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Australian politician

Terence Joseph Burke (born 1 February 1942) is a former member for the seat of Perth in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. He held the seat between 1968 and 1987. In 1974, with the Labor Party in Opposition, he was a member of the Tonkin shadow ministry. He is the elder brother of former premier Brian Burke and both are sons of former federal shadow cabinet member Tom Burke.

Burke was born on 1 February 1942 in Perth, Western Australia. His parents were Tom Burke, an Australian Labor Party politician in the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1955, and Madeline Muirson Orr. Tom Burke had Irish ancestry, and was deeply Catholic. Madeline Orr was of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Terry Burke was the first child out of five: the second child was Anne Burke, the third child was Brian Burke, the fourth child was Frankie Burke, who had down syndrome, and the fifth child was Genevieve Burke. He grew up in the middle class Perth suburb of Wembley, living in a California bungalow set on a quarter acre block.

Burke joined the Labor Party in 1958. At the 1968 Western Australian state election, he was elected to the electoral district of Perth in the Legislative Assembly. [The commission was paid for work done for the Party after Burke retired from State Parliament in 1987, and under a proposal put to him by Michael Behan, the then State Secretary of the Labor Party. The proposal, which was endorsed by the Administrative Committee of the Party and formally accepted by Burke on 19 May 1987, specified that Burke was to be paid a 25 percent commission on funds raised for the Party. Over the next twelve months Burke raised $2,506,084 for the Party and was paid a total Commission of $626,521, which worked out, after tax to be $391,576. Footnote 8 re source <Information supplied by anonymous sources of Joseph Poprzeczny, former journalist with The Australian, a News Limited newspaper published in Sydney, Western Australia>/ref>

Burke is Catholic. He married Luciana Mary Sepich on 12 March 1966 at Sacred Heart Church in Highgate. He has two sons and two daughters.