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John Cain (41st Premier Of Victoria)
John Cain (26 April 1931 – 23 December 2019) was an Australian politician who was the 41st Premier of Victoria, in office from 1982 to 1990 as leader of the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party. During his time as premier, reforms were introduced such as liberalised shop trading hours and liquor laws, equal opportunity initiatives, and occupational health and safety legislation. Early life Cain was born in Northcote, Victoria, where his father, John Cain (34th Premier of Victoria), John Cain, the leader of the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Australian Labor Party in Victoria (Australia), Victoria from 1937 to 1957 and three times premier, was the Electoral district of Jika Jika, local member. His mother ran a successful chain of millinery stores in the inner north of Melbourne. He was educated at Bell Primary School, Northcote High School, Scotch College, Melbourne, Scotch College, and at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in law i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honourable
''The Honourable'' (Commonwealth English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific Style (manner of address), style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions. Use by governments International diplomacy In international diplomatic relations, representatives of foreign states are often styled as ''The Honourable''. Deputy chiefs of mission, , consuls-general, consuls and honorary consuls are always given the style. All heads of consular posts, whether they are honorary or career postholders, are accorded the style according to the State Department of the United States. However, the style ''Excellency'' instead of ''The Honourable'' is used for ambassadors and high commissioners only. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo In the Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cain (lawyer)
John Cain is an Australian lawyer who has acted as the Government Solicitor for the State of Victoria, the solicitor for Public Prosecutions in Victoria, and State Coroner for Victoria. He is the son of John Cain, the 41st Premier of Victoria, and grandson of John Cain, the 34th. Education and career Cain studied law and economics at Monash University. Cain started work at Maurice Blackburn in 1982, becoming a partner in 1987 and Managing Partner in 1992, a position that he held until 2002 when he became CEO of the Law Institute of Victoria. He was in that position from 2002 to 2006 until he was appointed as Victorian Government Solicitor from 2006 to 2011 which included representing the Victorian Government at the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, arguing in 2010 that the book ''Snouts In The Trough: A True Story Of The Underworld And The Brotherhood Behind The Badge'' by Andrew Fraser breached suppression orders and identified several informers and, also in 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Costigan
Francis Xavier Costigan, , (14 January 1931 – 13 April 2009) was an Australian lawyer, Royal Commissioner and social justice activist. Costigan is renowned for presiding over the Costigan Commission into organised crime. Background and early life One of eight children, Costigan grew up in Preston, a suburb of Melbourne and was educated by the Jesuits at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne, and at the University of Melbourne, where he obtained a law degree. He was admitted as a solicitor in Victoria in 1953 and became a barrister in 1957. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in Victoria in 1973, and was admitted to practise throughout Australia and in Ireland. Costigan was the twin brother of Michael Costigan, a writer and editor; and an older brother of Peter Costigan, Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1999 to 2001. Messenger describes him as truly decent person who persevered in the "cesspool of politics" because that is where the most good can be done for the most pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard McGarvie
Richard Elgin McGarvie, (21 May 1926 – 24 May 2003) was a judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1976 to 1992, and the 24th Governor of Victoria from 1992 to 1997. Early life McGarvie was born and brought up on his parents' dairy farm at Pomborneit East in Victoria. After finishing first place at Camperdown High School, he entered the Royal Australian Navy in 1944, training at and serving on the destroyer, . The Second World War ended before he saw active service. He served with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan and was discharged as an able seaman in 1946. McGarvie joined the Australian Labor Party in 1949 and took a leading role in the dismissal of its Victorian socialist-left dominated Central Executive by bringing about federal intervention. Legal career McGarvie studied law at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 1950, winning the Supreme Court Prize for the top honours student of the year. Joining the Victorian Bar in 1952, he became Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Button (Australian Politician)
John Norman Button (30 June 19338 April 2008) was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. He was notable for the Button car plan, which involved downsizing and eventually ending Australia's car industry by reducing tariffs and government protection. Early life Button was born on 30 June 1932 in Ballarat, Victoria. He was the second of three children born to Dorothy Marion (née Grubb) and Clifford Norman Button. His father was a Presbyterian minister who was moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in the early 1940s. Button attended Geelong College where he was active in the debating club and editor of the school newspaper and magazine. He went on to study law at the University of Melbourne, attending Ormond College. After graduating he briefly worked as a law clerk with Maurice Blackburn & Co., then travelled to Italy to study Italian at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. He joined the Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Northcote
The electoral district of Northcote is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the suburbs of Alphington, Fairfield, Northcote, Thornbury, and part of Preston. It lies on the northern bank of the Yarra River between the Merri and Darebin creeks. The seat was created in 1927 as a replacement for Jika Jika, and has been a safe Labor seat for most of its existence. It has only been held by seven members. The seat's most historically prominent member is 34th Premier John Cain (senior). Upon Cain's death in 1957, he was succeeded by Frank Wilkes, who went on to become state Labor leader from 1977 to 1981. Former ABC newsreader Mary Delahunty was elected in a 1998 by-election. As the electorate was safe for the Labor Party, the Liberals declined to nominate a candidate. However, partly due to the presence of a One Nation candidate, the Liberals took the unusual step of campaigning for the Australian Democrats, issuing a ' How to Vote Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Law Reform Commission
The Australian Law Reform Commission (often abbreviated to ALRC) is an Australian independent statutory body established to conduct reviews into the law of Australia. The reviews, also called inquiries or references, are referred to the ALRC by the Attorney-General for Australia. Based on its research and consultations throughout an inquiry, the ALRC makes recommendations to government so that government can make informed decisions about law reform. The ALRC is part of the Attorney-General's portfolio; however it is an independent statutory authority constituted under the ''Australian Law Reform Commission Act 1996'' (Cth), and the ''Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013'' (PGPA Act). As an independent agency, it is able to undertake research, consultations and legal policy development, and to make recommendations to the Parliament, without fear or favour. The ALRC's objective is to make recommendations for law reform that: * bring the law into line wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Council Of Australia
The Law Council of Australia, founded in 1933, is an association of law societies and bar associations from the states and territories of Australia, and the peak body representing the legal profession in Australia. The Law Council represents more than 65,000 lawyers across Australia ">ref name=":0">and has its national base in Canberra. History The Law Council was formed in 1933 to unite the various state legal associations to represent the profession at a national level and at an international level. Gordon Hughes, a former President of the Law Council, has written a book on the Law Council's history titled ''The Law Council of Australia – the People, the Profession and the Institutions.'' List of presidents List of presidents of the Law Council of Australia: *1933: Herbert Mayo *1934: Richard Clive Teece *1935: John Latham *1936: Francis George Villeneuve Smith *1937: Richard Teece (2nd term) *1938: William Butler *1939: Alec McGill *1940: Reginald Bonney *1941� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Institute Of Victoria
The Law Institute Victoria (LIV) is a legal society in the Australian state of Victoria. It is the professional association for solicitors in Victoria, making rules to regulate their practice, and representing them to governments and other bodies. The institute was founded in 1859. History On 22 March 1859, a group of 26 solicitors in Melbourne founded the institute at a meeting. The first president was David Ogilvy. From 1859, the institute's offices were located in Collins Street, and in 1883 the offices were relocated to the law courts complex in Lonsdale Street. In 1905, Flos Greig became the first woman to be admitted to practise as a solicitor in Victoria, and shortly after, was the first female member of the institute. In 1927, the first issue of the ''Law Institute Journal'' (LIJ) was published by the institute. In 1933, the institute became a constituent member of the newly formed Law Council of Australia. In 1947, the ''Legal Profession Practice Act 1946'', an act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotch College, Melbourne
Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spring Street, Melbourne, by the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria at the urging of James Forbes. It is the oldest extant secondary school in Victoria and celebrated its sesquicentenary in 2001. Scotch is a founding member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS), and is affiliated with the International Boys' Schools Coalition (IBSC), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV), and the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The School is a member of the Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools. An investigation by ''The Age'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in 2021 found that Scotch is one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northcote High School
Northcote High School is a co-educational, state secondary school in Northcote, Victoria, Australia. It is situated at the southern end of the City of Darebin, on St Georges Road. The school teaches from Years 7 to 12 and has a current population of 1,793 students. Northcote High has a large music and science program, and has been recognised as a significant leader in the use of learning technologies in the classroom. History Northcote High School was established in 1926 as a co-educational secondary school, one of the first six to be established in Melbourne by the Government of Victoria. The school owes its establishment largely to agitation led by John Cain, Northcote City Councillor and later Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Jika Jika, with support from the headmasters of nearby Northcote (Helen Street) Primary School and Wales Street Primary School. Cain's repeated efforts to establish a school to provide secondary education for the then predominantly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
