"D'you want someone to ring for an ambulance?" [Ian Sinclair, Malcolm Fraser] [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 13 June 1981.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. In an an embarrassing reversal for the Fraser government and Minister for Communications Ian Sinclair, Sir John Moore, heading the full bench of the Arbitration commission, refuses to ratify an agreement negotiated between Telecom managers and unions giving workers a pay rise on the ground that it is outside existing national wage case guidelines - leaving the Government to deal with continuing Telecom work bans and the threat they could extend to other industries.--Information supplied by Geoff Pryor