Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

Victoria
Party Premiers Duration of party government
Electoral Reform Thomas Hollway 28/10/1952 to 31/10/1952
Country John McDonald 31/10/1952 to 17/12/1952
Labor John Cain Sr 17/12/1952 to 7/6/1955
Liberal Henry Bolte 7/6/1955 to 8/4/1982
Rupert Hamer
Lindsay Thompson
Labor John Cain Jr 8/4/1982 to 6/10/1992
Joan Kirner
Liberal and National Jeffrey Kennett 6/10/1992 to 20/10/1999
Labor Steve Bracks 20/10/1999 to 2/12/2010
John Brumby
Liberal and National Edward (Ted) Baillieu 2/12/2010 to 4/12/2014
Denis Napthine
Labor Daniel Andrews 4/12/2014
Source: https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/results-historical-vicpremiers.html
split amidst allegations of communist infiltration of the trade union movement and
claims that groups of Labor members recruited to win back communist unions
had instead started to turn on Labor members. The willingness of Daniel Mannix,
the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, to encourage this anticommunist sentiment
within an overwhelmingly Catholic Labor membership added a sectarian element
to this internal upheaval. 14
TheimpactofthesplitwasdevastatingfortheVictorianALP.Thecollapseofthe
stateLaborgovernmentwasfollowedbyanelectoralroutthatbegananunbroken
period from 1955 to 1982 in which the recently formed Liberal Party would be the
14 Murray 1970.
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