 The seat was re @-@ established at the 1962 election with different boundaries — the neighbouring seats of West Perth , East Perth and North Perth having all been abolished in the 1961 redistribution — and was won by Labor 's Stanley Heal , the previous member for West Perth . He was defeated at the 1965 election by Peter Durack of the Liberal Country League , who was in turn defeated by Terry Burke in 1968 . Burke , the brother of Brian Burke who went on to serve as Premier from 1983 until 1988 , went on to hold the seat for 19 years until 1987 . He faced some high @-@ profile Liberal opponents , including future Legislative Councillor Bob Pike in 1971 , historian and author Hal G.P. Colebatch in 1977 and Olympic swimmer Peter Evans in 1986 . 
