Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Sir Johannes " Joh " Bjelke -Petersen, KCMG ( born January 13, 1911 in Dannevirke, New Zealand, † April 23, 2005 in Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia) was an Australian politician of the Country Party and long-time Prime Minister of Queensland.

Life

Bjelke -Petersen, the son of an immigrant from Denmark pastor of the Lutheran Church, began his political career in the National Party of Australia in later renamed Country Party in 1946 with the election as a member of the then Kingroy Shire Council. In 1949 he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of the State of Queensland.

In 1963 he was appointed by Prime Minister Francis Nicklin first time in the Queensland government and was until 1968 the Minister of Public Works and Housing.

After the unexpected death of Nicklins successor Jack Pizzey he was finally himself on August 8, 1968 even Prime Minister of Queensland and closed the left by the death of Pizzey gap in the coming years.

However, the press presented him happy as Bible-believing, directed against trade unions and political right-wing peanut farmer is, who was willing to give his name for a large lot of crazy ideas. He was actually no one who observed the principles of ministerial responsibilities, or the separation of powers, and the journalists and critics merely presented with slogans like " Do not you worry about that ." On the other hand, he was a power politician machiavellianischen style, which was underestimated by political opponents, but also party members.

In November 1975, he helped to overthrow the government of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, in which he broke the agreement, the Whitlam opponent Albert Patrick Field for a vacancy and the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Senate seat are entitled to vote. This meant that the opposition had sufficiently representative to prevent the support Whitlam and ultimately initiate the election of Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister of Australia.

After his second victory at the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland he found himself increasingly militant protests by trade unionists and leftist students suspended. In one of the largest of these demonstrations in October 1977 662 demonstrators were arrested.

Most recently, he was ( Treasurer ) during his tenure from 1983 to 1987 and Minister of the Treasury. In 1984, Johannes Bjelke - Peterson as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George raised to the peerage, and henceforth led the suffix " Sir ".

After an unsuccessful renewed bid as prime minister, which the opposition Labor Party brought ultimately benefits in elections to the Legislative Assembly, he resigned because of rising charges of corruption and bad decisions on 1 December 1987 and was replaced by Mike Ahern.

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Biography ( rulers.org )

Prime Minister (Queensland )
Member of the National Party of Australia
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Australian
Noble
Born in 1911
Died in 2005
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