VIC:Brumby to quit=2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2010
VIC:Brumby to quit=2

The announcement brings an end to Brumby's 17-year Victorian political career and will
force a by-election in his electorate of Broadmeadows.

It also breaks a promise Mr Brumby made before and after the November 27 election to
remain in parliament.

Mr Brumby was elected to state parliament in 1993 and holds the safe Labor seat of
Broadmeadows by a 21 per cent margin.

He suffered a 10.9 per cent swing against him at the polls last month.

Mr Brumby became premier in 2007 after the resignation of Steve Bracks.

He also served in the federal parliament for seven years.

Mr Brumby made the announcement outside Treasury Place, the offices his former government
inhabited until its dramatic ousting.

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