Trust the unconventional Alannah MacTiernan to suggest WA’s future could lie in turning surplus potatoes into vodka.

But the tongue-in-cheek proposal to a packed Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch starring Premier Mark McGowan and his ministers was better than the ones Sketch read in between the lamb and pecan tart.

A report on the public sector, Working Together, recommended the State Government do “a feasibility study for implementation of a whole-of-government, multi-channel transactional service delivery model”.

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Another shot of Alannah’s vodka, thanks.

McGowan must have chugged a couple before he rose to tell the crowd, which included the most senior US diplomat in Australia, that what Donald Trump’s America needed right now was another George Bush Sr, Jr or Bill Clinton.

Cigar with your vodka, anyone?

Thankfully, Treasurer Ben Wyatt ended the fun when he addressed the crowd about debt and deficit.

“Can I thank my colleagues for leaving me three minutes for my contribution this afternoon,” he began.

Sketch and everyone else in the room wanted to thank them, too.

The fast-paced presentations didn’t stop McGowan waving around a copy of the Working Together report as he tried to put context around his decision to cull 3000 public servants.

“I want to emphasise that public servants across WA do a good job,” he said.

What McGowan really wanted to say was that WA needs more vodka than it does public servants.

Alannah didn’t mince her words on matters of State.

“When I first went out there, it felt more like a morgue,” she said to describe the Department of Agriculture now compared with the 1970s.

Project Vodka should fix that.