The Western Australian Labor Party has announced that the Upper House will face a complete overhaul—despite Premier Mark McGowan’s repeated assurance stating otherwise—leading some to call into question McGowan’s integrity following an election promise saw record high regional support. Despite McGowan’s expressed support for “enhanced regional representation in Parliament,” the restructure will serve to achieve the exact opposite, says head of law at Sheridan College and former law reform commissioner Augusto Zimmerman. “The plans to reform WA’s Upper House voting system will result in considerably less regional representation,” Zimmerman told The Epoch Times. “The Premier objectively lied to the public during his election campaign,” he said. “This sort of duplicitous behaviour is something that you would only expect from a dishonest politician.” Currently, the Legislative Council, or Upper House, is WA’s Senate-style house of Parliament, representing 6 population-varying regions equally across all of WA. Each region receives 6 seats in the Upper …