Today's Birthday 15/10
Today's Birthday, October 15: Australian 政治家，政治屋 Steve Bracks (1954 - ).
Steve Bracks hasn't やめる 退却／保養地d into 私的な life more than a １０年間 after his shock 辞職 as Victorian 首相.
After spending 14 years （手先の）技術ing and criticising 法律制定 in 明言する／公表する 議会, the retired 政治家，政治屋 was 任命するd to 法律 会社／堅い Maurice Blackburn's board in June.
The 64-year-old, a keen 早期に-morning cyclist, also grabbed Cycling Australia's handlebars as chairman last year with the 目的（とする） of bringing 財政上の 安定 and まとまり to the organisation.
Born the grandson of Lebanese 移民，移住（する）s in Ballarat in 1954, Bracks was a pupil at St Patrick's College and later 完全にするd diplomas in 商売／仕事 and teaching at Ballarat University.
He taught 商売／仕事 in the 地域の Victorian city from 1976 to 1981 before his elevation to (n)役員／(a)執行力のある director of the Ballarat Education Centre.
Bracks managed 首相 John Cain's 雇用 programs and then became an 助言者 to Cain and later 後継者 Joan Kirner.
He was elected to Kirner's 安全な Labor seat of Williamstown during a 補欠選挙 in 1994 and quickly rose through the 階級s to 持つ／拘留する the 重要な 大臣の地位s of 影をつくる／尾行する 大臣 for 財務省 and 財政／金融.
In 1999, he landed the 明言する／公表する party's 最高の，を越す 職業 after John Brumby's leadership 崩壊（する）d.
Six months later, Bracks was branded the "偶発の 首相" for 主要な Labor to 力／強力にする as a 少数，小数派 政府 after （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing Jeff Kennett's 自由主義のs in the "unwinnable" 1999 明言する／公表する 選挙.
His three 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語-elected 政府 was fiscally responsible and is credited with the 創造 of the 広大な／多数の／重要な Otway 国家の Park, 上げるing year 12 retention and lowering 失業 and 罪，犯罪 率s.
The long-serving Labor leader blind-味方するd the public in 2007 with his 辞職 at age 52 after almost eight years in the 最高の，を越す 職業.
Bracks 認める family 関心s 与える／捧げるd to his 決定／判定勝ち（する） to やめる, 含むing an alcohol-fuelled c ar 事故 伴う／関わるing his eldest son Nick earlier that year.
On his 裏書，是認, Brumby 後継するd Bracks as 明言する／公表する leader before Labor lost 政府 in 2010.
His plum 外交の 地位，任命するing to Australia's 領事-general in New York was cancelled after the Gilliard 政府 lost 力／強力にする to the Tony Abbott's 自由主義のs at the 2013 選挙.
Bracks and wife Terry, a former teacher 同様に, have three children Nick, Amy and Will.
