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Kōrero: Rural mythologies

Farmer Brian

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Farmer Brian

Brian Talboys was minister of external trade in the National government of the late 1970s. This cartoon refers to the difficulties New Zealand faced in trying to sell dairy products to its traditional British market once the United Kingdom joined the European Economic Community (EEC), and suggests that getting concessions from the EEC was like milking a bull.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: B-124-012

by Malcolm Evans

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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Jock Phillips, Rural mythologies – Urban culture takes over, 1975 on, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/20329/farmer-brian (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.