Editing Geoff Gallop (section)

{{Short description|Australian politician}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}
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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]].