Contagiously enthusiastic ! Come to Queensland

So in September 1976 I headed north and set up my one man camp on the Gold Coast. At the same time this Queensland Premier declared an end to the death tax, on the sensible basis that why pay tax all your working life, then pay more after you die ?

This one bold decision propelled the development of Queensland. At the time the population of Queensland and South Australia were languishing just over 1 million each. 48 years later, South Australia is 1.5 million but Queensland is 6 million. Hello ? As an investor in SA, and their preponderance to vote ALP, enthusiastically embrace union and EPA policies and regulations, I am not surprised.

3 years into building my empire in 1979, now with a staff of 5, I surprisingly received an invite from the Qld Premier for a Saturday morning breakfast at the Pacific Hotel in Southport. A free breakfast ? despite being apolitical, and still not a registered voter, my Scottish DNA kicked in and I accepted.

Even more surprising there were only 20 people at this breakfast plus the Premier and a minder, and the Premier was no taller than me. From TV images I thought he was a giant, which he was, but not physically.

" I asked you all here" he said " because you are the future of Queensland, and I want to give you some advice." (I was asking myself, how does he know anything about me)

"I am not an educated man, but I know right from wrong. Death duties were and still are wrong and I righted it. When I am faced with decisions, I always ask, is it good for Queensland ? and is it good for your industry ? If yes to both, I will support it, if no to both, I will oppose it.

His courageous enthusiasm for Queensland shone out

I immediately enrolled as a National Party member and started attending local meetings.

Joe Bjelke Petersen's courageous enthusiasm for Queensland had him remain as Premier for a record 19 years, but the union and environmental bureaucrat activists were all creeping north like a plague of locusts devouring the good of the land, and in the end his own party bowled him out trying to appease the plague.

So why am I telling you this ?

Well, Queensland still has the majority of the last remaining sensible Australians while the Leprosy of the Left is entrenched in the southern capital cities of Canberra, Melbourne Sydney and Adelaide. Just take a moment and look how those southern states lily-livered bedtwetters vote, and how they happily support the activist ever-unhappy BLM, LGBT, Palestine and any anti-Australian groups.

So come and visit Queensland soon !