Bevan Lawrence

Bevan Ernest Lawrence is a Western Australian barrister and political campaigner. He is the older brother of the ALP politician and former Premier of Western Australia, Carmen Lawrence.

Lawrence attended Aquinas College, Perth and subsequently studied law at the University of Western Australia. He graduated as a Bachelor of Law in 1966.

He has been licensed to practice law in Western Australia since 19 March 1968 and has specialised in insurance law.

In 1987, he was a spokesperson for the prominent activist group People Against the Australia Card. This group organised a public rally attended by more than 40,000 people who marched through the CBD of Perth in September 1987. This was part of a synchronised national protest which led to abandonment of the relevant legislation by the Hawke Labor government, which had used the issue as a trigger for the 1987 double-dissolution election.

He was a founder, in 1989, of People for Fair and Open Government (PFOG), an activist group which campaigned for political reform in Western Australia during the WA Inc era. PFOG played a significant role in persuading the government led by Lawrence's sister to request a Royal Commission into the WA Inc matters.

In 1998 he joined the Australian component of the successful international campaign against the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment.

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