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Roger Hugh Cook (born 20 August 1965) is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current premier of Western Australia since 2023. He has been the leader of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2023 and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Kwinana since 2008.
The Cook Ministry is the 38th ministry of the Government of Western Australia. Led by the Premier Roger Cook and Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti , it succeeded the Second McGowan Ministry and was sworn in on 8 June 2023.
Roger A. Cook (1954 – August 21, 2024) was an American garden and landscape contractor, widely known as the resident landscaping expert on the PBS home renovation program This Old House (1988-2022 ) — as well as Ask This Old House and Inside This Old House. In 2022, Cook and his colleagues received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy. [1]
Roger Cook (journalist) (born 1943), New Zealand investigative journalist, best known in the UK; Roger Cook (landscaper) (1954–2024), American landscaper and television personality; Roger Cook (politician) (born 1965), politician from Western Australia; Roger Cook (songwriter) (born 1940), English singer, songwriter and record producer
In 2019, previous Health Minister Roger Cook announced that the dilapidated King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women would be closed and a new maternity hospital would open at Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre (QEII), 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of the Perth central business district (CBD). Construction was due to begin in 2021.
The two other ministers viewed as possible candidates, Roger Cook and Rita Saffioti, had existing important roles that McGowan wanted them to continue with. Cook was health minister and thus had an important role in the state's COVID-19 response, and Saffioti was transport and planning minister, overseeing the government's Metronet project.
Roger Cook (born 6 April 1943) is a New Zealand-born British investigative journalist and television broadcaster. In 1997, he won a British Academy of Film & Television Arts special award "for 25 years of outstanding quality investigative reporting", for his show The Cook Report .
Bob Hawke – Australian Prime Minister, son of a Congregationalist minister; Lee Hays – American folk-singer and songwriter, with The Weavers. Son of William Hays, a Methodist minister, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in society. Anne Heche – American actress. Father was a Baptist minister and church ...