Post-premiership
Bjelke-Petersen remained a popular figure with rural conservatives in Queensland. For a while he pursued business interests in Tasmania while trying to pay off debts said to have been incurred during his perjury trial. In fact, Bjelke-Petersen had previously incurred serious losses from monies borrowed in Swiss currency. Bjelke-Petersen's memoirs, Don't You Worry About That: The Joh Bjelke-Petersen Memoirs, were published in 1991.
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