Capricorn Iwasaki, Yeppoon

Capricorn Iwasaki, Yeppoon. Postcard, Murray Views Collection c1970-2000

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Capricorn Iwasaki Resort, Yeppoon

Capricorn Iwasaki Resort, Yeppoon. Postcard, Murray Views Collection c1970-2000.

Copyright © Murray Views Collection and Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Port Clinton

Port Clinton

North of Yeppoon lies Shoalwater Bay, the largest undeveloped area on the Queensland coast south of Cairns. The coastal profiles drawn by William Westall, the artist with Matthew Flinders, still depict this magnificent unchanged coastline. The swamps and dunes have high environmental and scientific values and are the source of the water supply for the Capricorn Coast. The area was listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1980 and its wetlands recognised as a Ramsar Site.

Collection of Carol Gistitin

Pool, Capricorn International Resort (Iwasaki)

Pool, Capricorn International Resort (Iwasaki). Collection of Carol Gistitin.

Collection of Carol Gistitin

Golf Course, Capricorn International Resort (Iwasaki)

Golf Course, Capricorn International Resort (Iwasaki). Collection of Carol Gistitin.

Collection of Carol Gistitin

Water Park Creek, Byfield

North of the Iwasaki Resort is the Byfield area. Of high environmental value it was sought by conservationists as a national park. In October 1987 Premier Bjelke-Petersen proposed to make it an environmental park under the management of the Iwasaki Sangyo Corporation. The Capricorn Conservation Council, and the National Party’s State Conference strongly opposed a proposal clearly in conflict with the view that national parks belong to the people. When Bjelke-Petersen left the Conference early, it enshrined the national park and called for a register of foreign land holdings.

Collection of Carol Gistitin

Iwasaki project

A bomb exploded at the Iwasaki resort at Yeppoon on 29 November 1980. It ripped a large crater in an unfinished block of holiday units, causing damage estimated at $1 million.

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

Copyright © George Megalogenis, 2010

A tale of two elections – One Nation and political protest

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

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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.

23 September 2010
23 September 2010
23 September 2010
Kingaroy
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: straddling a barbed wire fence

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.

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