Symposium Part 4 Premiers

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Nov 03 2011

The Queensland Speaks Symposium, held on 3 November 2011 at the University of Queensland, gathered together about 30 thinkers and practitioners involved in Queensland’s political history.

Part 4 Premiers, Leadership and Change

In this session interview extracts from five premiers – Mike Ahern, Russell Cooper, Wayne Goss, Rob Borbidge and Peter Beattie – from Queensland Speaks are played to give an insight into each of their premierships. This is followed by a reflection by commentators Dr Paul Williams from Griffith University and Dr Rae Wear from the University of Queensland on the Queensland leadership style and changing trends. Questions from the audience on changing media reporting and the role of journalists follow.

Note that due to the symposium format, on occasion part of a question or comment from the audience may be temporarily inaudible and that the audio has been recorded through a single microphone.

Biography

Time	Summary	Keywords
00:00:00	Danielle Miller introduces the final session on the premiers of Queensland, leadership and change.
00:00:30	Soundbyte extracted from the Mike Ahern interview in Queensland Speaks.	leadership, Mike Ahern
00:03:51	Soundbyte extracted from the Russell Cooper interview in Queensland Speaks	leadership, Russell Cooper
00:05:50	Soundbyte extracted from the Wayne Goss interview in Queensland Speaks.	leadership, Wayne Goss
00:09:54	Soundbyte extracted from the Rob Borbidge interview in Queensland Speaks.	leadership, Rob Borbidge
00:11:36	Soundbyte extracted from the Peter Beattie interview in Queensland Speaks.	leadership, Peter Beattie
00:14:04	Dr Paul Williams discusses the leadership styles of each of the Premiers.	leadership, Mike Ahern, Peter Beattie, Rob Borbidge, Russell Cooper, Wayne Goss
00:29:54	Dr Rae Wear discusses the historical trends that appear throughout these periods of government.	Bjelke-Petersen Government 1968-87, Courier mail, leadership, media, South East Queensland, Tony Fitzgerald
00:38:25	Roger Scott discusses the distinction between process and outcome and the differing emphasis that politicians placed on these.	Connolly-Ryan Inquiry, Memorandum of Understanding, Mike Horan, Roger Scott, Wayne Goss
00:41:05	Participant Harold Thornton and Paul Williams discuss crisis management, how politicians deal with this and the quality of media reporting.	Joh Bjelke-Petersen, media, Peter Beattie
00:44:36	Participant Mary-Ellen Ryan discusses Rob Borbidge's concession speech. Rae Wear reflects on the speech and Rob Borbidge's leadership generally.	leadership, Rob Borbidge
00:46:35	Roger Scott discusses the One Nation issue and preferencing that arose throughout many interviews.	Lawrence Springborg, Mike Horan, One Nation, Rob Borbidge, Roger Scott
00:48:16	Peter Spearritt, Paul Williams and Rae Wear discuss the role of journalists in asking difficult questions and more generally the breakdown in the quality of media reporting.	media
00:52:09	Peter Spearritt makes closing remarks for the Symposium.
00:57:57	Symposium session ends.

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Other

Bailiwick:

Premier

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