Career
Ken has held a broad range of responsibilities across social, economic and legal policy areas. He has had a number of challenging jobs, including Chairing the Joint Standing Committee on the Corruption and Crime Commission during a time when the Commissioner and Parliamentary Inspector did not always see eye to eye, and was Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic, the Bali bombings, the collapse of Ansett and September 11 attacks. Ken is a former Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Infrastructure and in the Alan Carpenter Government co-Chaired a committee addressing transport and infrastructure issues arising from the rapid growth and low levels of local employment in Perth"s north-west corridor.
Ken has a keen interest in cycling and rode from Albany to Perth in four and a half days as part of the Hawaiian Ride Foreign Youth in 2006.
Following the change of government in 2008 Ken was elected to the Shadow Cabinet. Ken was re-elected at the 2013 general election, and now has responsibility for Transport.
Agriculture and Food. Infrastructure; Wheatbelt.
Mid West in the McGowan Labor Opposition.
