Western Australia’s elections boss will sit down with the recruitment agency tasked with hiring workers for the trouble-plagued 2025 election to discuss its involvement in upcoming polls.

Acting WA Electoral Commissioner Dennis O’Reilly fronted a parliamentary committee on Wednesday morning, where he lamented the issues that tarnished public trust in the election and resulted in a special probe by former WA governor Malcolm McCusker.

O’Reilly said using recruitment company Persol to source the bulk of the temporary workforce was an “interesting model” not used in other states.

“In other jurisdictions, they actually work for the commission itself. In this particular model, the temporary work workers actually worked or were employed by Persol, and that’s been a bit challenging, too.

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