Former Queensland Premier Mike Ahern has passed away aged 81. The National Party leader served as the state's leader from 1987 to 1989 and was the youngest MP ever elected in QLD at the time, entering parliament at just 25-years-old. MORE: 9News
His family said Ahern died peacefully at his home in Caloundra surrounded by his wife and five children.Mike Ahern was premier from 1987 to 1989."This was most evident when he protected the state's Indigenous community from the AIDS virus when he was health minister in the '80s.
"Mike would often reflect on his time as premier of Queensland and say 'it was my job to' clean up corruption in the state. Mike, your job is done."Ahern was born in 1942 in Maleny in rural Sunshine Coast with an active family background in country politics with his father eventually becoming president of the Country Party, now known as the National Party.
The damning Fitzgerald inquiry into police corruption involving illegal gambling and prostitution also added to the pressures of the government at the time. "We'll be implementing the Fitzgerald recommendations lock, stock and barrel," Ahern said when he received the report. He was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2007 for his "service to the Queensland Parliament, to economic and trade development" and his work with technological, medical research and charity groups following his political career.
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