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IFocus said:
Had pretty much total power and yet kept to the middle ground got the GST back ran surpluses, built infrastructure, roads etc he also showed how hollow the state Libs had become with COVID shut the gate with the massive majority agreeing those not agreeing weren’t Western Australians they didn’t have the chip on their shoulders.

Retiring at the top of your game is what rare champions do he will go down as one greats of Australian State politics meanwhile the hater’s are going to snipe away as they do
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IMO we in W.A were very lucky to get two great Premiers in a row, Barnett and then McGowan, Barnett didn't get any financial support, the mining boom deflated and we were getting about 30c in the dollar from the GST. Labor did criticise him for building Fiona Stanley hospital, Princess Margarets childrens hospital, the Joondalup health campus, the Midand health campus, Perth stadium, the airport rail link, the Muchea Roe highway extension.
Then fortunately McGowan came in and Morrison gave him the GST deal, funny how McGowan used to take the pizz out of Barnett for asking the Feds for the deal, but that's politics.
He has done a great job of completing the projects started by Barnett and kicking on with new ones, W.A has struggled with infrastructure funding for years, yet they are called upon to pour the majority of funds into the Eastern States so they can build theirs.
With keeping the borders closed during covid, it was one of the first time in the Sate history that all the accomodation in the country towns was booked out, the caravan parks were full, the last thing W.A people were worried about was what the Eastern States people thought, they were only upset because they weren't getting the W.A tourist dollar, big deal. ?
Like I said, IMO a couple of great Premiers who put the State first, I'm sure he will do fine post politics.
 
IFocus said:
Had pretty much total power and yet kept to the middle ground got the GST back ran surpluses, built infrastructure, roads etc he also showed how hollow the state Libs had become with COVID shut the gate with the massive majority agreeing those not agreeing weren’t Western Australians they didn’t have the chip on their shoulders.

Retiring at the top of your game is what rare champions do he will go down as one greats of Australian State politics meanwhile the hater’s are going to snipe away as they do
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So he did what all premiers do. Build a few roads?

Oh and he managed to isolate the most isolated state in the world. 2 roads in. Not hard. And for that matter I'm pretty sure we're still down one road up north....

McGowan did nothing but ride up the iron ore price recovery.

Hospitals? Regional WA? Tourism? Sport? Transit? Nothing changed. Nothing was improved. WA has nothing to show from McGowan. In 5 years or 10 years or 20 years is there anything people will look at and say he did? Probably not.

The only thing we can all agree on is that he left reasonably scandal free.
 
Fitzroy has been open for a while, haters are going to hate such is life.

Why don’t you join a church and then sign up for the Liberal Party ??
 
Kindergarten stuff @IFocus. Grow up.

The truth is, he rose in on Barnett's coat tails and offer nothing initially but a search hand (not a bad thing).

However with the advent of what amounted to no more than a bad cold, McGowan smashed the Nuremberg code and contravened the Australian Constitution. He divided society, destroyed small businesses, and created a police state while completely destroying the moral of said police.

From first hand experience, the health service is the worst I've experienced anywhere in the world and is responsible for the untimely death of my FIL.

Unless you're a mining company, business conditions are the worst in the country. This, despite the best efforts of the other criminal Premiers.

"Magnificent Mark" should actually be under arrest, pending prosecution both here and in the international court.

These are the facts.
 
wayneL said:
BOOM!

www.spectator.com.au

Goodbye to WA’s worst ever Premier, Mark McGowan | The Spectator Australia

Western Australia’s Labor Premier Mark McGowan has resigned after over six years and two months in the job. He said at the press conference announcing his resignation: Maybe he realised we are tired…
www.spectator.com.au www.spectator.com.au
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Sorry to say Wanye once again can't even get close to greeing with you about Magnificent Mark. Without him for the past few years life would have been a lot worse for us here.
 
farmerge said:
Wayne the Libs you mean that current 2 person opposition party in the House of reps.
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Yeah them. But that party is no longer deserving of the name. Kirkup et al completely @#$&ed everything up altogether.
 
It will be interesting to see how the labor factions take to him, McGowan was very center of the road with a leaning to the right IMO, it will be interesting to see where Cook falls on the scale.
Born in Cottesloe, went to Scotch College and represents the seat of Kwinana, there's irony right there. ?
 
sptrawler said:
IMO we in W.A were very lucky to get two great Premiers in a row, Barnett and then McGowan, Barnett didn't get any financial support, the mining boom deflated and we were getting about 30c in the dollar from the GST. Labor did criticise him for building Fiona Stanley hospital, Princess Margarets childrens hospital, the Joondalup health campus, the Midand health campus, Perth stadium, the airport rail link, the Muchea Roe highway extension.
Then fortunately McGowan came in and Morrison gave him the GST deal, funny how McGowan used to take the pizz out of Barnett for asking the Feds for the deal, but that's politics.
He has done a great job of completing the projects started by Barnett and kicking on with new ones, W.A has struggled with infrastructure funding for years, yet they are called upon to pour the majority of funds into the Eastern States so they can build theirs.
With keeping the borders closed during covid, it was one of the first time in the Sate history that all the accomodation in the country towns was booked out, the caravan parks were full, the last thing W.A people were worried about was what the Eastern States people thought, they were only upset because they weren't getting the W.A tourist dollar, big deal. ?
Like I said, IMO a couple of great Premiers who put the State first, I'm sure he will do fine post politics.
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Barney was possibly better as he didn’t have much of a cabinet at least ministers under McGowan were able to speak publicly and run their portfolios Barney was surrounded by compete dopes the implosion afterwards testament to that
 
sptrawler said:
It will be interesting to see how the labor factions take to him, McGowan was very center of the road with a leaning to the right IMO, it will be interesting to see where Cook falls on the scale.
Born in Cottesloe, went to Scotch College and represents the seat of Kwinana, there's irony right there. ?
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Nah Cook has long represented the down trodden he is more left than McGowan
 
wayneL said:
Yeah them. But that party is no longer deserving of the name. Kirkup et al completely @#$&ed everything up altogether.
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Wayne I think the Libs just set him up because they were on a hiding to hel in the last election. So wet behind the ears and did not have a clue or for that matter any sort of chance.
 
sptrawler said:
It will be interesting to see how the labor factions take to him, McGowan was very center of the road with a leaning to the right IMO, it will be interesting to see where Cook falls on the scale.
Born in Cottesloe, went to Scotch College and represents the seat of Kwinana, there's irony right there. ?
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has a foot both sides of the fence. the we are the born to rule lot and the workers burb
 
IFocus said:
Nah Cook has long represented the down trodden he is more left than McGowan
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farmerge said:
has a foot both sides of the fence. the we are the born to rule lot and the workers burb
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I haven't really followed politicians very closely over the past few years, try and avoid the media generated white noise and judge them on achievements and outcomes or lack thereof.
Haven't heard much about Cook, just wikied him and the Cottesloe/ Kwinana connection came up.
 
farmerge said:
Wayne I think the Libs just set him up because they were on a hiding to hel in the last election. So wet behind the ears and did not have a clue or for that matter any sort of chance.
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If that's true, it's the stupidest thing they could have done; they lost all their core voters, eg people like me.

They will never get my primary vote again.
 
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