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You're incorrect about the right losing no seats in mining-heavy Western Australia. In WA, the centre-right Liberals lost two seats to the centre-left Labor (Cowan and Burt). Furthermore, the two-party swing to Labor in WA was larger than in the rest of the nation, which is rare as WA is quite an inelastic state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_Australian_federal_election_in_Western_Australia

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Burt and Cowan are not mining-heavy parts of WA, I do actually know what I'm talking about, and any plain text reading of my quote would not think winning Perth-based seats would contradict my point

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