DBWI Joh Bjelke-Petersen was never Prime Minister of Australia?

Would he have remained Premier of Queensland through the 1980s?

Would the Country party still be a major player in Australian politics today?
 
That's a silly question to ask. Historical predeterminism shows that the Bjelke-Peterson government was the natural result of Australian history -- nothing else could have happened. After the Whitlam-Cairns government, only Bjelke-Peterson could take Australia back from the brink and restore us to solvency and virtue...

At least, that's what Education Minister Blainey says, and I'm sticking to it. You don't want to look unAustralian, do you? Cause that's a damn well unAustralian question to ask. Just ask David Marr -- if you could...
 
The Country party got in because Bjelke-Petersen played Labour and Liberal against each other and managed to beat them both. I hope you're not surprised his government didn't last four years - the Townsville massacre shoulda got that racist bastard shot. Even Reagan thought that guy was insane. :eek:
 
The Country party got in because Bjelke-Petersen played Labour and Liberal against each other and managed to beat them both. I hope you're not surprised his government didn't last four years - the Townsville massacre shoulda got that racist bastard shot. Even Reagan thought that guy was insane. :eek:

Mate, that's just unbelievable talk. I mean, you can't say stuff like that. (Not anymore, at any rate.) You want to go pissing off the 39th, that's fine, but me? I love Joh, I always have, and I always will.

Three-cornered contest: look, get used to it, 37% is a victory whatever way you spin it. I know the rumours: the gerrymandering in Queensland seats that gave him a majority, the late night bribes to Andrew Peacock, the Brown trial, the Secret War...but it's rubbish, mate, complete rubbish.

God bless Joh and all he did for this country.
 
If Sir Joh ever became Aussie PM I'd expect a whole lot of secession movements to spring up overnight. Then, when Sir Joh starts cracking down on all the socialists, in other words anyone who doesn't live in Queensland, New South Wales immediately secedes followed not long thereafter by Victoria & South Australia. Sir Joh is then placed under seige in Canberra surrounded by the Rebs in New South Wales.

Somehow I suspect that our Founding Fathers feared such a nutjob becoming PM one day so ensured that if things ever got out of hand, such a PM would be surrounded, with Canberra placed under seige, whereupon the PM would be forced to surrender to the God fearing people of New South Wales for a first class trial followed by a first class hanging.
 
From my cozy exile in Ireland I think that Australia would still become a police state. We were moving down the road where the police would have dogs sniffing people in the street to see if they were carrying drugs, searching cars on the way into Bathurst, stopping people coming onto the MCG when someone does something noteworthy, banning anything deemed unsafe by an overpaternalistic government even before Jackboot Joh came in with his Australia Card and extreme police powers.
 
Mate, that's just unbelievable talk. I mean, you can't say stuff like that. (Not anymore, at any rate.) You want to go pissing off the 39th, that's fine, but me? I love Joh, I always have, and I always will.

Three-cornered contest: look, get used to it, 37% is a victory whatever way you spin it. I know the rumours: the gerrymandering in Queensland seats that gave him a majority, the late night bribes to Andrew Peacock, the Brown trial, the Secret War...but it's rubbish, mate, complete rubbish.

God bless Joh and all he did for this country.

The man is psychopath, friend. I left Australia for that reason, the fact that he turned his country from democratic federation into a racist police state. Has anyone forgotten his guys rounding up aboriginies? You think they all chose to get sent off to Nauru and New Zealand?

I hope that crooked madman gets shot.

And by the way, I am engaged to an Indian woman. Which after Jackboot Joh came along, gave me lots of grief. I ditched. We rather both like Cape Town, I must say.
 
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