Hon. Dr. Geoff Gallop AC
Geoff Gallop
BEc W.Aust., MA & DPhil Oxf., MPhil Murd., Hon DLitt Murd., FIPAA
Professor, Director, Graduate School of Government
Professor Geoff Gallop was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006.
He was a Minister in the Lawrence Labor Government from 1990 to 1993 (holding a range of portfolios most notably Education, Fuel and Energy and Minister Assisting the Treasurer) and when that Government was defeated in 1993 he took up a range of Shadow Ministerial appointments. In 1994 he was elected Deputy Leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party and in 1996 he was elected Leader.
As Premier, he oversaw a range of political and social reforms (electoral reform, gay and lesbian equality and a State Administrative Tribunal), upgraded the State’s industrial and labour laws, brought a spirit of reconciliation to the resolution of Native Title and developed partnership models for the State’s indigenous communities, changed the law to require all 16 and 17 year olds to be in education or training, was the first Premier to commit his government to a major desalination plant, stopped the logging of all of the State’s Old Growth Forests creating record numbers of new national parks, restructured the State’s electricity and racing industries, and started construction of the Perth to Mandurah Railway and City Tunnel.
As Minister for Science he established the Science Council, committed significant funding to Research and Development in the State, and established the Premier’s Research Fellowship Program to attract leading researchers from overseas and interstate.
Geoff has been involved in a range of educational, community and sporting associations over many years and from 1983 to 1986 he was a Councillor at the City of Fremantle.
In 2001 he was awarded a Commonwealth of Australia Centenary Medal and was honoured with Life Membership of the Association for the Blind (Western Australia).
In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and on the 4th April 2006 he was admitted to the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Murdoch University.
Publications
Gallop G 2008 'The Federation' in Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia , ed. Robert Manne, Black Inc, Melbourne pp. 42-58.
Gallop G 2008 'A Radical Legacy', Re-imagining Australia- Griffith Review, pp. 53-62.
Gallop G 2008 'Australia´s Productivity and Participation Reform Agenda', OECD Forum 2008 - "Climate Change, Growth, Stability", Paris, France, 3-4 June.
Gallop G 2008 'Jobs and Growth',Growth OECD Forum 2008 - "Climate Change, Stability".
Gallop G 2007 'Towards a New Era of Strategic Government' in A Passion for Policy: Essays in Public Sector Reform, ed. John Wanna, ANU E Press, Canberra pp. 75-89.
Gallop G 2007 'Strategic Planning – is it the new model?', Public Administration Today:10, pp. 28-33.
Gallop G 2007 'What is the Public Interest?', Public Administration Today:12, pp. 44-8.
Gallop G 2007 'Who Governs the Governors? Political Accountability Today', Public Administration Today:12, pp. 61-6.
Gallop G 2006 'Towards a new era of strategic government', The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Public Lecture Series, Acton, 25 October.
Gallop G 1995 'States Rights – for what?', Journal of the Whitlam Institute of Social and Economic Research, vol.2:4, pp. 6-10.
Gallop G 1993 'Opening Address: Beyond economic rationalism',Proceedings of a Joint Conference with the Department of Social Work and Social Administration: University of Western Australia, 1-5.
Gallop G 1991 'The changing role of universities' in The Internationalisation of Industry, Government and Education in Western Australia, ed. M Innes-Brown and P Hedges, Curtin University of Technology, Perth pp. 20-25.
Gallop G 1991 'Education Providers and their Communities in the 1990´s',Evolving Partnerships in Education: Papers Presented at the 30th National Conference of the Australian College of Education, Deakin: Australian College of Education, 40-51.
Gallop G 1991 'Opening Address: Degrees for change? Relevance, control and pressures in the undergraduate curriculum',Proceedings of a Symposium organised by the Western Australian Office of Higher Education, Perth, 8-11.
Gallop G 1986 'Western Australia' in Australian State Politics, ed. B Galligan, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne pp. 74-97.
Gallop G 1986 'Australian Journal of Politics and History', Political Chronicle: Western Australia July to December 1985, vol.32, pp. 294-303.
Gallop G 1986 'Ideology and the English Jacobins: The Case of John Thelwall', Enlightenment and Dissent, vol.5, pp. 3-20.
Gallop G 1986 'The Future of Thatcherism', Australian Outlook, pp. 75-83.
Gallop G and Layman L 1985 'Western Australia' in From Country to National: Australian Rural Politics, ed. B J Costar and D Woodward, Allen and Unwin, Sydney pp. 109-118.
Gallop G 1985 'Politics in Western Australia', Politics in Western Australia, vol.62:7, pp. 24-31.
Gallop G 1984 'Political chronicle: Western Australia July to December 1983', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol.30:2, pp. 270-279.
Gallop G 1984 'The Burke Labor Government', Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, vol.11:4, pp. 219-230.
Gallop G 1984 'Political change in Western Australia',Rural Communities Beyond 1984: Conference Papers, Perth: Rural Youth Movement Council, 1-23.
Gallop G 1983 'Burke to power in Western Australia', Labour Power, vol.5:2, pp. 22-24.
Gallop G 1983 'The Western Australian election 1983', Politics, vol.19:1, pp. 93-96.
Gallop G 1982 'Pig´s meat: Selected writings of Thomas Spence' in Thomas Spence and the Real Rights of Man, Spokesman Books, Nottingham, UK pp. 11-53.
Gallop G 1977 'Karl Marx, socialism and the condition of women', Time Remembered (Murdoch University History Club), vol.1:1, pp. 17-28.
Gallop G 1976-77 'The two revolutions in the thought of young Marx', Links: A Journal of Politics:3, pp. 9-13.
Gallop G and Blundell-Wignall A 1972 'The Economics of Education: Some critical comments', Economic Activity, vol.15:3, pp. 16-31.