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	Steve Bracks interview - VicElection06News - Victoria Votes - theage.com.au
		STEVE BRACKS: Well, there are implications, and obviously anything that touches a trading corporation could be, on the first reading of the High Court decision, deemed to be controlled by the Federal Government.
		STEVE BRACKS: Well, you've got to remember that every document, every contract, every detail in relation to business has a feasibility study in the public sector, and it is audited and checked by the Auditor-General.
		STEVE BRACKS: Well, we set up the Growing Victoria Reserve when we came to government; whereas the previous government had a policy that the surplus was totally for use for debt retirement.
	www.theage.com.au /news/vicelection06news/steve-bracks-interview/2006/11/17/1163266771968.html (5962 words)

	Steve Bracks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bracks is a Roman Catholic and is partly of Maronite Lebanese descent.
		Bracks, according to critics, achieved little, and lost the excitement of constant change that was characteristic of the Kennett years.
		In May 2003 Bracks broke an election promise and announced that the proposed Scoresby Freeway in Melbourne's eastern suburbs would be a tollway rather than a freeway, as promised at the 2002 elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Bracks (1245 words)

	Steve Bracks' pitch to parents \| Herald Sun
		A $1.9 billion promise to overhaul hundreds of run-down schools headlined Premier Steve Bracks' bid for a third term in power during a campaign launch in Ballarat yesterday.
		Mr Bracks used Labor's launch to pledge cash for schools, childcare and mental health in a pitch aimed at families.
		Steve Bracks has the runs on the board and the issues that cut through for Victorians," he said.
	www.news.com.au /heraldsun/story/0,21985,20751470-5008560,00.html (1091 words)

	Bracks Watch: March 2006
		While the Bracks government while blame a generla economic slowdown, the reality is that with the global and national economies stronger than they have been for years, it is not the broader economy, but the Bracks' restrictive approach to development that is stopping Victorians from building new houses.
		Bracks can no longer be trusted to not offend others in Australia, even with his droves of minders escorting him around Victoria and the rest of the country.
		Serious topics however, such as abortion [See The Age: Bracks steps in to quash abortion vote] are not for discussion however, at least not in an election year when their discussion risks requiring Bracks to actually say something of substance and conviction.
	brackswatch.blogspot.com /2006_03_01_brackswatch_archive.html (2632 words)

	Interview: Steve Bracks
		STEVE BRACKS: Well this is consistent with the approach that I took to the last COAG meeting.
		STEVE BRACKS: Well the estimates from the modelling which has been undertaken from the Department of Treasury and Finance shows that it's about $65 billion extra per year, per annum, by 2015.
		STEVE BRACKS: Well, as I mentioned, one of the targets in education is a clear one.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_1846.asp (2141 words)

	PM - Steve Bracks disendorses two MPs
		Steve Bracks also blasted Tayfun Erin for performing poorly and missing Party functions and parliamentary sittings.
		STEVE BRACKS: I want to make sure I have the highest quality candidates in every seat who'll be of high quality and again select a high quality candidate for those seats, and I want high quality candidates there for the future.
		STEVE BRACKS: A fantastic football player, of course, and in his own profession, an architect, who has started off his profession very well.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s48210.htm (705 words)

	Steve Bracks' Labor Government screws up on water restrictions and dams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Apparently Premier Steve Bracks doubles as the Labor Government's leading atmospheric scientist, making him the foremost weather expert in the suburb of Williamstown, where he lives.
		In the ad Bracks told us that it's useless building further dams or catchment areas because we greedy city dwellers would only be taking water away from the farmers if we did that.
		Because the Bracks Government has kowtowed to a bunch of greenie lunatics who won't be happy until most of us (except them) have had their living standards savagely reduced.
	www.brookesnews.com /042106_labor_party.html (645 words)

	Otway Ranges Environment Network
		The Bracks Government will end the logging of native forests in the Otways within six years and immediately reduce timber harvesting and woodchipping in the area by more than a quarter, the Premier, Steve Bracks, announced today.
		Mr Bracks said the Government would allocate $14 million for the Otways plan, to enable the transition from logging in native forests to logging in plantations, as well as providing worker assistance for those who wish to leave the industry.
		Mr Bracks said logging and woodchipping in the Wombat Forest was due to drop by at least 70 per cent by the end of the year under the government's timber licence buyback plan.
	www.oren.org.au /oren/news/bracks.htm (1652 words)

	Australia: Bracks government--a "common agenda" with Howard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Premier Steve Bracks harps on the dark days of the conservative Liberal government of the 1990s, which closed hundreds of schools, destroyed 70,000 public sector jobs and accelerated privatisations.
		Bracks has been intimately involved in all the attacks on fundamental civil liberties in the name of combating terrorism.
		Bracks has also displayed his readiness to override residents’ and scientists’ concerns about environmental dangers to move toward permitting the deep dredging of Port Philip Bay to accommodate super cargo ships and the building of a toxic dump near the rural city of Mildura.
	wsws.org /articles/2006/nov2006/brac-n14.shtml (1958 words)

	Australian Labor Party: Steve Bracks And Labor - Standing Up For Victorian Families
		Steve Bracks is standing up for Victorian families, investing in the services that matter, fighting against extreme workplace laws and tackling the challenges of the future.
		Steve Bracks and his team have done a lot to turn around Victoria’s schools, hospitals and police force – and they thoroughly deserve another term to continue governing for Victorian families.
		Steve Bracks has a plan for Victoria’s future – a future built on core services that matter.
	www.alp.org.au /media/1006/msloo311.php (229 words)

	Bracks bolts out of the ballot blocks - smh.com.au
		And a quick start it is. In sharp contrast to the cautious, managerial and non-confrontational style of his administration, the Labor leader picked the first possible opportunity under the electoral laws to seek a new term.
		While Mr Bracks was asserting in his poll announcement the need for stable government in Victoria, critics say his timing has more to do with electoral expediency than political altruism.
		And as Mr Bracks pointed out yesterday, it is not as if the Government has a buffer of seats to fall back upon.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/04/1036308257693.html (685 words)

	IPA in the News \| Bracks' Luck Will Be a Test
		When Mr Bracks won the unwinnable election three years ago he inherited a booming economy, a growing population and state finances with little debt, efficient services and a massive $1.7 billion operating surplus.
		While the Bracks Government has made an artform of 'behavioural taxes', with traffic fines currently running at about $35 million per month with double digit growth, there is a limit to people's masochism.
		Bracks has had a dream run to date, requiring little real effort to appear to be both fiscally responsible and extremely generous.
	www.ipa.org.au /files/news_322.html (905 words)

	Bracks Blasphemy Law threatens Victorians freedoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Under Premier Bracks’ infamous Dhimmi laws publishing this cartoon in the State of Victoria can be punished by heavy fines and even jail.
		In Bracks’ ever-so tolerant state of Victoria it is now a felony to quote from the Koran — except, of course, if you are a Islamo-fascist who thinks unbelievers deserve to be tortured to death or decapitated outright.
		Bracks’ Blasphemy Law — for that is what it is — is being used by the Islamic Council of Victoria to try and silence critics.
	www.brookesnews.com /062808bracks.html (747 words)

	Transcript of Steve Bracks-Robert Doyle Television Debate [November 8, 2002] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is the transcript of the one-hour televised debate between the Victorian Premier, Steve Bracks, and the Opposition Leader, Robert Doyle.
		Mr Bracks, the last budget the surplus was cut by $500 million isn't it a fact that politics are engaged in a vote buying auction, which potentially is unsustainable.
		Sure, Mr Bracks, um, your government's had some significant gains in health over the past three years but there are two core areas where you seem to be having a little bit of trouble.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/11/02-11-08a.shtml (9512 words)

	Gun Control Australia
		After one full year of governmental power in Victoria the Bracks ALP government have, in GCA's experience, shown themselves to be more evasive, more secretive, more underhanded and more in the grip of the gun lobby than the Kennett Liberal/National government.
		Five months before they were elected a year ago we asked Steve Bracks to discuss the weaknesses in Victoria's gun laws.
		Bracks wrote the briefest two sentence reply to us claiming he was tackling the task.
	www.guncontrol.org.au /index.php?article=41 (456 words)

	Bracks pledges aid for Timorese fight to stay
		Premier Steve Bracks reiterated his support for a special class of humanitarian visa for all East Timorese refugees in Australia, a proposal put to Federal Parliament by Labor.
		State Premier Steve Bracks says they should be allowed to stay, along with their children who are now in school.
		The premier of the Australian state of Victoria, Steve Bracks says Australia should grant 16-hundred East Timorese asylum seekers permanent residency.
	www.etan.org /et2003/march/07/12bracks.htm (590 words)

	The Premier Of Victoria, Australia - Newsroom
		Mr Bracks said the centre, the central feature of a $1 billion urban renewal project along the lower Yarra River bank, would be the only convention centre in the world to have a six-star green energy rating or equivalent when complete.
		Mr Bracks said the planned Convention Centre’s six-star green rating was based on a mix of green initiatives.
		Mr Bracks said the State Government was contributing $370 million to the Convention Centre project to be delivered by the Multiplex/Plenary Consortium.
	www.premier.vic.gov.au /newsroom/news_item.asp?id=867 (698 words)

	Bracks Watch
		SINCE the fire holocaust, Premier Bracks has promised to provide more firefighters by sending them to university for four years to learn how to fight fires, but a better idea is to fully compensate the CFA volunteers, the real firefighters, as other states do.
		Bracks secretly considered building a dam over the Mitchell River, despite publicly announcing his opposition to any form of investment in dams.
		There are damaging revelations emerging from this case, such as the lunch Steve Bracks had with David White, a former ALP health minister and consultant for Tattersalls through Hawker-Britton.
	brackswatch.blogspot.com (2397 words)

	TCS - Press release > Tata Consultancy Services and Communications Research Center Partner to Advance ...
		In the first visit by Victoria's Premier to India, Steve Bracks met with Subramaniam Ramadorai, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services to discuss initiatives designed to enlarge the engagement of Asia's largest IT services firm with the state of Victoria.
		Bracks said "Collaborating with companies such as TCS was part of the State of Victoria's strategy to engage with key players in one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
		Premier Bracks emphasized Victoria's role as the hub of the Australian IT industry and invited TCS to join the state's RFID cluster in Melbourne.
	www.tcs.com /0_media_room/releases/200504april/TCS_Victoria.htm (717 words)

	Premier visits Eltham High
		Premier Steve Bracks today told Year 12 Eltham High School students to use their education as the path to reaching their full potential.
		Mr Bracks said education was his government’s number one priority because of its power to transform lives and strengthen a community and an economy.
		The cluster was established last year as part the Bracks Government’s Schools for Innovation and Excellence initiative.
	www.steveherbertmp.com /pr08.htm (421 words)

	Bracks plea for Timor's refugees in Australia
		Premier Steve Bracks has asked Prime Minister John Howard not to force 1700 asylum seekers to return to East Timor.
		In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Bracks said many of the 1400 East Timorese in Melbourne had no homes to return to and did not want to revisit the scenes of trauma and destruction experienced during the Indonesian occupation.
		Mr Ruddock's spokesman, Steve Ingram, said if there were grounds for using section 417 of the Immigration Act they would be applied on a case-by-case basis, not by group.
	www.etan.org /et2002b/june/01-8/03brack.htm (994 words)

	Australian Labor Party Victoria - Williamstown Member -The Hon Steve Bracks MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Steve Bracks was sworn in as Premier of Victoria on October 20, 1999 and re-elected Premier on November 30, 2002.
		Mr Bracks was Treasurer from October 1999 to May 2000.
		Born in Ballarat in 1954, Mr Bracks was educated at St Patrick’s College in Ballarat and Ballarat University.
	alpvictoria.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=32 (313 words)

	Bracks caught bagging Iemma's leadership
		Victorian Premier Steve Bracks has been accidentally caught out on tape agreeing his NSW counterpart Morris Iemma lacks leadership.
		The embarrassing gaffe was recorded by the Seven Network during a conversation between Mr Bracks and executive director of industry/technology company Tenix Group Robert Salteri at a media function in Melbourne on Wednesday.
		He said the exchange was a private conversation that Mr Bracks had been having with a friend.
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=90397 (373 words)

	Legless in perpetuum » Blog Archive » Bracks = Tax
		Bracks’ land tax grab, which has seen land taxes triple under his watch, continues.
		The Herald Sun reports that Hambleton House, a facility that houses 31 elderly and mentally ill residents, faces a fifteen fold increase in it’s land tax from $2700 two years ago to $45,000 (almost $1500 a resident) this year.
		Rolling in money taken from Victorians, the Bracks government is still obsessed with revenue, gutting our small businesses & charities with exhorbitant increases in land tax and bickering with the Commonwealth about GST revenue.
	www.observationdeck.org /lip/?p=92 (543 words)

	The Border Mail - Premier goes straight on the hustings and into a hospital
		VICTORIAN Premier Steve Bracks has kicked off his election campaign with a stump speech at a public hospital in which he moved to draw a stark contrast between the two major parties.
		Speaking in the hospital foyer, Mr Bracks said there were major differences between the Labor and Liberal parties, giving electors a clear choice.
		But Mr Bracks was forced to defend his Government’s record on service delivery as he took questions when it was revealed the hospital had been put on ambulance bypass yesterday morning.
	www.bordermail.com.au /news/bm/national/501484.html (356 words)

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