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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningSteve BracksFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchSteve Bracks44th Premier of VictoriaIncumbentIn #160;office #160;since1999DeputyJohn ThwaitesPreceded #160;byJeff KennettBornOctober 15, 1954Ballarat, VictoriaConstituencyWilliamstownPolitical #160;partyAustralian Labor PartySpouseTerryProfessionSchool commerce teacherReligionRoman CatholicSteve Bracks (born October 15, 1954), Australian politician, has been Premier of Victoria since 1999. He was born Stephen Phillip Bracks in Ballarat, where his family owns a fashion business. He was educated at St Patricks College and the University of Ballarat, where he graduated in business studies and education. Bracks is a Roman Catholic and is partly of Maronite Lebanese descent.Contents1 Early career2 State politics3 References4 External links[edit]Early careerFrom 1976 to 1981 Bracks was a school commerce teacher. During the 1980s he worked in local government in Ballarat and then as Executive Director of the Ballarat Education Centre. While in these positions he twice (1985 and 1988) contested the seat of Ballarat North in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Australian Labor Party.In 1989 Bracks was appointed statewide manager of Victorian state government employment programs, under the Labor government of John Cain. He then became an advisor to Cain, and to Cains successor as Premier, Joan Kirner. Here he was able to witness from the inside the collapse of the Labor government following the economic and budgetary crisis which began in 1988. This experience gave Bracks a very conservative and cautious view of economic management in government.Following the defeat of the Kirner government by the Liberal leader Jeff Kennett in late 1992, Bracks became Executive Director of the Victorian Printing Industry Training Board. He quit this post in 1994 when Kirner resigned from Parliament and Bracks was elected for Kirners seat of Williamstown in the western suburbs of Melbourne, where he now lives with his wife Terry and their three children.[edit]State politicsBracks was immediately elected to Labor front bench, as Shadow Minister for Employment, Industrial Relations and Tourism. In 1996, after Labor under John Brumby was again defeated, he became Shadow Treasurer. In March 1999, when it became apparent that Labor was headed for another defeat under Brumbys leadership, Brumby resigned and Bracks was elected Opposition Leader.Aside from Jeff Kennett himself political observers were almost unanimous that Bracks had no chance of defeating Kennett at the November 1999 election: polls gave Kennett a 60% popularity rating. Bracks and his senior colleagues (particularly Brumby, who comes from Bendigo) campaigned heavily in regional areas, accusing Kennett of ignoring regional communities. In response, voters in regional areas deserted the Ke 29 seats to 42, with the Liberals and their National Party allies retaining 43 and three falling to
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