Labor won the 2002 election in a landslide, taking 62 seats out of 88 in the Legislative Assembly -- only the third time in Victoria's history that a Labor government had been reelected.

The Little Desert debate galvanised Victoria's conservation movement into forming a peak body, the Conservation Council of Victoria and the conservative Victorian government of Henry Bolte to adopt environmental policies, such as establishing the Land Conservation Council to systematically and independently review all future public land use across the state.

" Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, was an enthusiastic promoter of the self-financing exhibition ; the government was persuaded to form the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to establish the viability of hosting such an exhibition.

After World War II, a new era of increasing prosperity arrived, fuelled by high prices for Victoria's wool, increased government spending on transport and education, and the stimulus of renewed high immigration.

Despite this, Victoria's government bought some boats to form the basis of the first Mexican Navy.

Philip Shanahan ( 1999 – 2005 ) was Darebin's longest serving Chief Executive Officer, and Victoria's most experienced local government Chief Executive.

Since the early 1970s the Shire has undergone tremendous population growth and as of 2006, Melton is one of Victoria's fastest growing local government areas along with neighbouring Wyndham.

On 25 October 1955 and 1 October 1978, it annexed part of the south riding of the Shire of Warrnambool, expanding its area progressively to by the time of Victoria's local government amalgamations.

In 1993, the new Kennett Liberal government announced a program of local government reform, in which many of Victoria's 210 councils were to be amalgamated.

Victoria's first magistrates ' court, public hospital, postal service and government printing office were established in Sorrento.

* State Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research Guide Guide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about the Black Friday fires.

Victoria's finances were in a poor state and he was forced to introduce a tariff bill to provide government revenue, despite his adherence to British free trade principles.

Victoria's train and tram networks were privatised in 1999 under the Jeff Kennett government.

* There are many Bicycle User Groups ( BUGs ) around the city usually associated with the local government area or other locality ; check with a local council or on Bicycle Victoria's page for details.

In 1877, Victoria's colonial government resolved to make the Yarra more navigable and engaged English engineer Sir John Coode to devise a solution.

Thanks to that collaboration, Victoria's government came victorious in the Fredonian Rebellion.

However, reassured to some degree by Deakin's composite stand as an Australian Briton, McLean sent him to London in January 1900 as Victoria's representative in negotiations with the British government.

McLeod expected to become Premier, but instead the acting Governor, Sir John Madden, sent for the Labor leader, George Elmslie, who formed Victoria's first Labor government.

In 2005, Bracks announced that Victorian cattlemen would be banned from using Victoria's " High Plains " to graze cattle, ending a 170 year tradition.

The King, aggrieved at what he took to be disrespect from the Duchess to his wife, bluntly announced in the presence of Adelaide, the Duchess, Victoria and many guests, that the Duchess was " incompetent to act with propriety ", that he had been " grossly and continually insulted by that person ", and that he hoped to have the satisfaction of living beyond Victoria's age of majority, so that the Duchess of Kent would never be Regent.

On 1 May 2007, it was announced that Bündchen had ended her contract with Victoria's Secret.

At this time, Antiskeptic announced a reunion tour of Australia ; combining club shows with festivals, including headlining performances at Easterfest in Toowoomba ( Queensland ) with P. O. D., Rapture Ruckus and Mercyme in April 2012, and Victoria's Forest Edge Music Festival with Ivoryline in March 2012.

On 26 July 2005 Victoria's Public Advocate, Julian Gardner, announced that the feeding tube to Maria Korp would cease to be used for providing artificial nutrition and hydration, that palliative care would be implemented and that she was expected to die within 7 – 14 days.

The substantial redevelopment of the castle in the subsequent decade and Queen Victoria's residence from 1840, as well as the coming of two railways in 1849, signalled the most dramatic changes in the town's history.

Our TAFEs Matter is the campaign to promote Victoria's TAFE system, which is being undermined by changes in funding systems by the Victorian Government.

The coming of Prince Albert led to significant changes in Victoria's household.

At the exact time of Victoria's " execution " she once again changes places with Phyllis, who dies in her place.

In 1852, in Amsterdam under the personal supervision of Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, and the technical direction of James Tennant, the diamond was cut from 186 1 / 16 carats ( 37. 21 g ) to its current 105. 602 carats ( 21. 61 g ) to increase its brilliance.

University of Victoria's MBA program is consistently ranked among the top 10 of its kind in the nation.

The Indian associations of Osborne House also include its housing a collection of paintings of Indian persons and scenes, painted at Queen Victoria's request by Rudolf Swoboda.

She was a primary lingerie and hosiery model for the relatively new Victoria's Secret company in its mail-order catalogs and retail stores in the 1980s, and she appeared extensively in the catalogs.

* January 25 — The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter " Vicky ," the Princess Royal, to Prince Friedrich of Prussia, leading to its becoming popular wedding music.

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway extended its line from Ordsall, near the original Manchester Liverpool Road railway station, and its trains operated from Victoria's western end from 4 May 1844.

At the end of Lumley Road is the town's prominent clock tower, its most well-recognised landmark, built in 1898-99 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee back in 1897 and funded through public subscription and along side the towns " Jolly Fisherman " mascot is the most recognised symbol of Skegness although its official name is the Diamond Jubilee Clock Tower it is simply referred by locals and holiday makers as " The Clock Tower ".

Since Queen Victoria's reign the company has enjoyed a special connection with the Royal Family, several of whom are members of the its livery today ; Prince Charles was installed on 10 May 2011 as Prime Warden for 2011-12, and was appointed Permanent Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights on 16 February 2012, succeeding his father, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, in this role.

Since its inauguration in 1928, most members of the royal family, except for Kings and Queens, have been interred in the Royal Burial Ground, a cemetery behind Queen Victoria's mausoleum.

Both the Small Orb and its larger counterpart rested on Queen Victoria's coffin in 1901.

On 15 December 1994, during major restructuring of Victoria's local governments, Werribee changed less than most-losing only some rural land around Exford in its north to the Shire of Melton, and Laverton Reserve on its eastern boundary to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Some of its 100 + stores include The Limited, Express, Victoria's Secret, The Gap, RadioShack, Payless Shoesource, The Children's Place, Hollister, and Bath and Body Works.

Mildura is a major agricultural centre notable for its grape production, supplying 80 % of Victoria's grapes.

The single visit scarcely justified the " Old Vic " its later billing as " Queen Victoria's Own Theayter ".

Now a housing estate, in its heyday at the beginning of the 20th century it was one of Victoria's premier race tracks.

The distinctive Byzantine-style domed Greek Orthodox Cathedral is on Mount Victoria's western flank, St Gerard's Church and Monastery is on its north-western flank, while the Basin Reserve sports stadium and National War Memorial lie near its foot.

During the same period, Seymour was a primary lingerie and hosiery model for the relatively new Victoria's Secret company in its mail-order catalogs and retail stores.

The group's music appeared in several television commercials over the course of the year ; among the companies to license its music were Sony, Nissan, and Victoria's Secret, which used " The Desperate Man " in a lingerie commercial featuring Heidi Klum.