Ian Frederick Taylor (born 15 March 1949) is a former Australian politician and Western Australian

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and

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. Taylor was elected to the

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in 1981 as the Labor Party (ALP) member for

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. In 1986, he was appointed Minister for Health and also held the Aged Care, Lands and Consumer Affairs portfolios at various times. Following Brian Burke's resignation in 1988, he became Minister for Police in

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's ministry, and on

Carmen Lawrence Carmen Mary Lawrence (born 2 March 1948) is an Australian academic and former politician who was the Premier of Western Australia from 1990 to 1993, the first woman to become the premier of an Australian state. A member of the Labor Party, sh ...

's ascension to the premiership in 1990 he became Deputy Premier and Minister for Finance (although his portfolio varied during this time) corresponding to Premier Lawrence also being the Treasurer. Labor was defeated at the 1993 state election and Taylor became Leader of the Opposition in February 1994 when Lawrence resigned to enter federal parliament. He was succeeded by

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in October. In 1996 he resigned to contest the federal seat of

against Labor rebel Graeme Campbell, who defeated him as an

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. He was only the second WA Labor leader, and the first in over 90 years, not to take the party into an election. In 2000, Taylor announced his intention to leave the ALP over the treatment of former Labor politician

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1949 births Living people Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia {{Australia-Labor-WesternAustralia-MP-stub

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