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in Police Car no 12, the "Rat Pack was born". In conjunction with Jack
Herbert, the Rat Pack would be instrumental in establishing "The Joke". Later when Lane moved to the Special Branch, he was located in the Special Branch office which was directly adjacent to where Lewis worked in Juvenile Aid Bureau, and he would see Lewis in passing on most days. In his autobiography, Lane admits that during the Special Branch years, that he often went for drinks with Terry Lewis and Jack Herbert after work, showing his close ties with all the key players in "The Joke"
659:, was published in 1993 by Boolarong Publications. The book is somewhat defensive about some of the accusations of violence made against the Special Branch, but is honest in describing how unprepared the branch was for protest movements and how amateurish information on people was categorised. He admitted that the Special Branch treated protesters as they did with criminals. 'I thought this categorising of people in this way was stupid,' recalled Lane, '... it was not arrived at by any clearly defined basis and has no legal merit'.
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Officers when, in his weekly update he included sermons preaching against aspects of the
Catholic faith. Whitrod also announced that he transferred Special Branch Chief Leo De Lange after 20 years in charge of the branch, and that he was breaking the branch up, which provoked the Government to override the decision and maintain the Special Branch. Whitrod had been furious that the Premier was being fed info from the Special Branch, specifically by Don Lane (who denied any specific contact with the Premier).
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Merthyr Liberal Party branch joined the National Party in support of Lane. Bill Knox then defeated White to reclaim leadership of the Liberal Party, after 83 days, White’s leadership of the party was over. Don Lane and Brian Austin defection to the Nationals soon after the election, left the Liberals with only six members in the parliament of 89 members. The two defectors gave Bjelke-Petersen's Nationals an outright majority, allowing him to form government in his own right.
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Paradise), Peter White (Southport), and Tony Bourke (Lockyer). Bishop and White had been particularly open in their hostility to the
National Party, and to alleged corruption by Russ Hinze on the Gold Coast. Three incidents in 1981 had further damaged relations between the Nationals and many Liberals, with the Liberal representation in Cabinet reduced from 8 to 7, the appointment of John’s friend Ted Lyons to the Chairmanship of the TAB board, and the appointment of the new Chief Justice.
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Cacciola was about to become President of the Italo-Australian club, and had previously pushed a motion for the club to stay out of politics, after complaints about Lane using the club to promote the Liberal Party. Lane on the other hand wanted the club to actively support him, and to avoid a transfer to Rockhampton, Cacciola had to withdraw his nomination.
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262:" investigators in the force, but had been transferred to Cloncurry after stoushes with senior police. Becker immediately enraged Bauer by closing down illegal SP bookmaking operations and confiscating the betting ledgers. The corrupt Bauer put a lot of pressure on Becker and Lane but failed to stop the bookmakers being charged.
233:, that Lane had significant unexplained income, and was alleged by Jack Herbert to have taken bribes. Lane did not admit to taking bribes, instead he admitted to abusing Ministerial expenses and claimed a lot of other Ministers had done the same. In the end Lane and three other Bjelke-Petersen ministers (
217:, an electorate which included the Fortitude Valley where a lot of the then illegal brothels and casinos were located. During his time with the Police, he had gotten to know Jack Herbert the Chief Organiser of The Joke, and the "Rat Pack" of Terry Lewis, Tony Murphy and Glenn Hallahan well. Following the
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being deposed as leader and replaced by Edwards. This stoush, and the increasing number of three cornered contests in the 1977 election had attracted the ire of the National Party in the 1980 election, where they had engaged in three-cornered contests in three seats to defeat Bruce Bishop (Surfers
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The next day, Bjelke-Petersen formally advised Campbell to sack Ahern, Austin and McKechnie and call an early election. However, Ahern, Gunn and Austin told Campbell that Bjelke-Petersen no longer had enough parliamentary support to govern. While Campbell agreed to the ouster of Ahern, Gunn and
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which opposed the Government on a number of issues and wanted to be the senior coalition partner, and was typically composed of more moderate small l liberals, vs the typically older and more conservative members who were content with the status quo. Increasingly new Liberal Party members being
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late for the non-Labor forces, as Bjelke-Petersen had pressured the federal Nationals to pull out of the Coalition. Due to a number of three-cornered contests, Labor won a sweeping victory.
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