* Former Victorian State Premier Joan Kirner ;

Bracks ' Treasurer John Brumby was elected unopposed by the Victorian Labor Caucus as Premier, while Attorney-General Rob Hulls was elected Deputy Premier.

The KPMG appointment was controversial, as the Victorian government had awarded the firm over 100 contracts during Bracks ' time as Premier.

* February 1 – Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC ( Victorian Economic Development Co-operation ) Crisis.

The Victorian Railways line came about when Sir Thomas Bent became Premier of the State.

On 2 October 1936, the road was handed to the State Government ; with the deed for the road presented to the Victorian Premier at a ceremony at the Cathedral Rock toll gate.

According to former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks, " We won't be renaming the National Gallery of Victoria.

* Goodlad, Graham, " Salisbury as Premier: Graham Goodlad Asks Whether Lord Salisbury Deserves His Reputation as One of the Great Victorian Prime Ministers ," History Review # 49.

For the first two decades the Australian of the Year was chosen by a panel of five, which included the Victorian Premier, the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne and the President of the National Council for Women.

In 1982 the Victorian council was further sidelined when John Cain ’ s Australian Labor Party created a new Victorian Australia Day Committee within the Premier ’ s Department, which joined the NADC ’ s official national network.

Dandenong Thunder compete in the Victorian Premier League, playing at George Andrews Reserve.

Box Hill Inter Football Club Senior Men's team once competed in the Victorian Premier League.

Now the club only fields juniors and a very successful women's team in the Victorian Women's Premier League.

Since October 1996 the Camberwell Magpies Cricket Club has played in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition.

Victorian Premier James Munro, for example, fled the colony to escape his creditors in 1890, and Queensland Premier Sir Thomas McIlwraith was notoriously corrupt.

* Victorian Premier League, the highest association football ( soccer ) league in Victoria, Australia

On 11 October 2006, the tower was officially opened by then Victorian Premier, Steve Bracks.

He was educated at Skipton primary school and Ballarat Grammar School: he was the last Victorian Premier not to attend a university.

It was the former home of the South Melbourne Football Club and is home to Victorian Premier League team South Melbourne FC.

The team currently competes in the Victorian State League Division 1 which is the third tier in Australia, behind the A-League and the Victorian Premier League.

They currently play in the Victorian Premier League at Bob Jane Stadium, a rectangular stadium built on Lake Oval, the former home ground of the South Melbourne Swans.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

The event was the culmination of civil disobedience in the Ballarat region during the Victorian gold rush with miners objecting to the expense of a Miner's Licence, taxation ( via the licence ) without representation and the actions of the government and its agents ( the police and military ) The local rebellion in Ballarat grew from a Ballarat Reform League movement and culminated in organised battle at the stockades against colonial forces.

At the end of the 1896 season Essendon along with seven other clubs formed the Victorian Football League.

; The Forgotten Futures Compendium: Two long adventures, Curse of the Leopardmen by Alex Stewart and The League of Extraordinary Geometers ( a crossover with The Original Flatland RPG ) by Marcus Rowland, plus adventure outlines based on Victorian and Edwardian advertising by Marcus Rowland.

The club participated in the first football competition in Australia, winning the second season in 1863, was a foundation Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1897.

The Geelong Football Club was among the most powerful in the VFA ( Victorian Football Association ), winning seven VFA premierships up to the birth of the VFL ( Victorian Football League ) in 1897.

The projected cost of $ 100 million was outside what the Melbourne Cricket Club could afford so the Victorian Football League took the opportunity to part fund the project in return for a 30-year deal to share the ground.

Led by Geelong and Essendon, the largest clubs of the VFA formed their own break away league, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), in 1896.

Founded in 1873, the Club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) between 1898 and 1924, and one premiership in 1954 since joining the then-Victorian Football League ( VFL ), the predecessor to the AFL, in 1925.

Footscray was relatively late in joining the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), the predecessor of the AFL.

The are two senior clubs, the Traralgon Maroons ( which briefly competed in the Victorian Football League between 1996 – 1997 ) currently competing in the Gippsland Football League and Traralgon-Tyers United competing in the North Gippsland Football League.

Throughout her career, Freeman regularly competed in the Victorian Athletic League where she won two 400 m races at the Stawell Gift Carnival.

Alan Moore did likewise in his The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book ( and its sequels ) in which various Victorian era literary characters meet and join up with the eponymous League ( though they are not descended from a single family ).

Over the course of the series, the world of the League began to incorporate many works of fiction from many different eras — not just Victorian literature — into its universe.

According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a " Justice League of Victorian England " but quickly grew into an opportunity to merge several works of fiction into one world.

The Australian Football League ( which was then known as the Victorian Football League ) was the first league to introduce regular finals when the league was established in 1897.

In spite of this, the club was invited to join the breakaway Victorian Football League competition in 1897.

Since 2003, the Carlton Football Club has been affiliated with the Northern Blues Football Club in the Victorian Football League.

Leading painter of Spey salmon of the Victorian era