Between the defeat of the government of Digby Denham in 1915 and the election of Campbell Newman in 2012, Queensland did not have a single Liberal Premier, save for the 8 days in August 1968 when Sir Gordon Chalk held the office after the sudden death of Jack Pizzey. For a whole century, the leadership of the State was in the hands of Labor and Country Party (later, National Party) politicians.
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