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Joh Bjelke-Petersen

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1982 Jaguar saloon and a famous scone recipe engraved on a ceramic spoon: estate auction | ABC News

 

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A Country Road: The Nationals: Joh Bjelke-Petersen

 

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Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen dies at 97

 

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Sir Joh Kicks Reporter Out Of His Office (1988)

 

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Sir Joh Bjelke-Peterson On Election Night 1987

Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, was an Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, during which time the state underwent considerable economic development. His uncompromising conservatism, his political longevity, and his leadership of a government that, in its later years, was revealed to be institutionally corrupt, made him one of the best-known and most controversial political figures of 20th century Australia.