Lotto night - Abbott and Costello, 1999 [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer from information provided on image.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Published in the Canberra Times on 14th March 1999.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4352342. Tony Abbott and Peter Costello win their defamation case in the ACT Supreme Court against writer Bob Ellis for a passing reference to the pair's sexual behaviour in their days as Young Liberals in his book of reminisences 'Goodbye Jerusalem: the Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider'. Everyone acknowledges the law can be a lottery, but nevertheless you would imagine Ellis' publisher, Random House, would be less than happy with their wayward author.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor