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Bob Brockie on Muldoon's overseas borrowing, 1981

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Bob Brockie on Muldoon's overseas borrowing, 1981

In this 1981 cartoon Bob Brockie comments on the risks Muldoon was taking by continually relying on overseas loans to finance the New Zealand economy.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-311-4-021

by Bob Brockie

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Ian F. Grant, Cartooning – Cartooning from 1950 – a changing society, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/41742/bob-brockie-on-muldoons-overseas-borrowing-1981 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian F. Grant, published 20 May 2013.