Jeffrey Phillip Carr (born 29 April 1944) is a former Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of

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from 1974 to 1991, representing the seat of Geraldton. He served as a minister in the governments of Brian Burke,

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, and

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. Carr was born in

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, and attended Geraldton High School. He subsequently trained as a schoolteacher, attending

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and the

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.Jeffrey Phillip Carr
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 12 May 2016. A member of the Labor Party from 1969, Carr stood for parliament at the 1974 state election, replacing the retiring Bill Sewell as the member for Geraldton. After the 1977 election, he became a member of the shadow ministry of

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. He remained a shadow minister under Ron Davies and Brian Burke during their periods as Leader of the Opposition, and following Labor's victory at the 1983 election was made Minister for Local Government and

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in the Burke government. Carr was nearly defeated at the 1986 election, seeing his margin plunge from a comfortably safe 63.1 percent to an extremely marginal 50.4 percent. Carr was replaced as Minister for Police and Emergency Services by Arthur Tonkin, but remained in cabinet as Minister for Regional Development. He kept his ministerial titles following the retirement of Brian Burke in February 1988, and was also made Minister for Mines in the new Dowding ministry. Following a reshuffle in 1989, Carr lost his previous positions and was instead made Minister for Fuel and Energy and Minister for the Mid-West, the latter being an entirely new creation. He retained those when Carmen Lawrence replaced Peter Dowding as premier in February 1990, and was also made Minister for Small Business. In February 1991, Carr and two others (

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and Gavan Troy) were removed from the ministry by a Labor caucus vote. He announced his resignation from parliament within a few days, and the resulting by-election was won by the

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candidate, Bob Bloffwitch.

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