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    Joh: Last King of Queensland

    2025

    English

    6.4

    australian politics

    Biography

    Documentary

    joh bjelke-petersen

    queensland

    queensland, australia

    Kriv Stenders Kriv Stenders Director Richard Roxburgh Richard Roxburgh as Joh Bjelke-Petersen Joh Bjelke-Petersen Joh Bjelke-Petersen as Self Matthew Condon Matthew Condon as Self Bob Katter Bob Katter as Self - Leader of KAP
    Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen reigned over Queensland for 19 tumultuous years (1968–1987). Hugely popular, he presided over enormous growth, but corruption raged under his tenure, as did electoral manipulation and often violent suppression of dissent. This film tells Joh’s story through rare archival footage and revelatory interviews, exploring a life shaped by a hard yakka, god-fearing upbringing on his family’s farm. Trump’s spectre is evoked in Joh’s famously mangled and meandering way of speaking – brilliantly dramatised by Richard Roxburgh – alongside his unyielding execution of power and the desperate denial of his final days in office.
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