"Can tear ducts be put back in?" [John Howard and Andrew Peacock] [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times 21 September 1984.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Opposition leader Andrew Peacock is on the attack over revelations from the Costigan Royal Commission into criminal activity and drug traficking (and in particular the activities of a certain person codenamed 'Goanna'), accusing Primie Minister Bob Hawke of being a 'crook' and an associate of known crimininals. Hawke's denials and his tearful response to press questions about his own children's involvement in drugs generates a groundswell of public sympathy and blunts the Oppositions attack .--Information provided by Geoff Pryor