The long-awaited showdown between the newly minted opposition leader and the wall of Labor MPs has lived up to the hype with an animated first question time.
The Liberals and Nationals have agreed to form a joint interim cabinet ahead of a raft of new upper house MPs entering parliament in May.
Malcolm McCusker will be joined by representatives from Labor,Liberals,the Greens and the Nationals.
With Adam Hort’s win in Kalamunda the Liberal party has secured seven seats in the lower house making the party the official opposition.
In a complaint sent to the commission by Liberal upper house MP Neil Thomson on behalf of the Liberals’ Pilbara candidate Amanda Kailis he said a Liberal scrutineer was subjected to “deprecatory remarks” based on her gender.
On the current count,both the Nationals and Liberals have won three extra seats each in the lower house taking their totals to six seats each.
The former Lord Mayor and Channel 7 sports presenter has a lot going for him as leader of the Liberals but there are just as many unknowns.
In a statement released Thursday afternoon,Mettam said she would have liked to continue as leader but did not have the support in the party.
Since coming to the job in May 2023,Roger Cook has stated several times he wants to grow other industries so WA is not as reliant on the resources sector. But it is a difficult prospect.
See the full results of Roger Cook’s first cabinet reshuffle this term.