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	Encyclopedia: Joan Kirner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kirner was born Joan Hood in Melbourne and was educated at state and private schools and at the University of Melbourne, where she graduated in arts and completed a teaching qualification.
		Kirner was one of the leaders of the movement in the Labor Party to adopt a policy of setting targets for the number of women candidates in winnable electorates.
		Joan Jett (2003) Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin on September 22, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American rock and roll guitarist, singer, and actress best known for her hit I Love Rock N Roll, which was #1 on the Billboard charts from March 20th to May 8th, 1982.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joan-Kirner (2039 words)

	Joan Kirner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kirner was born Joan Hood in Melbourne and was educated at state and schools and at the University of Melbourne where she graduated in arts and a teaching qualification.
		In 1982 she was elected as a Labor of the Victorian Legislative Council the upper house of the Victorian In 1985 she was elected to the Cabinet John Cain's Labor government and became Minister for Forests and Lands.
		Kirner was one of the leaders the movement in the Labor Party to a policy of setting targets for the of women candidates in winnable electorates.
	www.freeglossary.com /Joan_Kirner (869 words)

	Joan Kirner - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Joan Elizabeth Kirner (born 20 June 1938), Australian politician, was the first woman Premier of Victoria.
		In 1985 she was elected to the Cabinet of John Cain's Labor government and became Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands.
		In October 1992 Kirner faced an election which the opinion polls gave her no chance of winning.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Joan_Kirner (702 words)

	Joan Kirner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Joan Kirner was the leader of the Opposition from 1992 –1994 and then resigned from Parliament.
		Joan Kirner was appointed Chair of Employment Services Regulatory Authority from 1994-6 and Chair of the National Committee to Celebrate the Centenary of Federation in 1994.
		Joan continues her active role in the community in the area of social justice, equity for women, the arts and landcare.
	www.apesma.asn.au /women/conference/2002/joan_kirner.htm (265 words)

	ABC Radio National: Big Ideas - 18 August 2002 - The Wisdom Interviews: Joan Kirner
		Joan Kirner is the former Labor Premier of Victoria from 1990-1992.
		Joan Kirner: The one that comes to mind, about having to really sort this out, was when I had to sell—well, when I had to make the decision and try and take Victorians with me, and my Cabinet—to sell the State Bank, which was absolutely an icon of Victoria, and rightly so.
		Joan Kirner: My connection with the church goes back to being sent to Sunday School and being really active in what was then the Presbyterian fellowship of a lot of other terrific people, some of whom became ministers and activists in the anti Vietnam movement.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/bigidea/stories/s638232.htm (6118 words)

	Joan Kirner - Saxton Speaker Bureau
		Hon Joan Kirner AM Joan Kirner co-wrote with Moira Rayner, the best-selling “The Women's Power Handbook” which was published by Penguin in May 1999.
		In 1980 Joan Kirner was awarded an AM by the Fraser Government for her contribution to community services.
		From July 1994 to December 1996, Joan was the Chair of the Employment Services Regulatory Authority (ESRA) and a member of the Board of NETTFORCE and the Aids Trust of Australia.
	www.saxton.com.au /default.asp?sd8=1814&pn8=true (387 words)

	Joan Kirner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Joan Elizabeth Kirner (born 20 June 1938), (The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines) Australian politician, was the first woman (The person who is head of state (in several countries)) Premier of (A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally) Victoria.
		Kirner joined the (Click link for more info and facts about Australian Labor Party) Australian Labor Party in 1978 and became a member of its Socialist Left faction.
		Among her advisors at this time was (Click link for more info and facts about Steve Bracks) Steve Bracks, who later succeeded her as MP for Williamstown and who became Premier in 1999.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Jo/Joan_Kirner.htm (742 words)

	Joan Kirner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kirner era capilla nata de Joan en Melbourne y era educado en el estado y las escuelas privadas y en la universidad de Melbourne, en donde ella graduó en artes y terminó una calificación de enseñanza.
		Kirner permanecía encendido como líder de oposición por un período corto, después dimitió.
		Kirner era uno de los líderes del movimiento en el partido laborista para adoptar una política de fijar las metas para el número de los candidatos de las mujeres en electorados winnable.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/jo/Joan%20Kirner.htm (741 words)

	Joan Kirner - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		Kirner was born Joan Hood in Melbourne and was educated at state and private schools and at the University_of_Melbourne, where she graduated in arts and completed a teaching qualification.
		In 1982 she was elected as a Labor member of the Victorian_Legislative_Council, the upper house of the Victorian Parliament.
		In 1985 she was elected to the Cabinet of John_Cain's Labor government and became Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands.
	www.erdmond.com /Joan_Kirner.html (646 words)

	Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		During the first 12 months of the Joan Kirner administration there was a savage increase in the cost of Government to Victorian families.
		One of Mrs Kirner's first acts as Premier was to repudiate the "Premier's Pledge" which was the central commitment upon which Labor was re-elected in 1988.
		With Joan Kirner at the helm, a basket of "Premier's Pledge" services cost the typical family $8.41 more every week than it did in the year before she took over.
	vic.liberal.org.au /AbouttheParty/History/CainandKirner.htm (923 words)

	Joan Kirner
		Joan Kirner was an ex-schoolteacher who became Victoria's first female Premier.
		It would be fair to say that the Australian Labor Party handed her a "poisoned chalice", given the massive unpopularity of the Cain government (see John Cain Jr.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joan_Kirner.html (103 words)

	Young Women's Leadership Seminar - Parliament of Victoria
		Joan Kirner, A.M. Joan Kirner told the girls the story of how she became involved in politics as a young mother, trying to improve teacher-student ratios at her son’s school.
		Joan urged the girls to work with and for others when they wanted to change something in their community.
		As a leader, one needs to be aware of the context in which a particular issue is being played out, so Joan encouraged the girls to continue their education and keep up to date with current affairs.
	www.parliament.vic.gov.au /education/ywls/images/15November2001/joan.html (143 words)

	Encyclopedia: Robert Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Liberal Party, under Jeff Kennett, won government, defeating Joan Kirner.
		Following the election, Doyle was immediately placed on the Crime Prevention Committee, and several other taskforces, particularly in the area of health..
		Hon Jeff Kennett Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 2 March 1948), Australian politician, was Premier of Victoria from 1992 to 1999.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Doyle (775 words)

	Converse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Joan Kirner, former Premier of Victoria and member of the Heather Osland Support Group, said today that she and many other women and men across Victoria were devastated by the Victorian Government's decision, on advice from a panel of 3 QCs, not to grant Heather Osland a compassionate release from prison.
		Ms Kirner concluded, "It is a great pity that the matter was not referred to Cabinet so that the women in Cabinet could be part of a decision which is so important to the women of Victoria.
		Ms Kirner is in New Zealand for a Conference for the next 10 days, as of this morning.
	www.converse.com.au /Opinion/1kirner.htm (637 words)

	Joan Kirner: representing the interests of women? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kirner's government did not support state-funded, home-based child-care workers, who were paid as low as $2 an hour, when they sought recognition as workers under the award system.
		The expansion of the Mobil refinery in Williamstown, Kirner's electorate, was given the go-ahead in 1992, despite widespread concern from the residents.
		It was hypocritical to allow Joan Kirner to chair a rally calling for an end to violence against women when her government was, at least partially, responsible for perpetrating it.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1994/167/167p13.htm (870 words)

	Visions for a Nation: Kirner transcript
		Joan Kirner graduated as an English, History and Social Studies teacher from Melbourne University in 1958.
		Joan Kirner entered the Victorian Parliament in 1982 as a member of the Cain Government.
		Joan Kirner was Leader of the Opposition from 1992-1994 and then resigned from Parliament.
	www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au /speeches/kirner.htm (2350 words)

	Women's Suffrage : Women & Politics in South Australia
		"Seize the moment" Joan Kirner, one of Australia's first woman Premiers, urged the crowd of young people in an Adelaide pub during a break in her commitments at the International Conference "Women Power and Politics" in October 1994.
		But Joan Kirner is serious about the need for more women in powerful positions in business and government.
		As chair of the Centenary of Federation Advisory Committee, Joan Kirner said she had noticed a receptive audience to the idea of seizing the moment.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /women_and_politics/suffr7.htm (1760 words)

	Women about the House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Carmen Lawrence and Joan Kirner are the only women to have made it as Premiers of Australian States.
		Well, perhaps they did not make it so much as were merely elevated to the position by desperate men keen to boost Labor's fortunes at a time when they never had a hope in hell of winning the next election anyway.
		Unfortunately, although Joan saw the error of a life of crime and went a long way towards trying to right the wrongs, and making restitution for the damage done, she never did manage to pull off a political miracle!
	www.zip.com.au /~rocket/articles/lead10.htm (693 words)

	Joan Kirner Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	Steve Bracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		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 Kirner's seat of Williamstown in the western suburbs of Melbourne, where he now lives with his wife Terry and their three children.
	www.wikiverse.org /steve-bracks (948 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jeff Kennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hawthorn Football Club logo The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed The Hawks, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL).
		Joan Kirner Joan Elizabeth Kirner (born 20 June 1938), Australian politician, was the first female Premier of Victoria.
		List of Premiers of Victoria Before the 1890s there was no formal party system in Victoria.
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	EMILY's List Australia - New Co-Convenor, Joan Kirner steps out
		Joan Kirner today celebrated her last day as a Founder and Co-Convenor for nine years of EMILY's List Australia with EMILY's List action on two key issues for women: the right to choose and pay equity.
		Ms Kirner said: “It's important for women to be in the front line to defend our workplace rights to a fair wage and fair conditions”.
		Joan Kirner and the incoming Co-Convenor of EMILY's List, Michelle O'Byrne, called on the women of Victoria and the Government of Victoria to support the Royal Women's Hospital in its fight to protect the rights of the patient to privacy of her medical records.
	www.emilyslist.org.au /news/editorial.asp?id=198 (336 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Kirner
		Kate Kirner, who runs the community-based Williamstown Child Care Centre, estimates the cost to families after a pay rise for workers could be as much as $177...
		One advertiser, Robert Kirner of Kirner Insurance in Bloomfield, said he paid $600 this year for an ad flashed every 23 minutes at MVC offices in Newark...
		Alderman Dan Kirner, D-25th Ward, has seen improvements in properties where the program has been used in his ward.
	www.nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/K/Kirner.shtml (399 words)

	John Cain Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The collapse of the Pyramid Building Society was also distastrous, especially for its home city, Geelong and this contributed to the government's woes despite its lack of association with the private firm.
		John Cain and Robert Jolly (the Treasurer) were perceived to be responsible for much of the economic disaster and the leadership of the Labor Party and the Premiership was passed onto Joan Kirner.
		After leaving Parliament, Cain lectured in politics at the University of Melbourne.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_cain_jr_.html (198 words)

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	Kirner, Joan Elizabeth - Australian Women Biographical entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1990, Kirner was elected the first woman Premier for the State of Victoria, a position she held for two years.
		Kirner entered the Victorian Parliament in 1982 as a MLC (ALP) for the Province of Melbourne West.
		She served as Deputy Premier from 1989-1990 and in 1992 became the leader of the Opposition.
	www.nfaw.org /archive-p/biogs/AWE0359b.htm (303 words)

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