Story: Australians
In 1901 New Zealand declined to join the Australian Federation, but in a 1993 echo of the federation debate, a New Truth cartoonist had a confused Australian prime minister, Paul Keating, thinking that New Zealand’s prime minister, Jim Bolger, was premier of an Australian state.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: H-035-003
Cartoon by Guy Body
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