Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Gosnells from 6 September 2008. Elected to the Thirty-Eighth Parliament for Gosnells (new seat) on 6 September 2008. Re-elected 2013. Electorate abolished in the redistribution of 2015.
- MLA Thornlie from 11 March 2017. Elected to the Fortieth Parliament for Thornlie (new seat) on 11 March 2017. Re-elected 2021.
Office
- Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change, Lands from 9 April 2013 to 26 June 2015
- Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change from 26 June 2015 to 11 March 2017
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Water; Fisheries; Forestry; Innovation and ICT; Science from 17 March 2017 to 20 December 2019
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Water; Forestry; Innovation and ICT; Science; Youth from 20 December 2019 to 19 March 2021
Committees
- Member, Public Accounts Committee from 13 November 2008 to 30 January 2013
- Member, Joint Select Committee on Palliative Care in Western Australia from 28 May 2020 to 19 November 2020 (Chair from 28 May 2020)
- Member, Education and Health Standing Committee from 12 May 2021 (Chair from 26 May 2021) to present
Parliamentary Party Appointments
- Vice president, State Parliamentary Labor Party from 25 November 2008 to 29 April 2021
- President, State Parliamentary Labor Party from 29 April 2021 to present
Historical Notes
- Announced decision not to contest the 2025 state election, reported 29 February 2024
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Container Deposit and Recovery Scheme Bill 2016 Legislative Assembly Second Reading - 24/8/2016
Peel-Harvey Catchment Management Bill 2014 Bill restored to the Legislative Assembly Notice Paper - 22/9/2016 |
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Personal Information |
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11 October 1963 |
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Middlesbrough, United Kingdom |
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Arrived Australia, January 1969 |
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Son of Peter John Tallentire, medical practitioner, and Wilda Ann Theodora Stevenson, farmer |
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Married |
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Catholic |
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Educated Trinity College, 1972–1980
Leederville TAFE, 1981
Curtin University, Muresk Institute of Agriculture–BAgribusiness (Marketing) Hons, 1998
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Environmental consultant |
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Seasonal worker, Cooperative Bulk Handling, 1980–1983
Clerical officer, Australian High Commission, London, UK, 1983–1986
Crew member, McDonald’s, France, 1987
Duty manager, Hotel Cecilia, Paris, 1987–1991
Operations officer, P&H Bulk Shipping, St Brieuc, France 1991
Hotel duty manager and night auditor, St James, Paris, 1992
Employee, Perth Zoo in Native Species Breeding Program and Horticulture Sections, 1997 and zoo keeper and assistant researcher 1998
Casual farm hand while studying, 1994–1999
Environmental officer, Department Environment Protection from August 1999 to August 2001
Energy efficiency campaigner, Conservation Council of WA from June 2001 to February 2004
Director, Conservation Council of WA from March 2004 to April 2008 |
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Left Australia for Europe, 1983
Resident:
- UK from March 1983 to March 1986
- France from March 1986 to 1994
Returned to Australia, 1994
Member, Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union
Member, Alliance Francaise de Perth
Life supporter, Conservation Council of WA
Member, River Conservation Society, York
Member, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
Interests in cycling, wildlife conservation, French politics and cinema, and bushwalking
Wrote numerous unpublished conference papers, 2000–2007 |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds. Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth 2010 , p. 248.
Hudleston, David, "Long-standing local MP to finish his career in 2025", Canning Examiner, 29 March 2024, page 3.
Parliament of Western Australia website. Current Members. Accessed 20 October 2016. |
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