Landslide win for Labor in Western Australia elections
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WESTERN Australia elected a new government in a landslide victory for the Labor party, as voters swept aside a Liberal-National coalition blamed for squandering the state's once-in-a-century resources boom and racking up record debt.
Labor leader Mark McGowan, 49, replaces 66-year-old Premier Colin Barnett, inheriting a state economy weighed down by the nation's highest jobless rate and stuttering growth.
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