This evening on Stateline the new WA Liberal leader, Paul Omodei, said that folks ought to “give me a fair go”.

Somehow I doubt the same courtesy was extended to Matt Birney, who’d barely finished learning the ropes. I really don’t think our local media were giving him a fair go when they harped on about the gaffes he made, most of them from inexperience. And when Birney announced that he was stepping down, which was also shown on Stateline, the media pack were rude enough to just stare in silence when he delivered the jokes in his speech (some of which were actually funny).

So now the Kalgoorlie Kid is gone. I may not be a Liberal supporter, but I recognise a good back-stabbing when I see it …