On 2 April 2025 WA Premier Roger Cook MLA announced that a Special Inquiry would be conducted into concerns raised by voters, candidates and Members of both the WA and Australian Parliaments about the staffing and management of polling booths for the 2025 WA State Election which was held on Saturday 8 March.
The inquiry was conducted in accordance with section 24H of the Public Sector Management Act 1994 and has a Terms of Reference.
Special Inquirer
The Honourable Malcolm McCusker AC CVO KC was appointed to carry out the Special Inquiry.
Mr McCusker has had a long and distinguished career in the legal profession. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1982 and served as the 31st Governor of Western Australia from 2011 to 2014. Since this time he has chaired the Ministerial Expert Panel on Voluntary Assisted Dying (2019) and the Ministerial Expert Panel on Electoral Reform (2021).
He was made Officer of the Order of Australia in 2012 for “service as a lawyer, an advocate for sustainable development and education, and philanthropy in medical research, youth and arts organisations.”
Report
The Special Inquiry report was tabled in the Parliament of Western Australia on 12 August 2025.
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