{{Short description|Australian politician (born 1957)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ed Dermer | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | honorific_suffix = MLC | image = | constituency = | assembly = | office = Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for North Metropolitan Region | term_start = 22 May 1997 | term_end = 21 May 2013 | predecessor = | majority = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|10|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Subiaco, Western Australia | death_date = | death_place = | party = Labor | spouse = Sylvie | children = | university = | profession = Union organiser | signature = | footnotes = | website = }}
'''Edmund Rupert Joseph "Ed" Dermer''' (born 30 October 1957 in Subiaco, Western Australia) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (MLC), representing the North Metropolitan Region from 1996 until 2013. A member of the Labor Party, he was elected at the 1996 state election, replacing retired MP Samuel Mathew Piantadosi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Dermer,+Edmund+(Ed)+Rupert+Joseph?opendocument|title=Extract from the Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook|year=2008|accessdate=2008-07-24}}</ref>
Dermer was re-elected at the 2001 and 2005 state elections, and held the position of government whip in the Legislative Council from May 2001 to September 2008, and opposition whip from then until his retirement in May 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hon. Edmund (Ed) Rupert Joseph Dermer MLC BSc (Hons), Dip. Ed. |url=https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf/WAllMembersFlat/Dermer,+Edmund+(Ed)+Rupert+Joseph?opendocument |publisher=Parliament of Western Australia |access-date=2023-10-27}}</ref>
Dermer was one of the three North Metropolitan Labor MLCs, including Graham Giffard and Ken Travers, who were critical to the introduction of daylight saving in Western Australia in 2006. Initially intending to vote against the move, they all eventually decided to support it, in line with the wishes of their electorate and party.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=145&ContentID=11196 |title=The West Australian - Daylight saving hangs in the balance |year=2006 |accessdate=2008-07-26 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621155321/http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=145&ContentID=11196 |archivedate=21 June 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}</ref>
==Personal life== In 2008, Dermer was caught in a rip current with his sons, Alexander and Cameron, while holidaying at a Surfers Paradise beach. Dermer and Cameron had to be rescued by lifesavers. Not long after that, Dermer was diagnosed with a melanoma on the back of his neck, which was removed and found to be malignant.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23788694-948,00.html |title=Perthnow - WA politician Ed Dermer survives rip, cancer scares |year=2008 |accessdate=2008-07-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601152516/http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23788694-948,00.html |archivedate=1 June 2008 }}</ref>
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