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Cassandra Morgan and Callum Godde

Irrepressible rise of 'crash through' Labor strongman

Daniel Andrews has resigned as Victoria's longest-serving Labor premier. (Joe Castro/AAP PHOTOS)

Victoria's 48th premier Daniel Andrews was a boy from the bush who pivoted into politics early and crashed through Labor's ranks.

Born in 1972 to parents Bob and Jan Andrews, the family ran a milk bar in Melbourne's north before they lost almost everything in a fire and in 1983 moved more than 230km away to Wangaratta.

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