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Comment on New Zealand’s economic decline

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Comment on New Zealand’s economic decline

By the late 1970s the decline in prices for New Zealand meat and wool had made the country slip to 26th on the rankings of the world’s wealthiest nations. Bob Brockie’s cartoon satirises Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and his deputy Brian Talboys.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-314-2-068

by Bob Brockie

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Tony Nightingale, Government and agriculture – Subsidies and changing markets, 1946–1983, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/18075/comment-on-new-zealands-economic-decline (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Tony Nightingale, published 1 March 2009.