Norman Frederick Moore (born 24 August 1945) is a former Western Australian politician. From 2008 to 2013 he was Minister for Mines and Petroleum; Fisheries; Electoral Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council. From 12 to 29 June 2012, he was the Minister for Justice. He held a seat for the

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and is a member of the

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. Born in

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie-Boulder (or just Kalgoorlie) is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder as the surroundi ...

, Moore worked as a high school principal before entering the

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in 1977 as a member of the

Lower North Province The Lower North Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, located in the central and northern parts of the state. For nearly its entire existence, it had the ...

, defeating incumbent

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member

Stan Dellar Stanley James Dellar (29 November 1936 – 11 April 2015) was an Australian politician who served as a Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council of W ...

in that year's state election. He was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet from 5 March 1980 to 22 January 1982 under

Sir Charles Court Sir Charles Walter Michael Court (29 September 1911 – 22 December 2007) was an Australian politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 8 April 1974 to 25 January 1982. A member of the Liberal Party, Court was the member for Nedl ...

, took up several opposition appointments from 1984 to 1993, and held numerous ministerial portfolios in the Court–Cowan Ministry such as education, sport and recreation, mines and tourism. From 1997 to 2013 he was the "

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" in the Council chamber. From 2001 to 2008, he was the

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in the

and held various shadow positions relating to mines and policy development. In September 2005, he discussed his concerns over the decline of federalism in his own party, and the possibility of Western Australia seceding from the rest of the country. After the 2008 state election, he was appointed to the

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. On 1 February 2012, he announced that he would retire at the 2013 state election. He is married to Lee with 3 adult children; Kathryn, Georgia and Daniel. In 2001, he received a

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for "service to Australian society through parliament". He was made a Member of the

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in 2016.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Norman Frederick Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia Ministers for education (Western Australia) 21st-century Australian politicians People from Kalgoorlie Members of the Order of Australia 1945 births Living people