Labor loves WA. Like, seriously enough to create a whole frontbench position in its honour.
That's it from Andrew Meares, Alex Ellinghausen and I.
We'll be back tomorrow (that's a signature policy).
Until then!
The latest on the AEC comes ahead of a parliamentary hearing tomorrow.
The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters will continue its investigation into the lost WA ballot papers.
It will take evidence from Mick Keelty for an hour in the morning.
A hearing with acting Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers is planned for next week.
This talk has come just in time.
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The AEC has also just released a statement announcing it will make a payment of $2,000 each to 44 candidates endorsed by political parties who stood for the West Australian Senate last September.
"Defective administration resulted in the need to hold a new WA half Senate election," the AEC says.
(Eighteen other candidates have already had their money refunded as they had achieved 4 per cent or more of first preference votes.)