David Parker (Australian politician)

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David Parker
Western Australian Parliament
for Fremantle
In office
23 February 1980 – 26 April 1990
Preceded byJohn Troy
Succeeded byJim McGinty
Personal details
Born
David Charles Parker

(1953-05-22) 22 May 1953 (age 70)
Labor Party

David Charles Parker (born 22 May 1953) is an Australian former politician from

Dowding Ministry (1988–1990). He later served a jail term for perjury for evidence given to the WA Inc
royal commission.

Biography

David Charles Parker was born in the

Building Workers' Industrial Union, and became a director in Mount Newman Superannuation Pty Ltd. He also rose within the Labor Party, being appointed to its administrative committee in 1976.[1]

Ahead of the

Palestinian cause during his time in Parliament, and on 23 February 1980, he entered parliament.[2]
He was appointed to the shadow ministry in September 1981.

Labor came to power under Brian Burke at the 1983 election, and Parker was appointed Minister for Employment, Planning and Administrative Services, and Minister Assisting the Minister Co-ordinating Economic and Social Development.

Minister for Minerals and Energy, with most of his former portfolios being transferred to Peter Dowding.[4]

In late 1987, it was announced that Burke and his deputy Mal Bryce would retire from politics on his fifth anniversary of taking office as premier. Burke preferred a combination of Dowding as Premier and Parker as Deputy Premier to succeed him; this was backed up by a secret opinion poll from March 1987 that identified them as having electoral appeal. On 30 December 1987, they won a caucus leadership ballot unopposed and on 25 February 1988, Parker became Deputy Premier.[5][6] After the 1989 election, he also became Treasurer.

On 12 February 1990,

Lawrence Ministry, but ultimately announced his intention to resign from parliament on 5 April 1990 and left on 26 April.[7] The by-election to replace him resulted in a 7.6% two-party-preferred swing against the government, but left-wing union official Jim McGinty retained the seat for Labor.[8]

Parker's role in various decisions related to WA Inc while responsible for minerals and energy was investigated by the Royal Commission, which delivered its interim report on 19 October 1992. Parker was ultimately sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment on seven charges of misusing party campaign funds in late 1994.[9] The conviction was ultimately quashed on appeal to the High Court of Australia.[10] In 1996 he served six months of an 18-month sentence for perjury over evidence given to the Commission.[11]

In 1997, he moved permanently to Hong Kong and worked in various management roles in energy and chemical companies.[citation needed]

References

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  2. ^ "An alphabetical listing of Members of the Legislative Assembly since 1890" (PDF). Parliamentary Library Western Australia. Parliament of Western Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Premier's Department". Western Australia Government Gazette. 25 February 1983. p. 1983:758.
  4. ^ "Premier's Department". Western Australia Government Gazette. 23 December 1983. p. 1983:5013.
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  6. ^ Prior, Neale (31 December 1987). "Dowding premier in 53 seconds". The Age. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
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  8. ^ "2009 Fremantle By-Election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
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  10. ^ Parker v Queen 186 CLR 494
  11. ^ "Factbox of convicted WA MPs". WA Today. AAP. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
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