Was Sir Joh ‘God’, as David Littleproud says, or a template for Trump?

When his party finally turned on him, Bjelke-Petersen barricaded himself in his office. By some accounts, he tried to contact the Queen and convince her to intervene on his behalf.

“He wasn’t Rudolph Valentino in the looks department,” now-federal MP Bob Katter says. “He couldn’t string…