Download or read book Johannes Bjelke Petersen written by Rae Wear and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A saviour to some, reviled by others, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen became the butt of jokes and even assassination attempts. His influence spread well beyond Queensland, and in the mid-1970s he put an unknown french polisher into the Senate to help rub out the Whitlam government.Young Joh had been a loner who worked hard to overcome crippling childhood polio and the poverty of life on his family's farm. Enduring a long apprenticeship as an opposition backbencher, he finally made it to the top, bringing to his old-style autocratic rule a more media-savvy appeal to the electorate.As this long-awaited biography reveals, Joh was as cunning as he was ruthless throughout his forty-year political career. Rae Wear analyses in detail his political psyche, his unique leadership style and the reasons for his electoral support, taking into account his Danish immigrant background and lifelong Christian piety.Essential reading for anyone interested in Australian politics, this biographical study explains in depth, for the first time, Bjelke-Petersen's unlikely elevation to the premiership and his ultimate disgrace amid revelations of widespread corruption.
Download or read book Don t You Worry about That written by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jigsaw written by Derek Townsend and published by Brisbane, Qld. : Sneyd & Morley. This book was released on 1983 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joh written by Hugh Lunn and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Johannes 'Joh' Bjelke-Peterson was premier of Queensland from 1968 until 1987. First published in 1978, award-winning author Hugh Lunn's biography was written half-way through Bjelke-Peterson's controversial time in office, so has a very different perspective to the biographies that followed.Hugh Lunn is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of Over the Top with Jim (1989) and Vietnam: A Reporter's War (1985), winner of The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction.
Download or read book Johannes Bjelke Petersen written by Hugh Lunn and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Joh written by Hugh Lunn and published by Untapped. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Johannes 'Joh' Bjelke-Peterson was premier of Queensland from 1968 until 1987. First published in 1978 award-winning author Hugh Lunn's biography was written half-way through Bjelke-Peterson's controversial time in office so has a very different perspective to the biographies that followed.
Download or read book Joh written by Hugh Lunn and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OM77 58 Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen Papers written by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes itinerary for the 1977 election campaign.
Download or read book Johannes Bjelke Petersen written by Bruce Kingston and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In virtually any state in the Commonwealth I believe you could ask an adult in their 40's or above to name a state leader and the majority of them could name Joh - no other State Premier left such an indelible mark on the national psyche. Some Queenslanders may talk about strong development and a long period of stability. Others, particularly those from southern states will talk of gerrymanders, corruption, white shoe brigades, civil liberty infringements or daylight savings. But many will talk of a man who oversaw perhaps the most dramatic and positive changes the State has ever undergone. Whether loved or reviled, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen was a polarising figure, and an indisputably successful one. But too many are quick to dismiss this incredibly successful politician as an aberration of the oddity that is Queensland. To understand Joh a little better, this monograph considers Joh's period in office from the following perspectives: His success in moving the Country Party from a rural base to gaining and holding urban seats His role in assisting in the downfall of the Whitlam government His economic management, overseeing Queensland's transition from a rural economy to a vibrant and rapidly expanding one and creating funding processes from which the State still benefits His masterful understanding of the mood of the electorate in dealing with the likes of power strikes, anti-Springbok riots or street marches His market fundamentalism which potentially allowed corruption in commercial activities for tangible benefits for the state
Download or read book Feeding the Chooks written by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ayes Have It written by John Wanna and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Ayes Have It’ is a fascinating account of the Queensland Parliament during three decades of high-drama politics. It examines in detail the Queensland Parliament from the days of the ‘Labor split’ in the 1950s, through the conservative governments of Frank Nicklin, John Bjelke- Petersen and Mike Ahern, to the fall of the Nationals government led briefly by Russell Cooper in December 1989. The volume traces the rough and tumble of parliamentary politics in the frontier state. The authors focus on parliament as a political forum, on the representatives and personalities that made up the institution over this period, on the priorities and political agendas that were pursued, and the increasingly contentious practices used to control parliamentary proceedings. Throughout the entire history are woven other controversies that repeatedly recur – controversies over state economic development, the provision of government services, industrial disputation and government reactions, electoral zoning and disputes over malapportionment, the impost of taxation in the ‘low tax state’, encroachments on civil liberties and political protests, the perennial topic of censorship, as well as the emerging issues of integrity, concerns about conflicts of interest and the slide towards corruption. There are fights with the federal government – especially with the Whitlam government – and internal fights within the governing coalition which eventually leads to its collapse in 1983, after which the Nationals manage to govern alone for two very tumultuous terms. On the non-government side, the bitterness of the 1950s split was reflected in the early parliaments of this period, and while the Australian Labor Party eventually saw off its rivalrous off-shoot (the QLP-DLP) it then began to implode through waves of internal factional discord.
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Download or read book Jacks and Jokers written by Matthew Condon and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing on from the bestselling Three Crooked Kings, Jacks and Jokers opens in 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commissioner. As for the other two original Crooked Kings, Tony Murphy is set to ruthlessly take control of the workings of ‘The Joke’, while Glen Hallahan, retired from the force, begins to show a keen interest in the emerging illicit drug trade. Meanwhile, ex-cop and ‘Bagman’ Jack Herbert collects the payments and efficiently takes police graft to a whole new level. The Joke heralds an era of hard drugs, illegal gambling and prostitution, and leaves in its wake a string of unsolved murders and a trail of dirty money. With the highest levels of police and government turning a blind eye, the careers of honest police officers and the lives of innocent civilians are threatened and often lost as corruption escalates out of control. Revealing more incredible facts and previously untold stories, award-winning journalist and novelist Matthew Condon once again exposes the shocking behaviour outside the law by the law. Jacks and Jokers is the gripping second instalment of the rise – and spectacular fall – of one man, an entire state and generations of corruption.
Download or read book Joh for PM written by Paul Davey and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfolding like a political thriller, Joh for PM reveals for the first time the details of the campaign that rocked Australian politics. In 1987 the Queensland Premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, launched an audacious bid to break the federal Opposition Coalition, replace Ian Sinclair as National Party leader, and become Prime Minister himself. Trench warfare waged between the Sinclair and Joh forces during one of the most bizarre and divisive periods in Australian politics. In Joh for PM National Party insider Paul Davey reveals what went on behind closed doors in top-level internal meetings and the strategies aimed at thwarting the Joh campaign and reuniting the party at state and federal levels.
Download or read book The Words and Thoughts of Premier Johannes Bjelke Petersen written by Australian Labor Party. Queensland Branch and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
