1. Geoff Gallop is currently a professor and director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney and former chairman of the Australian Republican Movement.
24 Facts About Geoff Gallop
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Geoff Gallop then entered The University of Western Australia in 1969 to study economics.
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Geoff Gallop joined the Labor Party in 1971, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1972.
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Blair is the godfather of Geoff Gallop's son Tom, and Geoff Gallop was a groomsman at Blair's 1980 wedding.
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Geoff Gallop is a long-time friend of former federal Labor Leader Kim Beazley.
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Geoff Gallop subsequently received a doctorate of philosophy from Oxford in 1983.
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Geoff Gallop's family was among the first pioneer settlers to the new Swan River Colony now known as Perth in Western Australia.
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The Geoff Gallop brothers left the small village of Thakeham in West Sussex along with several other families from Thakeham and the nearby villages of Sullington and Storrington.
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Edward Geoff Gallop later drowned but James and Richard became pioneering market gardeners and vignerons.
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Geoff Gallop was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Victoria Park in 1986.
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From 1990 to 1993, during the Lawrence Labor Government, Geoff Gallop held portfolios including Education, Parliamentary and Electoral Reform, Fuel and Energy, Micro-Economic Reform, and Minister assisting the Treasurer.
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The Lawrence government was defeated at the 1993 state elections, and Geoff Gallop was elected Deputy Leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party.
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Geoff Gallop became Premier and Minister for Public Sector Management, Federal Affairs, Science, Citizenship and Multicultural Interests.
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Geoff Gallop went on to win a second term at the 26 February 2005 state election.
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On 16 January 2006 Geoff Gallop announced he was resigning as premier and retiring from politics to aid his recovery from depression.
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Geoff Gallop addressed a news conference stating that "in the interests of my health and my family I have decided to rethink my career".
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Deputy Premier and Treasurer Eric Ripper took over from Geoff Gallop as Acting Premier, pending a leadership vote at the State Labor Caucus.
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Geoff Gallop became a professor and director of Sydney University's Graduate School of Government in 2006.
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Geoff Gallop sits on the Dean's Advisory Group at the University of Sydney Medical School.
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In 2010, Geoff Gallop accepted the role as chairman of the research committee of The newDemocracy Foundation, a research group, focused on better models of government.
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Geoff Gallop is a patron of the Jhana Grove Meditation Centre and the Buddhist Society of Western Australia, where he received help for depression.
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Geoff Gallop was elected chairman of the Australian Republic Movement in November 2012, replacing Maj.
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In 2019 Geoff Gallop was reportedly appointed to the Global Commission on Drug Policy.
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Geoff Gallop is a strong supporter of the movement for an Australian republic, and took a leading role in the push for a directly elected president during the 1998 Constitutional Convention in Canberra.