Alan Carpenter

Alan Carpenter ( born January 4, 1957 in Albany, Western Australia ) is an Australian journalist and politician. He was from January 2006 to September 2008 the 28th Prime Minister of Western Australia. He is also a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.

Carpenter grew up in Western Australia and attended Mt Lockyer Primary School and Albany Senior High School until 1974. Starting in 1977 he studied political science at the University of Western Australia and graduated in 1979.

Career

Carpenter was after about two years a journalist with the newspaper Albany Advertiser. In 1982 he finished this activity. He spent two years traveling through Asia and Europe, eleven months in Asia. In 1986, he returned to his home and worked in Perth at the television station TVW -7 as a political reporter. In 1990 he moved to the television station Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was responsible for the department policy in Western Australia. He became chief of the magazine, The 7:30 Report and 1996, the political magazine Stateline 1992.

In 1996 he finished his journalistic activities and turned to politics. It was between 2001 and 2006 Minister for State Development and Minister for Energy, Minister for Education and Training and Minister for Education and Indigenous Affairs.

He was elected on 25 January 2006 Prime Minister of Western Australia and thus the successor of Geoff Gallop. His tenure as premier the dismissal of three ministers fell for corruption in 2006.

Carpenter has been married to Annmarie de Costa and has four daughters ( Grace, Claudia, Isabelle and Ava ).

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