He speaks about his policy being the way of the future and how WA and the rest of the nation will fall behind if the renewable energy sector is not expanded. Kirkup has also faced internal party grumbling over his renewable energy policy to close coal-power fired stations, ruffling the feathers of candidates in Murray-Wellington and Collie-Preston as a job-killing initiative. WA Liberal leader Zak Kirkup renewed his call for a grants to be made available for small businesses forced to close during the lockdown. Evening News - [The Real Kirkup + Demanding Answers], Evening News - [One Nation VS Greens Debate], Evening Edition & WP - [Debate Confirmed + Vaccines Coming! The five-day lockdown, for example, while he supported it, “just put everything on pause”. The comments denigrated current cabinet minister Alannah MacTiernan, former treasurer Eric Ripper, and a Western Power executive. But Kirkup is soon on the back foot as a well-timed Labor dirt-file drop sees him asked about online comments he allegedly made in 2005, when he was about 18, on a blog site. “Zak Kirkup sided with Clive Palmer on the High Court challenge, so it is a different face and the same team “Ultimately I’m aware of all the implications of what it might mean that I took that step and I’m responsible for that.”. And being opposition leader does not necessarily guarantee extra votes, as Labor’s Colin Jamieson found out in 1977. Kirkup also took heart from one man who claimed to be a lifelong Labor voter and said McGowan’s talk last week of keeping some border measures post-pandemic meant he would vote Liberal instead. The first-term MP has not been able to see his parents since before Christmas but had just got a text while at the Falcon pre-poll from his mum checking in on him. On Tuesday morning, with four days left until the 2021 West Australian election, he says even the sporadic running sessions he manages to squeeze in to the frantic schedule of a Liberal leader anointed in the middle of an election campaign have not been able to stop his brain whirring. Kirkup says he cannot imagine making the comments. “The interesting thing for me is I’m not thinking about one thing in particular, it’s just this constant ‘on’. It was not the first instance he fielded queries about the views or comments made by Liberal candidates during the election. “We’re determined, we’re just focused on the job and hopefully the constituents will see Mark McGowan is doing a great job,” Munday says as she handed out flyers a few metres from her opponent in Falcon. Kirkup does not have time to process the allegations against him before jumping straight into the first of two afternoon radio interviews. LATEST NETWORK NEWS. Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has already meekly given the election away, instead focussing on a theme of ensuring the ALP does not control both houses of the State P … At one point outside the pre-polling station under the shade of a paperbark tree, his gaze drifted upwards to its yellow, spiked flowers abuzz with bees. “It weighs heavily on me but I think it was the right decision,” he says. Perth and Peel residents are expected to learn today whether mask-wearing will remain a fixture of daily life beyond Sunday, when the remaining post-lockdown restrictions are slated to be lifted. Peter de Kruijff is a journalist with WAtoday. “I think I had four hours’ sleep last night; I can’t switch off at the moment,” Kirkup says. “I’ve had a lot of people who have felt really safe with Mark McGowan, and me being his voice down here, they’re saying, ‘We’ll give you that opportunity as well’, even though I’m not well known.”. He says one of the leadership lessons he has learnt this election is about wanting everyone in his team to have a voice and give him their perspective even if it is something he does not want to hear. Election promises in Mandurah and Dawesville have been plentiful in the past 15 weeks as the two major parties have been duelling with commitments for the region, including bridge and hospital upgrades. The voters went with stability as the Liberals campaigned to “keep the West in firm hands”, a slogan which bears a remarkable resemblance to pandemic-era Labor’s motto to “keep WA strong”. On his way to the Kalamunda early voting station he speaks to Hack host Avani Dias on national youth broadcaster Triple J about his energy plan and already conceding the election. The government won't invest where the border 'can shut at moment's notice' The axing of a Baldivis candidate over her views on 5G and COVID-19 and the suggestion by the Liberal for West Swan that people could buy an unproven $2 cure for the virus have been unwanted distractions. Having ripped the band-aid off, Kirkup feels after the initial shock in the electorate and political circles there is a greater understanding of the party’s ‘total control’ message about what would happen if Labor had a majority in parliament’s upper house. Western Australian tourism operators say the state has been shunned by the federal government after it was announced more than a billion dollars would be spent on discount airline tickets in a bid to save the aviation and tourism sectors once JobKeeper ends. 2,426 were here. “What will happen will happen, but I want to know that I gave it my absolute best with the team. “That COVID lockdown, just completely is unprecedented in that respect and that’s OK, we just deal with that – but it was quite significant.”, Liberal Kalamunda candidate Liam Staltari and Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup on Tuesday.Credit:WA Liberals. “I don’t know, mate; it took a lot to get through. Like ships in the night, he crosses paths at the ABC with McGowan, rushing off to Rockingham after a suspicious package is thrown into his electorate office, sparking a police and HAZMAT response. Kirkup calls out the abhorrent behaviour of threatening politicians and their staffers before running through two of his favourite songs with Hutchison and discussing the rigours of the election. All the indications are that the McGowan Labor government will be re-elected in a landslide. This Saturday, West Australians go to the polls. “I’ve only got four days to go and ultimately the most important thing is we keep on fighting and I’ve got to keep that going.”. The main difference between Kirkup and his predecessors, however, is they had safe seats as a buffer and did not need to spend as much time looking after their own backyard. WA opposition leader Zak Kirkup stepped in without letting his candidate Amanda-Sue Markham answer questions about her husband's sexist and homophobic views at an event in Perth. New opposition leader Zak Kirkup with the same type of business card he once handed to Prime Minister John Howard.Credit:Peter de Kruijff. “It’s not natural to acknowledge something that is very difficult in a manner that is so public. After a daily debrief and some more campaign forward-planning, the day’s commitments are finished at last. While the State remains on course for … “West Australians have worked hard to follow all the restrictions after this failure in … Running on empty: last days on the campaign trail with Zak Kirkup. If you'd like, you can recap videos…, Election preview: what's on the cards for Mark and Zak…: It’s the final day of the election cycle in Perth. Kirkup, 34, may be physically fit but the strain of heading an opposition campaign for 109 days in which his party faces a potential generational wipe-out, and his own seat of Dawesville could flip, takes a toll. In 1996, the Geoff Gallop-led Labor opposition urged the public to lodge a protest vote three days out from the polls when it looked like the Liberals were going to be elected in a landslide. Coming out last month and stating the Premier was going to win, with Newspoll suggesting the Liberals could wind up with as little as two seats in the lower house, was an example of good leadership, according to Kirkup. Efforts to sandbag his own marginal seat, which he won by just 343 votes in 2017, and still get around WA to support other candidates, has stretched him thin and left little time for family catch-ups. Gallop got a three-point two-party preferred increase in his own seat. A Spotify playlist blasts Cardi B and the scenery melts around him as he leaves behind the worries of the day, getting into a rhythm and pounding the pavement until the point of exhaustion. “Zak Kirkup was the architect of the bringing down the border policy,” she said. ], WAMN NEWS - COPYRIGHT © 2020 - West Australian Media Network Pty Ltd, McGowan Labor Landslide Decimated Liberals as Nationals Prepare For Opposition: WA Premier Mark McGowan swept his government to power for another 4 years, with an unprecedented majority for the Labor…, WA State Election live blog - WAMN News Online: This officially wraps up our live coverage to an unprecedented State Election. He mentions it might be odd to make the observation, but he found them fascinating as he ruminated on the roles individual insects played, including bees whose job was to direct other colony members around the hive. “You can have a plan, and I’m someone who plans out every day together with the team, every day is accounted for and clearly mapped out,” he says. “I want them to know how much I value them as part of the team and importantly that’s not one voice in the room, that’s everyone and understanding where we’re going together,” Kirkup says. Whenever Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup has trouble on his mind he laces up his joggers and goes for a run. High school students, staff and parents must wear masks at Perth and Peel schools this week. After a brief stop at Kalamunda he is back to ABC studios in East Perth for a candid interview with drive-time radio host Geoff Hutchison. “There’s a lot more contemplation about it now. Kirkup is ready at his press conference to lay into Labor over its office culture after Kalamunda MP Matthew Hughes was accused that morning of bullying behaviour in his electorate office, which has been denied. WAMN covers the latest news from Perth WA & abroad. Kirkup will be hoping history is on his side, given most losing WA opposition leaders in recent decades have registered a positive bump at the polls on election day. Perth's 6GT - We're playing the Greatest Hits. The Liberals in 2021 have taken a similar line warning West Australians about the danger of giving popular Premier Mark McGowan ‘total control’ as a way of saving votes. After just 10 months as Labor leader, Jamieson suffered a -7.9 two-party preferred swing against him when he faced off with one of the great state-building premiers, Charles Court, during an apathetic election. Another constituent gave the young leader a pep talk and thanked him for his electorate office work in helping a relative out of a tough situation. “I don’t have a goal post in mind except to get as many Liberals over the line, I don’t have a number.”. She has been doorknocking for six months, aided by Labor’s red army of volunteers and many of her paramedic colleagues and friends for her first big campaign. That policy announcement, made by WA Liberal leader Zak Kirkup, includes: $30 million for an additional ten (10) Child and Parent Centres, providing an integrated one-stop-shop for WA families to access a range of early childhood development programmes, services and advice. Dawesville has one of the oldest demographics in WA, meaning many residents are highly vulnerable if they catch COVID-19. With the sun setting on West Perth, Kirkup finally gets a moment to himself – to lace up his joggers and go for a run. Ms Munday was one of the frontline workers who had seen the effects of COVID-19 first-hand after helping transport sick former passengers from the ill-fated Ruby Princess cruise ship, which was at the centre of an Australia-wide cluster in the early days of the pandemic. The couple lives in New…, McGowan Labor Landslide Decimated Libera…, WA State Election live blog - WAMN News …, Kirkup to leave politics if he loses Daw…, Election preview: what's on the cards fo…, Premier McGowan Went On Charm Offensive …, Zak Kirkup fronts the media for the last…, Mark Latham Joins One Nation as NSW State Leader, Police Union dismiss need for multiple 24 hour police stations, New Church Mural ‘Close to Home’ for Perth Artist, Livestock Farmers Want McCarthy Recommendations Implemented in Face of Live Trade Ban Calls. What the voters will decide is hard to read. “People ask me ... here at polling places or the media asks you ‘What are you going to do on the Sunday?’ and I actually can’t see that.
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