Joh Bjelke-Petersen
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Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen was an Australian politician and farmer who served as premier of Queensland from 1968 to 1987 as leader of the Queensland National Party. He was renowned for his political
Official portrait, c. 1980
Joh and Flo on their wedding day (31 May 1952)
Bjelke-Petersen in 1968
Bjelke-Petersen with Gordon Chalk in April 1971.
Florence Bjelke-Petersen
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Florence Isabel Bjelke-Petersen was an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 1993, and was the wife of the longest-serving Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
…had held power in Queensland since 1932 and Bjelke-Petersen spent eleven years as an opposition member. On 31 May 1952, Bjelke-Petersen married typist Florence Gilmour, who would later become a significant political figure in her own right. In 1957, following a split in the Labor Party, the non-Labor parties came to…
On her wedding day, 31 May 1952
Bjelke-Petersen and her husband during the royal tour in 1977