Stephen Phillip Bracks is a former Australian politician and was the 44th Premier of Victoria. He first won the electoral district of Williamstown in 1994 for the Labor Party and was party leader and premier from 1999 to 2007.
Politics of the Australian state of Victoria takes place in the context of a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliamentary system,and like other Australian states,Victoria is part of the federation known as the Commonwealth of Australia.
Catherine Fiona King is an Australian politician serving as the Minister for Infrastructure,Transport,Regional Development and Local Government since 2022 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ballarat since 2001. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and briefly served as a minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments in 2013. She served as Shadow Minister of Health from 2013 to 2019 and as Shadow Minister for Infrastructure,Transport and Regional Development from 2019 to 2022.
Gavan Michael O'Connor is an Australian politician who was an Australian Labor Party (ALP) member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to November 2007,representing the Division of Corio,Victoria.
Elaine Cafferty Carbines is an Australian former politician. She was a member of the Labor Party and represented Geelong Province in the Victorian Legislative Council from September 1999 to November 2006.
John Lenders is an Australian politician. He represented the Southern Metropolitan Region in the Victorian Legislative Council. He was most notably the Minister for Education in the Bracks Government and Treasurer of Victoria in the Brumby Government.
Michael John Clyde Ronaldson is a former Australian politician. He was a Senator for the state of Victoria representing the Liberal Party from July 2005 until February 2016,and previously served in the House of Representatives for Ballarat from 1990 to 2001. Ronaldson served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs,the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC,and the Special Minister of State in the Abbott government from 2013 to 2015.
George Michael"Mick" Prendergast was an Australian politician who served as the 28th Premier of Victoria. He was born to Irish emigrant parents in Adelaide,but he grew up in Stawell,Victoria. He was apprenticed as a printer,and worked as a compositor in Ballarat,Sydney and Narrandera before settling in Melbourne in 1887. A member of the Typographical Association,he represented that union at the Melbourne Trades Hall,of which he was President in 1893.
Edmond John "Ned" Hogan was an Australian politician who was the 30th Premier of Victoria. He was born in Wallace,Victoria,where his Irish-born parents were small farmers. After attending a Roman Catholic primary school,he became a farm worker and then a timber worker,and spent some time on the goldfields of Western Australia.
Michael Paul Crutchfield is an Australian politician. He was formerly the member for South Barwon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
The 1999 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,18 September 1999,was for the 54th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect the 88 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council. The Liberal–National Coalition led by Jeff Kennett and Pat McNamara,which had held majority government since the 1996 election,lost 15 seats and its majority due mainly to a swing against it in rural and regional Victoria.
Barry Thomas Pullen is a former Australian politician. He was a minister in the Cain and Kirner Labor Victorian State Governments,and held the Legislative Council seat of Melbourne in the Victorian Parliament from 1982 to 1999. Pullen has been a member of the Labor Party since 1968,and was in the Socialist Left faction.
Jaala Pulford is a former Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 2006 and 2022,representing the Western Victoria Region.
Karen Marie Overington was an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2010,representing the electorate of Ballarat West.
Steven Ralph Herbert is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria from 2002 to 2017:in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as member for Eltham from 2002 to 2014,and in the Victorian Legislative Council for Northern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2017.
The 2014 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,29 November 2014,was for the 58th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council were up for election. The incumbent centre-right Coalition minority government,led by Liberal Party leader and Premier Denis Napthine and National Party leader and Deputy Premier Peter Ryan,was defeated by the centre-left Labor Party opposition,led by Daniel Andrews. The Greens won two lower house seats,their first Legislative Assembly seats in a Victorian state election,whilst increasing their share of upper house seats. The new Andrews Ministry was sworn in on 4 December 2014.
David George Williams is a former Australian politician.
Edmund John Cotter was an Australian politician.
The Victorian Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor,is the Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The branch is currently the ruling parting in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan,who has served concurrently as premier of Victoria since 2023.
John Mullahy is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2022,and is the first Labor Member to represent Glen Waverley District.
