WA election: The MPs in line for a promotion in Mark McGowan s cabinet reshuffle
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Roger Cook, Rita Saffioti and Sue Ellery are all in line for senior ministerial positions.
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With the celebrations out of the way at WA Labor headquarters, the jostling for cabinet positions is now well and truly on.
After a few retirements, Premier Mark McGowan has some re-shuffling to do.
Mr McGowan will soon announce who will take over as treasurer and Aboriginal affairs minister following Ben Wyatt s departure, and the Emergency Services portfolio will also need to be filled.
There will also be a new sport and recreation minister and speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
One vote, one value off the ticket for a re-elected McGowan government
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Premier Mark McGowan has ruled out changing the mix of city and country representatives in the upper house as an election pledge, despite the government exploring ways to reform the chamber over the past four years.
Mr McGowan labelled the electoral system as fundamentally unfair in 2017 after a landslide Labor win – where the party only picked up one more seat in the upper house than the Liberals and Nationals despite getting 120,000 more votes – which still left it well short of a majority in the legislative council.
Mark McGowan s hot and humid pork barrelling bush tour
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January is usually the wettest month in Western Australia s north but with a lack of rainfall in 2021, Premier Mark McGowan decided to jet through the regions and bring a monsoon of money.
Bush issues were front and centre in the second week of the election year as Labor rolled through country centres from Albany to Kununurra with promises worth $368.3 million and the Liberals and Nationals went to war over the $1 billion Royalties for Regions fund.
Mark McGowan s hot and humid pork barrelling bush tour
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January is usually the wettest month in Western Australia s north but with a lack of rainfall in 2021, Premier Mark McGowan decided to jet through the regions and bring a monsoon of money.
Bush issues were front and centre in the second week of the election year as Labor rolled through country centres from Albany to Kununurra with promises worth $368.3 million and the Liberals and Nationals went to war over the $1 billion Royalties for Regions fund.