Ronald Davies (11 April 1926 – 24 July 2011) was an Australian politician, who was a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Victoria Park from 1961 to 1986.
Born in 1926,[1] Davies was a union official for the Western Australian Railway Officers' Union before he was elected to the Western Australian parliament in a by-election for Victoria Park in 1961.
He became a member of cabinet in 1971, going on to hold such ministerial portfolios as Health, Environment, Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs, Arts, and Forests, Conservation and Land Management in the Tonkin Ministry.
[2] In 1974, with the Labor Party in Opposition, he was a member of the Tonkin Shadow Ministry.
[3] The year before his deposition, he had led the ALP to defeat by Sir Charles Court's reigning Liberal Party at a state election.