Tributes to a true legend pour in

I admired Sir Joh immensely for his ability to reject conventional wisdom in promotions within the public service - ie: the next in line and those showing most merit should always get the nod - and replace it with a system rewarding emerging and exceptional talent wherever he found it. That, and his absolute abhorrence of brown-nosers.
Terry Lewis
Brisbane

Even though Sir Joh wasn't a Catholic, immediately on hearing the news I contacted the Vatican to suggest that there would be no better way for the ailing John Paul II to mark his wonderful popeship then by conferring on the former Queensland Premier a long-overdue sainthood.
L Shaw
Brisbane

When Sir Joh was in charge, he won election after election - for almost 20 years. For the life of me, I don't know why the National Party hasn't enjoyed more time in office since he left the scene.
Gerry Mander (Retired)
Wujal Wujal

As a young and fairly ambitious principal of a state school in the South Burnett in the late 1960s, I decided to run for the Australian Labor Party against the Premier in his seat of Barambah, and may I just say that Sir Joh taught me some basic lessons in politics that have stayed with me all my life.
Alan Simpson
Teacher's Aide
Mornington Island (Outer)

It's a pity Sir Joh has now gone and not the namby pamby Liberals in the joint-party room who kicked up such a fuss and prevented me from establishing my cancer clinic in Queensland. If they'd listened to Sir Joh, I'd still be alive today.
Dr Milan Brych
Plot 3427
Cook Islands Cemetery

Quite frankly I'm glad the silly old bugger is no longer with us. With all the revelations from the Fitzgerald Inquiry and his subsequent court case, he gave all knighthood holders who really earned their gongs a bad name.
Sir John Egerton
Niche 4536
Allambe Memorial Gardens
Gold Coast