Would you like your chance to sit in Queensland's power seat, where premiers Joh Bjelke Petersen, Mike Ahern, Russell Cooper, Wayne Goss, Rob Borbidge, Peter Beattie, Anna Bligh, Campbell Newman and Annastacia Palaszczuk have directed policy?
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If so, look for soon-to-be announced tours of Brisbane's Executive Building.
In January 2017, the blocky, cast concrete Executive Building at 100 George Street will be demolished.
It was opened by Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen in 1971.
But before the site of so many government days of drama becomes crushed concrete, you will be able to tour the building fuelling so many media conferences and where policy ideas have grown wings.
You can walk where Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen counted the cranes and ordered the demolition of the Bellevue Hotel in George Street.
You can watch where Mike Ahern received the dramatic Fitzgerald Inquiry report, where Rob Borbidge explained the Memorandum of Understanding with the Queensland Police Union to return for $20,000 in election funding.
You might sit where Wayne Goss first considered decriminalising homosexuality and that "koala corridor" decision, where Peter Beattie thought of promoting the "Smart State", promoting Gordon Nuttall and tackling Jayant Patel to the ground were good ideas.
You could walk through the rooms where Anna Bligh first announced Queensland would build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry and where she led the state's response to the flood emergency of 2010-11.
You could see the room where Campbell Newman said the public service would work more effectively with 20,000 fewer staff.
It is where the previous government closed the sliding glass doors on three elected women; Jackie Trad (South Brisbane's state MP), Helen Abrahams (South Brisbane's councillor) and Erin Evans (West End Community Association) who came to lodge a petition.
They were regarded as a security threat.
It is where Annastacia Palaszczuk smiled for months after Labor tapped the right mood in 2015 against Mr Newman, a surprisingly unpopular leader who became only the second sitting premier to lose their seat in Queensland's history.
Queensland's State Development minister Dr Anthony Lynham said the public tours of the Executive Building would be announced soon.
"So people can come and see the Cabinet room," Dr Lynham said.
"We are looking at auctioning some of the items off from the department (of Premier and Cabinet)," he said.
"Like the old chairs that Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen sat on."
The demolition of many buildings in George and William Streets was announced by previous premier Campbell Newman in 2012 after plans were prepared, but never implemented, by previous governments.
Money raised from the Executive Building auctions will go to charity.
"But we will be arranging tours so people can have one long, last look at all of this; that's tours through the Executive Building and tours through the other buildings before they go."