Stalwart Labor Party minister Alannah MacTiernan has announced her resignation.
Stalwart Labor Party minister Alannah MacTiernan has announced her resignation.
While the timing of the decision may have surprised some, Ms MacTiernan had previously said she did not intend to contest the 2025 election.
“It’s time for me to pass on the baton,” she said.
“I have had a long political career. I’ve spent 26 years in parliament.”
Premier Mark McGowan praised her extraordinary political career that took her from the City of Perth as a councillor to the federal parliament.
He said her achievements included the lead role in rolling out the Mandurah rail line.
Ms MacTiernan entered the world of politics in 1996, serving as a Labor Party member of the Western Australia legislative assembly after having spent six years in local government.
She rose through the ranks to become a senior minister in the Gallop-Carpenter governments, driving through the Perth-to-Mandurah railway project as planning and infrastructure minister from 2001 to 2008.
After departing state politics in 2010, she was elected mayor of the Town of Vincent.
She served just two years in the role before securing the federal seat of Perth at the 2013 federal election.
After retiring from federal parliament in 2016, Ms MacTiernan returned to state politics as an MLC for the North Metropolitan area in 2017 before she became the Minister for Regional Development, Agriculture and Food, Minister Assisting the Minister for State Development, Jobs & Trade, Ports.
Following the 2021 state election, Ms MacTiernan relinquished the jobs & trade and ports portfolios, and became the minister assisting the minister for state development for hydrogen.
Ms MacTiernan added hydrogen industry to her regional development, agriculture and food portfolios in the December cabinet reshuffle.
She has spent a total of 13 years in ministerial roles.
