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{{Short description|Australian politician (born 1951)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| name                = Geoff Gallop
| nationality         = Australian
| image               = Geoffrey Gallop Midland (cropped) b.jpg
| caption             = Gallop at the [[Midland Railway Workshops]] in 2002

| order              = 7th
| office             = Australian Republic Movement#Chairs{{!}}Chair of the Australian Republic Movement
| term_start         = 26 November 2012
| term_end           = 20 July 2015
| predecessor        = Michael Keating
| successor          = [[Peter FitzSimons]]

| office1              = 27th [[Premier of Western Australia]]
| term_start1          = 10 February 2001
| term_end1            = 16 January 2006
| monarch1             = [[Elizabeth II]]
| governor1            = [[John Sanderson]]
| deputy1              = [[Eric Ripper]]
| predecessor1         = [[Richard Court]]
| successor1           = [[Alan Carpenter]]

| office2             = [[Leader of the Opposition (Western Australia)|Leader of the Opposition]]
| premier2            = [[Richard Court]]
| term_start2         = 8 October 1996
| term_end2           = 10 February 2001
| deputy2             = [[Jim McGinty]]<br>[[Eric Ripper]]
| predecessor2        = [[Jim McGinty]]
| successor2          = [[Richard Court]]

| office3             = [[Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)|Leader of the Western Australian<br>Labor Party]]
| term_start3         = 8 October 1996
| term_end3           = 25 January 2006
| predecessor3        = [[Jim McGinty]]
| successor3          = [[Alan Carpenter]]

| constituency_MP4    = [[Electoral district of Victoria Park|Victoria Park]]
| parliament4         = Western Australian
| term_start4         = 7 June 1986
| term_end4           = 25 January 2006
| predecessor4        = [[Ron Davies (Western Australian politician)|Ron Davies]]
| successor4          = [[Ben Wyatt (politician)|Ben Wyatt]]

| birth_name          = Geoffrey Ian Gallop
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1951|9|27|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Geraldton, Western Australia|Geraldton]], [[Western Australia]], Australia
| party               = [[Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)|Labor Party]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Beverly Diane Jones|1975|2009|end=d.}}{{br}}{{marriage|Ingrid van Beek|2010}}
| children            = 2
| profession          = Academic
| alma_mater          = [[St John's College, Oxford]]<br />[[Nuffield College, Oxford]]<br />[[University of Western Australia]]|
| honorific_suffix    = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|FASSA|size=100}}
}}
'''Geoffrey Ian Gallop''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|FASSA}} (born 27 September 1951) is an Australian academic and former politician who served as the 27th [[premier of Western Australia]] from 2001 to 2006. He 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]].

Born in [[Geraldton]], [[Western Australia]], Gallop studied at the [[University of Western Australia]], and later progressed to [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]] at the [[University of Oxford]] after winning a [[Rhodes Scholarship]]. Having joined the [[Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)|Labor Party]] in 1971, he served as a councillor for the [[City of Fremantle]] between 1983 and 1986, and was elected to the [[Electoral district of Victoria Park|seat of Victoria Park]] in the [[Western Australian Legislative Assembly]] at the [[1986 Western Australian state election|1986 state election]]. Having held several portfolios in the preceding [[Lawrence Ministry]] (including [[Minister for Education (Western Australia)|Minister for Education]]), Gallop replaced [[Jim McGinty]] as [[Leader of the Opposition (Western Australia)|Leader of the Opposition]] in 1996 following McGinty's resignation.

At the [[1996 Western Australian state election|1996 election]], Labor was defeated by the incumbent [[Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division)|Liberal Party]] led by [[Richard Court]] despite a rise in Labor's share of the vote, but he remained as the party's leader, and at the [[2001 Western Australian state election|2001 election]] Labor was elected to government, with Gallop becoming premier. Having successfully contested the [[2005 Western Australian state election|2005 election]], Gallop resigned as Premier, Labor leader and from parliament in early 2006 to aid his recovery from [[Major depressive disorder|depression]], and was replaced by [[Alan Carpenter]].

==Early life, education and pioneer family==
Gallop was born and educated in [[Geraldton, Western Australia|Geraldton]]. He then entered The [[University of Western Australia]] (UWA) in 1969 to study economics. He joined the [[Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)|Labor Party]] in 1971,<ref name="DrWho"/> and was awarded a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] in 1972.<ref name="NewBalance"/> In 1974 he studied [[Philosophy, Politics, and Economics]]<ref>{{cite news
 | first = Luke
 | last = McIlveen
 | title = Gallop's act of public service&nbsp;– Praise from former premier
 | work = [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]
 | publisher = News Limited
 | page = 2
 | date = 17 January 2006
 | quote = Awarded Rhodes Scholarship in 1972 and graduated in philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford in 1974
 }}
</ref>
at [[St John's College, Oxford]] where he met and became close friends with [[Tony Blair]].<ref>{{cite news
 | author = Staff writer
 | title = Is Tony Blair hoping to clear out one of the dustier corners of Whitehall before he gallops into the sunset?
 | work = [[The Evening Standard]]
 | publisher = Associated Newspapers
 | date = 8 January 2007
 | quote = ...Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia and one of Blair's oldest friends from St John's College, Oxford...
 }}
</ref>
Blair is the [[godparent|godfather]] of Gallop's son Tom,<ref name="DrWho">{{cite news
 | first = Norman
 | last = Aisbett
 | title = Dr Who?
 | work = [[The West Australian]]
 | publisher = West Australian Newspapers Limited
 | page = 1
 | date = 13 January 2001
 }}
</ref>
and Gallop was a [[groomsman]] at Blair's 1980 wedding.<ref>{{cite news
 | first = Tim
 | last = Clarke
 | title = WA: From marxist to premier, smiling Gallop reveals a dark side
 | work = General News
 | publisher = Australian Associated Press
 | date = 16 January 2006
 | quote = Dr Gallop was even a groomsman at the Blairs' wedding in 1980, and Mr Blair is godfather to Dr Gallop's son Tom.
 }}
</ref>
He is also a long-time friend of former federal Labor Leader [[Kim Beazley]].<ref>{{cite news
 | author = Staff writer
 | title = Everyone Is Connected in Western Australia
 | work = [[Canberra Times]]
 | page = 11
 | date = 16 April 1999
 | quote = State Opposition leader Geoff Gallop, one-time Murdoch University and Oxford University mate and best buddy of Beazley, Jr...
 }}
</ref> Gallop subsequently received a [[doctorate of philosophy]] (DPhil) from Oxford in 1983.<ref>[http://www.ccentre.wa.gov.au/ExhibitionsOnline/GovernorsAndPremiers/Premiers/Pages/GeoffGallop.aspx Premiers of Western Australia: Dr Geoff Gallop (Labor)] – The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia. Retrieved 11 May 2013.</ref><ref>[http://john.curtin.edu.au/gallop/biography.html Geoff Gallop: A Brief Biography] – John Curtin College of the Arts. Retrieved 11 May 2013.</ref>

Before entering state politics, Gallop worked as a tutor and lecturer at both [[Murdoch University]] and The University of Western Australia, and was a City Councillor at [[Fremantle]] from 1983 to 1986.<ref name="BrokenBurden"/>

Gallop's family was among the first pioneer settlers to the new [[Swan River Colony]] now known as Perth in Western Australia. His great-great-grandfather,{{disputed inline|Relationship to Richard Gallop|date=June 2014}} James Gallop arrived in the Swan River Colony in 1829 the year of the colony's founding. At the age of 18 James, along with two brothers – 20-year-old [[Richard Gallop|Richard]] and 15-year-old Edward – left a Thakeham, West Sussex [[workhouse]]. The 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. Several of these migrants later inter-married: James' son also named James married Emma Woods daughter of George Woods who also came out from Thakeham with his brother John and nephew Jesse Woods.  Edward Gallop later drowned but James and Richard became pioneering market gardeners and vignerons. Two homes, Gallop House and Dalkeith House, are heritage-listed legacies of the family's prominence.<ref>{{cite news |work=Sydney Morning Herald |date=2006-07-08 }}</ref>{{full citation needed |date=February 2021}} The brothers were part of a clearing-out of the parishes in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars.  As Greenfield wrote "The 1820s were very difficult years for agricultural workers and great poverty prevailed, owing partly to the demobilization of soldiers following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and partly to the high cost of bread due to the [[Corn Laws]]. Sullington seems to have been particularly hard hit. ... Emigration was encouraged throughout West Sussex to relieve the parishes of the burden of excessive poor relief."<ref name="gre72">{{cite book |title=Round About Old Storrington |first=Florence M. |last=Greenfield |year=1972 |publisher=Norbertine Press |location=School Lane, Storrington |oclc=503962367 }}</ref>{{rp|57}} The Gallop brothers were among those who chose Australia instead of America:  "West Australia was still very much in the pioneering stage.  Letters from emigrants to their friends and relations in this neighbourhood give the impression that those who sailed to America, provided they were not afraid to work, had an easier life than those who took the greater risk and went to Australia".<ref name="gre72" />{{rp|58}}

==Politics==
Gallop was elected to the [[Western Australian Legislative Assembly]] for the [[Electoral district of Victoria Park|seat of Victoria Park]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite news
 | author = Staff writer
 | title = RTRS-Gallop becomes W.Australia opposition leader
 | work = Reuters News
 | publisher = [[Reuters]]
 | date = 8 October 1996
 }}
</ref>
From 1990 to 1993, during the [[Carmen Lawrence|Lawrence]] [[Lawrence Ministry|Labor Government]], Gallop held portfolios including Education, Parliamentary and Electoral Reform, Fuel and Energy, Micro-Economic Reform, and Minister assisting the Treasurer.<ref name="BrokenBurden"/> The Lawrence government was defeated at the 1993 state elections, and Gallop was elected Deputy Leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party.

===Opposition Leader (1996–2001)===
In Opposition, his Shadow Ministerial responsibilities included Treasury, Resources and Energy, Parliamentary and Electoral Reform, Public Sector Management, Accountability, Sport and Recreation, Aboriginal Affairs, Health, Federal Affairs, Treasury and the South West.<ref name="BrokenBurden"/>

In October 1996, [[Jim McGinty]] resigned as Leader of the Opposition and named Gallop his successor, a role he assumed without a caucus vote.<ref name="DrWho"/>
Soon afterwards, he led Labor into [[1996 Western Australian state election|an election held in December]]. He was heavily defeated by the [[Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division)|Liberal Party]] government of [[Richard Court]], taking only 35.8 percent of the primary vote—its lowest total since 1901.<ref>{{cite news
 | author = Staff writer
 | title = Western Australian government returned
 | publisher = [[Agence France-Presse]]
 | date = 14 December 1996
 | quote = The Western Australian Liberal-National Party Government, headed by Premier Richard Court, has been returned to office with an increased majority in the State Legislative Assembly (lower house).
 }}</ref>

===In government (2001–2006)===
At the [[2001 Western Australian state election|February 2001 state election]], Gallop led the Labor Party to victory,<ref>{{cite news
 | author = Staff writer
 | title = Labor claims state election victory
 | work = Associated Press Newswires
 | publisher = Associated Press
 | date = 11 February 2001
 }}
</ref> taking 13 seats from the Liberals on a seven-percent swing—the largest swing against a sitting government in the state since 1911.<ref>{{Cite journal|last= Black |first= David |date=December 2001 |title= The Western Australian election of 10 February 2001: Coalition demolition |journal= Australian Journal of Political Science |volume= 36 |issue= 2 |pages= 355–362 |issn=1036-1146 |doi=10.1080/10361140120078871|s2cid= 153571399 }}</ref>

Gallop became Premier and Minister for Public Sector Management, Federal Affairs, Science, Citizenship and Multicultural Interests.<ref>{{cite news
 | first = Wendy
 | last = Pryer
 | title = The new cabinet
 | work = [[The West Australian]]
 | publisher = West Australian Newspapers Limited
 | page = 4
 | date = 16 February 2001
 }}
</ref>
Gallop went on to win a second term at the 26 February 2005 state election.<ref>{{cite news

 | author = Staff writer
 | title = Gallop wins second term in close-fought contest
 | work = [[The Sunday Times (Western Australia)|The Sunday Times]]
 | publisher = News Limited
 | location = [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]]
 | page = 1
 | date = 27 February 2005
 }}</ref>
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As premier, Dr Gallop oversaw a range of political and social reforms (electoral reform, gay and lesbian equality and a state Administrative Tribunal), changed 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 a record number of new national parks, restructured the State's electricity and racing industries, and started construction of the [[Mandurah railway line|Perth to Mandurah Railway]] and the associated City Rail 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.

===Resignation===
On 16 January 2006 Gallop announced he was resigning as premier and retiring from politics to aid his recovery from depression.<ref name="RipperStepsIn"/>
He addressed a news conference stating that "in the interests of my health and my family I have decided to rethink my career".<ref name="RipperStepsIn"/>
Deputy Premier and Treasurer [[Eric Ripper]] took over from Gallop as Acting Premier, pending a leadership vote at the State Labor Caucus.<ref name="RipperStepsIn">{{cite news
 | author = Staff writer
 | title = Ripper steps in as acting WA Premier
 | work = AAP Bulletins
 | publisher = Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd
 | date = 16 January 2006
 }}
</ref>
[[Alan Carpenter]] was elected unopposed<ref>{{cite news
 | author = Staff writer
 | title = WA Premier is chosen
 | work = [[The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)]]
 | publisher = News Limited
 | page = 19
 | date = 22 January 2006}}
</ref>
and was sworn in on 25 January 2006.

==Post-government activities==
Gallop became a professor and director of [[Sydney University]]'s Graduate School of Government in 2006.<ref name="NewBalance">{{cite news
 | first = Bernard
 | last = Lane
 | title = Gallop strikes a new balance
 | work = [[The Australian]]
 | publisher = News Limited
 | page = 32
 | date = 12 July 2006
 }}
</ref>

From 2007 to 2009 he was a community member of the NSW Health Department's great Metropolitan Clinical Task force.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(SearchResDes)/51EBCC3C64EE2D3F482577E50028A5F8|title=Dr Geoffrey (Geoff) Ian Gallop|publisher=Parliament of WA|access-date=28 April 2020}}</ref>

From 2007 to 2011 he was deputy chair of the [[COAG Reform Council|Council of Australian Government (COAG) Reform Council]] and in 2008 he was appointed to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission which reported to the Commonwealth Government in June 2009.

In 2010, he joined the advisory board of the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia and from 2011 has been the chair of the New Democracy Foundation's Research Committee. He also sits on the Dean's Advisory Group at the University of Sydney Medical School.

In 2011 he was appointed by Australia's Foreign Minister to chair the Australia Awards Board and in the same year was appointed a member of the Commonwealth's International Education Advisory Council.

Since 2010 he has been writing a weekly column for Fairfax Media's online paper WA Today and from 2006 to 2007 was a columnist for the Australian newspaper's Higher Education Supplement.

In 2010, Gallop accepted the role as chairman of the research committee of The newDemocracy Foundation, a research group, focused on better models of government.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hon Geoff Gallop AC – Chair, Research Committee |year=2013 |website=The newDemocracy Foundation |url=http://www.newdemocracy.com.au/who-we-are |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424083535/http://newdemocracy.com.au/who-we-are/item/58-the-hon-geoff-gallop-ac |archive-date=2013-04-24 |access-date=2021-02-19 }}</ref> Gallop is a patron of the Jhana Grove Meditation Centre and the Buddhist Society of Western Australia, where he received help for depression.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Jhana Grove – Our Patron |year=2021 |website=Buddhist Society of Western Australia |url= https://bswa.org/our-locations/about-jhana-grove/ |access-date=2021-02-19 }}</ref>

Gallop was elected chairman of the [[Australian Republic Movement]] in November 2012, replacing Maj.-Gen. Michael Keating.<ref>[http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/15478694/gallop-to-lead-republicans/ Gallop to lead republicans] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130105160757/http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/15478694/gallop-to-lead-republicans/ |date=5 January 2013 }} – ''[[The West Australian]]''. Published 26 November 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2012.</ref>

In 2019 Gallop was reportedly appointed to the [[Global Commission on Drug Policy]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thompson|first=Angus|date=2019-07-22|title=Former WA premier Geoff Gallop appointed to drug reform think tank|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/former-wa-premier-geoff-gallop-appointed-to-drug-reform-think-tank-20190722-p529jj.html|access-date=2021-10-24|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>

==Political views==
Gallop is a strong supporter of the movement for an [[Republicanism in Australia|Australian republic]], and took a leading role in the push for a [[Direct election republican model (Australia)|directly elected president]] during the 1998 [[Constitutional Convention (Australia)|Constitutional Convention]] in [[Canberra]].<ref name="BrokenBurden">{{cite news
 | first = Victoria
 | last = Laurie
 | title = Broken by the burden
 | work = [[The Australian]]
 | publisher = News Limited
 | page = 11
 | date = 17 January 2006
 }}
</ref> He is [[pro-choice]] on the issue of abortion.<ref>{{cite news
 | first = Anne
 | last = Burns
 | title = Historic Abortion Debate Heats Up
 | work = [[The West Australian]]
 | publisher = West Australian Newspapers Limited
 | page = 1
 | date = 18 March 1998
 }}
</ref> Professor Gallop has published three books – one on the English radical [[Thomas Spence]]: ''Pig's Meat – Selected Writings of Thomas Spence'', which he edited with an introductory essay ([[Spokesman Books]], Nottingham, 1982), one on Western Australian politics and society: ''A State of Reform: Essays for a Better Future'' (Helm Wood Publishers, Wembley, 1998) and ''Politics, Society, Self: Occasional Writing'' ([[UWA Press]], Crawley, 2012)

Gallop is an advocate for [[drug policy reform]].<ref>{{cite news |last= Sparkes |first= David |date= 23 July 2019 |title= Former WA premier to fight for drug reform in new role |url= https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/former-wa-premier-to-fight-for-drug-reform-in-new-role/11338294 |work= Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) |access-date= 26 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1= Arbour |first1= Louise |last2= Gallop |first2= Geoff |last3= Krinsky |first3= Miriam |date= 19 October 2019 |title= It's time for drug policy reform – in America and across the globe |url= https://www.salon.com/2019/10/19/its-time-for-drug-policy-reform-in-america-and-across-the-globe/ |work= Salon |access-date= 26 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Gallop |first= Geoff |date= 7 June 2011 |title= Drug policy – the case for realism |url= https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/drug-policy-the-case-for-realism-20110606-1fot0.html |work= The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date= 26 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Thompson |first= Angus |date= 23 July 2019 |title= Former WA premier Geoff Gallop appointed to drug reform think tank |url= https://www.smh.com.au/national/former-wa-premier-geoff-gallop-appointed-to-drug-reform-think-tank-20190722-p529jj.html |work= The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date= 26 October 2021}}</ref>

==Awards==
* In 2001 he was awarded the [[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, in 2006 he was admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Western Australia.
* In 2008 he was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of Australia]].
* In 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-09 |title=34 leading social scientists elected to the Academy |url=https://socialsciences.org.au/news/34-leading-social-scientists-elected-to-the-academy/ |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |language=en-AU}}</ref>

==References==
{{Portal|Western Australia|University of Oxford|Politics}}
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==External links==
* [http://www.newdemocracy.com.au/who-we-are newdemocracy.com.au]
* [http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/media/media.nsf/dcb641cb714dff7e48256de900111082/36ac78b738524a85482570f8001c1a60?OpenDocument Resignation statement in state government]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.ccentre.wa.gov.au/index.cfm?event=premiersGeoffgallop Constitutional Centre of Western Australia entry on Geoff Gallop]
* {{cite news | last=Geoff Gallop | title=Black dog isn't really invincible | date=10 May 2007 | url =http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5831 | work =On Line Opinion }}

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