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DANIEL ANDREWS' POLITICAL CAREER
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* 1993 - Joins the Australian Labor Party
* 1999 - Becomes state organiser
* 2000 - Promoted to assistant state secretary
* 2002 - Elected to Victorian parliament as the member for Mulgrave
* December 2006 - Elevated to cabinet by premier Steve Bracks
* August 2007 - Promoted to health minister
* December 2010 - Elected leader of the parliamentary Victorian Labor Party after the party loses government
* November 2014 - Leads Labor back to government
* December 2014 - Sworn in as Victoria's 48th premier
* April 2015 - Announces $339m settlement to cancel controversial East West Link project
* November 2015 - Parliament passes laws to create safe zones around abortion clinics with government support
* May 2016 - Apologises on behalf of the Victorian government to gay men and women convicted under anti-gay laws
* April 2016 - Uses the 2016 budget to announce Victoria will go it alone to fund construction of the Melbourne Metro rail project
* November 2017 - Victoria becomes the first state to pass voluntary assisted dying laws
* August 2018 - Announces plan to build the Suburban Rail Loop, a 90km orbital line from Melbourne's southeast to west
* November 2018 - Steers Labor to second election win, dubbed the "Dan-slide"
* June 2020 - Sacks Adem Somyurek as a minister after allegations of branch-stacking, prompting him to resign from the party
* July 2020 - Announces a judicial inquiry into Victoria's hotel quarantine program that led to the state's devastating second wave of COVID-19
* July 2020 - Announces second COVID lockdown for metropolitan Melbourne that would last 112 days
* July 2020 - Announces Victoria will embark on Indigenous truth and treaty process
* September 2020 - Tells the hotel quarantine inquiry he holds health minister Jenny Mikakos accountable for the program, prompting her resignation
* February 2021 - Parliament passes laws to ban gay conversion practices
* March 2021 - Falls down stairs, fracturing a vertebrae in his spine and breaking several ribs
* June 2021 - Returns to work after 111 days
* October 2021 - Announces end date for Melbourne's sixth and final COVID lockdown
* December 2021 - Pandemic-specific laws pass after fierce and at times violent opposition aimed directly at the premier and other MPs
* February 2022 - Parliament passes laws to decriminalise sex work
* July 2022 - Apologises and commits to changes after a damning corruption watchdog report exposed misuse of taxpayer resources in the Victorian Labor Party
* November 2022 - Guides Labor to a third state election win, increasing its lower house seat numbers
* February 2023 - Tallies 3000 days as Victorian premier, qualifying him to be immortalised in statue outside Melbourne's state government offices
* April 2023 - Surpasses John Cain Jr as Victoria's longest-serving Labor premier
* September 2023 - Announces his resignation as premier
Australian Associated Press