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June 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Victoria’s first and only female premier, Joan Kirner, hopes it is not too long before the next one takes office.
Ms Kirner has been appointed a companion of the Order of Australia in recognition of her service to state parliament and the community.
She first entered parliament as the Member for Melbourne West in 1982 and was elected Williamstown MP six years later.
She held the conservation and education ministries before being elected Labor leader, and therefore premier, when John Cain resigned in 1990.
“What I’m looking forward to is the next woman leader of the state and I’m very pleased to see in the current parliament, on both sides I believe, there are women who could be very effective premiers,” she says, refusing to name them.
Ms Kirner views the establishment of Landcare as one of her finest achievements, which now boasts 4000 groups nationally.
She is proud of bringing the issue of violence against women into the spotlight, as well as equal pay.
She also pushed to have abortion decriminalised in Victoria, which it eventually was in 2008.
“That’s one of the things I think I’m proudest of doing with a number of my women ministers (is) changing the culture on what were regarded as women’s issues and we turned them into major social and political issues.”
Selling the State Bank to the Commonwealth Bank in 1991 was one of Ms Kirner’s toughest but necessary decisions as premier, she said.
The 73-year-old, who lives in Williamstown, says with women such as Prime Minister Julia Gillard in parliament there was beginning to be a “critical mass” of women in politics.
Now it was time for corporate Australia to get on board, she said.
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