Opposition leader Angus Taylor has conceded WA voters have “lost trust” in the Liberals, as he heads west this week to win back support from disenchanted West Australians.

In a sign of just how important WA’s 16 seats are to the 2028 Federal election, both Mr Taylor and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson will be in Perth later this week to preach from their respective hymn books.

Both of them aspire to be prime minister and will run candidates in all WA lower house seats at the next poll.

“As a party, we absolutely have to do better in WA, I accept that,” Mr Taylor told The Sunday Times. “We can and must do better.

“And part of that is speaking directly to West Australians — as I’ll be doing later this week — and working every day with my WA Liberal team to win back trust and earn your support.”

Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party holds 11 WA Federal seats, the Liberals have four, and Teal MP Kate Chaney holds the one-time Liberal fortress of Curtin.

In WA State politics, the Liberals hold just seven of 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly after devastating losses in 2017, 2021 and 2025.

“In the last two Federal elections in the west, we have not done as well as we should,” Mr Taylor said.

“I realise that we have lost trust with people who voted for us in the past, or have considered voting for us in the past, and we have to regain that trust.”

Ms Hanson is scheduled to arrive in Perth on Wednesday, where that night she will attend a sundowner at the Crooked Spire in Midland, with 350 people attending.

One Nation WA MP Rod Caddies said people had flocked to listen to Ms Hanson speak.

“It sold out in a day,” Mr Caddies said. “We have a waiting list of over 100.”

The following day, Ms Hanson will address the Swan Chamber of Commerce.

“The momentum is picking up now because people realise that One Nation is the only party that will get out there and represent the people of Western Australia,” Ms Hanson told The Sunday Times.

A strong focus of Mr Taylor’s visit will be on WA small businesses who have been hit hard in Labor’s Federal Budget.

Mr Taylor arrives in Perth on Thursday. That night he and shadow treasurer Tim Wilson will be the star attractions of a $2000-a-head fundraiser in the city.

On Friday night, Mr Taylor will be the guest of honour at a whisky dinner organised by Liberals Slade Brockman, Matt O’Sullivan and Ben Small at the Westin.

Ms Hanson said it appeared Mr Taylor was following her across the Nullarbor.

“He (Angus Taylor) might have heard about my diary that I was going to be over there (to WA),” Ms Hanson said.

“My plan has been set in concrete for weeks now to come over there (WA). I have no idea why he’s over there.

“But it’s not a bad thing for WA to have the leaders of major political parties interested in being WA.

“Maybe he’s following us, after I delivered my gas policy.”

Just two weeks ago in The Sunday Times Ms Hanson declared Canning, Forrest, Pearce and Hasluck were in her sights.

She has added Curtin to that list.

“I don’t believe they (Teals) have the right policies for Australia to go forward and to give prosperity or hope,” she said. “These people live in this idealistic world but are not facing the real problems that we have.”

Ms Hanson says she is open to a One Nation/Liberal-National union on election night if it means beating Mr Albanese.

“If it takes the two of us working together in alliance with the Coalition to get rid of Labor and the Greens and teals _ who are toxic for this nation _ then we have to do it,” she said. “I am open to it. I am saying yes (to forming government with the Coalition): let’s do it.”

But Ms Hanson wants to go one better: become the prime minister.

She said Australia’s prime ministers had come from all walks of life — citing Bob Hawke as an example.

“If we (One Nation) win government then that (becoming PM) is on the cards,” she said. “If I do end up being prime minister it’s not about doing it by myself — it’s about having a good team around you.

“I have expressed numerous times, I don’t know everything.

“Ben Chifley, he went from being a train driver to being the prime minister of this country. I am sure he didn’t know everything either.

“And I am sure other prime ministers who went into those positions didn’t know everything either, like Bob Hawke — the head of the unions.”