After Labor's campaign launch in Perth, the major parties have been arguing over who best represents WA. Senior members from each side took up the fight in battleground seats.
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00:00Curtin is one of WA's most watched seats as Liberal Tom Wyatt looks to claim back the party's heartland.
00:09It takes in Scarborough Beach at its northern fringe where he's promised $1.5 million for extra bollards and security cameras with a dig at independent incumbent Kate Chaney.
00:20We need someone on a team here in Curtin in the rooms where the decisions are being made in camera.
00:25His colleagues were on a mission to reassure West Australians of their support. Their sights set more than 1,000 kilometres north, focused on delays under Labor to Federal approvals to extend the life of the North West Shelf Gas Project.
00:39The Coalition has promised to approve the extension within 30 days of taking office.
00:44There's one message being given here to the people of Western Australia which seems to be pretending that you care, but there's another audience on the eastern states.
00:53And that Labor green teal audience does not want this project to go ahead.
00:57This is orderly decision making and nothing more, nothing less.
01:01Federal Labor leaned into its relationship with the state team after its huge win at last month's election.
01:07But what Labor doesn't mention are the disagreements between their state and federal teams over issues like the live sheep export ban and the nature positive laws which the Premier pushed Anthony Albanese to put on hold.
01:19Even still, Roger Cook insists they see eye to eye most of the time.
01:24It doesn't mean we don't have our differences of opinion and at times I've expressed that and as you know stood up for Western Australians on the issues which matter to our state.
01:33We're going to have disagreements from time to time but for the very, very most part we agree and where we do disagree we try and work through it.
01:42Labor pledged $1.5 million for new girls change rooms at the Bull Creek Bombers football club after it missed out on state funding.
01:50Early voting opens from next Tuesday.
01:52Early voting opens from next Tuesday.