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Normal text size Very large text size In late January last year Mark McGowan was tucking into pies with his children at a bakery in Dawesville, a coastal suburb 75 kilometres south of Perth, when his phone lit up. “We were sitting at a table eating and my daughter was demanding more tomato sauce and the Prime Minister rang me,” he said. Covered in mud after a successful crabbing expedition with his kids, the WA Premier grabbed some sauce and took Scott Morrison’s call. “He said, ‘I’m going to have to shut down flights from China’.” A year later, McGowan has emerged from the crucible of COVID-19 a political superhero in the west, soaring high on the popularity of his hard border policy. His polling for the upcoming March 13 election threatens a wipeout of his Liberal opposition, which could cause headaches for Morrison at next year’s federal election.

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