Mike Ahern, the conservative politician who took charge of the Queensland government after the Fitzgerald Inquiry, has died.
Former Queensland premier and long-time conservative politician Mike Ahern has died, aged 81.
“It’s difficult to describe all that Mike Ahern achieved and stood for, but integrity is what Mike Ahern embodied in all that he did during his time in public office,” Littleproud said.John Mickel, the former Labor speaker of the Queensland parliament, said Ahern came into the state political arena as the youngest Country Party member by almost 20 years and the first to be university-educated.
Mickel was trade minister in the Beattie government when Ahern had the role of special representative for Africa, the Middle East and India. “Mike Ahern let the sun shine in on government more than three decades ago [and] the decisions he made laid the foundations for integrity in government,” Crisafulli said.
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