Portrait of Sir Johannes Bjelke Petersen [picture] / [Australian Information Service]
- Bib ID:
- 3662979
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1983
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21.6 x 16.5 cm.
- Biography/History:
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Johannes Bjelke-Petersen was born on 13.1.1911 in New Zealand. His family moved to Kingaroy in southern Queensland when he was a small boy. In 1920 he contracted polio at age nine, leaving him with a limp for life. In 1947 he won the seat of Nanango for the Country Party, kicking off his career in state politics. In 1968, against the odds, Joh becomes premier, filling the vacancy left by the death of Jack Pizzey. In 1975, ignoring constitutional convention, Joh appoints political ally Albert Field to replace the late Labor senator Bert Milliner. The move ultimately helped bring down Gough Whitlam's government. In 1984 Joh is knighted by the Queen and in 2003 he filed a lawsuit seeking
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer from compactus card.
- Inscriptions: "26/7/83/37"--Handwritten in pencil on reverse.
- Inscriptions: "Bjelke, Petersen Johannes"--Handwritten in ink on reverse.
- Condition good.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137173016
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- State and Territory politicians
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- Australian Information Service
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