Labor launch rethink as venue cuts booking WESTERN Australia's Labour Day holiday seemed like good timing for the opposition's general election launch, but the party has been left looking for a venue after its booking was cancelled. WA Labor said on its Facebook page it had confirmed a booking with Catholic Fremantle university Notre Dame for March 4, but were advised yesterday that a mistake had been made. The university said it had taken the booking in January, but later realised it was "inconsistent" with its policies concerning the hosting of party-political events during election campaigns. The ALP's Facebook entry was posted around the same time Opposition Leader Mark McGowan was taking part in a second debate with Premier Colin Barnett at an Australian Christian Lobby function, where the two leaders touched on weighty topics including abortion, prostitution, gay marriage and euthanasia. Their views took up a little breakfast radio airtime today, but were overshadowed by the threat of the then-category four cyclone Rusty off the Pilbara coast, which was downgraded to a category three as it made landfall near the tiny community of Pardoo. The afternoon airwaves were dominated by a fast-moving bushfire on Perth's northeastern fringes, and with Mr Barnett in the state's far south for much of the day, the politicians didn't get much of a look-in with local media. Before flying to Albany - where he recently copped flak for using a government jet to attend events including a campaign "kick off" for local Liberal candidate Trevor Cosh - Mr Barnett received some coverage for a planned $20 million expansion of Joondalup Arena in Perth's northern suburbs. The Liberals also promised $5 million to refurbish and maintain Goldfields Art Centre in Kalgoorlie, which if implemented would ensure the world's third-largest mining conference, Diggers and Dealers, stayed in the Goldfields town. The party also pledged a $12 million upgrade to Great Eastern Highway between Greenmount and Mundaring to improve safety on the deadly road.