Rita Saffioti has a problem.

And this one is not her enthusiastic over-spending as a Minister or an inability as Treasurer to pull her own fiscal profligacy into line.

As bad as that might be for a government dependent on iron ore and GST revenues — but with the good times rapidly coming to an end — that’s not her biggest political problem.

It’s Basil — Basil Zempilas .

The Opposition Leader appears to have invaded a particularly sensitive part of Saffioti’s brain where he is living rent-free and having the time of his life.

The stink over Labor ’s $217.5 million Burswood racetrack project that very few seem to want is bringing out the worst of it.

Zempilas is, admittedly, a polarising figure.

The likeable Telethon host and father-of-three fights an internal battle roya

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