About Russell Cooper
Theo Russell Cooper is an Australian retired National Party politician. He was Premier of Queensland for a period of 73 days, from 25 September 1989 to 7 December 1989. His loss at the state election of 1989 ended 32 years of continuous National Party rule over Queensland. The CJC began an investigation, and although the names of those under investigation were suppressed, it became obvious through indirect published hints that one of them was Cooper. In February 1996, when Borbidge formed a minority government after winning a closely fought by-election in Mundingburra, Cooper became Minister for Police, Corrective Services, and Racing. Cooper became Shadow Minister for Primary Industries but stepped down from the front bench in December 1999.
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