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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 house of the Parliament of Western Australia. In practice, this means that the premier is the leader of the political party or group of ...
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.
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Mark McGowan has been leader of the Western Australian Labor Party from January 2012 and premier of Western Australia from March 2017. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he achieved record levels of popularity and won the 2021 Western Australian state election in a landslide, winning 53 out of 59 possible seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and a majority in the Western Australian ...
The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia. 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 ...
The 2021 state election saw Labor win one of the most comprehensive victories on record at the state or territory level in Australia. It won 53 of the 59 seats, surpassing its own record set four years earlier for the largest government majority and seat tally in Western Australian parliamentary history.
Between 6 March 2002 (when Mike Rann (Labor) succeeded Rob Kerin (Liberal) as Premier of South Australia) and 23 September 2008, when Colin Barnett succeeded Alan Carpenter as Premier of Western Australia, there were Labor Premiers in all six of the Australian states (and Chief Ministers in both territories); this was only the second time a ...