Tony Abbott (L) and Bill Shorten are campaigning ahead of the WA Senate election re-run on Saturday. Source: AAP
HAVEN'T we heard all this before?
That is surely what the West Australian electorate was thinking on Monday as the state's looming Senate election re-run brought politicians by the planeload to Perth - with plenty to say but little of it new.
While Prime Minister Tony Abbott was rebranding his agreement with WA Premier Colin Barnett for the national disability insurance scheme, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was preparing to appear at a teachers rally - just as he did the week before September's poll.
And with Clive Palmer making plenty of noise, micro-parties threatening an upset and Greens Senator Scott Ludlam battling hard for his political future, the fourth WA election campaign in just more than a year has been a case of deja vu for the election-weary west.
Mr Abbott made an early-morning swoop into RAAF Pearce to meet the troops searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight before hitting the hustings in the city.
The PM accused the opposition of untruths over school funding, defended his reinstatement of knights and dames, and pushed for the abolition of the mining and carbon taxes.
"The people of WA need to know that Labor is not being straight with you, and Bill Shorten won't give you a straight answer about the carbon tax and the mining tax here in Perth," Mr Abbott said.
With a teachers strike set to close more than 100 WA schools on Tuesday, Mr Shorten got in early to attend a school in Belmont, in Perth's east, with a message about Liberal education cuts.
"Education cuts are occurring in Western Australia and if Tony Abbott gets a rubber stamp in his Senate ... we'll see further cuts to West Australian schools," Mr Shorten said.
Meanwhile, Mr Palmer's pre-election advertising blitz for his Palmer United party (PUP) reached fever pitch, with claims the Liberals and Labor are "taking bread out of the mouths of WA babies".
While up to three radio ads ran in each break on local stations, an animated YouTube slot from PUP claimed the flow of WA's GST share to the east was denying food for the state's children.
"They send our GST to Melbourne and Sydney - get it back," the PUP ad urged.
Meanwhile, the Australian Sports party - whose candidate, Wayne Dropulich, won a Senate seat in the recount - has been criticised for posting a topless woman on its Facebook page as part of its campaign.
The image - accompanied by a joke involving a weight-loss program that encouraged an overweight man to chase naked women - appeared on the party's site late last week.
The campaign will continue on Tuesday, with Mr Abbott set to host the entire federal cabinet in Perth, while Mr Shorten will rally on the steps of state parliament along with the teachers union.
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