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Speaker 1: Well we're nelly there. The election is tomorrow and joining

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Speaker 1: us now, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning here in Perth.

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Speaker 1: Well, now, just firstly, we do always ask ball players

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Speaker 1: how have you pulled up? Especially there was a heavy tackle.

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Speaker 2: Young Luca was a great little sport But I'm just

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Speaker 2: glad I was able to sort of just how it

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Speaker 2: was falling. Yes, yeah, it hurt my hand, a bit

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Speaker 2: of a shoulder, but anyway, he said to me when

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Speaker 2: I called him later that night to c he's okay,

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Speaker 2: he said, I should have given you a hand up.

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Speaker 3: He might have to go to rehab with that shoulder.

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Speaker 2: PM spelling right now, Well.

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Speaker 1: Good of you to join us this close to the end.

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Speaker 1: Here we're going to ask you the exact same questions

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Speaker 1: that we did to mister Albin. Easy.

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Speaker 3: We did talk with Elbow about the state of the

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Speaker 3: mining revenue here in Western Australia and we are sort

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Speaker 3: of the country the backbone of our economy nationally. Now,

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Speaker 3: if you, if you reinstated on Saturday, what commitment to

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Speaker 3: westerns East do you offer, you know, with the prosperity

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Speaker 3: of mining.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, there'ull certainly be no mining takes

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Speaker 2: under our government. Ever, that's not something we'll ever do. Secondly,

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Speaker 2: we're investing in the critical minerals and rare earth, which

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Speaker 2: is the next big opportunity for the mining industry, and

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Speaker 2: that's ensure it goes all around the world, and we're

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Speaker 2: working with India and Japan and the United States and

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Speaker 2: so many other countries to back that in. The other

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Speaker 2: thing we're doing is we're investing in our big mining

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Speaker 2: regions and that's particularly up there in the Pilgrim and

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Speaker 2: the latest budget would put significant investments in there to

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Speaker 2: help them trans transform over the next ten to twenty years,

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Speaker 2: particularly with the use of hydrogen and their mining operations.

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Speaker 2: These are the things which underpin it. And the fourth

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Speaker 2: one is we're ensuring we're cutting regulation and red tape.

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Speaker 2: It's something Mark McGowan and I have been working on. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: Anthony ALBERNIZI has been opposing on that when we sought

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Speaker 2: to take the legislation through the Parliament federally. But I'll

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Speaker 2: keep working with Mark on that because he and I

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Speaker 2: both have a good understanding of how the WA economy

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Speaker 2: works and how important the mineral sector is.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, Prime Minister a question that's never really had

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Speaker 1: to be considered before, is how do we vote tomorrow

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Speaker 1: if you're in COVID ISO.

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Speaker 2: We were able to fix that up today. We were

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Speaker 2: waiting on advice from the Electoral Commissioner. As you know,

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Speaker 2: there's an independent election process. It's not run by politicians,

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Speaker 2: it's run by an independent electoral commissioner. And we had

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Speaker 2: bipartisan legislation passed early in the year as to how

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Speaker 2: we could deal with COVID and we were rating for

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Speaker 2: further advice and recommendations for him, which we got this morning,

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Speaker 2: which means anyone who has tested positive after six pm

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Speaker 2: last Friday will be able to vote using those telephone methods.

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Speaker 2: That he had to be sure that they would be

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Speaker 2: able to cope with those calls and so we had

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Speaker 2: to satisfy himself on that. So he's running that process.

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Speaker 2: The Special Ministry of State, Ben Morton, a good Western Australian,

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Speaker 2: has been working on that issue for several days. But

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's not politicians that

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Speaker 2: need set those rules. It has to be the independent

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Speaker 2: umpire and that's what he's done today.

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Speaker 3: Okay, talking to the PM Scot Morrison this morning, it's

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Speaker 3: got do you and the team prepare two speeches for

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Speaker 3: tomorrow or do you not want to tempt late.

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Speaker 2: Either way, you just keep focusing on the points you're

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Speaker 2: making and how important this choice is for Australians. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's not lost on me, you know, and I don't

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Speaker 2: think it will be on any Australian that tomorrow is

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Speaker 2: a great exercise of democracy when you think about what's

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Speaker 2: happening in Ukraine and many other parts of the world.

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Speaker 2: We're very fortunate to be living in this amazing country

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Speaker 2: and tomorrow people get to have this say and they

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Speaker 2: get to make their choice, and it's an important choice.

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Speaker 2: And the choice I'm saying it's about is it's about

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Speaker 2: it the speuture of our economy, and the Western Australian

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Speaker 2: economy is such an important part of the national economy.

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Speaker 2: Unemployment has fallen to three point nine percent around the

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Speaker 2: country and two point nine percent in Western Australia. It's

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Speaker 2: got a to in front of it. I mean, the

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Speaker 2: way we've turned the economy around in the last few years.

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Speaker 2: I mean we were looking at fifteen percent unemployment two

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Speaker 2: years ago and now we've got it down to the

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Speaker 2: lowest level in forty eight years. That just shows the

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Speaker 2: tenacity and strength of our economy, the businesses are in it,

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Speaker 2: the people who work in it, and of course government

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Speaker 2: policy settings that have supported that. An economic plan that's

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Speaker 2: working because Australians are working, and that's what will help

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Speaker 2: secure the opportunities going ahead.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, you've had to make a lot of

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Speaker 1: pictures over the last six weeks. We're going to ask

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Speaker 1: you to make one more. Right now, we have a

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Speaker 1: sixty second clock, so you can pitch to the people

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Speaker 1: of wly Way why we should vote for you.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready, Yeah, sure, here we go.

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Speaker 3: Here's the timer.

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Speaker 2: This election is a choice about who's best to manage

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Speaker 2: our economy because we live there. For a strong economy,

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Speaker 2: your future will be stronger and more secure, and you

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Speaker 2: can use your vote to lock in that certainty so

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Speaker 2: you can plan for the future you want now. Labor

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Speaker 2: can't manage money. That's why they always come after yours

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Speaker 2: with higher taxes, and just as we're turning a corner,

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Speaker 2: they'd make things worse and that's a big risk, and

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Speaker 2: you can use your vote to stop that. We've got

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Speaker 2: to facing the world with many challenges, but there are

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Speaker 2: so many opportunities. So let's not turn back now this

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Speaker 2: Saturday vote Liberal.

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Speaker 3: Ah, all right, it's just Surprime you're nervous. How are

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Speaker 3: you feeling?

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Speaker 2: When do you be? I feel confident about our plan.

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Speaker 2: I feel confident about Australia's future and I know what

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Speaker 2: we need to do to achieve that. And I am

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Speaker 2: concerned that you know what we saw yesterday and it

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Speaker 2: took them six weeks to explain what their costings were.

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Speaker 2: Because they've confirmed that they will have eight and a

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Speaker 2: half billion dollars in higher depths. It's sixty billion dollars

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Speaker 2: in higher depth and that will only push up pressure

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Speaker 2: on interest rates and inflation that make things harder for people,

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Speaker 2: and ultimately it means they come after you with taxes

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Speaker 2: as labor always does.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, Prome minisee Is Scott Morrison, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us this morning and enjoy the

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Speaker 1: final day on it.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's great to be here doing that in Western Australia.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, bye man, Prime Minister Scott Morrison thirty Prime

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Speaker 3: Minister