Thresholds, concessions and tweaks are not reform. Stamp duty is a bad tax that distorts the market and punishes ordinary people for moving house. The only serious reform is abolition.

Most West Australians assume the bridges they cross every day are properly maintained. When governments fail at that basic level, every other promise becomes harder to believe. The Narrows Bridge is a warning sign; not just about infrastructure, but about how WA is being governed.

Labor didn’t just ban fishing. It shut down livelihoods, fractured coastal communities, and then told people to be grateful for the cheque. This wasn’t conservation. It was power, exercised without care for the human impact.

WA’s shopping hours don’t reflect how people live anymore, and the government knows it. What’s missing isn’t evidence or demand, but the political will to let go of our state's outdated trading hours.

WA’s surplus is not in doubt. What is increasingly in question is whether the Government can credibly explain why, amid booming revenue, households are still being told to wait for relief.

WA’s Budget is awash with surplus cash after a $7 billion revenue upgrade. But for households facing rising costs, the relief never came.