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The Age
03-07-2025
- Politics
- The Age
WA Nationals leader frustrated by lack of answers over state election debacle
Shadow Electoral Affairs Minister and Nationals Leader Shane Love has called on the WA government to immediately release the report into the state election debacle, after clashing with Electoral Affairs Minister David Michael in budget estimates on Wednesday night. 'The lack of any concrete answers during Budget Estimates has only reinforced the urgent need for the premier to immediately release the final report of the Special Inquiry into the 2025 State Election,' Love said. Love took particular interest in the $86 million contract the WA Electoral Commission struck with recruitment agency PersolKelly without the knowledge of cabinet ministers. 'Despite an hour of questioning the minister for electoral affairs, we are still no closer to knowing who authorised this $86 million contract or how it was allowed to proceed in the shadows,' Love said. Love has previously ascribed some of the blame for the WA election debacle to the outsourcing of election functions to PersolKelly, and the contract was probed during the inquiry undertaken by former WA Governor Malcolm McCusker. The inquiry report is currently with WA Premier Roger Cook, who told estimates on Thursday it would be tabled in parliament when it returns from the winter break in early August. In the WAEC estimates meeting on Tuesday, Michael said the commission had paid PersolKelly between $19 million and $20 million. He revealed PersolKelly will remain engaged by the electoral commission to help run the local government elections due in October. Michael also revealed the cabinet was not made aware of the WAEC's decision to enter into the $86 million contract with PersolKelly.
Sydney Morning Herald
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
WA Nationals leader frustrated by lack of answers over state election debacle
Shadow Electoral Affairs Minister and Nationals Leader Shane Love has called on the WA government to immediately release the report into the state election debacle, after clashing with Electoral Affairs Minister David Michael in budget estimates on Wednesday night. 'The lack of any concrete answers during Budget Estimates has only reinforced the urgent need for the premier to immediately release the final report of the Special Inquiry into the 2025 State Election,' Love said. Love took particular interest in the $86 million contract the WA Electoral Commission struck with recruitment agency PersolKelly without the knowledge of cabinet ministers. 'Despite an hour of questioning the minister for electoral affairs, we are still no closer to knowing who authorised this $86 million contract or how it was allowed to proceed in the shadows,' Love said. Love has previously ascribed some of the blame for the WA election debacle to the outsourcing of election functions to PersolKelly, and the contract was probed during the inquiry undertaken by former WA Governor Malcolm McCusker. The inquiry report is currently with WA Premier Roger Cook, who told estimates on Thursday it would be tabled in parliament when it returns from the winter break in early August. In the WAEC estimates meeting on Tuesday, Michael said the commission had paid PersolKelly between $19 million and $20 million. He revealed PersolKelly will remain engaged by the electoral commission to help run the local government elections due in October. Michael also revealed the cabinet was not made aware of the WAEC's decision to enter into the $86 million contract with PersolKelly.
