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3 unusual facts about Premier of Victoria


Ballarat V/Line rail service

In November 2004 then Premier of Victoria Steve Bracks announced that the line would be renamed the Eureka Line to mark the 150th anniversary of the Eureka uprising.

Is Not Magazine

Geddes and Wortsman won the 2006 Victorian Premier's Communications Design Prize for their work designing Is Not's first six issues.

Premier of Victoria

From the 1880s, until after Federation, Victorian politics were dominated by the Protectionist Liberals, who were opposed by Free Trade Conservatives.


Bad Eggs

They are joined by computer operator Northey (Brough), but have to escape with their lives to avoid death at the hands of the ZTU's commander, Ted Pratt (Hunter) and the network of corruption extending all the way to the Premier of Victoria (Micallef).

Beyondblue

The chairman of beyondblue is Jeff Kennett, former Premier of Victoria, and its CEO is Kate Carnell, former Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory.

Broadmeadows state by-election, 2011

The by-election was triggered by the resignation on 21 December 2010 of John Brumby, the former Premier of Victoria whose 11-year incumbent Labor government was defeated at the 2010 election.

David Hookes

A memorial service was held on Adelaide Oval on 27 January 2004, attended by all members of the Australian, South Australia and Victoria cricket teams, as well as the Premier of Victoria, Steve Bracks.

Johnny Mullagh

On Friday 17 February 2012, The Premier of Victoria, Ted Baillieu and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Jeanette Powell, announced Mullagh as one of the 20 inaugural inductees to the The Victorian Indigenous Honour Roll.

Mechanics' Institute, Sorrento

In July 1876, the Mechanics' Institutes Trust received the land, believed to be a donation from local landowner, parliamentarian and 8th Premier of Victoria, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.

Ralph Willis

One of Willis's final acts, a few days before the 1996 election, was to release (without consulting Keating) a letter purportedly written by the Premier of Victoria, Jeff Kennett, which suggested that a Liberal government led by John Howard would cut grants to the states.

Russell Savage

Savage based his campaign on the neglect of rural Victoria by incumbent Premier Jeff Kennett's government, in particular its closure of the Vinelander rail service between Melbourne and Mildura.

Z-class Melbourne tram

In 1972 Rupert Hamer became Premier of Victoria, promising new trams, which had been highlighted as needed in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan.


see also

Bolte

Henry Bolte GCMG (1908–1990), Australian politician, Premier of Victoria

George Dibbs

In June 1894, writing to Sir James Patterson, then Premier of Victoria, he suggested the unification of New South Wales and Victoria, in the hope that the other colonies would join in later on.

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Notable people associated with the programme included Felicity Kennett, wife of the then Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett, and Jim Brown, a former Ten Eyewitness news journalist.

James Beaney

In 1883, after a severe contest, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for the North Yarra Province, and was re-elected for a period of six years, in 1885, when he defeated the James Munro, the late Premier of Victoria.

Newport Power Station

Stand Williams, secretry of the Federated Engine Drivers, declared to the then-Premier of Victoria Rupert Hamer: "The fact is that we're not going to build it at Newport, and that's final." After a temporary retreat, the government attempted to restart the project, but the unions voted to reaffirm the ban.

Officer Training Unit, Scheyville

Some of the most notable examples include Jeff Kennett who became Premier of Victoria and Tim Fischer, who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.

Ronald Ryan

Starke reported that the Premier of Victoria, Sir Henry Bolte, insisted that the death sentence be carried out.