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Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen reigned over Queensland for 19 tumultuous years (1968–1987). Hugely popular, he presided o | dG1fN05zUFlGUUdQWDA
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00:00Who's Joe?
00:05Do you really want to know?
00:08Joe was a force of nature.
00:10He was God.
00:11Joe is God.
00:12To hell with that.
00:14This may surprise you, but he had charisma.
00:17An absolute corrupt bastard.
00:20He was a patriot.
00:22He believed in Australia.
00:24Power hungry.
00:26Dictator.
00:27He couldn't string three coherent words together.
00:30Looking back in many ways, Joe wrote the playbook for Trump.
00:37I think I respect him more than anybody else I've ever met.
00:40He was a complete dead shit and the world is better off without him.
00:45You think this bothers me?
00:46I'm Joe Milka-Peterson, Premier of Queensland, servant of the people.
00:53He was very smart.
00:55He was very cunning.
00:56If you give me a problem, I'll give you a bigger one.
00:59If you're going to try and misconstrue it just for your own political propaganda, you've got another thing coming.
01:06The police were allowing corrupt behaviour.
01:09If there was so much corruption going on, then how did the Premier not know about it?
01:14He believed that he had absolute power to make whatever decision was not illegal for him to do.
01:21I built this place.
01:22I built this place.
01:23I built Queensland.
01:25You want me, you know where I am.
01:27Right here.
01:29Old Joe the Ghost.
01:31Who's going on?
01:40Who's going on?
01:50No.

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