Geoffrey Ian Geoff Gallop AC is Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney and former chairman of the Australian Republican Movement. He was the 27th Premier of Western Australia .
Gallop was born in Geraldton and joined the Australian Labor Party in 1971. After studying economics at The University of Western Australia , he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1972, and as an undergraduate studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at St Johns College, Oxford met and became close friends with Tony Blair. Blair is also the godfather of Gallops son Tom, and Gallop was a groomsman at Blairs 1980 wedding. He is also a longtime friend of former federal Labor Leader Kim Beazley. Gallop subsequently received a doctorate of philosophy from Oxford in 1983.
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