Zak Kirkup says it’s important to tell voters the truth: He has absolutely no chance of becoming Western Australian premier this weekend. It’s not a choice between Mark McGowan and him, folks. It’s a choice, he says, between dangerously untrammelled power for a Labor Party without a functioning opposition to hold the government accountable.

He also wants to remind voters – especially those Coalition voters of a certain age what happened the last time Labor was so dominant. That was the era of WA Inc and deals for mates under the premiership of Brian Burke in the go-go 1980s.