A NEW GENERATION

LABOR MAN

Harry Phillips and David Black 10 February 2001 Geoff Gallop led the OnALP to electoral victory in and became the 27th ofthat state His first premier political stint had been t l1 ee years as a local councillor government in he had accumulated nearly 15 years of parliamentary experience since then after winning the traditionally Labor Legislative Assembly seat ofVictoria Park in a by election Signifi cantly at that stage he described himself as a new generation Labor 1 man In parliament he was very active in terms of speech making and committee work including a term as chair of the influential Public Accounts Committee often regarded as a stepping stone to the ministry Under premier from 1990 until the ALP lost office three years later he had had a range ofministerial responsibilities includ and electoral ingeducation parliamentary reform fuel and energy md economic refoim Thereafter in opposition he was allocated a large number of shadow portfolios eventually succeeding Jim McGinty now Attorney General as leader ofthe opposition in a smooth transition of power a few months before the 1996 state election This relatively long apprenticeship meant that when Gallop became premier there was a lot of information on the public record about the key elements ofhis polit ical thought and even his style though there was conjecture about how the former university lecturer in social and political theory would lead his new government This account canvasses Gallop s early family history educational background and political thought and attempts to assess his premiership focusing on his role as an election campaigner policy broker decision maker and crisis manager 116 YES PREMIER GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION LABOR MAN 117

Senator Geoff As a scholar Gallop s record was outstanding and in the course of Born on 27 September 1951 in the country town ofGeraldton some 500 completing his several academic qualifications he won a number ofm or kilometres north of Gallop was a descendant of one of the state s prizes After completing undergraduate studies in philosophy politics and at the best known pioneering families His great great grandfather on his father s economics University of Western Australia he was selected as a Rhodes Scholar side James Gallop and his brothers Richard and Edward arrived on the in 1972 he followed the same areas ofinterest at Oxtcld Lotlls in 1829 they were part of the first group of European settlers to University Further postgraduate courses at Ivlurdoch University 1975 77 arrive in the Swan River colony His great great grandmother also caIne to and Oxford 1979 81 as a Nuffield Fellow eventually led to the award of Western Australia in that tlrst fleet House in Nedlands is a reminder a Doctor of from Gallop Philosophy Oxford in 1983 Gallop also held a range of of the family s early prominence in the state They played a part in the tutoring positions before becoming a lecturer in social and political theory development of North Perth Fremantle and York through market garden at fiom 1981 to 1986 Significantly his student days 2 ing and wine production were marked by a shift ofpolitical allegiance from Liberal to Labor Initially GeotT s father was a he the Gallop Douglas John Gallop company secretary joined university Liberal club where one ofhis close colleagues was whose political leanings were similar to those espoused by Bob Menzies Bob French who later became president of the Native Title Tribunal and and However his mother Eunice came ttom a family with then a Federal Court judge However Gallop became uncomfortable with trade union and Labor atliliations and the honsehold was one where polit the conservatism of the Liberal Party particularly its continued commit avoided ical debate was not His parents never attempted to steer him ment to the Vietnam War In the wave of change roused by federal Labor towards but a friend known as Auntie used to call politics family Dorothy leader in 1972 he accepted an invitation ttom Bob 4 the young Geoff Senator Perhaps she read his schoolboy essay making McMullan to join the ALP the for Australia to become a and she would not case republic perhaps Gallop also became a political radio commentator and by 1983 he have been his attendance at the 1999 Constitutional Conven surprised by was providing expert commentary on the state and federal elections 7 tion for a with a elected arguing republic directly president Although living Some time after he had been elected to the Legislative Assembly he in a war service home with his parents and a brother and a sister a number of Gallop published his speeches under the title Labors 5 parliamentary that never wanted for anything His parents stayed in Case says for Parliamentary Democracy and later many of his thoughts vvere throughout his childhood and he completed his primary education at the captured in another publication A State f R form Essays jJI a Better local Beachlands Primary School From 1964 to 1968 he attended Gerald Future Helm Wood Publishers Wembley 1998 The latter included a ton Senior School where he was both an student and a High outstanding foreword by Britain s Prime Minister whom Gallop had keen sportsman and a school in his tlnal year Cricket was a major become close friends prefect with at Oxford University and who had on two interest but he also a ofother Australian rules K played range sports including occasiqns been to Perth to stay with the to Blair i Gallops AccordingL tootball and tennis and he was also a keen debater and actor his tlrst Gallop was public role was in a primary school theatrical production staged in the one ofthe most decent quite simply straightforward people you Geraldton Town Hall When he moved to Perth to commence his tertiary could meet he is also one ofthe and most studies cricket tor the then tor Nedlands the brightest thought Gallop played university in He ful influenced me enormously both at University in Oxford WACA competition and then for Murdoch in the suburban turf competi and after the great thing about Geoff is his intellectual hon tion In addition he was a member ofthe and table tennis asso volleyball esty in essence he has extracted the core values ofthe Labor ciations His interest in Aussie rules continues and as he received premier Party s tradition justice community citizenship the belief the honour of the No 1 ticket holder for Swan Districts in the state as being that individuals we prosper best within a strong and unified league and membership of the West Coast Eagles society ofothers GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION 119 118 YES PREMIER LABOR MAN

16 social later as he was to admit that In April 2004 Gallop visited Blair at 10 Downing Street with a contin good Many years premier prepared sometime down the track I am interested in Australia s role in the world gent ofstudents who were on tour visiting war memorials promoting the 17 and that would mean to the federal This statement ANZAC tradition While Gallop and Blair had to agree to disagree on the entry parliament may have been the of Western Australia wisdom of participating in the Iraq War it was a meeting of two articulate prompted by galling experience having scrutinised the entorcers ofnational and crit and educated third way Labor leaders both ofwhom viewed their parties by competition policy being icised for not hours and such as as vehicles for political participation rather than for ideological dogma and deregulating liquor trading some products The Commonwealth Western Australia for this finan both of whose policy packages could be depicted as inclusive not class potatoes penalised and out ofhand for continued ridden Also both have reputations for delivering keynote addresses to cially rejected Gallop s arguments regulation based on a of social major forums In recognition of his study and practice of public adminis concept good his as a tration the Institute of Public Administration made Gallop a National During early years parliamentarian Gallop continued to display Fellow in 2003 10 a keen interest in constitutional issues particularly the role ofthe Legislative Council and to contribute ideas to the field In essence his proposals gave to the lower house while still o recocrnition to the role of an Making modern Australian democracy work primacy b ivingrLb upper house acting as a house ofreview Despite the fact that the ALP had In his maiden speech in the WA parliament in 1986 Gallop argued strongly never commanded a majority in WA s Legislative Council which was for constitutional reform In his opinion the two basic state Acts the CO1sti weighted tovvards rural did not support the tution Act 1889 WA and the CO1stitution Acts Amcndnlcnt Act 1899 WA heavily representation Gallop old Labor policy ofabolishing the upper house He was also dismissive of a needed to be consolidated into one with meaning given to key terms such Liberal Party proposal in 1988 to introduce a form ofcitizen initiated refer as responsible government premier Cabinet and opposition The endum to be limited to the repeal or veto of passed language needed to be made clearer in the interests of political education legislation through parliament He noted that parliamentary representatives often have to take generally and in the interests of interpretation so that it is harder for the 11 the interests offilture generations and the wishes ofminority into lawyers to read what they would like into those Acts Furthermore he was groups account and argued that modern and indeed governments are critical ofWestminster typ e systems that permit constitution Acts to be legislatures being pressured and influenced by a great and a amended by parliament rather than by referendum He was initially chosen many lobby groups by media Cln driven process of fiJrmation Orcranisedb to chair a select committee on the issue of constitutional consolidation but public opinion crroupsb now quickly mobilise opinion and put together well had to step aside vvhen he was elevated to the ministry quickly sophisticated fimded campaigns he said he believed that it would be to allow On federalism Gallop claimed that it provides the most appropriate dangerous 12 a few citizens as few as 500 or so or who not be able not our perhaps groups form ofgovernment for Australia In his view only does it reflect might to garner support tor their views in the first instance to veto that history the development ofour country as a nation but also it guarantees legislation 13 would have long term benefits tor the state And he pointed out that while a degree of political diversity so easily lost in a unitary system While citizens may accept the overall of an Act if it were to CTO to them Gallop thought that the States also have an enormous degree of political purpose b in a referendum would notbe able to vote on clauses importance in our society it was true that their to exert that they any particular ability legisla IS 4 would have to a flat or a no was they give yes tive and political power circumscribed by financial considerations Although Gallop did not the idea ofcitizen initiated referenda Nevertheless he added I often wonder whether the ability to impose a tax accept on a later occasion he did concede that often Members as quite can be translates as easily into the power to do it those who lament its loss 15 elected and drift their careers without seemed to implyWhile Gallop was supportive of federalism because it through parliamentary being subject to I Y the kinds ofj accountability tests applied to most in s worktorce promoted governance with checks and balances he also thought it needed today This itself he contended was a source of to in the to be capable ofdevelopment and flexibility ifit is to be productive of the aggravation many 120 YES PREMIER GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION LABOR MAN 121 community when confronted with the powers and privileges associated A modern day Chartist 2o with a Member of ParliamentIn Gallop s view one thing is being A minimum condition of modern democracy in Gallop s view is an elec certain about contemporary and that is the alarming degree to toral that politics system is based on the notion ofone person one vote one value which MPs Members of Parliamentand to a lesser extent our political A commitment to this was confirmed his studies of the British 21 principle by are held in He a new level of system disrepute regarded professionalism radical reform movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries includ 22 and codes of conduct for members as inevitable and believed that in the Chartists ing According to Gallop the force of argument and common order to their standing in the community MPs needed to better which establishes improve sense voting rights for everyone that we are all in the were to understand the of responsibilities they required exercise In most range important sense equal also establishes the right ofall to have one different in a act he said are 27 ways complex juggling they simultaneously vote ofthe same value responsible to their electorate their political party their parliamentary party It does not make sense logically or to establish the their portfolio the parliament and the whole community Interestingly vvith ethically right ofa person to vote and then diminish the value of that vote in rela to the latter Gallop said regard tion to the votes cast by others Indeed in an extreme case this it is now a well established tradition that MPs should and respect would undermine the very basis for community life itselfby creat promote the range ofinterests in our society even if they are not ing socially destructive inequalities in the distribution ofpolitical 2H tlllly in accord with their particular objectives Because the com power That ofcourse is precisely what malapportionment does is the foundation stone ofan active participatory democ munity He has taken every opportunity to communicate this passion for one racy it needs to be those with supported by responsibility23 person one vote one value This has included submissions to constitutional Active citizenship which requires all individuals to have the knowl bodies and parliamentary committees to academic and other publications skills and attitudes that will allow them to in and seminars edge participate effectively many In parliament he regularly argues for the caUSe and is their society is a cause that Gallop has long promoted Aware that opinion invariably dismissive of counter claims for vote weighting such as since have indicated that Australims know little about their rural areas the real wealth ofthe nation should more polls political system produce they have say and that are otten about that has the in they cynical system Gallop espoused government the problems ofcommunication in the sparsely settled areas aim that our young peopl should leave school knowledgeable about and demand smaller enrolment electorates numerical domination by the 24 capable of participating in our democratic system Importantly Gallop metropolis will overwhelm rural interests and therefore representation of of he does not view citizenship narrowly in terms youth and voting say interests rather than people is essential As events have transpired despite the of mechanisms from sees it as being made up ofa wide range participatory claim that one person one vote one value has become a central feature of local and pressure group activity by the professions through to ratepayers electoral systems at both the Commonwealth and state levels even as residents groups as well as voluntary participation in sporting cultural reli premier he has not been able to overcome the resistance in the Legislative of gioli and other similar organisations He has been critical the undue Council it refused to pass the legislation his government proposed Even conventional measures of such reliance placed on progress as Gross Domes more galling for Gallop has been his perception that electoral equality is of and an tic Product GDP which measures the flow goods services in not accepted by the Supreme and High Courts as a fundamental principle 25 29 economy His contention is that the health ofthe community particularly ofrepresentative democracy of the suburbs of Perth is closely linked to participation via a range of In every sense then constitutionalism for Gallop clearly incorporates voh associations in and I Ie that mtary political planning processes argues the notion of equality in a modern representative democracy Against this the social created this is now as a neces capital by participation recognised background and throughout his political career he has been concerned element of an active and this reflects the about the effect of sary progressive democracy our adoption of British constitutional on 26 principles influence of the writings ofUS theorist Robert Putnam In his first political Aboriginal peoples parliamentary speech Gallop cited one of his 122 YES PREMIER GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION LABOR MAN 123

illiterate and in Thomas living England instructing one predecessors Gallop Gallop thing is for certain There is no set formula for determining someone to write back to his sons who had settled in 1829 in the Swan what is the best relationship Indeed ideologies like socialism and capitalism River that with the should be colony problems Aboriginal population which have a ideal view ofthe matter come unstuck 111 rigid type inevitably lelr considered vith the advice recollect you are mtruclers m tI country 35 in the real world ofpolitics and economics Too much time is spent he that to most of the first European settlers Aboriginal Gallop recognised says looking for the best example ofgovernment business co operation on Australians had no claim on the land or title to it through habitation culti one hand there is the Anglo American model in which the emphasis is on vation or Australia was considered terra nullius so most management deregulation privatisation and flexibility of the labour market on the other Australian views of the saw no need to bother about indigenous people there is the continental model where the emphasis is on social inclusion as the themselves had no right to the land landscape Aboriginal peoples co determination and intervention According to the truth is that historian Gallop Later he cited the opinions of those such as professional Henry 36 both models have had their successes and both carry their problems who in his 77ze Law the Land Penguin 1987 Reynolds The Burt Commission on Accountability 1989 and the Commission noted that fiom the 1820s onwards a number of settlers did conclude that on Government COG 1995 both made clear statements on the need for homeland the had a sense of identity with a In Aborigines strong specific transparency and for the incorporation of more checks and balances in an address in 1993 said Gallop respect of the use ofpublic monies Acknowledging that Western Australia be centuries be ore the Tragically though it was to another two was still grappling with the issues ofthe 1980s as outlined in the Report of was a ot the law concept ofa native title to land to become part the Royal Commission into Commercial Activities of Government and the Court of our nation ofthe Mabo decision of High by way Other Matters often labelled the WA Inc Royal Conunission Gallop in 1992 How different our and indeed our landscape history contended that the time when the state should be a banker was over His s of the may have been if the High Court proposed regulation statements succeeded in dissociating his government from the failed rescue intersection between Australia s Aboriginal and European des of Rothwell s Bank and other WA Inc Brian Burke s Labor 11 dealings by tinies had been law in 1788 Government in the 1980s but the state s role as provider if not funder and the of sees the between the European way of infJastructure has remained the Gallop gulf Aboriginal North West Shelf gas project which not much the intellectual the but feels that it reflects so state an seeing landscape does involve support is cited as example ofa viable model Markets of to with the world view that diHiculty coming grips Aboriginal according to Gallop do not easily incorporate longer term requirements or earth water tree human in and time skv spirit complex existing space strategic considerations hence good governments have to adopt this role and of the situa which is the Aboriginal world as the power politics and develop infrastructure plans for the future 37 32 and ti 1 Lmd rights mostly in the form of native title cases ecological and environmental considerations have been important issues since Gallop Election campaigner that the beca me that however had premier By stage Gallop recognised s Gallop first foray into electoral politics was in local government in the ofland and environmental had to be with deiivery rights policies integrated ofFremantle In reminder ofthe electoral City a scene of an earlier gener the economic dictates of his government ation when election by acclamation was common Gallop was elected Another theme that Gallop has constantly revisited is the changing role of unopposed tor a council ward in 1983 and then twice ran unsuccessfully tll state in an increasingly globalised economy Citing Menzies particularly for the safe Labor seat of Cockburn in state However after a t parliament who once said there is a section ofthe community that doesn in one hardly deal he succeeded in the seat ofVictoria Park which borders the next for securing breath protest undying hostility to government interference and pray eastern outskirts of Perth s central business district With votes lost to a it 33 Gallop has made it clear that he recognises that relations between State ALP candidate there was a fall in the tor 34 breakaway significant vote the ALP and business are and to inherently complex contradictory According the on primary count and a swing against the party of 8 9 per cent on a 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attacks a radio debate with Court most commentators agreed that tvvo basis but this Gallop was returned without the during party preferred despite 42 3R the premier had ahead on points In contrast in the televi need for preferences to be distributed emerged only sion debate ofthe was able to some lost Faced with defending what was in danger ofbecoming a marginal seat campaign Gallop regain ground by elevating the government s controversial privatisation program to the fore Gallop quickly went about improving his electoral fortunes He purchased front of the 43 Under the banner the Priorities a campaign Getting a family home in the district practice he advocated for his colleagues Right the leader contended that the coalition s bean counter to state when he became leader and immediately commenced publishing short approach 39 finances was responsible for cuts to essential services histories ofsuburbs in Victoria Park in the community newspaper Friday significant As part of his to shake off the WA Inc past pledged to a non sitting day for the Legislative Assembly became his day for door quest Gallop produce reduce sector net debt knocking and ensuring that local concerns were addressed Over successive budget surpluses every year public cap at or rate state increases in essential government charges below the of inflation elections Gallop has managed to increase his muority after the 2001 and work to restore the state s triple A credit rating Promises which were election when he became premier a two party preferred swing of nearly delivered after actually when he later won government were made to reduce the 14 per cent would be required to unseat him Interestingly becoming size of the Cabinet and to prune the echelons of the service premier he became embroiled in a constituency issue facing angry protests upper public to the cuts to travel s to According Gallop prescription government advertising over his government decision expand the Nyandi family fliendly and consultancies and would substan womens prison in Bentley fiom 49 to 70 beds However as a consequence amalgamating departments produce tial savings without services Another Labor commitment was to of an electoral redistribution in 2003 the prison was then located in the reducing the vast muority of the COG recommendations which the adjoining electorate South Perth which was held by independent liberal implement Court Government had been reluctant to However Phillip Pendal A spokesperson for the Nyandi Action Group claimed that surprisingly support s were exacerbated the tallout fi mll the adverse waste on a Gallop problems by ongoing Gallop who had refilsed to taxpayers money development else of the 1995 Marks Commission which former a ee to tlndings Royal investigated where had been given get out ofjail fi card with Pendalleft argue premier Lawrence s actions and motivations in the of a that a more suitable site was Acacia in Wooroloo the home ofWestern tabling petition 4l1 pertaining to the late Penny Easton and Brian Easton her estranged Australia s only private prison husband in the Council before the 1993 election a Legislative The tlrst muor test for Gallop as campaigner took place when the shortly At the official launch social and on a party promised a economic leadership of the ALP was thrust upon him 8 October 1996 few Gallop contract in education health care and the environment He also months before a state election McGinty Labor leader since Ian Taylor had transport stated that his is founded on fundamental belief the from the in 1994 down because he believed that his politics a in power and resigned post stepped 44 41 to good ofeducation In pursuit ofthis commitments were made deputy had the better leadership credentials The late accession the objective to reduce class and to a s junior primary sizes leadership tor Gallop was obviously a factor in premier provide technology package that included access to one new computer tor ten children Another decision to call a general election on 12 December 1996 he planned to every in the to mend fences with the trade catch Labor in mid stream with insuftlcient time organise itself elections important policy campaign designed union movement was a commitment to the coalition s industrial vvere usually in February or IVlarch In a manner reminiscent of the repeal relations restore the award net and a men legislation commission review Kennett Government s guilty theme during an earlier Victorian elec safety of work hours 45 tion campaign a number of the coalition television and radio advertise a of the era was Against opinion ments linked the new Labor leader with the WA Inc This despite continuing background polls showing oppo sition Labor made a decision to the fact that Gallop although an MP during the Burke and Dowding trailing badly apparatchiks strategic concede defeat three betore the a publicly just governments had not become minister until February 1990 when days poll Presumably they that the s status the vote would limit the Lawrence had become premier Gallop reacted angrily to these personal hoped party underdog plus protest 126 YES PREMIER GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION LABOR MAN 127 scale of the coalition victory It was an move and expected extraordinary Council ofbeing able to fully achieve what it regarded as its mandate drew the wrath of some Labor candidates in seats The final marginal its prospects for electoral reform in the next few years But a closer outcome in 1996 was a status result and relief in Labor circles that quo examination of the 2001 vote even the Legislative Assembly vote it had not suffered a much heavier defeat Even so the party lost 5 seats in revealed that the party had done better in terms of seats than in terms of the it with 19 ofthe 57 seats its lowest Legislative Assembly leaving only votes Labor on had improved its 1996 performance by only 141 per tally in that chamber since the conscription in the 1917 election What split cent its aggregate primary vote of37 23 per cent was only 0 15 per cent remained unclear however was the part the normally optimistic and posi 46 better than in 1993 when Lawrence was swept from office As politi tive Gallop had played in the unusual white campaign strategy highly flag cal scientist Bruce Stone observed Labor s parliamentary majority was a Perhaps it indicated that the including its leadership had lacked only party windfall delivered by the poor performance of its principal opponent the time to plan a co ordinated campaign 47 and the flow ofpreferences under the alternative vote electoral system s acid test as a campaigner and also as a leader was to Gallop perhaps and it was achieved in an election when the performance ofOne Nation come with the election of 10 2001 One interpretation of the February significantly eroded the coalition s primary vote In Stone s vievv the result was that it was a success for Labor more stunning Gallop gained Court Government had made a sustained contribution to its own seats to win 14 than other in WA 48 government any party history demise In the final week of the campaign for example the Court this was recorded fiom a low base lost only 1 seat in though relatively Govermnent s qualms over the new accountabilities recommended by its traditional of and with a comfortable stronghold Kalgoorlie emerged the COG were tested when it was revealed that a Liberal backbencher 7 seat in the In the Council a majority Legislative Assembly Legislative Bob Bloffwitch had not publicly revealed his share portfolio despite traditional Labor the ALP vote combined with the 5 Greens stronghold being chair of a parliamentary committee that considered MPs financial could a even if Labor took the of 49 yield legislative majority presidency interests Moreover the same MP had not revealed his financial inter the chamber the to some contentious social giving scope pass poli ests party when development alternatives were being considered in his elec cies such as decriminalisation of cannabis use prostitution registration torate of Geraldton and lesbian and gay law reform However if Labor or the Greens only In Albany the incumbent Police Minister Kevin Prince was facing did not the ent would be able to secure a constitu about his of a financial supply presid Gallop allegations handing matter This did not appear to tional majority of 18 of the 34 Council votes and thus Legislative be serious but Prince still lost his seat Even more damaging was the a chieve his cherished constitutional reform the abolition of particularly to Finance Brokers Scandal which resulted in heavy losses many elderly vote As it Labor s Cowdell weighting transpired John previously deputy investors including those in the Alfled Cove district held by Fair Trading p esident was elected the first ALP Legislative Council president and Minister Doug Shave The latter s handling of the issue proved electorally the government had therefore to attempt to achieve its electoral law disastrous for the Court Government with Shave losing his seat to Dr Janet chai1ges on the basis of a m ority This based simple legislative approach Woollard the Liberals tor Forests candidate and leaving a legacy of ill will Ol a creative interpretation of the state s Electoral Act foundered when towards both himself and his supporters in the Liberal Party As well a saw the declared invalid both the state legal challenge legislation by Western Australia was the first cab ofT the rank in the aftermath of the Court in 2003 and the Court in 2004 This Supreme High judicial tax controversial goods and services GST and the petrol pricing contro Qlitcome occurred because constitutional amendments in Western versies ofthe federal government however opinion polls had still predicted Australia the redistribution of electoral boundaries require an including a narrow coalition victory Paradoxically the possibility and then reality absolute majority of the full of both the Assem membership Legislative of a significant One Nation vote caused much confusion mainly because bly and Legislative Council the direction of their preferences could not be predicted accurately So Labor under Gallop had fallen 1 seat short in the Legislative Certainly the anatomy ofLabor s victory raises questions about what share 128 YES PREMIER GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION LABOR MAN 129

Once the included of the credit Gallop should take for Labor s leap to governmentWas it in again campaign a single televised debate betvveen Stone s words more a case ofprotracted suicide committed by the Court the leaders scheduled for 31 January 2001 after the Liberal Party policy 50 but before Labor official Government after eight years in oHice speech s campaign launch which Gallop delayed Under Gallop though Labors policy mix has been carefully crafted This until the last week of the campaign Opinions varied as to whether or not was the first state election when the policy packages of the parties were a clear winner emerged from the debate but most agreed that Gallop was widely 1Vailable to the public and frequently visited via the internet The able to convey a premier like presence perhaps winning more of the campaign featuring Gallop as the key Labor salesman began to turn Labor s substantial undecided vote The last poll released by N ewspoll on election that way when the Hlest Australian carried the headline Hospitals full in mid day suggested Gallop had drawn level with Court as preferred January Ongoing industrial action by nurses also kept health problems to the premierY During the debate Court had done poorly with penetrating 51 fore By the eve ofthe election Gallop had succeeded in making health the questions about whether he was in deficit denial but Gallop too had made mistakes he had been drawn top talkback issue A great deal ofemphasis was also placed on the alleged fail unwisely into a promise that under his 53 a Labor Government ings of the education system but perhaps the most telling promise of all leadership would not raise taxes Equally trouble for during the campaign was Gallop s commitment to stop logging in old some Gallop subsequently was the impression that Labor would fix the health growth forests immediately this was the move that swung the allocation of system preferences from the Greens and from the emerging Liberals tor Forests to Good news Labor Gallop s better reading of the electorate came alongside strong Geoff decision and opposition from union leaders maker policy broker representing potential displaced As premier Gallop 1ced the major challenge of being the states key deci to a workers who were receive sion maker and policy brokerAmong the government s first decisions were compensation package Gallop was the establishment ofan expenditure review committee out ofCabinet and the need to the decision also sensitive to main to delay bringing down the state Budget fiom May until tain the perception that his govern August or September Treasury advice was that the budgetary situation was ment was strong on law and order tight This had been signalled in oblique terms before the election but the issues and therefore the realisation that Western Australia status supported s triple A was under threat gave the contentious policy of mandatory government little scope to address some of the major expenditure areas sentencing One component ofthe such as health and education A machinery of government task torce campaign which apparently back chaired by experienced public servant Stuart Hicks was also established its brief fired for the coalition was its was to recommend structural changes to the states public sector to remind electors Indeed in the first J 00 attempt days some 40 reviews encompassing virtually every through the media and billboard portfolio were established In June a Royal Commission headed by Ian advertising of Labor s past prob Temby QC was announced to inquire into the Finance Brokers Scandal and summit scheduled lems and union links by featuring a drug was for August this paved the way f r photographs of former premier decriminalisation of cannabis use legislation New opposition leader Colin Burke and prominent union ofIi Barnett disputed Labor s claims about the budgetary situation and also claimed that the for Geoff Gallop photo courtesy of Office of the cial Kevin Reynolds who was government was opting the establishment of review Premier Western Australia known ironically as a critic of panels as a substitute tor effective decision making When the government Gallop surprised everyone with an announcement that the Legislative Assembly GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION MAN 130 YES PREMIER LABOR 131

media Being articulate neatly attired and described as a would one of its scheduled sitting weeks Barnett said s regularly having forego Gallop 63 Clark Kent appearance government had not got its act together The government retorted that it certainly helps Command of across all the is another attrib needed to negotiate with the new configuration of parties in the Legisla policy portfolios Gallop ute leader Barnett has that does tive Council 54 Opposition argued Gallop not carry of the ministerial load because he broke with WA tradition and With ministers now reduced in number frOlTl 17 to 14 as an economy enough did not combine the role of with the task of Trea measure coming to grips with their new responsibilities the review phase premier exacting being surer Instead s additional were federal affairs could be regarded as sound administration It thwarted the possibility ofany Gallop portfolios public sector management and multicultural atTairs and science A crash through reputation for the new premier but it may also have denied citizenship more substantial criticism is with the label news Geoff his government the honeymoon phase which seems almost a political fact implied good Thus the lead to the of the state in of life in Australian jurisdictions during up period delivery Budget May 2003 the made series of never premier a capital works announcements Though it can be argued that Labor had a popular mandate projects his Treasurer Eric to make announcements near leaving Ripper the about subsequent polls suggested that Labor s vote remained its election day taxation increases in the official Much of the vote with a peak in mid August 2001 of some 43 per cent according to unpopular Budget speech criticism of the and it was a characterised excellent to Budget Budget Westpo1l55 then a drop towards the end of the year according by and was levelled at a 15 to growth good employment figlires cent Newspoll 35 per cent56 This remained the pattern for the government per increase in stamp duty and was reminders of s over the next two years In October 2003 the Westpoll reading was down accompanied by Gallop pre 57 election promise of no taxation increases Nevertheless the increase to 36 per cent but it rose again in February 2004 to an unexpectedly high survived unlike an earlier tax on to premium all residential with 47 per cent58 Once again though a Newspoll covering the January properties 59 an improved land value of 1 million a similar tax had been March months of2004 returned the Labor vote to 37 per cent Although Although introduced five earlier in New South Wales the Government the Gallop Government had by then faced a round of industrial disputes years Gallop was forced first to and then to the tax as it threat vvith police teachers and public servants the electoral impact of this had modify scrap completely ened to jeopardise the for Labor candidates in the been cushioned by leadership and preselection difilculties in the Liberal prospects forthcoming 60 federal election Party However the Labor vote was lower in rural areas and not holding When the for the Government took a in the second in the Kimberley and Pilbara In December 2003 Gallop critic Larry polls Gallop dip half of2003 the reshutTIed his relations staff with Graham a Labor MP until the 2001 election when he ran and won Pilbara premier public key figure Kieran moved and the more as an independent after losing preselection said the ALP was so paranoid Murphy being sideways being replaced by Houston It was that some Labor MPs had about repeating the mistakes ofWA Inc that the state had become paral genial Guy reported grudgingly referred to as the 15th member of Cabinet in the of ysed The Gallop Government said Graham had betrayed people living in Murphy style Tony 6 Blair s pressman Alistair and as a influence in the country Gallop however continued to defend the performance ofhis Campbell having powerful government and a head to with the media 64 government in the north ofthe state butting approach dealing Steve Pennells a columnist Significantly Gallop s own ratings as premier have remained high leading political argued 62 to in during most of his premiership This requires some explanation Since coming power 2001 the Gallop government s media has been on although it has to be conceded that most ofthe present day premiers have strategy increasingly modelled the man Dr Gallop calls my mate a reference to Britain s Prime Minister high ratings and profiles particularly when compared with their opposi Tony Tony Blair He has been shielded from the bad news and wheeled out tion counterparts Most ofwhat the Labor Government does in Western at every positive media opportunity no matter which Minister s Australia is done in the name ofthe premier Key announcements in each portfolio it falls underThere are remarkable parallels between the portfolio are invariably presented to the public via Gallop addressing the NEW LABOR MAN 133 132 YES PREMIER GEOFF GALLOP A GENERATION

Mr Dr moulded their in fact s 1000 address had been a of way Blair and Gallop have public profiles Gallop day interrupted by delegation the right down to the operating styles oftheir media svengalis In a residents from the wheatbelt town of Nloora protesting government s bid to remain popular the pair have been populist But the tactic decision not to honour a commitment to rebuild the dilapidated Moora 72 has turned them into the proverbial leaders without a cause and Hospital both are finding public trust waning as a result65 With the next election looming on 26 February 2005 decisions had be made in the health even of the difficulties Ironically these observations were made after Gallop and his Cabinet had to portfolio though many stem from federal or the lack of between made two major decisions In June 2003 Gallop made a special flight to there policies synchronisation the two levels of In 2003 had made a bold Ningaloo in the state s northwest the site ofa long proposed resort devel government June Gallop General a line the sand and move his highly effective and Attorney opment to announce that his government had drawn in persuading powerful to switch to the health the move was widely declared that we will not accept developments that threaten the precious Jim NlcGinty ministry 66 leader same announced that a welcomed the medical Opposition Barnett fragile coast In September of the year Gallop by profession the at Island had received conceded that McGinty who had been in effect restructuring m or Chevron Texaco Gorgon gas project Barrow judi of the state was the most of health om with State Minister Clive cial person capable handling the green light f1 Cabinet Development system but the was at least six months too late McGinty Brown nodding in sync The Ningaloo decision meant Gallop was depicted thought appointment a 67 soon made some decisions number of as the environmentalists best mate but Gorgon saw him described as unpopular including cutting 6R small some of which had to be reinstated However the big seducing big business Aiming for balance the premier released Hope for programs was s focus and he worked with Professor the Future the Western Australian State Sustainability Strategy with an picture McGinty closely Michael Reid a former NSW health director who had earlier been announcement that his government was drafting a Sustainability Bill Mean fix the state s health The recon Kobelke was commissioned to ailing system planned while across town Consumer and Employment Minister John which was announced in March 2004 and which was to take left to defend the Gallop Government about a series of industrial disputes figuration 15 would mean a host of closures and hospitals being with police teachers and public sector workers all ofwhich were contribut years altogether to in certain areas of medicine It would also mean to the bad news while specialise ing to the poor poll ratings Ministers seemed deliver designated 69 streamlining and rationalising the teaching hospitals specialty services the good news was invariably delivered by Gallop Whether or not the consensus could be achieved remained a The JVest Australian is the state s only daily newspaper which makes all necessary formidable for the Countless previous reviews have premiers and their respective governments particularly vulnerable to the challenge premier little but on this occasion selected the who is available to the achieved Gallop appropriate paper s editorial judgemcnt Gallop generally widely reviewer and the minister to follow through Nevertheless as the media has conceded that the front page of the Blest Australian is important right there were fevv of 71 36th Parliament came to a close in 2004 very signs a in setting his political agenda There is little doubt that Gallop s govern major overhaul of the health system ment has generally been subject to a very critical press in Western Australia on both the big and the not so big decisions When Gallop chose to list his crisis manager government s achievements in its first 1000 days for example the liVest Unflappable in unusual circumstances Even Australian immediately responded with a somewhat arbitrarily prepared Gallop s first headache as premier came social reform and before he tabled ministerial code of conduct he was embar l eport card it gave good ratings for education a promised for when his Minister Allannah NlacTier eonomics fair for law and order health and environment and poor rassed newly appointed Transport industrial relations and accountability71 The tone ofthe report was surpris nan lost her driver s licence she had had a number of breaches including ingly good considering the constant stream ofcritical editorials but it did two drink driving ot1ences The premier resisted calls for the dismissal of matters to predict that health was an area likely to dog the government in all polls And MacTiernan but he did move the responsibility for road safety 134 YES PREMIER 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Michelle Roberts the Police Minister the wider Fortunately mll11stry rights without diminishing the protection parliamentarians have under remained scandal fi calls for relatively ee despite to d 77 opposition parIlamentary proce ure stand down over sensational revelations that had concocted evidence police As premier Gallop witnessed the opening of parliament in May 2001 the brothers in the Mint Swindle At that time Kucera against Mickelberg with Governor Lieutenant General Sanderson acknowledging the tradi was the officer in at the Belmont station where one of the charge police tional custodians ofthe land Parliament House is built on For the first time had taken Kucera and interrogations place Gallop steadfastly supported s ont ever an indigenous people ceremony took place on the fi steps of refused to indicate to the whether or not his minister had been parliament Parliament House and inside Carol Martin a new Labor member and the named in the Police Commission which included the ongoing Royal first Aboriginal woman elected to an Australian parliament was given the within its terms ofreference also refused to Mickelberg controversy Gallop symbolic honour of moving the address in reply speech in the Legislative rebuke General over criticism that he had breached the Attorney McGinty This a deal of satisfaction as when he had been 73 AssemHy gave Gallop law by showing a of an affidavit to Kucera copy leader of the opposition he had presented a motion supported by then On another occasion a motion ofno confidence in the Gallop rejected a to premier Court to offer public apology indigenous peoples for past Minister for the Environment Edwards over the ofher Judy handling port policies under which Aboriginal children were removed from their fami folio Indeed when he unveiled a Cabinet in June 2003 to 78 reshaped lies Indeed Gallop s empathy for the Aboriginal perspective may have strearnline the s focus in core areas he retained Edwards government avoided more crises in this portfolio area after from some environmental supposedly strong representation groups His has been proactive in relation to the vexed 74 government generally who her credentials for the post And when Tom Stephens as to respected question ofnative title and has been prepared pursue negotiated settle Housing and Works Minister introduced a controversial policy that ments rather than face the increasingly higher levels of proof of continu to contracts restricted construction companies four government worth over courts described ous ownership required by the In August 2002 Gallop 1S million each at one time s was to transfer the Gallop approach gently the epidemic offamily violence and child abuse in Aboriginal communi to another minister Nick Griffiths 79 portfolio ties as a national disaster Earlier in November 2001 he commissioned

As mentioned earlier G did reshuffle his ministry without to llop children s court magistrate examine how governments bllt was of his team In changing personnel publicly very supportive July dealt with complaints of family violence and child abuse in Aboriginal 2003 he again rejected Barnett s call for the dismissal of Kucera this time communities following the inquest into the death of IS year old Susan on account ofAboriginal health funding matters although he did concede Gordon Taylor at the Swan Valley Nyungah community The Report that his minister could have acted more over monies Later quickly missing contained 197 findings and recommendations and the Gallop Govern in the same year he was stoutly supportive of Minister MacTier Planning ment responded in December 2002 with a range of initiatives including nan s to for after her ability budget major projects department presided more child staiT and more remote stations one of 75 protection police Only over cost blowouts on the southwest rail line to Mandurah In some the recommendations was finally rejected outright with the government circles it has been that both s defence of his suggested Gallop government a memorandum of preferring new lease arrangements over drawing up and the of ofits colourfulmembers such style some more as MacTiernan for the of the A leader of the 76 understanding management community can be over the Others that this is of what top suggest part happens to Nyungah community Robert Bropho had attempted stop police and nnder the Westminster system and that sees as a debat Gallop parliament welfare workers from visiting the camp in late 2002 More than six ing chamber with room for theatre This is an interesting view because months later Bropho conducted a hunger strike on the steps of the when he was leader of the in 1997 the intro 80 opposition Gallop supported s parliament but the government approach won strong editorial support duction of a citizens of he believed the would right reply procedure in the liVest Australian 81 enhance and openness in and citizens extra accountability parliament give Another controversial stance which also received strong editorial and 136 YES PREMIER GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION LABOR MAN 137

82 opinion poll support was Gallop s decision in June 2003 to impose a for Gallop The disaggregation ofWestern Power together with associated curfew youth on the streets of Northbridge Uust north of Perth Gallop reforms was a muor platform of the Gallop Government comforted by defended the as policy necessary to protect children and the rights of support from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chamber people going about their business Some critics suggested that the curfew of Minerals and Energy However reluctance by the Greens and former had racist overtones because the area was primarily an indigenous energy minister and now opposition leader Barnett to back the measures community and others questioned the legality of the police surveillance in the Legislative Council meant that the Gallop Government had to that went with along the curfew And when a state based human rights temporarily abandon its plan for restructuring Western Power Then a Human WA Inc in March 2004 on the a group Rights reported work of series of muor power failures during heatwave in February 2004 led to government and other community groups in relation to identified United calls for the dismissal of Energy Minister and Treasurer Ripper GalJop Nations scolded the rights it Gallop Government for the Northbridge refused to remove Ripper from his post instead supporting the minister in curfew the on grounds that it brought many young people into conflict sacking yet another chief executive officer of the instrumentality vho with the police and justice system who would otherwise be unlikely to shouldered much of the blame for the crisis The theory articulated was have contact with either any systemBS Although the group thought the that statutory authorities such as Western Power have a large amount of overall record of the government was reasonable it also criticised the autonomy today and that this means the minister has no direct responsi 87 continuation of the three strikes mandatory sentencing legislation for bility for events surrounding them Indeed the Gallop Government in and the so called anti bike laws because of the absence of due juveniles its first two years was attacked for golden gag practices whereby some 60 On the other process provisions hand the Gallop Government was cred senior public servants resigned or were made redundant all of them ited with well 88 doing on gay rights laws Aboriginal domestic violence and signing agreements preventing them from criticising the government child sexual abuse problemsB4 A future report will presumably evaluate the The likely electoral fallout of another controversial issue tor the outcomes ofthe royal commission into the police force headed by retired Gallop Government namely public funding fix elections was lessened by Supreme Court judge Geoftiey Kennedy Even before the delayed final McGinty the Electoral AfE1irs Minister who withdrew the legislation tabled repOrt was in March 2004 the Gallop Government had acted on after Liberal Party leader Barnett reversed an earlier indication that his an from interim report Kennedy with legislation to revamp the Anti party would back the proposal Although similar public funding legisla Crime Commission with a strengthened Crime Corruption Commission tion has been the law for two decades at the Commonwealth level and to the of an subject oversight independent parliamentary inspector in most other states the Hlest Australian newspaper vehemently attacked Other muor problem areas tor the Gallop Government are energy and the behind the scenes poll tax bipartisan deal with snouts in the trough water resources In the latter 89 sphere made critical by a succession of dry banner headlines Its campaign resulted in a flood of letters from angry winters and low dam levels the government again used the approach of readers and a poll finding that four out of five voters opposed public with stakeholders this working key time in a water symposium held in funding for state electionsOpposition leader Barnett was subjected to October 2002 This followed was by the publication of a state water strat a scathing public attack by a Liberal backbencher over his handling of the and egy a Waterwise rebate program It is difficult to gauge the degree of issue coupled with a party room decision not to support the legislation success achieved the water by program except by looking at the govern this allowed the Gallop Government to temporarily move on from the ment s to avoid the level of water restrictions For the ability increasing matter and pursue other reforms ofthe electoral law such as a fixed term 85 salinity crisis covering the wheatbelt and beyond a task force was for the Legislative Assembly established but quickly finding long term solutions has been difficult Crises such as terrorism and natural disasters have invariably been sensi because of the scale of the and the need for problem considerable federal tively handled by Gallop as premier In the aftermath ofthe October 2002 financial assistanceH6 of Energy posed more an immediate electoral threat Bali bombing in which some 15 West Australians lost their lives plans for GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION LABOR MAN 139 138 YES PREMIER

has as a social scientist and has been a keen advo an were Gallop qualifications appropriate memorial drawn up As with otherprojects the Gallop cate of science with the latter as one of his One columnist was to seek submissions rather than with his portfolios approach community proceed 96 has that lacks the of common man s gab in proposals The premier with his interest in the state s history has also been though suggested Gallop gift his radio and television The same observer has indi continually supportive ofm or state celebrations such as the 2004 series of regular appearances cated that he thinks events to mark the 175th of year European settlement and the 100th year Dr is a victim ofhis own standards I don t know if it s of the WA parliamentary building One item on the agenda was a joint Gallop high the academic in him but he wants and feels he must answer every sitting of the parliament when consideration was given to Gallop s keenly question with technical detail He treats talkback callers like polit sought constitutional reforms For the 175th year celebrations the premier ical when all re for is a little a to opponents they looking empathyY7 launched competition identifY the state s icons leading with his own has to articulate vision but has to deal with more suggestion the Swan River His published New Year resolution was to Gallop attempted a constraints than Forrest who commanded the for foster debate about the past present and future ofWestern Australia in its parliament many years before the introduction of formal structures and with a 175th year Yl party usually compliant Legislative Council And there are other significant differences In the lead up to the 2005 state election on 26 February the Labor Party a benchmark Sir Forrest Setting John has been stricken with preselection squabbles in critical seats and Gallop Historian GeonJ ey Bolton once suggested to Gallop that Forrest is the has been accused of leadership failure for not initially taking decisive 92 98 benchmark upon which you should judge your performanceGallop too action in Forrest s pre party patronage era over 30 per cent ofseats were 99 has cited the eminent Martyn Webb s observation that while people think of filled by acclamation Modern accountability measures and institutions Forrest as a political figure he was fundamentally a scientist As a geographer including the media are a constant check on a contemporary premier On has a of advisers a of he used his powers ofobservation as a foundation on which to build ideas the other hand today s premier coterie DepartlTlent 93 and to think holistically about Western AustraliaAnother prominent Premier and Cabinet and a team of public relations staff Moreover it is the volatile historian Frank Crowley observed that Forrest had a strong sense ofpurpose extremely unlikely given more contemporary voting public that Labor will be able to emulate and a clear vision ofthe colony s future He thought government should be Gallop as a new generation man 94 either at the helm of his state for than decade bold but cautious always remembering that it was atrustee for the future Forrest in being more a or a mark s ultimate record will be enhanced ifthe Gallop has long admired the expansive view that Forrest took of politics leaving comparable Gallop including his creation offormidable infrastructure schemes and the role he Mandurah railway is completed without burdensome debt if the restruc of the health is viable and if the state s future water needs believed Western Australia could play in an Australian nation Following turing system with containment are for from this view several ofthe parliamentary recesses during Gallop s terms as coupled salinity provided sustainably Gallop himself would the state s A investment status and both opposition le der and premier have seen him take short trips all over regard maintaining triple the creation of to maintain the world to China Japan the United States and Mexico promoting major development projects help satisfactory 95 and as vital Advances in education investment in the state s m or development projects Forrest as the first growth employment figures particularly in science would be another thing Gallop would regard as important premier ofWestern Australia and a founding Federation father is a model Constitutional reform and for increased of citizens in Gallop can revere without political cost Sir Charles Court also had broad plans engagement their communities are run he holds dear visions and many infrastructure projects but mention ofRichard Court and long objectives If Gallop were to win a second four year term Bolton s suggested the Court dynasty does not appeal to Labor Reference to Forrest further with Forrest the ditlerent would be distances Gallop Labor hom Burke Labor which is both ideologically comparison despite political settings an exercise that could be undertaken convenient and electorally advantageous meaningfully 140 YES 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POSTSCRIPT Dr Geoff was returned for a second term at the Gallop 25 A State n 99 Gallop or RdiJJp State election held on 26 2005 with an increased of at February majority 26 Gallop A State or Rdilfm p 109 least seven seats in election result seemed to on the parliament The hinge 27 Gallop A State ofRcorm pp 4 5 blunders much the A State R lI 4 5 Opposition s campaign as as on government s record 28 Gallop 4 fiJJ pp 29 Gallop A State or R fJrn p 67 Notes 30 WAPD 18 June 1986 p 438 31 A State R 38 1 The Sunday Times 8 June 1986 p 18 Gallop of rorm p 32 in A State 37 2 One ofGeoff Gallop s relations George James Gallop Warden Miles was a Cited Gallop 4 Refimll p 120 North Province member of the Legislative Council from 1916 to 1950 33 Gallop A State or Rerorln p 34 A State u 120 Conservative in outlook Miles started as an independent but became a Gallop or RejiJJp 35 A State n 120 Liberal towards the end ofhis long parliamentary career Gallop 4 RiftJJp 121 3 Interview with Geoff Gallop Parliarnent House Western Australia 16 36 Gallop A State or R filfm p December 2003 37 Gallop A State orR fmn pp 122 23 38 D Black Political chronicle Western Australia Australian Politics 4 N Aisbett Dr Who kVest Australian The Big Weekend 13 January 2001 p 4 journal or no 3 489 90 5 Aisbett Dr Who p 3 aud History vol 32 1986 pp 6 Aisbett Dr Who 39 See G Gallop From the Swan to the Cannin Historical Notes on Victoria Park Districts G Victoria Park 1989 7 Gallop s early writings included a chapter on Western Australia in Brian and Surrounding Gallop West Australian 6 2003 12 Galligans edited work Australian State Politics Longman Cheshire 40 August p DrWho 3 Melbourne 1986 and a tract called P s Meat The Selected Writings of 41 Aisbett p 42 D Black H Western Australian election 1996 a new era dawns Thomas Spence Spokesman Nottingham 1982 Phillips Currcnt Bulletin vol 73 no 1 1997 14 8 Aisbett Dr Who p 3 AlTairs p Black Western Australian election 1996 14 9 Cited in G Gallop A State of Refimn Essaysfi1r a Better Future HelmWood 43 Phillips p 44 Black Western Australian election 1996 15 Publishers Wembley 1998 p v Phillips p 45 Black Western Australian election 1996 15 10 Institute ofPublic Administration IPAA News April 2004 p 2 Phillips p 46 D Black H the Western Australian election of 10 II Western Australian Parliamentary Debates WAPD 18 June 1986 p 439 Phillips Commentary 2001 coalition demolition Australian Political Science 12 WAPD 18 June 1986 p 438 February journal 4 vol no 2 2001 361 13 WAPD 18JuneI986 p 438 36 p 47 B Stone election of10 200 1 more a case of 14 WAPD 18 June 1986 p 439 February suicide than of assassination Australasian RelJiew 15 WAPD 18 June 1986 p 439 protracted Parliamcntary vol 16 no 1 2001 31 16 WAPD 18June 1986 p 439 p 48 Stone The West Australian election of 10 2001 27 17 WAPD 15 October 2003 p 15 Given the big agenda for Western February p 49 Stone The West Australian election of10 2001 29 Australia Gallop later ruled out ever seeking a federal seat See kVest February p 50 Stone The Vest Australian election of 10 r 2OCll 27 Australian 2 April 2004 p 6 ebruary p West Australian 15 2001 1 18 WAPD 13 September 1988 pp 2682 83 51 January p 52 The Australiau 10 2001 2 19 Gallop A State rRefiJrm p 104 February p 20 A State u 104 53 Black Phillips the Western Australian election of 10 Gallop orR fiJJ p Commentary 2001 357 21 Gallop A State orRerorm p 104 February p 54 D Black H Political chronicle Western Australia to 22 Gallop A State orRefiJr n p 107 Phillips January 2001 Australian Politics and vol 47 no 4 2001 23 Gallop A State or RefiJJn p 107 June journal r History pp 560 67 24 Gallop A State iR fimll pp 51 53 GEOFF GALLOP A NEW GENERATION LABOR MAN 143 142 YES PREMIER

2002 287 55 Hlest AIstralian 16 August 2001 p 80 Black Political chronicle Western Australia to December 56 The AIstralian 26 December 2003 Phillips July 2002 284 85 57 vIlest AIstralian 18 October 2003 pp 81 Illlest AIstralian 5 December 2002 58 West AIstralian 13 March 2003 82 West AIstralian 9 July 2003 59 The AIstralian 1 April 2004 83 Human WA Inc HI man R hts in IVestern AIstralia A on 60 vVest AIstralian 13 March 2004 Rights r Report I WA Inc 2004 61 DelJelopments in 2003 Human ights Inglewood G Armstrong IfGallop had gift ofcommon man s grab SInday Tinles 14 84 B Hickman Scolding for Gallop on rights The AIstralian 17 March 2004 March 2004 p 54 p 6 62 Newspoll The AIstralian 1 April 2004 p 6 85 See Q Beresford H Bekle H Phillips J Mulcock The Salinity Crisis 63 Aisbett Dr p 1 and S Pennells Moves and makeovers set for polit lities ofWestern Australia Press VhovVest AI Landscapes Connml and Politics University Icalldolatry strallan 26 December 2003 p 21 Crawley 2004 pp 271 81 64 S Pennells Gallop media tough spun out in reshuffle vVest AIstralian 12 B M D A New Balance nle 2003 86 F Frost Hamilton Lloyd Panell Salinity December p 17 the 7hsk orce Established to Rel iew in 65 S Have Report f Salinity Salinity Manaxenlent Pennellsthe wheels fallen off Labor West AIstraliml 13 Septem vVestern AIstralia Perth 2001 See also GOlJernments Re jwnse to the Salinity ber 2003 p 9 Thsl ce Report Salinity A Nel Balance Government ofWestern Australia 66 D Black H Phillips Political chronicle Western Australia to lJ January Perth 2002 2003 AIstralian rnal 49 June jOl of Politics and History vol no 4 2003 p 87 R Martin Power was avoidable The A I straliall 1 2 2004 7 596 chaos May p 88 Black Political chronicle Western Australia to 67 Pennells Have the Phillips January June wheels fallen offLabor p 9 2003 p 591 68 Pennells Have the wheels f1llen offLabor p 9 89 West Anstralian 31 October 2003 69 Pennells Have the wheels fallen offLabor p 9 90 Hist AIstralian 3 November 2003 70 Phillips Interview with Dr Geoff Gallop 91 llllest AIstralian 1 January 2004 p 10 71 liVest AIstralian 8 November 2003 p 9 92 G Gallop Inaugural Lecture Australasian Association of 72 Upon an announcement ofa further 231 million in Grants C0I11ITlission Constitutional Law State Conference The Western Australian Constitu funding Gallop announced in March 2004 that his would government 2003 1 tional Centre 22 March p build a 6 3 million hospital at Moora See M Videnieks Gallop reverses 93 Cited in Gallop Inaugural John Forrest Lecture p 2 Moora hospital reverse after grant windfall IVestAustralian 29 March 2004 94 F B rjohn Forrest 1847 1918 A Fonndin r Father 0 the ComnlOn p 37 Crowley lJe lIth ofAlIStralia University ofWestern Australia Press Nedlands 2000 p 73 D Black H Phillips Political chronicle Western Australia July to 151 AI December 2002 stralianjOlrnal ofPolitics and History vol 49 no 2 2003 95 D Black H Political chronicle Western Australia July to p 286 Phillips December 1998 Anstralianjournal or Politics and History vol 45 no 2 1999 74 Black Phillips Political chronicle Western Australia January to June 277 and S Pennells on gas l ht AIStralian Weekend Extra 3 2003 p 591 p Running 2003 75 D minister January pp 3 4 King Premier backs The AIstralian 30 December 2003 p 4 96 If had of common man s p 54 76 Aisbett DrWho p 4 Armstrong Gallop gift grab 97 If Gallop had gift of common man s grab p 54 77 D Black H Phillips Political chronicle Western Australia July to Armstrong Faction AI 98 R Taylor M Videnieks fighters point to Gallop leadership December 1997 stralianjOlrnal of Politics and History vol 44 no 2 1998 failure Hicst AIstralian I 2004 14 15 p 277 May pp 78 WAPD 27 1997 99 H A Citizen GIide to the Hlestern Anstralian Parliament State Law May pp 3232 43 Phillips Publisher Perth 2004 101 102 79 Black Phillips Political chronicle Western Australia July to December pp