Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen famous quotes

03-28-2025

The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!.
-- Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen

#Media #Ifs And #Australia

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way...
If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.
I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen famous quotes

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