Queensland cabinet papers 1990: Wayne Gossâs meticulous reforms
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After Laborâs 32 years in the political wilderness, party luminary Wayne Goss wrestled the state of Queensland from the conservatives, officially drawing a line under the Bjelke-Petersen era.
Now, three decades later, the decisions of the Goss governmentâs first full year in power can be revealed, with the public release of secret cabinet minutes from 1990.
After a landslide victory in November 1989, Mr Gossâs Labor regime oversaw numerous reforms from the Fitzgerald inquiry into police corruption.
Labor premier Wayne Goss investigated daylight saving and instigated several Fitzgerald inquiry reforms.
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