"Oil isn't as dense as water" [Paul Keating, Bob Hawke] [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 16 February 1986.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. The Sunday Panel. 1. Prime Minister Bob Hawke is embarrassed when he is obliged to go along with Cabinet's position to postpone a decision on the price of domestically-produced crude oil after having implied all week that the decision would be forthcoming by the end of the week. 2. In the wake of fatal crocodile attacks on people in northern Queensland, there are calls for the public to be educated about the dangers rather than resorting to wholesale culling of the animals. 3. Opposition leader Jphn Howard takes a pragmatic stance on policy development out of a conviction that Prime Minister Bob Hawke will call an early election by the end of the year. --Information provided by Geoff Pryor