Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the fictions of hindsight!

We are going to miss the late Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the lovable rascal. They don't make them like him any more. Joh was a battler for Queensland, a doughty warrior for the National Party who put his state four square on the world stage. He built the economic powerhouse that is Queensland today. Don't you worry about that.

And so on, blah blah. This is the ludicrous spin whipped up by the remnants of the Bjelke peanut mafia who will be seeing the corrupt old loon dispatched at his funeral in Kingaroy on Tuesday.

You expect such nonsense from them. And from the likes of the Nationals' federal leader, John Anderson, who pumped out a fatuous press release hailing Bjelke as "a great servant of the Queensland people and the National Party".

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