The liberals have several key seats in their sights in Western Australia as they try to overcome Labor's strong showing in the state at the last federal election. The cook government's recent thumping win in the state election has provided lessons as to how those seats may now play out at the federal level.
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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.