New Zealand Prime Minister Keith Holyoake is trying to lassoo a bounding kangaroo labelled 'Tasman Trade Bias', watched by a gleeful group of Australian Trade Minister McEwen and 'Australian Trade Lobby'. Exhibition caption reads - The NAFTA agreement, signed in 1966, made a start to freeing up trade between New Zealand and Australia, but over the next 17 years the ratio was generally strongly in Australia's favour.
Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003.

Published in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' by Ian F. Grant, published by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive in association with Tandem Press, 2001.
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