringing Perth with thunder and lightning has brought a month s worth of rainfall to the city before the first day of March is even over.
Forecasters only expect things to get wetter, with more storms expected on Tuesday and Wednesday and as much as triple the monthly average likely to fall by the end of the week.
Pictures from the Nine News Sky Cam showed a large storm cell rolling in on Monday afternoon, including a dramatic lightning strike on the city s South 32 building.
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The worst of the weather has been north of the city, where the Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning for damaging winds, large hailstones and heavy rainfall throughout the Central West and parts of the Gascoyne, Lower West and Central Wheat Belt districts.
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