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The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia. [3] The role of premier at a state level is similar to the role of the prime minister of Australia at a federal level. The premier leads the executive branch of the Government of Western Australia and is accountable to the Parliament of Western Australia.
Premier of Western Australia; List of prime ministers of Australia by time in office; 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
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 Legislative Assembly sits for fixed four-year terms. The leader of the party with a majority in the Legislative Assembly (or with the confidence of the Assembly) is appointed by the Governor as the premier of Western Australia. The Western Australian Legislative Council (upper house) has 36 members (or MLCs), representing six electoral regions.
Victorian Premier James Munro, for example, fled the colony to escape his creditors in 1890, and Queensland Premier Sir Thomas McIlwraith was notoriously corrupt. The rise of Labor forced the colonies to move towards a two-party system of Labor versus non-Labor, although state politics remained more personalised and less ideological than ...
Governor of South Australia: Frances Adamson (7 October 2021) Governor of Queensland: Jeannette Young (1 November 2021) Governor of Western Australia: Chris Dawson (15 July 2022) Governor of Victoria: Margaret Gardner (9 August 2023) When within the Northern Territory, the Administrator of the Northern Territory: Hugh Heggie (2 February 2023)
Governor Frederick Bedford then swore in Daglish as premier of Western Australia, colonial treasurer and minister for education. [37] He was the first Labor Party premier of WA, [ 7 ] the sixth overall, and at 37 years of age, the youngest premier of the state at the time and the fourth-youngest as of 2022 [update] . [ 38 ]
Brand was born on 1 August 1912 in Dongara, Western Australia.He was the first of four children born to Hilda (née Mitchell) and Albert John Brand. [1]His maternal grandfather was Samuel Mitchell, a Cornish immigrant who was a pioneer of the mining industry in Western Australia and served in both houses of state parliament. [2]