Cartoons from the year 1985.

January

• 22nd, The bright side...

    Keywords: Clive Lloyd, Cricket
• 25th, Australia Day 1985.

    Keywords: Australian Aboriginals, Australia Day
• 29th, Foreign policy in chocolate.

    Keywords: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Nuclear Weapons
• 30th, The Choclate War and the Nuclear Debate.

    Keywords: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Nuclear Weapons
• 31st, A sweetener, perhaps?

    Keywords: Joh Bjelke-Petersen

February

• 6th, Oil shock!

    Keywords: Bob Hawke, Oil Prices
• 8th, Trouble back home.

    Keywords: Bob Hawke, Ronald Reagan
• 18th, The wonders of electric light...

    Keywords: Joh Bjelke-Petersen
• 25th, Working cows unite!

    Keywords: Dairy Industry, Cows

March

• 27th, Nerves and inaction.

    Keywords: Bob Hawke, Taxation Reform

April

• 16th, Dissent from the church.

    Keywords: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 18th, Cheap Accommodation!

    Keywords: Joh Bjelke-Petersen

May

• 3rd, The peril of telling it like it is...

    Keywords: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Taxation
• 6th, Can you give change for this?

    Keywords: Public Transport, Petrol Prices

June

• 4th, Could be trouble making the switch.

    Keywords: Australian Rules Football, Hawthorn Football Club, John Kennedy
• 6th, Cutting back on the perks!

    Keywords: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating
• 7th, Darkness.

    Keywords: Bob Hawke, Kim Hughes, Cricket, Apartheid
• 18th, Found dead, but the spirit lives on...

    Keywords: Joseph Mengele, Hizballah
• 19th, Hold it!

    Keywords: Ronald Reagan, Terrorism
• 20th, Terrorism.

    Keywords: Terrorism
• 27th, Looking for a venue...

    Keywords: Tennis, Wimbledon, Kooyong, Rod Laver

August

• 14th, A spanner in the works.

    Keywords: Public Transport, Graffiti

October

• 2nd, Solidarity!

    Keywords: Industrial Relations, 1985 Teachers' Strike
• 18th, Careful!

    Keywords: John Cain, David White, Industrial Action, Nurses' Strike
• 25th, Special delivery!

    Keywords: Uluru, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Inflation, Australian Aborigines

November

• 5th, Quicker by train?

    Keywords: Public Transport, Melbourne Cup, Graffiti
• 11th, A defensive position!

    Keywords: Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Hazel Hawke
• 11th, Telling it how you see it!

    Keywords: Gough Whitlam, Sir John Kerr, The Dismissal
• 12th, Ten years after THAT sacking.

    Keywords: Gough Whitlam, The Dismissal, Armistice Day
• 14th, Trying to get one past...

    Keywords: Cricket, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, The World
• 19th, Kong!

    Keywords: John Cain, Norm Gallagher, Bob Hawke, King Kong, Industrial Relations, Arbitration Commission
• 21st, Stopping the madness!

    Keywords: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Raisa Gorbachev

December

• 5th, Thought about retirement?

    Keywords: Father Christmas, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Bob Hawke
• 19th, Comets!

    Keywords: Nuclear Power, Halley's Comet
• 26th, Economic recovery...

    Keywords: Christmas, Shopping, Credit

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