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	Joh Bjelke-Petersen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen (born January 13, 1911) was the National Party Premier of the Australian State of Queensland from 1968 to 1987.
		The Joh for Canberra campaign was of significant benefit to the incumbent ALP Prime Minister, Bob Hawke.
		Sir Joh himself was deposed as National Party leader on November 26, 1987, but incredibly, refused to resign the office of Premier at the same time, as was the convention in such a situation.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/joh_bjelke_petersen.html (471 words)

	australianpolitics.com: Daily Quote
		In the lower house in Canberra, they held 21 of the 148 seats and their representation was confined to Queensland, NSW and Victoria.
		Yet Joh's plan at age 75 was to win a federal seat, replace Ian Sinclair as the Nationals' leader, win the next election and push Liberal leader John Howard aside to become prime minister.
		Joh promised to start a bushfire, a rush of populism that would consume all who stood in its path.
	www.australianpolitics.com /words/2004/archives/00000142.shtml (1011 words)

	Walkabout - Canberra
		Canberra boasts more than a million trees and shrubs, but many are exotics and most are neatly regimented.
		Canberra, the national capital, is a carefully designed city of circuits and long elegant roads.
		Most of the Embassies in Canberra are located in Yarralumla to the west of Parliament House and Red Hill to the south of Capital Hill.
	www.walkabout.com.au /smh/locations/ACTCanberra.shtml (2876 words)

	Australian Biography, Full Interview - Flo Bjelke-Petersen
		Joh was trying to go to Canberra because people everywhere were saying that he ought to be there.
		Joh had run an election and they'd won their election, but for some reason or other there was disquiet about this Karoola Sands issue - environmental issues - and they sort of...
		I was there staying with him because Joh had been to this dinner, and blow me down, he worked and he worked and he got in touch with people the next morning and he managed to get in by two votes, I think it was, and that was a...
	www.australianbiography.gov.au /bjelkepetersen/intertext3.html (4938 words)

	Informat.io on Joh Bjelke Petersen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The "Joh for Canberra" campaign, abandoned after it became clear that there was no prospect of success, was a significant factor to the victory of incumbent Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke.
		Sir Joh's standing was damaged, however, by his inability to account for large sums of cash in his office safe and he demonstrated his ignorance of the separation of powers, a basic principle of accountable government.
		Sir Joh's request that Nationals MP's join him in a boycott went unheeded, and the meeting deposed Sir Joh as National Party leader and elected in his place Mike Ahern, one of the ministers he had sacked.
	www.informat.io /?title=joh-bjelke-petersen (3755 words)

	Sir Joh: A peanut farmer and premier. 15/02/2005. ABC News Online
		Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen kept an iron grip on Queensland state politics for nearly two decades and will be remembered as one of the most successful and controversial politicians in Australian history.
		It was at this time that discontent with Sir Joh's leadership grew, particularly as the Fitzgerald inquiry began to expose widespread corruption in the police force and the government.
		Sir Joh tried to head off a challenge to his leadership by announcing his retirement plans, saying he would step down during the world exposition, Expo 88, which was to be held in Brisbane.
	www.abc.net.au /news/promos/s1302904.htm (1807 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen
		Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who died on Saturday aged 94, lived in a leaky cowshed for 15 years before becoming premier of a notoriously corrupt government in Queensland.
		The voters threw out the Nationals in favour of Labour, and Sir Joh became the 213th person to be charged.
		He was alleged to have taken a $100,000 bribe from an Asian businessman, and to have perjured himself twice before the inquiry.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/26/db2602.xml (1391 words)

	australian policy online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN was sitting in his office chair flailing his arms around his head and twitching his legs in a sort of mad seated tap-dance.
		In 1987 his outrageous ‘Joh for Canberra’ push proved the kiss of political death for him, although it briefly struck terror into conservative political hearts.
		In 2001 Joh beat perjury charges due to a hung jury whose foreman was a National Party activist, but he was crippled financially.
	www.apo.org.au /webboard/print-version.chtml?filename_num=12218 (489 words)

	OBITUARY: Tribute to Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen - 21 May 2005
		Joh had two young boys working on his property and brought them along as a bit of a treat.
		Joh's favourite singer, Kamahl, sang the Lord's Prayer at his funeral and still wears a set of cuff links his old friend once gave him.
		Of course, Joh met many famous people when he became Queensland premier; but before all that he was a local identity and parliamentarian from a poor background who pioneered the peanut industry.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2005may21_o2.html (1068 words)

	Farewell, Sir Joh, the great divider - National - www.smh.com.au
		Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who died on Saturday night aged 94, had something in common with George W. Bush: he once told John Howard that if the Liberals were not with him they were against him.
		The historian Geoffrey Blainey said Sir Joh was "one of the quiet giants in Australian history".
		Historians are likely to list Sir Joh's achievements as the formation of a National Party government in its own right, his outspoken campaign for for state rights and his being the first premier to abolish death duties.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Farewell-Sir-Joh-the-great-divider/2005/04/24/1114281454295.html?from=moreStories (855 words)

	ALOR - OnTarget Vol.23 - No.22
		As we have consistently recommended that Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, should not leave his firm Queensland base to directly enter Federal politics, we are naturally pleased that that "Joh for Canberra" move has been abandoned.
		When the full story is told of what happened to one of the most astonishing episodes in Australian political history, it will be revealed that Sir Joh was badly advised and encouraged by people who saw him as merely a means to promoting their own ends.
		Sir Joh's daughters have said that their father actually is a "softie".
	www.alor.org /Volume23/Vol23No22.htm (1503 words)

	Death Of The Honourable Douglas Frederick Moppett, A Former Member Of The Legislative Council - 19/06/2002
		During the period of Doug Moppet's chairmanship, the National Party was faced with perhaps the greatest challenge in its history, the Joh for Canberra campaign, which was akin to civil war within the party.
		Joh's real opposition was the NSW National Party, which had no intention of falling for Joh-power and was appalled by his tactics.
		Joh's weakness was induced partly by a secret deal struck in Howard's office between the NSW National and Liberal Parties, and formally embodied in a two-page signed document.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/d891a0806177d17eca256d100026e9aa/ca256d11000bd3aaca256bf100170ab8!OpenDocument (1751 words)

	A Tribute to Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen
		What ever you thought of Joh Bjelke-Petersen and he was many things to many people, one thing is certain, there have been few national figures as influential or controversial.
		The Joh for PM push crashed and burned and a short time later the seeds of his demise were sewn.
		In his later years, Sir Joh spent his days at his beloved Kingaroy property ravaged by Parkinson disease, still forever a fighter, campaigning for compensation for the legal battle that forever left a cloud over his reign of the sunshine state.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/feature_stories/article_1769.asp?s=1 (670 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The NSW Party’s Central Executive, meeting in Sydney, said Sir Joh’s pioneering initiatives, such as his abolition of death duties in 1977, set a standard which was followed by other governments in the country.
		The Central Executive resolution said notwithstanding the differences between Sir Joh and the NSW Party from time to time, ‘we place on record our acknowledgement of an outstanding political career and deplore the currency given by some sections of the media to those whose sole objective is to besmirch and denigrate his memory.’
		In expressing sympathy and support to his family, the Executive said Sir Joh should be remembered as one of the most outstanding State leaders in Australia’s history.
	nsw.nationalparty.org /text/nsw_nationals_acknowledge_sir_joh.cfm (153 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Joh
		Joh Bjelke-Petersen's son yesterday accused Queensland Premier Peter Beattie of chasing votes by talking publicly about a state funeral for his infirm father.
		JOH Bjelke-Petersen has made a new bid for payment of his legal expenses after the Fitzgerald inquiry.
		Despite constant leaking, numerous accidents, the Joh for Canberra campaign and only 17 per cent of the public who thought he was the best conservative leader...
	nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/J/Joh.shtml (1576 words)

	The Ultimate Joh Bjelke-Petersen Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		Worry about Sir Joh's health again rose about a month later when he was hospitalised suffering from breathing problems and his pneumonia, from which he succesfully recovered.
		In 2005 Bjelke-Petersen's health again came into the news, with the Courier-Mail reporting on 19 April that the hospitalised Bjelke-Petersen was unable to swallow and close to death.
		Currently, Sir Joh is receiving palliative care at the South Burnett Community Health Centre in his home town of Kingaroy.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Joh (1446 words)

	Green Left - Joh escapes a second trial
		Joh's first trial ended on October 19 in a hung jury, with revelations that the foreman was a National Party member with links to the Friends of Joh group.
		Drummond gave his main reasons as Joh's advanced age and uncertainty that two key overseas witnesses would return to Brisbane for a second trial, thus making a conviction unlikely.
		But this argument has been demolished by an interview with Robert Sng in which he said he was quite prepared to give evidence against Joh at a second trial “out of respect for the crown”.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1991/34/34p3b.htm (554 words)

	The Australian: Joh was no statesman [ 26apr05 ]
		But Joh and his appalling cohorts were in the ticketing business tickety-boo.
		Joh didn't, but it was a near thing.
		Joh ran the closest thing to a police state this country has seen, with his own Stasi collecting files on everyone and his dog.
	www.kooriweb.org /foley/news/joh26apr05.html (651 words)

	Life and times: Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. 15/02/2005. ABC News Online
		Joh's victory was sealed by the controversial defections of Liberals Brian Austin and Don Lane, who were rewarded with frontbench seats in the new government.
		1987: The Queensland premier begins his Joh for PM campaign, which was later watered down to Joh for Canberra and ultimately abandoned.
		October 20, 1991: The jury in Sir Joh's trial announces it cannot reach a verdict, with some jurors for and some against Sir Joh.
	www.abc.net.au /news/indepth/featureitems/s1302922.htm (907 words)

	One man's failed bushfire - Opinion - smh.com.au
		What was surprising about the "Joh for PM" movement was not that Bjelke-Petersen thought he should - and would - become PM but that so many leading conservatives shared his illusions.
		The Joh for PM plan assumed not only that all Nationals would follow Bjelke-Petersen's lead, but that the Liberals would willingly fade away.
		Alternatively, the Joh for PM organisation would have to establish a new party in states other than Queensland and find candidates who could successfully run against Liberal MPs.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Opinion/One-mans-failed-bushfire/2005/05/02/1114886314929.html (900 words)

	Australian Quotes & Notes - The Quotes - 1950 to the Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Such enthusiastic remarks were not endorsed by a country housewife who grumbled that her husband had shot 14 rabbits the previous night, that they all had myxo and it was impossible to get a decent eating rabbit these days.
		In Canberra, Prime Minister Robert Menzies, facing an imminent election, suddenly unveiled a new Communist ogre with a dramatic announcement on 14 April, 1954, that a Russian spy ring had been discovered.
		I'd like to express in particular my profound regret regret at losing so many colleagues who were in the prime of their political life, and whose contribution to this country's political life has been interrupted.
	www.australianquotes.com /quotes_1950-present.html (18674 words)

	Margo Kingston's Webdiary - smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He often imparted highly sensitive and confidential information to the Canberra press gallery that was to be relayed to the journalists’ head offices, rather than conveyed immediately to the public.
		He was talking just after the police had been sent in to raid the National Indigenous Times in Canberra, which had published cabinet documents about the Government’s plans for indigenous affairs in its fourth term.
		When I arrived in Canberra in the 1970s, if you were armed with a Commonwealth Directory, it wasn’t hard to get to know a lot of bureaucrats and obtain basic background.
	webdiary.smh.com.au /archives/margo_kingston/001338.html (6799 words)

	Sir Joh's friends, foes pay respects - National - www.smh.com.au
		The Prime Minister has recognised the influence Joh Bjelke-Petersen exerted on Australian politics but in a restrained valedictory omitted mention of the Joh for Canberra campaign that dashed Mr Howard's election hopes in 1987.
		He recorded Sir Joh's achievements in abolishing death duties in Queensland, which triggered other states to follow suit, his construction of the Wivenhoe Dam and the Tarong power station, and the former premier's "fierce promotion" of Queensland economic development.
		Mr Whitlam, who had called Sir Joh a "Bible-bashing bastard", suffered when the premier broke the rules by appointing an independent to fill a Labor Senate vacancy, enabling the Opposition to block the 1975 budget, which lead to Mr Whitlam's sacking.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Sir-Johs-friends-foes-pay-respects/2005/04/24/1114281455280.html (540 words)

	Joh Bjelke-Petersen - Gnorx.com, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At his appearances before the Inquiry, Sir Joh's standing was damaged when he displayed his ignorance of concepts such as the
		Sir Joh's request that Nationals MP's join him in a boycott went unheeded, and at the meeting Sir Joh was deposed as National Party leader by
		[7] John Howard played down the bitterness associated with the Joh for Canberra campaign and said that he was "certainly a strong political figure".
	www.gnorx.com /Sir_Joh_Bjelke-Petersen (3053 words)

	Sir Joh near death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Joh, 94, is in South Burnett Community Private Hospital at Kingaroy in South-East Queensland.
		Sir Joh's wife Lady Flo was called back to the hospital and other family members were maintaining a bedside vigil.
		Posted because Sir Joh was one of the most successful conservative politicians in Australia's history, and had a major influence on conservative politics here over two decades - for good and ill. His influence is still being felt.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1388021/posts (1302 words)

	Joh Bjelke-Petersen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His efforts eventually allowed him to begin work as a contract land-clearer (using a tax deduction then allowable to primary producers), and to acquire further capital which he invested in farm equipment and natural resource exploration.
		The stand-off was resolved after a period of negotiation on 1 December, when Bjelke-Petersen announced he had no interest in leading the Nationals anymore because they were not the party they once were, and resigned as Premier and from Parliament.
		John Howard played down the bitterness associated with the Joh for Canberra campaign and said that he was "certainly a strong political figure".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen (3781 words)

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