The premiers of Queensland / edited by Denis Murphy, Roger Joyce and Margaret Cribb.

St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1990.

Revised edition

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Biography -- Queensland.

Queensland -- Politics and government -- History.

Queensland -- Politics and government -- Biography.

Introduction: the politics of Queensland

1. George Ferguson Bowen and Robert George Wyndham Herbert: the imported openers

2. Arthur Macalister: "Slippery Mac"

3. Charles Lilley: an uncertain democrat

4. John Murtagh Macrossan: "Jack the Hatter"

5. Thomas McIlwraith: a colonial entrepreneur

6. Samuel Walker Griffith: a liberal lawyer

7. Thomas Joseph Byrnes: the man and the legend

8. Robert Philp: capitalist as politician

9. William Kidston: a tenacious reformer

10. Thomas Joseph Ryan: big and broadminded

11. Edward Granville Theodore: ideal and reality

12. William McCormack: forgotten labor leader

13. Arthur Edward Moore: odd man in

14. William Forgan Smith: dictator or democrat?

15. Edward Michael Hanlon: a city bushman

16. Vincent Clair Gair: labor's loser

17. George Francis Reuben Nicklin: "Honest Frank" - the Gentleman Premier

18. Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: the populist autocrat

Notes and References

Appendix Parliamentary Careers of Queensland Premiers

Index.

Previous edition entitled "Queensland political portraits 1859-1952".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Originally published : St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1978.

Queensland political portraits

Queensland political portraits : 1859-1952

0702222496

xxv, 596 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23cm