Memories Of A Fine Penman With A Point

Alan Ramsey recalls one of Australia's finest political cartoonists, and the wit that set him apart. BACK in the late 1970s/early '80s, when Bob Hawke's political ambition was forever threatening to overwhelm Bill Hayden's leadership of the Labor Party, as it eventually did, Hayden once asked me why it was some cartoonists always drew Hawke taller than him when, in fact, the reverse was true. Those sorts of things really niggle politicians, who we mostly forget are human too, but I don't recall having had