Reconciliation Billabong - dead fish floating in water, 1997 [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer from information provided on image.; Published in the Canberra Times on 01 June 1997.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4311981. Prime Minister John Howard, hoping to promote his key-note policy of 'practical reconciliation', loses it, banging the lecturn and shouting at the largely Aboriginal audience at the Reonciliation Convention in Melbourne, in response to a number of attendees turning their backs on him. Has he poisoned the billabong?--Information provided by Geoff Pryor