 The two versions shared personnel and featured roughly the same counter-cultural philosophy, irreverent journalism, strident opinion and fondness for satire, cartoons and popular culture.The editors and contributors of "The Cane Toad Times" were motivated by opposition to political events and attitudes in Queensland under the Bjelke-Petersen Government (1968–1987).The first issue of "The Cane Toad Times" was published in May, 1977 and thereafter more or less quarterly, with 22 issues divided between two collectives.