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Wayne Goss: Like Whitlam, he will be remembered for profoundly changing a political landscape.

Goss government’s ‘fractious’ relationship with anti-corruption body revealed

Queensland’s second-term premier, Wayne Goss, didn’t know what was coming. And he wasn’t alone.

  • Cameron Atfield

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Cabinet papers 1994: In a November 1994 cabinet meeting, Queensland treasurer Keith De Lacy recommended the construction of the first section of what would eventually become the Gabba’s 360-degree bowl of seating and the installation of the stadium’s light towers.

Gabba, Gabba, deja vu: Cabinet papers show stadium schism back in 1994

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Around the Queensland cabinet table three decades ago, Brisbane stadiums were firmly on the agenda.

  • Cameron Atfield
Brisbane Times homepage Bellevue Hotel demolition

1992: The year Queensland stopped tearing itself down overnight

The demolition of Brisbane’s Bellevue Hotel before a clear dawn in 1979 shocked Queenslanders. The destruction was the catalyst for change that took 13 years to arrive.

  • Tony Moore
Daylight saving is finally put to bed in Queensland in 1992.

1992: Daylight saving put to bed but new dawn for conservative coalition

Queensland’s conservative parties formed a formal coalition in 1992, a precursor to the eventual single Liberal National Party conservative party.

  • Tony Moore
Former deputy premier Joan Sheldon.

In 1991, Joan Sheldon blazed a trail for women in Qld politics

Newly released Cabinet minutes show a cautious Wayne Goss in his second year as premier, as a woman created history on the other side.

  • Tony Moore
The Goss cabinet moved to introduce pokies into Queensland clubs in 1990.

Drink-driving laws led Goss to introduce ‘scourge’ of pokies

As clubs saw a downturn in patronage in 1990 following new blood-alcohol driving limits, former premier Wayne Goss gave pokies the green light – a decision he later lamented.

  • Felicity Caldwell
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Labor premier Wayne Goss investigated daylight saving and instigated several Fitzgerald inquiry reforms.

Queensland cabinet papers 1990: Wayne Goss’s meticulous reforms

Secret cabinet papers, released after 30 years, detail the first full year of the Goss Labor government, which drew a line under the Bjelke-Petersen era.

  • Felicity Caldwell
Queensland Opposition leader Wayne Goss.

What secret cabinet papers reveal about 'most pivotal year' in state's history

The annual release of the state cabinet papers is a chance to see how the government of the day grappled with social, political and economic crises.

  • Lydia Lynch
Roma Street Parkland almost became a casino instead.

How Roma Street Parkland was saved from becoming a casino

Secret cabinet minutes from 1989 can now be released, 30 years after Wayne Goss took power.

  • Lydia Lynch
Former premier Mike Ahern (left) says his government's Vasta decision 'should be left to rest'.

Queensland attempted to tackle AIDS while sodomy remained a crime

The Ahern government tried to tackle HIV and climate change in 1988, while police were to be taught "violence in the home cannot be viewed as trivial in nature".

  • Felicity Caldwell

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