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WA sitting Liberal’s campaign under finance pressure from independent

Michael BennetWA reporter

Mar 24, 2022 – 5.36pm

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One of the Western Australia Liberal Party’s blue ribbon divisions agreed to dole out $40,000 to federal election campaigns fighting to win seats in other areas in the state, before a high-profile independent ramped up her push in its own backyard.

According to minutes of the divisional council meeting of the WA Liberal Party’s Curtin division held on February 2, obtained by The Australian Financial Review, the executive agreed to donate $10,000 to the federal election campaigns for the seats of Hasluck, Canning, Pearce and Cowan.

Michael Bennet is WA reporter for The Australian Financial Review based in Perth. He has worked as a journalist for more than a decade, including at The Australian where he was senior banking reporter and also covered economics, markets and deals.