About: Peter Dowding

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Peter McCallum Dowding SC (born 6 October 1943) is an Australian lawyer and former politician who served as the 24th Premier of Western Australia, from 25 February 1988 until his forced resignation on 12 February 1990. He was a member of parliament from 1980 to 1990.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Peter McCallum Dowding SC (born 6 October 1943) is an Australian lawyer and former politician who served as the 24th Premier of Western Australia, from 25 February 1988 until his forced resignation on 12 February 1990. He was a member of parliament from 1980 to 1990. Dowding graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Laws, and he subsequently worked as a solicitor and barrister. In 1980, he was elected to the North Province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, representing the Labor Party. He entered cabinet when Labor won the 1983 state election, and changed ministries several times over the ensuing years due to cabinet reshuffles. At the 1986 state election, Dowding transferred to the Legislative Assembly, winning the safe seat of Maylands. In December 1987, Premier Brian Burke announced that he would resign on 25 February 1988. Burke picked Dowding as his preferred replacement, with a secret opinion poll showing that he was the best candidate for the party to choose. After several other contenders dropped out of the contest, Dowding was voted in unanimously as the party's leader on 30 December. He was sworn in as the premier as scheduled on 25 February 1988. Following controversy caused by WA Inc, Dowding's government was losing popularity. On 12 February 1990, Dowding resigned as premier and leader of the Labor Party ahead of almost certainly losing a leadership spill. His replacement was Carmen Lawrence. Dowding soon resigned from parliament, and went back to practising law. The royal commission into WA Inc was scathing of Dowding, saying that he "presided over a disastrous series of decisions". (en)
  • Peter Dowding (Melbourne, 6 oktober 1943) was de vierentwintigste premier van West-Australië. (nl)
dbo:almaMater
dbo:birthDate
  • 1943-10-06 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthName
  • Peter McCallum Dowding (en)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:father
dbo:party
dbo:profession
dbo:relation
dbo:termPeriod
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 1089845 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 36071 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1124924424 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:after
dbp:almaMater
dbp:alongside
dbp:before
dbp:birthDate
  • 1943-10-06 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthName
  • Peter McCallum Dowding (en)
dbp:birthPlace
  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (en)
dbp:children
  • 4 (xsd:integer)
dbp:constituency
dbp:deputy
dbp:father
dbp:governor
dbp:honorificSuffix
dbp:monarch
dbp:name
  • Peter Dowding (en)
dbp:office
  • 24 (xsd:integer)
  • dbr:Treasurer_of_Western_Australia
  • Leader of the Labor Party (en)
  • in Western Australia (en)
  • Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (en)
  • Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (en)
dbp:party
dbp:predecessor
dbp:premier
  • Himself (en)
dbp:profession
  • Barrister and solicitor (en)
dbp:relatives
dbp:spouse
  • 4 (xsd:integer)
dbp:successor
dbp:termEnd
  • 1986-01-15 (xsd:date)
  • 1989-02-28 (xsd:date)
  • 1990-02-12 (xsd:date)
  • 1990-04-26 (xsd:date)
dbp:termStart
  • 1980-05-22 (xsd:date)
  • 1986-02-08 (xsd:date)
  • 1988-02-25 (xsd:date)
dbp:title
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:with
dbp:wordnet_type
dbp:years
  • 1980 (xsd:integer)
  • 1986 (xsd:integer)
  • 1988 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Peter Dowding (Melbourne, 6 oktober 1943) was de vierentwintigste premier van West-Australië. (nl)
  • Peter McCallum Dowding SC (born 6 October 1943) is an Australian lawyer and former politician who served as the 24th Premier of Western Australia, from 25 February 1988 until his forced resignation on 12 February 1990. He was a member of parliament from 1980 to 1990. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Peter Dowding (en)
  • Peter Dowding (nl)
rdfs:seeAlso
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Peter Dowding (en)
is dbo:alongside of
is dbo:firstLeader of
is dbo:predecessor of
is dbo:primeMinister of
is dbo:successor of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:after of
is dbp:afterElection of
is dbp:alongside of
is dbp:beforeElection of
is dbp:candidate of
is dbp:leader of
is dbp:predecessor of
is dbp:premier of
is dbp:successor of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License