Turner became Premier at a time when Victoria was plunged in a deep depression following the Crash of 1892. He imposed a policy of strict economy and balanced budgets, in accordance with the economic theory of the time. Although these policies did little to relieve the effects of the Depression, they did restore confidence in Victoria's public finances and the banking system.
George Petersen, one-time member of the Communist Party and several Trotskyist organisations, Labor MLA for the Illawarra seat of Kembla from 1968 to 1971, and for the seat of Illawarra from 1971 to 1988, died on March 28, 2000.
George Petersen was the grandchild of Scandinavian migrants to Queensland, Danish and Swedish.
George's book also describes the enormous number of bread-and-butter issues that he took up on behalf of constituents or other people, many of which he successfully resolved on their behalf, and this aspect underlines the importance of apparently "mundane" local issues to ordinary people.
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