 Political protests were crushed, cultural and music venues shut down, and young people, considered to be troublemakers, were harassed.Protesters were considered misfits and malcontents, typified by Joh as ‘friends of the dirt’, the ‘anti-nuclear lot’ and the ‘everything for the aborigines crowd’.By 1983, Joh's Nationals were ruling in their own right with the simple slogan "Joh.