🗞️ King or crook? The enduring legacy of Australia’s last political strongman, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

King or crook? The enduring legacy of Australia's last political strongman, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Bjelke-Petersen's leadership of Australia's most blinkered, authoritarian and corrupt postwar regime is reassessed in Stan's TV documentary Joh: Last King of Queensland

"Sir Joh will be remembered, and he will long be remembered. But not for what he wanted to be remembered for." This was my prediction when Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen died in 2005, heading up one of a number of obituaries. Propelling my pen was a sense o... [8661 chars]

Read the full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/22/king-or-crook-the-enduring-legacy-of-australias-last-political-strongman-sir-joh-bjelke-petersen

Source: The Guardian