John Trezise Tonkin AC (2 February 1902 – 20 October 1995), popularly known as "Honest John", was the 20th Premier of Western Australia, taking power after the almost 12 year term of Liberal Sir David Brand. Tonkin served only a single term in government, one of the few in Australian or Western Australian State governance, as Labor was ousted in the 1974 election by the Liberal Party under Sir Charles Court, despite a modest swing to the government in the metropolitan area.
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- John Trezise Tonkin AC (2 February 1902 – 20 October 1995), popularly known as "Honest John", was the 20th Premier of Western Australia, taking power after the almost 12 year term of Liberal Sir David Brand. Tonkin served only a single term in government, one of the few in Australian or Western Australian State governance, as Labor was ousted in the 1974 election by the Liberal Party under Sir Charles Court, despite a modest swing to the government in the metropolitan area. He stayed on after the election as State parliamentary leader of the ALP until his retirement in 1976, when Colin Jamieson succeeded him as Labor leader. After his first wife and daughter died of cancer, Tonkin crusaded for many years for radio-wave therapy treatments for cancer sufferers; and he set up a treatment clinic run by cancer surgeon Dr John Holt in the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. At the time he became Premier and married his second wife in the early 1970s, he was already renowned for his tireless support of the Tronado anti-cancer machine. In the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1977, John Tonkin was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia. The stage 4 completion of the Beechboro-Gosnells Highway in 1985 saw the highway renamed as Tonkin Highway, in honour of the former Western Australian premier. Tonkin Bridge was also named after John Tonkin shortly after he died at age 93.
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- Premier of Western Australia
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- John Trezise Tonkin AC (2 February 1902 – 20 October 1995), popularly known as "Honest John", was the 20th Premier of Western Australia, taking power after the almost 12 year term of Liberal Sir David Brand. Tonkin served only a single term in government, one of the few in Australian or Western Australian State governance, as Labor was ousted in the 1974 election by the Liberal Party under Sir Charles Court, despite a modest swing to the government in the metropolitan area.
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