It’s a time-honoured custom for state premiers eager to take pleasure in a number of the glory of main sporting occasions to supply light-hearted wagers to counterparts when their corresponding state groups attain the grand last.
However with lower than a day to go till the Fremantle Dockers tackle the Brisbane Lions on the huge dance, WA Premier Roger Cook dinner and Queensland Premier David Crisafulli look unlikely to make a wager with each males’s workplaces telling us how busy they have been.
Cook dinner has been in Vietnam this week on a commerce mission, whereas Crisafulli has been busy placing a rocket up the forms in his state.
To be honest, being a premier isn’t any imply feat, however ravenous poor political journalists of an angle throughout per week when the one factor anybody cares about is sport is a bit of impolite on this author’s opinion.
There have been some incredible wagers between premiers over the previous decade.
Forward of the return of the AFL State of Origin sport between WA and Victoria, Cook dinner wager Premier-at-the-time Jacinta Allan a carton of their respective state’s finest beer for the winner.
WA misplaced and Cook dinner purchased Allan a carton of Swan Draught. I don’t comply with Victorian politics that intently, however I collect the remainder of Allan’s 12 months went swimmingly after that.
Final 12 months Crisafulli accepted a wager from New South Wales Premier Chris Minns that the shedding state within the NRL State of Origin collection needed to movie a tourism add for the successful state.
Hamish Hastie is WAtoday’s state political reporter and the winner of 5 WA Media Awards, together with the 2023 Beck Prize for finest political journalism.Join through X or electronic mail.