The third instalment from Peter Kennedy’s new book on WA’s recent political past examines the pressure on Carmen Lawrence to set up a royal commission into what became known as WA Inc.
People will be speculating for months to come on the underlying reasons for Premier Geoff Gallop’s sudden and unexpected resignation from the state’s top political job due to depression.
IT’S easy to forget that, tucked-away between both Burke Governments (1983-88) and the 36-month Lawrence Government (1990-93), an even shorter-lived Labor administration existed.
