Carmen Lawrence
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The Honourable Carmen Lawrence |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Fremantle |
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In office 12 March 1994 – 17 October 2007 |
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| Preceded by | John Dawkins |
| Succeeded by | Melissa Parke |
| 25th Premier of Western Australia Elections: 1993 |
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In office 12 February 1990 – 16 February 1993 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor |
Francis Burt Michael Jeffery |
| Deputy | Ian Taylor |
| Preceded by | Peter Dowding |
| Succeeded by | Richard Court |
| Constituency |
Subiaco (1986–89) Glendalough (1989–94) |
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2 March 1948 Northam, Western Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Profession | Psychologist |
Carmen Mary Lawrence (born 2 March 1948) is a retired Australian politician; a former Premier of Western Australia and the first woman to become Premier of a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.
After leaving the State Parliament of Western Australia Lawrence became a Member of the House of Representatives in the Australian federal parliament.
Lawrence became the first directly elected Federal President of the Australian Labor Party in 2003. She retired from parliament in November 2007.
Carmen Lawrence was born in Northam, in the agricultural district of Western Australia and spent her early childhood in the towns of Gutha and Dongara.
She was one of seven children of Ernest Richard Lawrence, a farmer, and his wife Mary Norma (née Watson).
From the age of six she was educated at various Roman Catholic boarding schools: Marian Convent at Morawa; Dominican Ladies College at Dongara and Santa Maria College at Attadale from which she matriculated in 1964 with distinctions in six subjects, a General Exhibition for Academic Achievement and a Special Subject Exhibition in economics.
In 1965, Lawrence enrolled at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 1968 she graduated as a Bachelor of Psychology with First Class Honours, having won five prizes including that for the most outstanding graduate throughout the Faculties of Arts, Economics and Commerce, Law, Architecture and Education. In 1968 she was Senior Student in Saint Catherine's residential college.
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