Conflict

A tale of two elections – One Nation and political protest

Pauline Hanson the candidate was less effective than the political protest movement she spawned.

Feeding the chooks: a selection of well-known sayings of former Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

‘The greatest thing that could happen in Queensland and the nation is when we get rid of all the media. Then we could live in peace and tranquility’.

Response to a question about possible leaks of government business during his use of a mobile telephone: ‘I always talk in a way they can’t understand!’

‘You don’t tell the frogs anything before you drain the swamp’.

‘Don’t put one foot on the sticky paper because pretty soon you will end up with two feet stuck.’

‘There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it.

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Kingaroy

Quotations by Joh Bjelke-Petersen from Helen Cameron (comp), Feeding the chooks: a selection of well-known sayings of former Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen in his career of almost 41 years as a politician: farmyard politics, Kingaroy, no date.

Joh for PM, 1987. Sticker inserted in the Sun Herald 8 March 1987. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.

Now, more than ever, Queensland needs Joh and the Nationals for Industrial Relations, 1986.Political advertisement for National Party, Brisbane 1986. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.

The Petersen Line, 1974

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Australian Labor Party

The Petersen Line, 1974. Sells out Queensland’s assets, keeps out national subsidies. Australian Labor Party campaign brochure against Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

See Queensland first before joh sells it, c1978. Anti Joh Bjelke-Petersen bumper sticker, modeled on the Queensland tourism campaigns and issued by the Australian Labor Party.

Joh’s power: very costly, c1978. Anti Joh Bjelke-Petersen bumper sticker. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Bjelke Bitter Queensland’s premier beer for discriminating drinkers. Beer label, c1970s. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.

Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: straddling a barbed wire fence

Queensland during Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s premiership (1968-87) appeared to confirm political scientist S.M. Lipset’s claim that ‘every country has a South’.

Conflict

The One Nation primary vote in Queensland: a tale of two Federal elections

A tale of two elections – One Nation and political protest

Feeding the chooks: a selection of well-known sayings of former Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Joh for PM, 1987

Now, more than ever, Queensland needs Joh and the Nationals for Industrial Relations, 1986.

The Petersen Line, 1974

Location

See Queensland first before joh sells it, c1978

Joh’s power: very costly, c1978

Bjelke Bitter, c1970s

Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: straddling a barbed wire fence