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Kōrero: Government and agriculture

Comment on New Zealand’s economic decline

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Comment on New Zealand’s economic decline

By the late 1970s the decline in prices for New Zealand meat and wool had made the country slip to 26th on the rankings of the world’s wealthiest nations. Bob Brockie’s cartoon satirises Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and his deputy Brian Talboys.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-314-2-068

by Bob Brockie

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Tony Nightingale, Government and agriculture – Subsidies and changing markets, 1946–1983, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/18075/comment-on-new-zealands-economic-decline (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Tony Nightingale, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.