When the parliamentary wing of the National Party deposed Bjelke-Petersen and elected one of the dissident ministers, Mike Ahern, as new Leader of the National Party, Sir Joh initially refused to resign as Premier and Sir Walter resisted calls to dismiss him.

Mike Ahern became the new Premier after Bjelke-Petersen was deposed by his own party.

By the late 1980s after the scandal of the extreme corruption revealed by the Fitzgerald Inquiry had engulfed Bjelke-Petersen, who was replaced as Premier and National Party leader in 1987 by Mike Ahern.

In December 1987, the National Party replaced Bjelke-Petersen as leader and Premier with Mike Ahern.

* Mike Ahern ( Australian politician ) ( born 1942 ), Australian National Party politician and former Premier of Queensland

Michael John Ahern AO ( born 2 June 1942 ) is a former Queensland National Party politician who was Premier of Queensland from December 1987 to September 1989.

His father Jack Ahern was active in the Country Party ( the former name for the National Party ), in Landsborough and was campaign manager for Premier Sir Frank Nicklin.

Sir Joh boycotted this meeting, which elected Ahern as leader of the National Party, and refused to resign as Premier for a week, before finally stepping down on 1 December.

* Premier of Queensland – Mike Ahern ( until 22 September ), then Russell Cooper ( until 7 December ), then Wayne Goss

* Premier of Queensland – Mike Ahern

The Midlands club faced an uncertain future after having to sell the majority of their first-team players, though despite this situation, McCarthy promised Premier League football at Molineux within three seasons.

As Premier, Getty was faced with an economic slowdown and falling energy prices, which hit Alberta's petroleum-dominated economy hard.

Rutherford was Premier, but had not yet faced the people in an election and did not yet have a legislature to which he could propose legislation.

Shortly after his first election win in 1995, Mike Harris faced his first crisis as Premier.

Kewell was injured for the start of the 2007 – 08 season, and he faced an uncertain future at Liverpool having suffered yet another injury, which sidelined him for the first month of the Premier League season.

On 19 March, Villa faced local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League at Villa Park.

Shortly before the 2001 election, he faced a crisis when a CJC inquiry-the Shepherdson inquiry-revealed that a number of MPs and party activists — including Deputy Premier Jim Elder, a former State Secretary and newly elected MP Mike Kaiser, and a senior adviser to Wayne Goss — had been engaged in breaches of the Electoral Act by falsely enrolling people to boost their faction's strength in internal party ballots.

The Northern Premier League attendance record was broken when Stalybridge faced Emley towards the end of the 2000 – 01 season, when 3, 500 attended.

Having beaten Stockport County and Rotherham United, they faced Premier League side Ipswich Town at the Racecourse, with Wrexham running out 2 – 1 winners thanks to goals from Gary Bennett and Kieron Durkan.

They faced the then Premier League champions Chelsea in the two-legged semi-finals and drew the first leg 1 – 1 at Adams Park before being beaten 4 – 0 in the second leg at Stamford Bridge.

In 2007, Mossley faced relegation and were assigned to the inaugural season of the Northern Premier League Division One North.

As Paramount leader Jiang Zemin, NPCSC Chairman Li Peng and PRC Premier Zhu Rongji, gradually retired from their position of power, " fourth-generation " leaders, led by CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, faced with increasing social unrest, attempted to steer the country towards a new direction.

The Northern Premier League had wanted 20 teams per division but faced opposition from the Southern League because it feared massive movement from its Midlands Division.

In the eighth round, Rubin faced Premier League newcomers FC Krasnodar at home, the score of 2 – 1 was in favor of Kazan: two goals for Rubin scored by Gökdeniz Karadeniz, while Roman Sharonov again scored an own goal.

Mowbray replaced Bryan Robson as Albion manager, and immediately faced the task of returning the Baggies to the Premier League after relegation under Robson the previous season.

Despite moving from the Premier League to the Primera Division Mexicana, in the beginning of his stay in Mexico, Vuoso experienced the same problems at Santos Laguna that he faced at Manchester City.

As the 2002 – 03 FA Premier League season began, Gilberto faced stiff competition for a place in midfield from compatriot Edu.

On the first day of the 2008 – 09 FA Premier League season, Blackburn Rovers faced Everton

In the 1993 election, Decore therefore faced a Premier with whom he agreed on many issues ; he coped by arguing that the Progressive Conservatives had, as a party, no moral authority left on the issues on which Klein was campaigning.

When the club won the First Division in 2004, they faced a problem in that the Caledonian Stadium did not meet the Scottish Premier League ( SPL ) rules on stadium criteria, which said that a stadium needed to have 10, 000 seats.

United faced Skelmersdale United in the promotion play-off final on 3 May 2008, coming back from a goal down to win 4 – 1 and earn promotion to the Northern Premier League Premier Division.

He scored seven goals in 16 league games over the next three months before he joined struggling West Ham United in March 1992, scoring once in four league games and unable to stop them from being relegated and missing out on the first season of the new FA Premier League, instead being faced with the challenge of helping them win promotion from the new Division One.

Entry is open to all teams who compete in the Premier League, the Football League and in steps one to five of the FA National League System, as well as selected teams in step 6.

* 1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a " Kitchen Debate ".

Since Jiang Zemin became the national party chief in June 1989, all but one former Shanghai party chief was elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee, the de facto highest decision-making body in China, including Jiang Zemin ( General secretary and President ), Zhu Rongji ( Premier ), Wu Bangguo ( Chairman of the National People's Congress ), Huang Ju ( Vice Premier ), and Xi Jinping ( Vice President ).

* July 24 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage ine the " Kitchen Debate ".

** Queensland: Following a week of turmoil from his National Party of Australia colleagues, Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as Premier of Queensland.

Li Peng ( born 20 October 1928 ) served as the fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China, between 1987 and 1998, and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003.

The candidate for the governor of the PBC is nominated by the Premier of the State Council and approved by the National People's Congress.

Jiang's message was echoed at the 2001 National People's Congress, where Premier Zhu Rongji made special mention of Falun Gong in his outline of the PRC Tenth Five-Year Plan, saying " we must continue our campaign against the Falun Gong cult ", effectively tying Falun Gong's eradication to China's economic progress.

In these countries, terms such as " Federal Premier ", " National Premier ", or " Premier of the Dominion " were sometimes used to refer to prime ministers, although these are now obsolete.

* Romania ( 1945 – 1946 )-The war-time National Front ( FND ) government under Premier Petru Groza.

According to former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks, " We won't be renaming the National Gallery of Victoria.

Two years later it was named Greenmount National Park and several years later the name was changed to commemorate Sir John Forrest, the first Premier of Western Australia.

West Sacramento is also the host city for the Sacramento Gold ( NPSL ) franchise of the National Premier Soccer League.

Founded in 2008, the team plays in National Premier Soccer League, a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Eastern Keystone Division.

They play in the Sierra Leone National Premier League, the top football league in the country.

* Sierra Leone National Premier League champions: 15

President Jiang Zemin nominated Zhu for the position of the Premier of the State Council at the Ninth National People's Congress ( NPC ), who confirmed the nomination on 17 March 1998 at the NPC First Session.

Zhu served as Premier until March 2003, when the National People's Congress appointed then-deputy Wen Jiabao as his successor.

The Premier is formally approved by the National People's Congress upon the apparent nomination of the President.

The Premier does not have authority over the People's Liberation Army, but the Premier is the Head of the National Defence Mobilization Committee of China which is a department of armed forces redeployment.

Thornhill is home to the Thornhill Trojans, a rugby league team who are currently in the National Conference League Premier Division.