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Speaker 1: Well, as you said, the state election is only weeks

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Speaker 1: away March the eighth.

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Speaker 2: Libby Madam is the state Liberal leader. Libby is with

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Speaker 2: us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hey, Libby, welcome, Hi.

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Speaker 4: How are you.

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Speaker 2: We've never met before, Libby.

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Speaker 4: No, we haven't.

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Speaker 3: No, I haven't.

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Speaker 2: Tell us quickly about Libby matham well.

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Speaker 4: Born and raised in regional Way. I'm married, with a

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Speaker 4: couple of kids and even a grandchild, Remy, who's now

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Speaker 4: about eight months old.

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Speaker 2: I do love but to name Remy.

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Speaker 4: It's so cute. Yes, a little while to get my

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Speaker 4: head around it, because I haven't heard it much before.

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Speaker 4: Now I hear it all the time. But I've been

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Speaker 4: a member of Parliament for about ten years and yeah,

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Speaker 4: very passionate about Western Australia a place of opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Libby, it was a few years ago now, But you're

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Speaker 3: a whopper grad right, So did that help sure? To

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Speaker 3: help with your personal public appearances and the sitting on

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Speaker 3: the milk rate.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure about that, but what it does

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Speaker 4: give you, as you guys would both understand, through broadcasting,

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Speaker 4: you're talking to people across the board all the time

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Speaker 4: and you get a real sense of what makes people tick.

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Speaker 4: You also love people and yeah, you're really interested in

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Speaker 4: the issues that matter. It's not that different to politics

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Speaker 4: and that's what's kept me or driven in this job.

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Speaker 2: Do you think the Liberal Party can win this election?

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Speaker 4: Live in Absolutely we can. Labour thinks this election is

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Speaker 4: in the bag. I think it's a dumb deal. But

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Speaker 4: Western Australians know we can't afford another four years of

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Speaker 4: the same failures. If Labor wins, nothing changes, and we've

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Speaker 4: got a broken health system, we've got a cost of

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Speaker 4: living crisis, we've got crime out of control across the state,

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Speaker 4: and we've got a housing crisis as well, and social

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Speaker 4: housing is well. One example is the numbers of social

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Speaker 4: houses has actually gone backwards since twenty seventeen. So this

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Speaker 4: has been a government with so much power that had

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Speaker 4: the numbers in the House as well to deliver whatever

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Speaker 4: they wanted, and they haven't delivered. For Western Australians, we've

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Speaker 4: gone backwards since I've been in power.

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Speaker 3: Actually you mentioned that, I'm thinking it's in the bag.

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Speaker 3: We were a couple of weeks out from this Saturday,

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Speaker 3: and it was about this stage in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 3: that the former Liberal letters at Kirka pretty much put

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Speaker 3: up the white flag.

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Speaker 4: But that's your style, right, Well, it certainly isn't. But

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Speaker 4: also we've got a real opportunity here and this government

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Speaker 4: has been gifted the biggest boom our state has seen,

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Speaker 4: not through their great financial management, but through a GST

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Speaker 4: fix and an iron ore boom. And more than ever before,

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Speaker 4: Western Austraians are struggling. WA's less affordable, how hospitals are

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Speaker 4: in Crissis, crime is rising, and labor are failing to

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Speaker 4: deliver on on the basics. And while a racetrack along

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Speaker 4: at Birswood might be enough to have, I know young

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Speaker 4: people in particular are seeing home ownership out of reach

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Speaker 4: and there are a number of issues across the state

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Speaker 4: which we are focused on fixing.

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Speaker 2: As far as your key policies go.

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Speaker 1: What do you think in terms of a chicken or

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Speaker 1: the egg situation, cost of living and housing, which is.

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Speaker 2: Which area to think needs.

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Speaker 1: Tackling the most to make the other thing a bit easier?

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Speaker 4: Well, they are interrelated. But we know this government's focus

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Speaker 4: on government spending and on one project and one project

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Speaker 4: only bang Metronap. It's blown out from three billion to

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Speaker 4: over thirteen billion, highest rate of spending in WA in

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Speaker 4: fifteen years outside of COVID has seen wa I have

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Speaker 4: the highest rate of inflation in the nation. That means

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Speaker 4: the cost of everything, you know, eggs and bread and

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Speaker 4: everything at the supermarket is much more because this golvement

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Speaker 4: have not been focused on delivering the basics housing as well,

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Speaker 4: and housing impacts every portfolio. It impacts our ability to

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Speaker 4: get the workers we want, particularly in the regions, but

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Speaker 4: in Metro as well, and that's why we're committed and

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Speaker 4: we have a much more generous than Labor's announcement yesterday

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Speaker 4: stamp duty release for first home buyers. We're also committing

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Speaker 4: six hundred million dollars to Headworks which will deliver over

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Speaker 4: one hundred thousand affordable homes for Western Australians.

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Speaker 3: It'd be probably fair to say that March eighties so

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Speaker 3: well one of the most important days of your life,

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Speaker 3: definitely with your political career. Can you describe how you're feeling.

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Speaker 3: Is it nervous, is it excited As a combination, well.

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Speaker 4: I'd say it's determined and it is about giving Western

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Speaker 4: Australians an opportunity to see the back of a government

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Speaker 4: that have not been focused on them and what we

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Speaker 4: have seen and we've seen their election commitments so far.

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Speaker 4: There's been a lot of shiny mas, perhaps a seven

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Speaker 4: billion dollar port that we don't need now, the race

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Speaker 4: track on the Swan, the giveaways, the free rule, tickets

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Speaker 4: to the show, and pursue Western The strains are struggling

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Speaker 4: more than ever before. That's why we're investing and focusing

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Speaker 4: on building health infrastructure, investing in our health workforce as well.

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Speaker 4: Announced our commitment for eight hundred officers three hundred on

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Speaker 4: the beak from day one in terms of FTE and

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Speaker 4: also real targeted relief cutting payroll tax, stamp duty and

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Speaker 4: stamp duty. The saying is that one of downsids as well.

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Speaker 4: We're focused on the basics, no bread and circuses from

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Speaker 4: the liberal parties, but it's that delivering for people.

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Speaker 1: I have to say that I guess it is a

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Speaker 1: thing that is unusual for this election for your party.

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Speaker 1: The Basil sort of factor and where he stands. Is

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Speaker 1: that something that you're able to just get on with

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Speaker 1: a side because the whole Basil's ampless thing has been

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Speaker 1: a bit confusing as to when he.

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Speaker 4: Is very high profile, Yes, and he's a key part

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Speaker 4: of our team. Yeah, I trust you know, he is

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Speaker 4: a key part of our team. I trust Basil along

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Speaker 4: with all of our candidates and you know they will

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Speaker 4: be outstanding members of Parliament. And what we've seen with

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Speaker 4: Labor is an extraordinary focus on him. They're obviously threatened

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Speaker 4: by him. He's got a high profile, but I think

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Speaker 4: that will only be an asset for us, certainly going

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Speaker 4: Bard and he's certainly been successful in tearing some strips

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Speaker 4: off off Roger Cook, John Kerry and radio as well.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well we're down at the business end of things.

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Speaker 2: Weeks and we wish you a good campaign. Libby. It's

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Speaker 2: got to be. It's a tough.

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Speaker 1: Job, you know who, whatever your party is, whatever you're

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Speaker 1: thinking is, it's a tough job.

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Speaker 2: And I hope you make it through on Sky. Good

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Speaker 2: luck with

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you all right, thanks for having me

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Speaker 4: on