Political Views
Gallop is a strong supporter of the movement for an Australian republic, and took a leading role in the push for a directly-elected President during the 1998 Constitutional Convention in Canberra. He is pro-choice on the issue of abortion. Professor Gallop has published three books - one on the English radical Thomas Spence - Pig's Meat - Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, edited with an introductory essay (spokesman Books Nottingham, 1982), one on Western Australian politics and society - A State of Reform: Essays for a Better Future (Helm Wood Publishers, Wembley, 1998) and Politics, Society, Self: Occasional Writing (UWA Press, Crawley, 2012)
AWARDS
In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal and was honoured with Life Membership of the Association for the Blind (Western Australia).
In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia, in 2006 he was admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Western Australia.
In 2008 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.
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