Up Late with Ben Harvey: Why does Mark McGowan want people moving to WA during a housing crisis?

Western Australia is perfectly and truly back again open, with Mark McGowan to use his 1st in-particular person Nationwide Cupboard meeting to tell households on the east coast to move to WA for a “better life”.

But, in Up Late Ben Harvey has questioned the timing, with a housing disaster in Perth.

Forward of Friday’s gathering of Condition leaders in Canberra, the Premier believed a combination of much less expensive residences, better wages and an enviable way of living created the move west “a no brainer”.

Recruitment strategies are previously functioning on the east coast in a bid to entice people to WA, which has been strike more difficult than anywhere else by the nationwide qualified worker shortage.

But Mr McGowan intends to leverage Friday’s assembly to position out the dissimilarities in the conventional of living and economies of WA and the japanese seaboard — describing it as “a tale of two countries”.

“We have the least expensive unemployment amount (2.9 per cent) by a prolonged way and the greatest participation charge, so (the worker scarcity) is much more acute right here,” Mr McGowan advised The West Australian.

“One of the factors I’ll level out is that we have most economical housing comparatively, the highest common weekly earnings, a excellent way of life and protected work.

“When I was in Sydney last week I saw loads of people today who have very regular spending jobs but the normal value of a residence there is $1.2 million bucks — I don’t understand how men and women stay.