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dc.contributor.authorWanna, John
dc.contributor.editorAndrew Bonnell and Ian Ward
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-09T12:31:58Z
dc.date.available2018-11-09T12:31:58Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.date.modified2009-11-18T05:34:50Z
dc.identifier.issn00049522
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8497.00230
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/3855
dc.description.abstractOnce again, as the millennium year came to a close, Queensland politicians demonstrated they had not lost the talent for entertaining the nation. Not content with producing the One Nation whirlwind between two successive minority governments, politics in Queensland saw the Labor party inflict major damage upon itself as evidence of electoral rorting began to emerge. With Labor’s credibility in tatters, Premier Peter Beattie ended the year hounding electoral rorters from his own party, losing his Deputy Premier and another backbencher in the process and with clouds hanging over other Labor members associated with the Australian Workers Union faction. The grubby revelations of skulduggery and forgery that provided much media entertainment, were brought on by factional infighting and pay-back politics mainly inside the AWU faction. For Labor, the one bright note from the whole incident was the unshakeable personal standing of Beattie (remaining around 58 per cent throughout the crisis), which paradoxically appeared to be enhanced by his uncompromising “clean out the rorters” stance.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing
dc.publisher.placeUK, Australia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom267
dc.relation.ispartofpageto274
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Journal of Politics and History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume47
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and Administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1605
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2103
dc.titlePolitical Chronicles: Queensland July to December 2000
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.date.issued2001
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorWanna, John


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