Joan Elizabeth Kirner was an Australian politician who was the 42nd Premier of Victoria,serving from 1990 to 1992. A Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria from 1982 to 1994,she was a member of the Legislative Council before later winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly. Kirner was a minister and briefly deputy premier in the government of John Cain Jr.,and succeeded him as premier following his resignation. She was Australia's third female head of government and second female premier,Victoria's first,and held the position until her party was defeated in a landslide at the 1992 state election.
Candy Celeste Broad is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from September 1999 to May 2014,first representing the electorate of Melbourne North Province until 2006,and then as a Member for the Northern Victoria region.
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.
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,also known as the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute and commonly abbreviated as Peter Mac,is an Australian oncology research institute,cancer treatment and professional oncologist training centre located in Melbourne,Victoria. The centre is named in honour of Sir Peter MacCallum. Since June 2016,the centre has been located within the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) in Parkville.
Andrea Gail West was an Australian politician. She was a member of the Liberal Party and served a single term in the House of Representatives,representing the Queensland seat of Bowman from 1996 to 1998.
The electoral district of Mount Waverley was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and contained the suburbs of Glen Waverley and Mount Waverley.
Mary Louise Newling Wooldridge is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party member of the Parliament of Victoria from 2006 to 2019. She was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly,representing the seat of Doncaster from 2006 to 2014;her seat was abolished in a redistribution for that year's election,and she was subsequently elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Eastern Metropolitan Region in November's state election.
Lynne Janice Kosky was an Australian politician and senior minister in the Government of Victoria. She represented the electoral district of Altona in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party from 1996 to 2010 and held key ministerial posts from 1999 through to her retirement from politics,including the key education and public transport portfolios.
Jacinta Marie Allan is an Australian politician serving as the 49th and current premier of Victoria since 2023. She has been the leader of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2023 and has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Bendigo East since 1999. She previously served as the 29th deputy premier of Victoria from 2022 to 2023. Allan is the longest-serving female minister in Victorian state history and currently the most senior sitting member of the Assembly.
Fiona Catherine Alison Richardson was an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 until her death in 2017,representing the electorate of Northcote. She was Minister for Women and Minister for Prevention of Family Violence in the First Andrews Ministry from December 2014 until her death.
Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) is a not-for-profit organisation that supports Australians affected by breast cancer. BCNA aims to ensure that Australians affected by breast cancer receive support,information,treatment and care appropriate to their needs.
Pauline Therese Toner was the first female cabinet minister in the Parliament of Victoria. A member of the Labor Party,she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1977 and was Minister for Community Welfare Services from 1982 to 1985. She resigned from Parliament in 1989 and died on 3 March 1989.
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.
Lyn Mary Swinburne is an Australian women's advocate,inspirational speaker and founder of Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA).
The Abortion Law Reform Act 2008 is an abortion law reform passed by the Victorian Parliament in the Australian state of Victoria in 2008. The reform bill sought to amend section 65 of the Victorian Crimes Act 1958,which had codified the common law offences relating to abortion. The reform also repealed section 10 of the Crimes Act dealing with a separate offence of child destruction.
Michael Xavier Charles Gidley is an Australian politician,and was the Liberal member for Mount Waverley in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2010 to 2018.
Jane Furneaux Garrett was an Australian politician. She was the Labor Party member for Brunswick in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2010 until 2018,when she transferred to the Victorian Legislative Council representing Eastern Victoria.
The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) is a multi-site,multi-disciplinary specialist cancer hospital and research centre located in Melbourne,Victoria,Australia. The VCCC comprises an alliance between The University of Melbourne,the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,Melbourne Health,the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,the Royal Women's Hospital,the Royal Children's Hospital,Western Health,St Vincent's Hospital,Melbourne,Austin Health,and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.
James Benjamin Kingsley Newbury is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018,representing the seat of Brighton. Newbury is the currently the Shadow Minister for Environment and Climate Change,Equality,and the Manager of Opposition Business.
Peta Jan Murphy was an Australian politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2019 until her death in 2023,representing the Victorian seat of Dunkley for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
