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Geoffrey Ian "Geoff" Gallop AC (born 27 September 1951) is Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney and chairman of the Australian Republican Movement. He was the 27th Premier of Western Australia (2001 – 2006). Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Gallop studied at the University of Western Australia, and later progressed to St John's College at the University of Oxford after winning a Rhodes Scholarship. Having joined the Australian Labor Party in 1971, he served as a councillor for the City of Fremantle between 1983 and 1986, and was elected to the seat of Victoria Park in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly at the 1986 state election. Having held several portfolios in the preceding Lawrence Ministry (including Minister for Education), Gallop replaced Jim McGinty as Leader of the Opposition in 1996 following McGinty's resignation. At the 1996 election, Labor was heavily defeated by the incumbent Liberal Party led by Richard Court, but he remained as the party's leader, and at the 2001 election Labor was elected to government, with Gallop becoming premier. Having successfully contested the 2005 election, Gallop resigned as Premier, Labor leader and from parliament in early 2006 to aid his recovery from depression, and was replaced by Alan Carpenter. ==Early life, education and pioneer family== Gallop was born in Geraldton and joined the Australian Labor Party in 1971. After studying economics at The University of Western Australia (UWA),〔 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1972,〔 and as an undergraduate studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics〔 〕 at St John's College, Oxford met and became close friends with Tony Blair.〔 〕 Blair is also the godfather of Gallop's son Tom,〔 〕 and Gallop was a groomsman at Blair's 1980 wedding.〔 〕 He is also a long-time friend of former federal Labor Leader Kim Beazley.〔 〕 Gallop subsequently received a doctorate of philosophy (DPhil) from Oxford in 1983.〔(Premiers of Western Australia: Dr Geoff Gallop (Labor) ) – The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia. Retrieved 11 May 2013.〕〔(Geoff Gallop: A Brief Biography ) – John Curtin College of the Arts. Retrieved 11 May 2013.〕 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.〔 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, 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 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.〔Sydney Morning Herald 8 July 2006 〕 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. “〔“Round About Old Storrington” by Florence M. Greenfield (1972, Norbertine Press, School Lane, Storrington) page 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.” 〔“Round About Old Storrington” by Florence M. Greenfield (1972, Norbertine Press, School Lane, Storrington) page 58〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoff Gallop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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