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Minister Of Justice (Victoria)
The Minister for Corrections is a minister within the Executive Council of Victoria. Ministers See also * Minister for Corrections (New South Wales) Reference list Corrections In criminal justice, particularly in North America, correction, corrections, and correctional, are umbrella terms describing a variety of functions typically carried out by government agencies, and involving the punishment, treatment, and s ... 1861 establishments in Australia Ministries established in 1861 Prisons ministers of Australia Long stubs with short prose {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enver Erdogan
Enver Erdogan is an Australian politician and Victorian Government Minister. He has been a Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since August 2019, representing Southern Metropolitan Region from 2019 to November 2022, and Northern Metropolitan Region from November 2022. He currently serves as Minister for Minister for Casino, Gaming and Liquor Regulation (Victoria), Casino, Gaming, and Liquor Regulation, Minister for Minister for Corrections (Victoria), Corrections, Minister for Youth Justice (Victoria), Youth Justice. Biography Erdogan was first elected in August 2019 when he was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Philip Dalidakis's resignation. On 26 June 2020, he became Chair of the Legislative Council's Standing Committee on the Economy and Infrastructure. On 25 June 2022, Premier Daniel Andrews appointed Erdogan as Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney General. On 5 December 2022, Erdogan was elevated to C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vale (politician)
William "Cherry" Vale, (3 June 1914 – 29 November 1981) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. He was credited with 30 enemy aircraft shot down, shared in the destruction of three others, and claimed 6 damaged and another two shared damaged. His 20 kills achieved while flying the Hawker Hurricane and his 10 with the Gloster Gladiator made him the second highest scoring Hurricane and biplane pilot in the RAF, in both cases after Marmaduke Pattle. Early life and career Born in Chatham, Kent, William Vale entered the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1931 as a fitter and then as a gunner. His RAF service number was 565293. In 1935 he was posted to No. 33 Squadron RAF in Egypt, equipped with the Hawker Hart. In 1936 he began training as a pilot at No. 4 Flying Training School, Abu Suwayr. He returned as a sergeant pilot to No. 33 Squadron in late 1937. In March 1938 the unit converted to the Gloster Gladiator. Second World War Combat operations B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Victorian Division)
The Victorian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), and branded as Liberal Victoria, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP) and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. The party sits on the Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing of the Politics of Australia, Australian political spectrum, and is currently led by Brad Battin. There was a #Old Liberal Party Victorian Division, previous Victorian division of the Liberal Party formed in March 1945, but it ceased to exist when the LCP was established four years later. History Background Robert Menzies, who was the Prime Minister of Australia between 1939 and 1941, founded the Liberal Party during a conference held in Canberra in October 1944, uniting many non-Labor political organisations, including the United Australia Party (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew McIntosh (Australian Politician)
Andrew John McIntosh (born 5 April 1955) is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014, representing the seat of Kew. Early life McIntosh was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and raised in North Balwyn, attending Bellevue Primary School. He later attended Melbourne Grammar School 1965–73. He received a Bachelor of Economics in 1978 from The Australian National University, a Bachelor of Laws in 1981 from the University of Tasmania, and a Certificate of Mediation in 1998 from Bond University. He began practising as a lawyer in 1982, and was called to the bar in 1985. He was an Associate of the former Chief Justice of Victoria. He is married with one son. Political career McIntosh had joined the Liberal Party in 1982, and had been active in local branches. In 1999 he was preselected as the Liberal candidate for Kew, a safe seat being vacated by sitting member Jan Wade. He was duly elected, and was appointed Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cameron (Victorian Politician)
Robert Graham Cameron (born 19 March 1963) is a former Australian state politician. He represented the electorate of Bendigo West in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He served as the Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Corrections (2006–2010 in the third Bracks Ministry and the Brumby Government). He attended Golden Square High School from 1976 to 78, Bendigo Senior High School from 1979 to 80 and later he also attended the University of Melbourne where he obtained a law degree in 1984. He practiced as a solicitor in Bendigo from 1985 until he was first elected to Parliament in 1996. In the first Bracks Ministry (1999–2002), Bob Cameron was the Minister for Local Government, WorkCover and TAC. In the second Bracks Ministry (2002–2006) he was Minister for Agriculture . While Minister for Local Government, he sacked the then-controversial Melbourne City Council. As WorkCover Minister he reintroduced common law rights for seriously injured work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Holding
Timothy James Holding (born 21 August 1972) is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2013. He served as minister for water; minister for finance, WorkCover and the Transport Accident Commission; and minister for tourism and major events in the Brumby Ministry. Early life Holding was educated at Haileybury College and the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in 1997. From the early 1990s he was active in the Australian Labor Party and Young Labor; being elected President of Australian Young Labor in 1993; working as an electorate officer to state and federal Members of Parliament, and later as an assistant ministerial adviser, including for Senator Robert Ray (Minister for Defence). He served in 126 Signals Squadron of the 1st Commando Regiment in the Australian Army Reserve from 1991 until 1993. Political career Local government Holding served on the City of Waverley council b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andre Haermeyer
Andre Haermeyer (born 20 February 1956, in Oberhausen, West Germany) is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor Party member for Kororoit in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2002, prior to that representing the Yan Yean electorate in Melbourne's north from 1992. He retired from Parliament in 2007, and in 2008 was appointed as the State of Victoria's Commissioner to Europe based in Frankfurt, Germany until 2012. He has since worked as a private consultant in both Europe and Australia and is Deputy Chair of the German Australian Business Council. Career Before being elected to Parliament, Haermeyer worked for the Victorian ALP Head Office and for Senator Robert Ray, a senior federal cabinet minister at the time. Haermeyer was elevated to the shadow ministry in 1993 after helping future Victorian Treasurer and Premier, John Brumby win the party leadership after the sudden resignation of Jim Kennan, as Leader of the Opposition. As shadow minister for Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill McGrath
William Desmond McGrath (3 December 1936 – 22 August 2018) was an Australian politician who was a member of the National Party. He was also a professional Australian rules footballer. McGrath played in the Victorian Football League with South Melbourne under captain-coach Ron Clegg. He played 15 out of 18 games in the 1959 home and away season. He also kicked 18 goals, including five in a win over Richmond at Punt Road, with team-mate Bob Skilton matching his tally. At the end of the year, he returned to his family farm in Minyip but would continue to play and later coach in the Wimmera Football League. In the 1979 state election, McGrath became the member for Lowan in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and then the member for Wimmera in 1992, following a redistribution. In his fourth term, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Agriculture, and after being re-elected in 1992 for a fifth time, he became the Minister for Agriculture. He served in that position until 1996, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Party Of Australia – Victoria
The Victorian National Party, officially known as the National Party of Australia – Victoria, is an Australian political party that serves as the state branch of the federal National Party of Australia, National Party in Victoria (state), Victoria. It represents graziers, farmers, miners and rural voters. It began as a political activity of the Victorian Farmers' Union, Victorian Farmer's Union, which became involved in state politics in 1916. It was then known as the Country Party for many years, until becoming "The Nationals" in 1975. In state parliament it is presently the junior partner in a centre-right Coalition (Australia), Coalition with the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), Liberal Party, forming a joint Opposition bench. The party's leader Danny O'Brien (politician), Danny O'Brien serves as deputy opposition leader, while in government the party's leader serves as Deputy Premier of Victoria. History VFU/Country Party The candidates sponsored by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat McNamara (Australian Politician)
Patrick John McNamara (born Melbourne, 11 August 1949) is a former Australian politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing Benalla for the National Party from 1982 to 2000. From 1988 to 1999, he was leader of the National Party in Victoria and was Deputy Premier of Victoria under Jeff Kennett from 1992 to 1999. He held several ministerial positions in the Kennett government, including Minister for Agriculture and Resources, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Corrections. During his tenure as Deputy Premier, Kennett's Liberals actually held a majority in their own right. Although Kennett did not need the support of McNamara's Nationals, the coalition was retained. Following the defeat of the Liberal-National coalition at the 1999 Victorian election, McNamara resigned the party leadership. A year later, he resigned from parliament, triggering a by-election which resulted in the Nationals losin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)
The Victorian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor, is the Victoria (Australia), Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The party forms the incumbent government in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan, who has served concurrently as Premier of Victoria since 2023. Victorian Labor comprises two major wings: the parliamentary wing and the organisational wing. The parliamentary wing (formally referred to as the State Parliamentary Labor Party) comprises all elected party members in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly and Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, which when they meet collectively constitute the Caucus#In Commonwealth nations, party caucus. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the caucus, and party factions have a strong influence in the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mal Sandon
Malcolm John (Mal) Sandon (born 16 September 1945) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1982 to 1988, representing Chelsea Province, and of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1996, representing the electorate of Carrum. He served as Minister for Corrections and Minister for Police and Emergency Services in the Kirner government from 1990 to 1992. Sandon was born in Chelsea and educated at Chelsea State School and Mordialloc Chelsea High School. He worked in clerical and laboring jobs from 1963 to 1969 before studying a Bachelor of Arts at Simon Fraser University in Canada, graduating in 1972 and winning the Robert Standfield Prize in political science. He was a postgraduate student and part-time tutor in the sociology department at La Trobe University from 1973 to 1976, a lecturer in the department of liberal studies at Swinburne Institute of Technology from 1974 to 1975, and a federal industrial offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
