How the west might be won: Labor's push to emerge from a 20-year black hole | swrighteconomy
Hasluck, held by Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt and Pearce, which is home to Attorney-General Christian Porter, are on Labor's target list, as well as Swan, Stirling and Canning.
The first is his opponent. Labor's Kim Travers is a former police officer who was born in the country town of Merredin. She is one of a string of female candidates running for Labor. At the 2013 poll, at the Ellen Stirling Primary School in the suburb of Ellenbrook, Porter garnered almost 43 per cent of the primary vote compared to his Labor opponent's 30 per cent.
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