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Denis Napthine

Premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Denis Vincent Napthine is an Australian former politician and veterinarian who served as the 47th premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014. He held office as the leader of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Portland from 1988 to 2002, before transferring to that of South-West Coast from 2002 to 2015.

Editorial summary

“Denis Napthine” enters the record as premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Denis, Napthine and Premier can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2014, 1988, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Denis, Napthine and Premier.
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Why this record matters

“Denis Napthine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Denis, Napthine and Premier provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2014, 1988 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Denis Napthine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.