Why not both? Voters in two key WA seats doubtful about ‘Morrison plus McGowan’ deal

View of Perth skyline from South Perth. Many undecided voters in Western Australia either say Scott Morrison got in the way of Mark McGowan’s pandemic response or took credit for it. Photograph: David Dare Parker/The Guardian

When Scott Morrison visited Western Australia in March, he briefly fumbled a question from a reporter by saying he had met the state’s opposition leader, the Liberal David Honey.

Morrison had to be reminded that the opposition leader is Mia Davies, a National, after the landslide 2021 election returned just two Liberals to the WA lower house.