1.   She was the first woman to hold the office of Australian state premier.

2.   Fireworks lit the night sky over this port city as the results returning the Social Democratic state premier, Heidi Simonis, to office were announced.

3.   Former New South Wales state premier John Fahey was a surprise appointment.

4.   His chief party rival, Lower Saxony state premier Gerhard Schroeder, wants the startup date delayed.

5.   In the most recent election in the province of Alberta, the current state premier, Ralph Klein, ran on an unusual platform.

6.   It was not immediately clear which party Manfred Stolpe, the Social Democratic state premier, would invite to form a coalition.

7.   Kurt Biedenkopf, the state premier of Saxony, whose capital is Dresden, is an old rival of Kohl within the party.

8.   Murdoch was talking after meeting Queensland state premier Rob Borbidge today.

9.   Roland Koch, the state premier in Hesse, won an election last year precisely by campaigning against more liberal citizenship laws.

10.   Saarland state premier Oskar Lafontaine wrested the SPD leadership from former chair Rudolf Scharping in a surprise vote.