Talk:Premier of Western Australia

message: An anonymous editor changed "Sir John Forrest" to "Lord Forrest".  I have reverted it.  For most of his life John Forrest was known as "John Forrest" or "Sir John", and he is still referred to exclusively by these names.  "Lord Forrest" is not appropriate here.  This is consistent with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles).
User:Hesperian 00:01, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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message: *The Premier of WA, like any leader in a Westminister system, holds office by virtue of a commission from the Crown, represented in this case by the Governor of WA. 
*When a Premier announces his or her resignation or retirement, or is defeated at an election, they retain office in a caretaker capacity until the Governor is ready to commission a successor. 
*In this case, there can be no successor until the Labor Caucus meets and chooses a new leader. I am not following this in detail (being currently in Laos), but I imagine it will take a few days at this time of year for the Caucus to assemble.
*Therefore Gallop will remain Premier until the Caucus elects his successor. He will then visit the Governor and tender his formal resignation and his successor will then be commissioned.
*The only occasions on which the Crown will immediately appoint a new Prime Minister or Premier is on the death of the incumbent. This is what happened with Chalk, Page, Forde and McEwen refered to above. 
*To sum up: there is no new Premier of WA, and no acting Premier. Gallop is Premier, and will remain so until the Governor commissions someone else.
*Since we just went through all this debate, including reverting all the usual silly premature edits, with the Carr - Iemma transition, I don't know why people find this so hard to follow.
Adam 02:51, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Westminster system 101

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message: Incumbent Mark McGowen has resigned effective today and has automatically been succeeded by Deputy Premier Roger Cook. We should update the info box on the side of this article accordingly. 123.243.118.76 (talk) 11:23, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, see Talk:Mark McGowan#Resignation date. Steelkamp (talk) 12:14, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Premier has resigned and Premieral succession has been triggered 

message: Mark McGowan is no longer the Premier of Western Australia nor the Member for Rockingham. The article should change McGowan's MLA date from Present to 2023, as he resigned from the position and was succeeded by Magenta Marshall TechGamesPlus (talk) 11:39, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
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