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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
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Alan Bond
Alan Bond (22 April 1938 – 5 June 2015) was an Australian businessman noted for his high-profile business dealings, including his central role in the WA Inc scandals of the 1980s, and what was at the time the biggest corporate collapse in Australian history; for his bankrolling the successful challenge for the 1983 America's Cup, the first time the New York Yacht Club had ever lost it in its 132-year history; and also for a criminal conviction that saw him serve four years in prison.
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Albert Field
Albert Patrick "Pat" Field (11 October 19101 July 1990) was an Australian Labor Party member.
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Apartheid
Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.
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Apportionment (politics)
Apportionment is the process by which seats in a legislative body are distributed among administrative divisions entitled to representation.
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Aurukun, Queensland
Aurukun is a town and locality in the Shire of Aurukun in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.
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Australian Communications and Media Authority
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is an Australian Government statutory authority within the Communications portfolio.
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Australian dollar
The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
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Australian federal election, 1972
Federal elections were held in Australia on 2 December 1972.
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Australian federal election, 1974
Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 May 1974.
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Australian federal election, 1987
Federal elections were held in Australia on 11 July 1987, following the granting of a double dissolution on 5 June by the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen.
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Australian House of Representatives
The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two Houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia.
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Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.
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Australian pound
The Australian pound (symbol £) was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar.
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Australian Senate
The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.
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Australian Taxation Office
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is an Australian government statutory agency and the principal revenue collection body for the Australian government.
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Bellevue Hotel, Brisbane
The Bellevue Hotel was a hotel on the western corner of George and Alice Streets, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Bertie Milliner
Bertie Richard Milliner (17 July 1911 – 30 June 1975) was an Australian trade unionist, politician and Senator, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
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Bill Gunn (politician)
William Angus Manson Gunn AM (22 June 1920 – 20 September 2001) was an Australian politician who represented the Queensland Legislative Assembly seat of Somerset from 1972 until 1992.
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Bjelke-Petersen family
Bjelke-Petersen is the name of an Australian family of both Danish and Swedish descent.
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Bjelkemander
The Bjelkemander was the term given to a system of malapportionment in the Australian state of Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Blood alcohol content
Blood alcohol content (BAC), also called blood alcohol concentration, blood ethanol concentration, or blood alcohol level, is most commonly used as a metric of alcohol intoxication for legal or medical purposes.
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Board of directors
A board of directors is a recognized group of people who jointly oversee the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency.
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Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke, (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian politician who was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1983 to 1991.
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Bond University
Bond University is Australia's first private not-for-profit university and is located in Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland.
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Breathalyzer
A breathalyzer or breathalyser (a portmanteau of breath and analyzer/analyser) is a device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.
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Brian Austin
Brian Douglas Austin (born 22 March 1943) was a Queensland politician and Minister of Health (1980 to 1983) who represented the state seat of Wavell for the Liberal Party (1977–1983) and then for the National Party (1983–1986).
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Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.
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Brothel
A brothel or bordello is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes, who are sometimes referred to as sex workers.
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By-election
By-elections, also spelled bye-elections (known as special elections in the United States, and bypolls in India), are used to fill elected offices that have become vacant between general elections.
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Cabinet (government)
A cabinet is a body of high-ranking state officials, typically consisting of the top leaders of the executive branch.
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Cairns
Cairns is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Cannabis (drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.
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Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Captain Cook Bridge, Brisbane
The Captain Cook Bridge is a motorway bridge over the Brisbane River in Brisbane, in the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Censure
A censure is an expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism.
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Charles Adermann
Sir Charles Frederick Adermann KBE (3 August 1896 – 9 May 1979) was an Australian federal politician and government minister.
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Chris Masters (writer)
Christopher "Chris" Wayne Masters PSM (born 4 December 1948 in Grafton, New South Wales) is a multi-Walkley Award winning and Logie Award winning Australian journalist and author.
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Civil liberties
Civil liberties or personal freedoms are personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge, either by law or by judicial interpretation, without due process.
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Colin Hannah
Air Marshal Sir Colin Thomas Hannah, (22 December 1914 – 22 May 1978) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and a Governor of Queensland.
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Commune
A commune (the French word appearing in the 12th century from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a large gathering of people sharing a common life; from Latin communis, things held in common) is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, often having common values and beliefs, as well as shared property, possessions, resources, and, in some communes, work, income or assets.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Cooktown, Queensland
Cooktown is a town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.
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Dannevirke
Dannevirke (Danish: "Danes' work" and a reference to Danevirke) (Taniwaka), is a rural service town in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of the North Island, New Zealand.
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Dean Wells (politician)
Dean MacMillan Wells (born 13 January 1949) is an Australian politician.
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Democratic Labor Party (historical)
The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) was an Australian political party.
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Deputy Premier of Queensland
The Deputy Premier of Queensland is a role in the Government of Queensland assigned to a responsible Minister in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Don Lane (politician)
Donald Frederick (Don) Lane (18 June 1935 – 11 March 1995) was a Minister of Transport in the Bjelke-Petersen state of Queensland's coalition government.
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Double dissolution
A double dissolution is a procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks in the bicameral Parliament of Australia between the House of Representatives (lower house) and the Senate (upper house).
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Drew Hutton
Peter Drew Hutton (born 1947) is an Australian activist, academic, campaigner and past political candidate.
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Earthworks (engineering)
Earthworks are engineering works created through the processing of parts of the earth's surface involving quantities of soil or unformed rock.
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Electoral district of Albert
Albert was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland which existed from 1887 to 1949 and 1959 to 2017.
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Electoral district of Balonne
Balonne was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1873 to 1932, and again from 1950 to 1992.
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Electoral district of Barambah
Barambah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2001.
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Electoral district of Cairns
Cairns is an electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Electoral district of Gregory
Gregory is a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral district in Queensland, Australia.
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Electoral district of Nanango
Nanango is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Electoral district of Wynnum
Wynnum was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1923 to 1986.
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Far North Queensland
Far North Queensland, or Tropical North Queensland, is the northernmost part of the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Farmer
A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.
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Fitzgerald Inquiry
The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Inquiry) (1987–1989) into Queensland Police corruption was a judicial inquiry presided over by Tony Fitzgerald QC.
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Florence Bjelke-Petersen
Florence Isabel Bjelke-Petersen (née Gilmour; 11 August 1920 – 20 December 2017) was an Australian politician and writer.
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Football pools
In the United Kingdom, the football pools, often referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of top-level association football matches taking place in the coming week.
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Four Corners (Australian TV program)
Four Corners is an Australian investigative journalism/current affairs documentary television program, the longest of its kind nationally.
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Frank Nicklin
Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin, (6 August 1895 – 29 January 1978) was an Australian politician.
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Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries.
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Gold Coast, Queensland
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland, approximately south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane and immediately north of the border with New South Wales.
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Gordon Chalk
Sir Gordon William Wesley Chalk, — Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975.
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Governor of Queensland
The Governor of Queensland is the representative in the state of Queensland of the Queen of Australia.
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Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.
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Griffith University
Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia.
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Groom by-election, 1988
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Groom on 9 April 1988.
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Harold Richter
Sir Harold Richter (17 January 1906 - 18 June 1979) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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Harvest
Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields.
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Hawke's Bay Region
Hawke's Bay Region (Te Matau-a-Māui) is a region of New Zealand on the east coast of the North Island.
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Henry Bolte
Sir Henry Edward Bolte GCMG (20 May 1908 – 4 January 1990) was an Australian politician.
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High Court of Australia
The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia.
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Hippie
A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.
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Huan Fraser
Huan Donald John Fraser (16 February 1940 – 18 February 2010) was an Australian politician.
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Hughenden, Queensland
Hughenden is a town and locality in the Shire of Flinders, Queensland, Australia.
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Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.
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Inheritance tax
A tax paid by a person who inherits money or property or a levy on the estate (money and property) of a person who has died.
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Jack Houston
John William Houston (30 December 1919 – 27 October 2008) was an Australian politician.
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Jack Pizzey
Jack Charles Allan Pizzey (2 February 1911 – 31 July 1968) was a Queensland Country Party politician.
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James Cook University
James Cook University (JCU) is a public university and is the second oldest university in Queensland, Australia.
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Joh for Canberra
The Joh for Canberra campaign, initially known as the "Joh for PM" campaign, was an attempt by Queensland National Party premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen to become Prime Minister of Australia.
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John Howard
John Winston Howard, (born 26 July 1939) is a former Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1996 to 2007.
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John Kerr (governor-general)
Sir John Robert Kerr, (24 September 1914 – 24 March 1991) was the 18th Governor-General of Australia.
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Kingaroy
Kingaroy is an agricultural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Kingaroy Shire Council Chambers
Kingaroy Shire Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall and now visitor information centre and art gallery at Haly Street, Kingaroy, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen
Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen,.
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Legislative Assembly of Queensland
The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland.
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Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division)
The Liberal Party, originally the Queensland People's Party, was a political party in Queensland, Australia, from the Second World War until 2008.
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List of Ministers of Public Works (Queensland)
The list of ministers for the Department of Public Works in the Government of Queensland, Australia, include.
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Llewellyn Edwards
Sir Llewellyn (Llew) Roy Edwards, AC (born 2 August 1935) is a former Queensland state politician and state Liberal Party leader.
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Loans affair
The Loans affair, also called the Khemlani affair, was a political scandal involving the Whitlam Government of Australia in 1975, in which it was accused of attempting to unconstitutionally borrow money from Middle Eastern countries through the agency of Pakistani banker Tirath Khemlani, bypassing standard procedures of the Australian Treasury.
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Loss of supply
Loss of supply occurs where a government in a parliamentary democracy using the Westminster System or a system derived from it is denied a supply of treasury or exchequer funds, by whichever house or houses of parliament or head of state is constitutionally entitled to grant and deny supply.
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.
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Mal Colston
Malcolm Arthur Colston (5 April 1938 – 23 August 2003) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999.
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Malcolm Fraser
John Malcolm Fraser (21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1975 to 1983 as leader of the Liberal Party.
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Max Hodges
Allen Maxwell Hodges (11 February 191731 July 2009) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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Medicare (Australia)
Medicare is the publicly funded universal health care system in Australia.
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Merivale Bridge
The Merivale Bridge is a double track railway bridge crossing the Brisbane River.
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Mike Ahern (Australian politician)
Michael John Ahern (born 2 June 1942) is a former Queensland National Party politician who was Premier of Queensland from December 1987 to September 1989.
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Milan Brych
Milan Brych (born 11 December 1939) is a Czech-born cancer therapist.
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Minutes
Minutes, also known as minutes of meeting (abbreviation MoM), protocols or, informally, notes, are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing.
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Moreton Island
Moreton Island is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia.
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Mornington Island
Mornington Island is the northernmost of 22 islands that form the Wellesley Islands group.
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National Party of Australia – Queensland
The National Party, previously the Country Party was a political party in Queensland, Australia, for much of the period from 1915 until 2008.
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Nazism
National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.
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Nine Network
The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.
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Opinion poll
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a poll or a survey, is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample.
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Opposition (parliamentary)
Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system.
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Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as regent for his father, King George III.
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Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads)
The Pacific Motorway is a motorway in Australia between Brisbane, Queensland, and Brunswick Heads, New South Wales, through the New South Wales–Queensland border at Tweed Heads.
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Pair (parliamentary convention)
In parliamentary practice, pairing is an informal arrangement between the government and opposition parties whereby a member of a Legislative body agrees or is designated by the party whip to be absent from the chamber or abstain from voting while a member of the other party needs to be absent from the chamber due to other commitments, illness, travel problems, etc.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system.
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Pastor
A pastor is an ordained leader of a Christian congregation.
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Perc Tucker
Percy John Robert "Perc" Tucker (5 December 1919 - 20 August 1980) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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Perjury
Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters a generation material to an official proceeding.
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Peter Bowers (Australian journalist)
Peter Bowers (1930 – 28 June 2010) was an Australian journalist.
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Police state
Police state is a term denoting a government that exercises power arbitrarily through the power of the police force.
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Poliomyelitis
Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.
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Power outage
A power outage (also called a power cut, a power out, a power blackout, power failure or a blackout) is a short-term or a long-term loss of the electric power to a particular area.
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Premier of Queensland
The Premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Press release
A press release, news release, media release, press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy.
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Prime Minister of Australia
The Prime Minister of Australia (sometimes informally abbreviated to PM) is the head of government of Australia.
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Privy council
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.
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Progressive supranuclear palsy
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP; or the Steele–Richardson–Olszewski syndrome, after the doctors who described it in 1963) is a degenerative disease involving the gradual deterioration and death of specific volumes of the brain.
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Proxy voting
Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate his or her voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (QCCL) is a voluntary organisation in Australia concerned with the protection of individual rights and civil liberties.
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Queensland Cultural Centre
The Queensland Cultural Centre is a heritage-listed entertainment centre at Grey Street, South Brisbane, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Queensland Police Service
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland.
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Queensland state election, 1969
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 17 May 1969 to elect the 78 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
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Queensland state election, 1972
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 27 May 1972 to elect the 82 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
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Queensland state election, 1974
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 7 December 1974 to elect the 82 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
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Queensland state election, 1977
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 12 November 1977 to elect the 82 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
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Queensland state election, 1980
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 November 1980 to elect the 82 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
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Queensland state election, 1983
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 22 October 1983 to elect the 82 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
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Queensland state election, 1986
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 1 November 1986 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
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Queensland state election, 1989
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 2 December 1989 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
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Ray Whitrod
Raymond Wells Whitrod AC CVO QPM (16 April 1915 – 11 July 2003) was an Australian police officer and criminologist.
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Referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.
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Reserve power
In a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government, a reserve power is a power that may be exercised by the head of state without the approval of another branch of the government.
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Responsible government
Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
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Rio Tinto Aluminium
Rio Tinto Aluminium (previously known as Comalco) is now known as Rio Tinto Alcan after Rio's takeover of Alcan.
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Robert Sparkes
Sir Robert Lyndley Sparkes (31 May 19296 August 2006) was President of the Queensland National Party from 1970 to 1990.
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Robin Gray (Australian politician)
Robin Trevor Gray (born 1 March 1940) is a former Australian politician who was Premier of Tasmania from 1982 to 1989.
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Rockhampton
Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Ron Camm
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Camm (22 July 1914 - 15 March 1988) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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Ross Fitzgerald
Ross Andrew Fitzgerald (born in 1944) is an Australian academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator.
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Russ Hinze
Russell James Hinze (19 June 1919 – 29 June 1991) was a politician in Queensland, Australia, in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Russell Cooper
Theo Russell Cooper (born 4 February 1941 in Brisbane) is a former Australian National Party politician.
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Sanctuary Cove, Queensland
Sanctuary Cove is a gated community, in the suburb of Hope Island in the Gold Coast area of Queensland, Australia.
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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London.
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Shire of Kingaroy
The Shire of Kingaroy was a local government area in the South Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, about northwest of the capital, Brisbane.
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Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges
The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges are a side-by-side pair of road bridges on the Gateway Motorway (M1), which skirts the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Slush fund
A slush fund, also known as a black fund, is a fund or account maintained for corrupt or illegal purposes, especially in the political sphere.
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South Africa national rugby union team
The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks, is governed by the South African Rugby Union.
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South Australia
South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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South Bank Parklands
The South Bank Parklands are located at South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Stamp duty
Stamp duty is a tax that is levied on documents.
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State of emergency
A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to perform actions that it would normally not be permitted.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban area and the third most populated area in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Supreme Court of Queensland
The Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in the Australian State of Queensland.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.
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Telex
The telex network was a public switched network of teleprinters similar to a telephone network, for the purposes of sending text-based messages.
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Terry Lewis (police officer)
Terence Murray "Terry" Lewis GM (born 29 February 1928) is a former Queensland Police Commissioner who was convicted and jailed for corruption and forgery as a result of the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
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Terry White
Terrence Anthony "Terry" White (born 3 September 1936) is an Australian pharmacist, businessman, and former politician.
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The Courier-Mail
The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.
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The Honourable
The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon., Hon. or formerly The Hon'ble—the latter term is still used in South Asia) is a style that is used before the names of certain classes of people.
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The Morning Bulletin
The Morning Bulletin is a daily newspaper servicing the city of Rockhampton and the surrounding areas of Central Queensland, Australia.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.
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Thomas Playford IV
Sir Thomas Playford (5 July 1896 – 16 June 1981) was a South Australian politician.
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Tom Lewis (Australian politician)
Thomas Lancelot Lewis (23 January 1922 – 25 April 2016) was a New South Wales politician, Premier of New South Wales and minister in the cabinets of Sir Robert Askin and Sir Eric Willis.
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Tony Fitzgerald
Gerald Edward "Tony" Fitzgerald (born 26 November 1941) is a former Australian judge, who presided over the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
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Torres Strait
The Torres Strait is a strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.
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Totalisator Agency Board
The Totalisator Agency Board in Australia and New Zealand, universally shortened to TAB or T.A.B, is the name given to monopoly totalisator organisations.
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Trade union
A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.
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Treasurer of Queensland
The Treasurer of Queensland, previously styled Colonial Treasurer of Queensland, is the title held by the Cabinet minister who is responsible for the financial management of Queensland Government in Australia.
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Trevor Perrett
Trevor John Perrett (born 2 August 1941 in Kingaroy, Queensland) is a former Australian politician.
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Uniting Church in Australia
The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was established on 22 June 1977 when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union.
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Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Queensland
The Synod of Queensland or Queensland Synod is the entity of the Uniting Church in Australia covering most of the state of Queensland in Australia.
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University of Queensland
The University of Queensland (UQ) is a public research university primarily located in Queensland's capital city, Brisbane, Australia.
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Upper house
An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature (or one of three chambers of a tricameral legislature), the other chamber being the lower house.
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Vince Gair
Vincent Clair Gair (25 February 190111 November 1980) was an Australian politician.
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Waipukurau
Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke's Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Walter Campbell (judge)
Sir Walter Benjamin Campbell (4 March 1921 – 4 September 2004) was an Australian judge, administrator and governor.
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Westminster system
The Westminster system is a parliamentary system of government developed in the United Kingdom.
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White-shoe firm
A White-shoe firm is a leading professional services firm in the United States, particularly firms that have been in existence for more than a century and represent Fortune 500 companies.
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World Expo 88
World Expo 88, also known as Expo 88, was a specialised Expo held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, during a six-month period between Saturday, 30 April 1988 and Sunday, 30 October 1988, inclusive.
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Yeppoon
Yeppoon is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Central Queensland, Australia.
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1975 Australian constitutional crisis
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history.
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1982 Commonwealth Games
The 1982 Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from 30 September to 9 October 1982.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen