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Lynch, James, 1947-:'You think you've got power? Well... I've got REAL power and I'm more than willing to use it!' 30 October 1983
- Date
- 1983
- By
- New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z.)
- Reference
- B-186-060
- Description
Shows Prime Minister Rob Muldoon as a god figure on a cloud. He holds a strike of lightning that represents the 'Public Safety Act' and threatens to release it as an illustration of his power. Below stands a PSA representative about to turn off the electricity. Context: Industrial relations continued to be a dominant theme of the times. This time it was the PSA threatening power cuts. The PM used his own threats in the form of the draconian Public Safety Act. This only highlighted fears about what an increasingly erratic PM might do next. (Context note by cartoonist)
Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).
Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 350 x 280 mm
- Use/Reproduction
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- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Lynch, James, 1947-:Collection of original cartoons by James Lynch. / Lynch, James Robert, 1947-:Original cartoons by James Lynch, drawn in 1981 for the NZ Times.
- Format
- 1 original cartoon(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Cartoons (Commentary), Ink and letratone on paper, 350 x 280 mm
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