Day 9 of West Australian election campaign

WA ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY NINE

WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED

* Premier Colin Barnett campaigned in Bunbury, a Liberal-held seat by 12.2 per cent

* Opposition Leader Mark McGowan was in Swan Hills, Liberal-held by 3.7 per cent

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY

* The Liberals committed $17m to a TAFE ship building centre, $5.8m to South Bunbury Primary School and $1m to the Stirling Street Arts Centre

* Labor took journalists on a bus tour to show their proposed 21km, $863m Morley-Ellenbrook train line, and rejected reports they want half the state's energy to be from renewable sources by 2030, saying they won't introduce a target

* Updated state finance forecasts showed a $535m deficit for 2019/20, drastically different from the predicted $521m surplus in December, with debt projected to be $41.1b for the same period

* The Nationals unveiled a $30m plan for sport in Bunbury

* Margaret Dodd, mother of murder victim Hayley Dodd, announced she would be running for One Nation in the seat of Scarborough

QUOTES OF THE DAY

* "Labor has no strategy. Just like in renewables, they're in cloud cuckoo-land promising huge increase in expenditure, fake offsets and buckets of money in the budget that do not exist ... he promises $1 billion from consolidated revenue for Metronet and said it won't increase debt. Yeah, pigs are flying." - Treasurer Mike Nahan

* "Under the Liberals it will be 33 years before a rail service links Morley and Ellenbrook ... Mr Barnett promised a rail service up here twice, he broke his promise on each occasion. He broke the hearts of the people of Morley and Ellenbrook." - Mark McGowan