I te tau 1987 hei whakautu ki te raupapa tuhinga mo te pirau pirihimana taumata-nui i roto i te "The Courier-Mail" na te kairipoata a Phil Dickie, i whai ake i te purongo pouaka whakaata "Four Corners", i tukuna i te 11 o Mei 1987, i tapaina ko "The Moonlight State" me te kairipoata a Chris Masters te Fitzgerald Inquiry (1987<unk>1989), i whakahaerehia e Tony Fitzgerald QC, i hua i te whakakorenga o te Pirimia, e rua nga pooti-a-wa, te herehere o nga minita o mua e toru me te kaimana o te pirihimana i hereherea ka ngaro tana rangatira. I arahina e Wayne Goss te Kāwanatanga Mahi ki te mana i te tau 1989. I te tau 1980, ka tīmata te raupapa State of Origin ā-tau ki Lang Park i Brisbane. E rua tau i muri mai ko ngā kēmu o te Commonwealth
i tū ki Brisbane.