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List of Australian heads of government by time in office; List of premiers of New South Wales by time in office; List of premiers of Queensland by time in office; List of premiers of Tasmania by time in office; List of premiers of South Australia by time in office; List of premiers of Victoria by time in office; List of chief ministers of the ...
The premier leads the executive branch of the Government of Western Australia and is accountable to the Parliament of Western Australia. The premier is appointed by the governor of Western Australia. By convention, the governor appoints as premier whoever has the support of the majority of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, the lower ...
The premier leads the executive branch of the Government of Western Australia and is accountable to the Parliament of Western Australia. The premier is appointed by the governor of Western Australia. By convention, the governor appoints as premier whoever has the support of the majority of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.
Pages in category "Premiers of Western Australia" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
List of premiers of Western Australia by time in office This page was last edited on 6 October 2012, at 17:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
(Premiers may also resign for other reasons, such as losing the confidence of their own party). The Australian states were founded as British colonies, and executive power was held by a governor (or sometimes a lieutenant-governor) appointed by the British government (see Governors of the Australian states). From the 1820s the power of the ...
John Forrest was the first Premier of Western Australia. In 1887, a new constitution was drafted, providing for the right of self-governance of European Australians, and in 1890, the act granting self-government to the colony was passed by the British Parliament. John Forrest became the first Premier of Western Australia.
The second feature is malapportionment, which until 2008 was a significant feature of the Western Australian political landscape. Seats in metropolitan and rural areas did not contain the same number of electors—as at 30 September 2007, a Member of the Legislative Assembly represented either 28,519 metropolitan voters within the Metropolitan ...