it feels like the campaign's already begun meet the Prime Minister and his team blitzing wa on visit number uh 23 or 24 every visit aimed at securing seats in the west seen as key to winning government it's why this is the fourth time Federal cabinet has met here we continue to look forward to working with you on these important projects Chief among those projects is orcus with the PM visiting the first US submarine which Australians are helping maintain under the arrangement and what we are seeing here is demonstrated in real time the progress that has been made since we gathered at San Diego last year he also announced a program to attract 200 graduates apprentices and trainees to key orcus positions it's a big number but within the context of orcus it's not that massive the prime minister is here selling this part of his reelection pitches labor ramps up another part trying to reignite a fight over wa's GS share liberal Peter Dutton wants to rip away wa's fair share of GST labor using this comment from the opposition's shadow Minister for home ownership who was discussing ways to push states to build more homes to back up their claim would you take away their GST payments or or dock those well we have the vertical fiscal imbalance where we collect most of the revenue and give it to the states uh we need to be creative and find a way to hit the states hard where it hurts Andrew Bragg was wrong that is not our policy under Peter Dutton he has made it very very clear we got wa our fair share of GST we legislated that and that is not going to change the wa government already looking passed the election to an independent review of the way GST is carved up slated for 2026 and we'll be working very hard to highlight somewhat what we think are the absurdities in relation to that a decades long battle with could influence another election Ken Burke ABC News