[1] An article in The Canberra Times prior to his election to parliament described him as "a Beaconsfield market gardener and agricultural engineer".
[3] Prior to the vote he had been given the highest rating by the Victorian Right To Life Association and Milton had been given the lowest.
[4] It was later reported that Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser had pork barreled La Trobe in an attempt to secure Baillieu's re-election, granting a local textile manufacturer relief from tariff reforms.
[5][6] Baillieu served as the chairman of Mutual Trust, a company established in 1951 to manage his family's wealth.
[9] In 2012, during his cousin's premiership, he issued a statement apologising for giving the finger to a group of nurses protesting government policies outside a book launch at the Baillieu Library.