Charles Perkins (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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(1906-1961) farmer and politician
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Place of Birth: Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia
About Charles Perkins (politician)
- Charles Collier Perkins (8 August 1906 – 7 November 1961) was an Australian politician who was a Country Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1942 until his death.
- He served as a minister in the government of Sir David Brand. Perkins was born in Melbourne to Gwendoline (née Collier) and Charles Henry Perkins.
- Educated at Geelong Grammar School, he arrived in Western Australia in 1929 and purchased a farm at Belka, which he owned for the rest of his life.
- Perkins became prominent in agricultural circles, serving on the executive of the Primary Producers' Association and as a director of Westralian Farmers Ltd, a co-operative.
- He entered parliament at the 1942 York by-election, which had been caused by the resignation of Charles Latham (a former Country Party leader).After the 1947 state election, Perkins was appointed chairman of the committees in the Legislative Assembly, a position which held until the McLarty government's defeat at the 1953 election.
- At the 1950 election, he had transferred to the new seat of Roe.
- After the 1959 election, Perkins was included in the new ministry formed by David Brand, as Minister for Police, Minister for Transport, Minister for Labour, and Minister for Native Welfare.
- His four portfolios required large amounts of travel, including to interstate conferences and remote Aboriginal communities.Perkins died of a heart attack in November 1961, at his home in Wembley, and was given a state funeral at St George's Cathedral.
- He had married Kathleen Jennings Laffar in 1938, with whom he had four children.
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