Commentary Despite repeatedly claiming it was “not on the agenda“ during the last state election campaign, the McGowan government has steamrolled through the parliament electoral reform that will effectively disenfranchise regional voters in Western Australia (WA). Up until now, each Legislative Council (upper house) region in WA, both city and regional, had six representatives. This means that regional WA, even though it is more sparsely populated, has a “weighted” representation in the upper house. Hence, vote reform in this regard is known as “one vote, one value,” and has been a battle-cry of the state Australian Labor Party (ALP) for over a century, to the extent of pursuing several failed High Court challenges. As noted by Caroline Di Russo in a recent piece in The Spectator Australia, such an attitude is counter-intuitive since the Australian Constitution enshrines a minimum level of representation for each of our states in the Senate. WA has 12 senators—the …