The Hillbilly dictator : Australia's police state / Evan Whitton.

Crows Nest, N.S.W. : ABC Enterprises, 1989.

1971

Bjelke-Petersen, Johannes, -- Sir, -- 1911-2005.

Political corruption -- Queensland.

Police corruption -- Queensland.

Queensland -- Politics and government.

Part 1 A convergence of interests 1911-76

1 From cow bail to parliament

2 Jack Herbert gets a start

3 Bjelke-Peterson makes a profit

4 Mr. Bischof and Mr. Baystone

5 A palace coup

6 The jewel in the crown

7 Gulbransen sets a trap

8 Herbert speaks

9 The last Indian

10 Friends and guests

11 A convergence of interests

Part 2

12 A private army

13 Bjelke 'Bewildered'

14 'A movie about the rise of the Nazis'

15 A purge at the licensing branch

16 Top-level Ted

17 The Rooklyn Sting

18 Joh and Ted and Terry

19 'Full as a Fowl'

20 "A corrupt crook'

21 Mr. Vogt sends a telex

22 Dishing the libs

Part 3

23 Something for nearly everyone

24 The case of the bisexual cop

25 Trouble at the top level

26 A peerage for Sir Johannes?

27 Drilling for kaolin

28 Vasta sues

29 A Bjelkist slush fund

30 'Joh for PM'

31 A tiger by the tail

32 Stranded in Disneyland

33 The domino principle

34 'I'm going to give him the bullet'

35 The flip side of looney tunes

Part 4

36 Bond delirious

37 A scalpel for the body politic

38 Vasta sees a conspiracy

39 Shady, russ, top-level

40 A welcome touch of police court thuggery

41 A voice from the past

42 'Commercial blackmail'

Epilogue

43 A portrait of Australia?

44 The separation of the doctrine.

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