It's election eve in Western Australia, where voters will soon decide if WA Labor deserves a third term in government, as the polls are indicating.
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00:00Well, it's one more sleep until WA votes, and the choice is between Roger Cook's incumbent
00:07Labor government, they currently hold 53 of the 59 seats in State Parliament after Mark
00:13McGowan led the party to a history-making landslide victory in 2021, and the Liberals
00:19and Nationals, who have a mountain to climb.
00:23And while the polls are showing a big swing back to the conservative side of politics,
00:28it's unlikely going to be enough to overthrow Labor's dominance.
00:32The Premier says they're taking nothing for granted, while Libby Metton, the Liberal leader,
00:36says she can defy the odds and win on Saturday.
00:40The Cook Labor government have their priorities all wrong, and we've seen that with a project
00:46for Metronet, which was meant to be $3 billion, it blew out to over $13 billion.
00:51The fact under this government we've had the highest rate of spending in 15 years.
00:56WA Labor has a comprehensive plan to deliver cost of living relief to all Western Australians.
01:02And in this election, we've committed to another $1 billion in cost of living relief measures
01:07to make sure that we take the burden off West Aussie families that are doing it tough.
01:12The top issues for voters heading into this election are the cost of living, health and
01:17housing affordability, WA Labor promising a billion dollars worth of spending on cost
01:23of living relief, while the Liberals have been focusing heavily on fixing the state's
01:28health system by slashing ambulance ramping hours and cutting elective surgery wait times.
01:35More than 20% of WA voters have already made up their minds, with more than 380,000 pre-poll
01:41votes cast already.