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It's not so bad being a laughing stock around the world - if you don't know...
"The greatest thing that could happen to the state and nation is when we get rid of all the media ... then we could live in peace and tranquility and no one would know anything." - Sir Joh Bjelke Peterson.
Peterson was the Queensland Premier 1968 – 1987 which saw the beginning of an inquiry into police and political misconduct and which would ultimately see the minister of police locked up and stripped of his knighthood. The controversies and economic conflicts of interest though, begin as early as 1959. His uncompromising conservatism, his role in the downfall of the Whitlam federal government, his political longevity- and his leadership of a government that, in its later years, was revealed to be institutionally corrupt, make him one of the best-known most controversial political figures in Australia. (wikipedia) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------> "In 1976 twelve people were arrested at a ‘hippie’ commune at Cedar Bay The hippies claimed police burned their personal property and dwellings. A television crew produced footage of burned-out huts. - Joh Bjelke-Petersen told the press that the allegations made by the Cedar Bay hippies were part of a campaign to legalise marijuana and denigrate the police. He stated that some of the evidence was manufactured after the police had left the scene. It turned out that the police had, in fact, torched the homes. Charges were laid against three policemen but the prosecutions were unsuccessful. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> in 1000 police cracked down on the Brisbane public- against those supporting Nelson Mandela and in protest against the racist South African system of government called aparthied. Bjelke even declares martial law in 1981 so despite the international boycotts the Springboks rugby team may stop and refuel their aeroplane on a tour to New Zealand. - Maiia
The Fitzgerald Inquiry - Crime and Misconduct Commission
The Fitzgerald Inquiry into police and political Corruption- ABC
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