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Sharpen your knives and joins us as we dissect the recipe for Joh
Bjelke-Petersen's political magic and figure out how he held onto
the premiership for decades, despite his truly staggering
corruption.
Then we dine out on Joh’s downfall (could the Fitzgerald Inquiry
report be the read of 1987?!), before asking whether Joh really
deserves his reputation as Australia's number one political
villain.
Plus, Leigh comes for the fourth estate (hey, that's us!).
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produced by Richard Lancaster and Barry Martin. Seven-part video
oral-history collection. Accession 720849. John Oxley Library,
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane.
Bjelke-Petersen, Joh. Don’t You Worry about That! The Joh
Bjelke-Petersen Memoirs. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson,
1990.
Queensland. Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal
Activities and Associated Police Misconduct. Report of a
Commission of Inquiry Pursuant to Orders in Council. Chaired by
G. E. Fitzgerald. Brisbane: Queensland Government Printer, 1989.
Megarrity, Lyndon. “The Lion and the Fox: Whitlam,
Bjelke-Petersen and the Queensland Electorate, 1961–1975.” ANU
Historical Journal II, no. 3 (2022): 23–52
Robinson, Shirleene. “Homophobia as Party Politics: The
Construction of the ‘Homosexual Deviant’ in Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s
Queensland.” Queensland Review 17, no. 1 (2010): 29–45
Walter, James. “Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: ‘The Populist
Autocrat.’” In The Premiers of Queensland, edited by Denis
Murphy, Roger Joyce, Margaret Cribb, and Rae Wear, St Lucia, QLD:
University of Queensland Press, 2003.
Wear, Rae. “‘Never-Ending Story’: Public Accountability and
Public Administration Reform in Queensland since 1989.”
Queensland Review 18, no. 2 (2011): 175–89
Wear, Rae. Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: The Lord’s Premier. St
Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, 2002.
Whitton, Evan. The Hillbilly Dictator: Australia’s Police State.
Crows Nest, NSW: ABC Enterprises, 1989.
Williams, Paul D. “Leaders and Political Culture: The Development
of the Queensland Premiership, 1859–2009.” Queensland
Review 16, no. 1 (2009): 15–34
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