Labor is doing it the ‘right’ way in upside-down WA
Mark McGowan is riding a popularity wave in WA as voters backed his hard-border policy during the pandemic, but Labor’s support is also coming from some unlikely places.
A recent poll shows 88 per cent of people in WA are happy with Mark McGowan as their premier. Peter de Kruijff
West Australian premier Mark McGowan is admiring the view from the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club in leafy Peppermint Grove.
It is Thursday evening, nine days out from the WA election, and he is surrounded by the likes of Wesfarmers chairman Michael Chaney, Fortescue Metals Group chief executive Elizabeth Gaines and Woodside Energy boss Peter Coleman.
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