But you would never know it from the Queensland cabinet minutes from that year, released on 1 January. But that didn’t stop Bjelke-Petersen continuing on as if Rome wasn’t burning. The cabinet minutes show that is how north Queensland received its Trinity Beach resort and how Brisbane ended up with the Myer Centre. The redevelopment of the historic Port Office site, in Brisbane’s CBD, came up repeatedly during 1987 cabinet discussions – and then during the Fitzgerald inquiry. Ahern spent much of 1987 fighting Bjelke-Petersen over his insistence condom machines be removed from the University of Queensland and Griffith University.

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2017 22:41 UTC