An examination of this blog's readership statistics has thrown up the surprise fact that a 2014 spoofy post about Queensland Police Minister , the late Russell Hinze , shown here in a West Australian newspaper clipping , judging a fat belly contest , under the heading BEER BELLY "ROLL" FOR SUNSHINE STATE , was recently read by a number of punters.
Russ , centre , also responsible for racing and liquor licencing , known as the Minister for Everything, may have inspired ScoMo ?, who owned pubs and racehorses , inspired many cartoons.
Comedian Max Gillies hilariously imitated him by climbing inside a bean bag, enthusiastically extolling the joy of Queensland mud crabs and beer .
While Police MInister Hinze ridiculed a tennis playing police officer who made allegations of corruptions in the force . The officer , he said, did not look very fit on court, and quipped it would be absurd for him ( Hinze) to play tennis.
The Adelaide publication , Mary's Own Paper , run by Samela Harris , journalist daughter of poet , critic , columnist , editor / publisher Angy Penguins , victim of the Ern Mallee literary hoax, bookseller, Max Harris , gave Hinze a run in its entertaining pages back in July 1982 , part of which follows.
Due to allegations made against him in the Fitzgerald Inquiry into corruption during the Bjelke-Petersen era, Hince resigned in disgrace in Ferbruary l988. He died at the age of 72- before allegations of corruption could be brougt against him .
At the time the article appeared in Little Darwin , a large part of the Queensland population was officially described as being overweight .
