Rob Hulls
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The Honourable Rob Hulls |
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| 23rd Deputy Premier of Victoria | |
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In office 30 July 2007 – 27 November 2010 |
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| Premier | John Brumby |
| Preceded by | John Thwaites |
| Succeeded by | Peter Ryan |
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Niddrie |
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In office 30 March 1996 – 27 January 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Sercombe |
| Succeeded by | Ben Carroll |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Kennedy |
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In office 24 March 1990 – 13 March 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Katter, Sr. |
| Succeeded by | Bob Katter |
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23 January 1957 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Profession | Solicitor |
Rob Justin Hulls (born 23 January 1957) is a former Australian politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2012, representing the electorate of Niddrie. As well as serving as the Deputy Premier of Victoria, he was also the state Attorney-General and Minister for Racing.
Rob Hulls was born in Melbourne and was privately educated at Xavier College from 1969–72 and then moved to the private Peninsula School from 1973–75. Upon leaving school Hulls worked as a law clerk for his father, a solicitor on the Mornington Peninsula, completing the part-time Articled Clerk's programme at the then Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1983.
Hulls was then a Solicitor for the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria from 1984–86. He was also a partner in the law office of Vic Moffat, Solicitors, Mount Isa from 1986–90.
Rob Hulls served one term in Federal Parliament from 1990–93 as the member for Kennedy, Queensland. He was elected in 1990, succeeding the long-standing National Party member, Bob Katter, Sr, who had retired from politics (he died just prior to the election).
In 1993, he was defeated by Bob Katter, the former member's son, who had been a minister in the Bjelke-Petersen, Ahern and Cooper ministries at state level in Queensland. The race was very close throughout, and was only decided on the eighth count when a Liberal candidate's preferences flowed overwhelmingly to Katter.
Rob Hulls left Queensland soon after the losing his Federal Parliament seat, and in 1994 on returning to Melbourne was appointed Chief of Staff to the Victorian Opposition Leader, Jim Kennan, former Attorney-General, who resigned from State Parliament shortly after. Rob Hulls stayed on as Chief of Staff under Kennan's replacement John Brumby who was Victoria's State Premier from 2007–2010. Following his election to the State Parliament, in the lower-house seat of Niddrie, Rob Hulls' replacement as Brumby's Chief of Staff was Julia Gillard, who later in her own career became Australia's first female Prime Minister (2010–13).
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