Parliamentary Service |
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Labor
Joined Australian Labor Party (ALP)
1978
Vice president
Subiaco–Wembley branch
1982–1987
delegate
Curtin Electorate Council
1982–1988
member
Administrative Committee
1985–1988
Proxy delegate
ALP National Conference
1986
Member
ALP National Social Justice Strategy Committee
1987–1988
Federal President
ALP
1 January 2004–31 December 2004 |
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8 February 1986 |
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Subiaco |
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State
Electorates
- MLA Subiaco, 8 February 1986–4 February 1989 (electorate abolished in redistribution); Glendalough, 4 February 1989–14 February 1994 (resigned)
- Contested East Melville, 19 February 1983
Office
- Premier, 1990–1993
- Minister for Education and Aboriginal Affairs, (from 28 February 1989), 25 February 1988–February 1990
- Premier, Minister for Public Sector Management, Women’s Interests, Education, and Aboriginal Affairs, 12 February 1990–19 February 1990
- Premier, Treasurer, Minister for the Family, Aboriginal Affairs, Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs, and Women's Interests, 19 February 1990–5 February 1991
- Premier, Treasurer, Minister for the Family, and Women’s Interests, 5 February 1991–7 September 1992
- Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Employment, and Trade and Investment, 7 September 1992–16 February 1993
- Leader of the Opposition, 16 February 1993–7 February 1994
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees, 1986–1988
- Member, Public Accounts and Expenditure Review Committee, 1986–April 1988
- Member, Select Committee on the Midland Abattoir Land Sale, 1986
Historical Notes
- First woman in Australia to hold the office of State Premier
Commonwealth
Electorates
- MHR Fremantle, 12 March 1994 (by-election)–24 November 2007
Office
- Minister for Human Services and Health and Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women, 25 March 1994–11 March 1996
- Shadow Minister for the Environment, Arts, and Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition on the Status of Women 20 March 1996–21 April 1997; for Industry, Innovation and Technology, for the Status of Women 5 September 2000–25 November 2001; for Reconciliation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, the Arts, and Status of Women, 25 November 2001–5 December 2002
Committees
- Member, Standing Committee on Environment, Recreation and Arts, 30 May 1996–31 August 1998
- Member, Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage, 8 December 1998–27 November 2000
- Member, Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, 20 March 2002–17 October 2007
- Member, Joint Statutory Committee on Native Title and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, 20 March 2002–20 March 2003
- Member, Joint Standing Committee on Migration, 2 December 2004–17 October 2007
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Personal Information |
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2 March 1948 |
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Northam Hospital, Northam, Western Australia |
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Daughter of Ernest Richard Lawrence, farmer, and Mary Norma Watson |
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Married 14 July 1979, Fremantle to Heath Andrew Kelly
Children: one son
Divorced |
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Catholic |
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Educated Dominican Ladies College, Dongara (1954 and 1958–1962); Marian Convent, Morawa (1955–1957); Santa Maria College, Attadale (1963–1964), won General Exhibition and Special Subject Exhibition in Economics 1964
University of Western Australia (1965–1968)—Bachelor of Psychology with Hons (first class) 1968, PhD 1983
Received JA Wood Memorial Prize in 1968 for most outstanding graduate in faculties of Arts, Economics and Commerce, Law, Architecture and Education
Winner, Benjamin Rosenstamm prize in economics, 1965
Winner, British Psychological Society Prize, 1966
Winner, HL Fowler prize for Research in Psychology, 1968
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University lecturer and research psychologist |
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Research assistant, 1969–1971
Full-time tutor, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 1972–1973
Part-time lecturer, Department of Nursing, WAIT (Western Australian Institute of Technology), 1974–1978
Research psychologist, 1974 and 1978
Fulltime senior tutor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, University of Western Australia 1979, lecturer, 1980–1983
Research Services, Health Department of WA, 1983–1986 |
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 13 June 2022 for "distinguished service to the people and Parliaments of Australia and Western Australia, to conservation, and to arts administration." |
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Grew up in Gutha in wheatbelt
Chairman, Child Sexual Abuse Task Force, 1986–1988
President, Newman Society, University of Western Australia, 1967
Executive member, Post-Graduate Students’ Association, University of Western Australia, 1970
Founding member, Women’s Electoral Lobby, 1972
Chairperson, 40 km/hr Trial Zone Evaluation and Monitoring Committee, 1988
After leaving federal politics, Professorial Fellow in the School of Psychology, University of Western Australia
Professorial Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia
Chairman, Australian Heritage Council, from June 2010
Chair, independent inquiry into the state of public education in WA. Announced 10 October 2022. |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 147.
Daily News, 7 October 1988.
'Ex-premier in school probe', West Australian, 10 October 2022, page 3.
Labor Voice, January 1988.
Making a Difference, p. 137–143.
Sunday Times, 26 February 1989, 27 March 1994.
West Australian, 17 February 1990, 19 March 1994.
WA Magazine, 21–27 October 1989. |
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 Lawrence, Carmen Mary, Making a Difference.pdf |