Kimberley Maurice "Kim" Chance was an Australian farmer and politician who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1992 to 2009, representing Agricultural Region.
18 Facts About Kim Chance
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Kim Chance served as a minister in the governments of Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter between 2001 and 2008.
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Kim Chance's uncle, Edgar Prowse, was a Country Party senator.
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Kim Chance was raised on his father's property at Doodlakine, and then boarded at Wesley College, Perth.
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Kim Chance returned to Doodlakine to engage in sharefarming, and later farmed on his own land, initially at Doodlakine and later at Carrabin.
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Kim Chance served on the executive of the Western Australian Farmers Federation, including as treasurer, and was a state delegate to the National Farmers Federation.
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Kim Chance was a board member of the Water Authority of Western Australia from 1985 to 1992, and a director of the Avon Football Association.
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Kim Chance first stood for parliament at the 1983 federal election, running for the House of Representatives in the Division of O'Connor.
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Kim Chance contested three more federal elections over the following decade, but lost to Wilson Tuckey of the Liberal Party on each occasion.
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At the 1989 state election, Kim Chance ran in second position in Labor's ticket in Agricultural Region.
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Kim Chance failed to win election, but in March 1992 filled the casual vacancy caused by Jim Brown's retirement.
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Kim Chance was re-elected as the lead Labor candidate in Agricultural Region at the 1993 state election, and at every subsequent election until his retirement.
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Kim Chance was included in the shadow ministry in February 1994, when Ian Taylor replaced Carmen Lawrence as leader, and served as a shadow minister under two more opposition leaders.
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Kim Chance became Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council following Labor's victory at the 2001 state election, and was appointed Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Forestry, and Minister for Fisheries in the new ministry.
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Kim Chance held responsibility for several of Western Australia's regions, subordinate to the Minister for Regional Development.
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Kim Chance remained in the ministry until the Labor government's defeat at the 2008 state election, which he did not contest.
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Kim Chance spent time as a food-security consultant in Abu Dhabi, and helped establish a camel dairy in Dandaragan, the first such enterprise in the country.
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Kim Chance had married Susanne O'Rourke in 1974, with whom he had two children.