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Peter McCallum Dowding
Australian politician
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history of Western Australia
- In Western Australia: Western Australia since c. 1950
Peter McCallum Dowding took over the premiership in 1988 in the wake of the WA Inc fiasco and Burke’s imprisonment. Dowding resigned in 1990, and Labor replaced him with Carmen Lawrence, who thus became the first woman premier in Australia. Lawrence inherited the negative fallout…
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