Premier Mark McGowan is under growing pressure to introduce a Statewide ban on gas fracking after Labor’s most powerful unions voted for it to be outlawed across WA.

In a meeting of left-wing unions on Thursday, members called for the State Government to introduce legislation that would ban unconventional gas fracking in all parts of the State.

The State Government was elected on a promise to ban fracking in the South West.

The Government placed a pause on fracking throughout the rest of the State until an inquiry could be held.

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The report has been handed to the Government and is due to be released in coming weeks.

In a meeting of the WA Broad Left, unions such as United Voice, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the Electrical Trades Union acknowledged the potential benefits of fracking but warned they should not come at the expense of land and water quality.

United Voice is usually held as being the single most powerful union inside WA Labor.

Though backing a ban, Left unions acknowledged that fracking could have brought much-needed benefits for Aboriginal communities.

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It was revealed last week that an Aboriginal group in the Kimberley had backed fracking as a way of bringing money into its community and keeping young people off alcohol and drugs.

The anti-fracking campaign is being compared to the push against a gas hub at James Price Point, which was championed by celebrities across Australia even as many locals pleaded for the project to proceed.

Singers Jimmy Barnes, Paul Kelly, John Butler and Missy Higgins have called for a ban on fracking in WA but industry groups have warned that the State will lose investment if a ban is implemented.