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Ian Cover
Ian James Cover (born 31 July 1956) is an Australian radio presenter, comedian, politician and author. He rose to prominence as a founding member of radio sporting comedy group the Coodabeen Champions, entered Victorian state politics in 1996, serving one term as a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and subsequently returned to radio comedy. Cover has also been a radio presenter and newspaper columnist in his own right, and has written three books. Cover was born in Melbourne, and was educated at Bellaire Primary School and Belmont High School in Geelong. He initially worked as a journalist for the ''Geelong Advertiser'' from 1976 until 1981, when he went into radio comedy. He was a founding member of the Coodabeen Champions, and was part of their ''Coodabeens Footy Show'' across three different radio stations: 3RRR, 3AW, and 774 ABC Melbourne. Outside his work with the Coodabeen Champions, he briefly worked as a personal assistant to Liberal MLC Glyn Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coodabeen Champions
The Coodabeen Champions'' (often referred to as "The Coodabeens") are an Australian comedy team with radio programs broadcast on the ACE Radio Network in Melbourne on 1377AM 3MP and sell as across regional Victoria and Southern New South Wales. The ''Coodabeens Footy Show'' is broadcast between 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm. The Coodabeens have been a feature on Melbourne radio for 40 years. Their producer is Andy "Young Andy" Bellairs. On 24 October 2021, The Coodabeen Champions announced on Twitter that their 2022 programme will broadcast on 3MP and Ace Radio Networks, after being at the ABC for over 27 years. ''Coodabeens Footy Show'' The program began in 1981 on 3RRR and has twice moved to 3AW. It is now broadcast primarily on ABC Radio Melbourne and ABC Victoria. It is mainly focused on Australian rules football, with the Coodabeens discussing current sports events and news in a humorous manner, also interviewing numerous retired football players and commentators. Its current member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Victorian State Election
The 1999 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 18 September 1999, was for the 54th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect the 88 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council. The Liberal–National Coalition led by Jeff Kennett and Pat McNamara, which had held majority government since the 1996 election, lost 15 seats and its majority due mainly to a swing against it in rural and regional Victoria. The Labor Party, led by Steve Bracks, although also not having majority of the seats, took government due to support from three rural independents. They decided to back the Labor Party, which gave a working majority in the chamber to a Labor minority government. Bracks was sworn in as Premier of Victoria on 20 October 1999. Results Legislative Assembly Legislative Council The following voting statistics exclude the three mid-term by-elections held on the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Radio (Australia) Journalists And Presenters
ABC Radio may refer to: Australia * History of ABC Radio (Australia), the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) responsible for: ** ABC Classic, a classical music radio station ** ABC Classic 2, an un-presented streaming-only classical music radio station ** ABC Local Radio, a network of local radio stations in Australia ** ABC NewsRadio, a national 24-hour news radio service available on several platforms ** ABC Radio National, an Australia-wide radio network ** ABC Radio Australia, a radio network that broadcasts throughout South-East Asia ** ABC Radio Grandstand, a live sports radio station ** Triple J, a national radio youth network Elsewhere * ABC Audio, a US radio network launched as ABC Radio in 2015 ** ABC News Radio, the radio service of the US ABC News * ABC Radio 1008, radio station broadcast by Asahi Broadcasting Corporation in Osaka, Japan * ABC Radio 760 AM, broadcast by XEABC-AM, a Mexican radio station * ABC Radio (Bangladesh), an FM radio sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council
The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Council: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1851–1853 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1853–1856 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1856–1858 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1858–1860 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1860–1862 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1862–1864 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1864–1866 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1866–1868 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1868–1870 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1870–1872 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1872–1874 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1874–1876 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1876–1878 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1878–1880 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1880–1882 * Membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia Members Of The Parliament Of Victoria
Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * a supporter of liberalism ** Liberalism by country * an adherent of a Liberal Party * Liberalism (international relations) * Sexually liberal feminism * Social liberalism Arts, entertainment and media * ''El Liberal'', a Spanish newspaper published 1879–1936 * ''The Liberal'', a British political magazine published 2004–2012 * ''Liberalism'' (book), a 1927 book by Ludwig von Mises * "Liberal", a song by Band-Maid from the 2019 album '' Conqueror'' Places in the United States * Liberal, Indiana * Liberal, Kansas * Liberal, Missouri * Liberal, Oregon Religion * Religious liberalism * Liberal Christianity * Liberalism and progressivism within Islam * Liberal Judaism (other) See also * * * Liberal arts (other) * Neoliberalism, a political-economic philosophy * The Liberal Wars The Liberal Wars (), also known as the Portuguese Civil War (), the War of the Two Brothers () or Miguelite War (), was a wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Carbines
Elaine Cafferty Carbines (born 4 February 1957) is a former Victorian politician. She was a member of the Labor Party and represented Geelong Province in the Victorian Legislative Council from September 1999 to November 2006. After politics, Carbines became the CEO of the G21 Geelong Regional Alliance from 2010 to 2020. Currently, she is the Deputy Chair of Ports Victoria, G-Force Recruitment and Barwon Water and a Director of Northern Futures and AWA Alliance Bank. Early life Carbines was born in Manchester, England, but moved to Australia in 1968 after completing her elementary schooling. She received her secondary education at Mitcham High School, and studied teaching (BA 1978, Dip Ed 1979) at Monash University. It was at university where she joined the Labor Party, in response to the controversial dismissal of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by Governor-General John Kerr. After graduating, she worked as a secondary school teacher, mostly in underprivileged areas for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hartigan
William Anthony Neville Hartigan (9 November 1934 – 13 July 2023) was an Australian politician. Life and career Hartigan was born in Sydney and attended St Joseph's College in Hunters Hill. He studied economics at the Australian National University and from 1952 worked in the Public Service. In 1961 he became tariff officer with the Associated Chamber of Manufacturers of Australia, and he held a number of senior positions in the Ford Motor Company in Australia, New Zealand and Japan from 1963 to 1991. He was a member of the Liberal Party, serving as North Balwyn branch president from 1970 to 1972, and from 1974 to 1980 he sat on Camberwell City Council. In 1992 Hartigan was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Liberal member for Geelong Province. He served until his defeat by Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eren
John Hamdi Eren (born 15 March 1964) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria since 2002, representing Geelong Province in the Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006, and Lara in the Legislative Assembly since 2006. Eren was the Minister for Tourism and Major Events, Minister for Sport and Minister for Veterans' Affairs in the First Andrews Ministry between December 2014 and December 2018. Early years Eren was born in İzmir, Turkey. He came to Australia with his family (Father was a skilled migrant; fitter and turner) in 1970 and studied at a high school in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Prior to entering Parliament, Eren worked in a variety of fields with the most prominent being on the assembly line at Ford in Geelong. At 21, Eren became the shop steward A union representative, union steward, or shop steward is an employee of an organization or company who represents and defends the interests of their fellow emplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Henshaw (Australian Politician)
David Ernest Henshaw (20 December 1931 – 2 April 2008) was an Australian politician. He was born in Perth to Norman Henshaw, a taxi driver and son of politician Ernest Henshaw, and Grace, ''née'' Ardagh. He attended Wesley College and then the University of Western Australia, where he received a Bachelor of Science (Honours). He then moved to Geelong, where he became chief research scientist of the Textile Industry Division of CSIRO from 1958 to 1982. In 1970 he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for the self-twist wool spinning machine he had developed, and he was joint winner of the Britannica Australia award for science in 1972. He joined the Labor Party in 1972, and was a South Barwon City councillor from 1978 to 1983. Henshaw was an executive member of the Corangamite federal electorate assembly from 1973 to 1982 and was also president and secretary of the Labor Party's Belmont branch. He sat on the party's conservation and environment po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dereel, Victoria
Dereel is a town in the Western District of the Australian state of Victoria. At the 2016 census, Dereel and the surrounding area had a population of 533. It is located on the Ballarat-Colac Road, from Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid ... and from Colac. There is no clearly defined town centre, though the Dereel Soldiers' Memorial Hall, located on Swamp Road, is commonly considered as the town centre. Dereel Post Office opened on 1 November 1868 and closed in 1971. Dereel includes a large wetlands area, referred to as the "Swamp" or "Lagoon". In recent years it is almost dry. On 27 March 2013, a bushfire at Dereel destroyed 16 houses and 18 sheds. The fire covered . References Towns in Victoria (Australia) Towns in Central Highlands Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
