1978
Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction
Pictures
Objects
Animations
PICTURES are both finished and ephemeral works made for animations.
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Puppet state
Puppet wife
Puppet stage
Puppet states have nominal sovereignty, except that a foreign power effectively exercises control through economic or military support. By leaving a local government in existence the outside power evades all responsibility, while at the same time successfully paralysing the local government they tolerate.
1978 Mercer road back yard
Pastel drawing on paper.
John Harker collection, Melbourne.
1978 Mercer road washing
Pastel drawing on paper.
John Harker collection, Melbourne.
EVENTS
1978: 2 Jan. Senator Neville Bonner attacks the Queensland Government over delays in its housing reconstruction programme for Mornington Island, which was ravaged by Cyclone Ted more than a year ago.
1978: 3 Jan. Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen announces that he will ask churches throughout Queensland to hold a day of prayer for rain, suggesting a date of 15 January.
1978: 4 Jan. Acting Prime Minister Doug Anthony announces that the Federal Government knew that Arab nations operated a blacklist for more than 20 years and that some Australian companies were on it, but that the Government had never been told officially that certain companies were being boycotted.
1978: 5 Jan. Aboriginal Senator Neville Bonner makes a complaint to the Queensland State Licensing Commission about the Mount Isa hotel which refused him service on Boxing Day.
1978: 13 Feb. Terrorism arrives in Australia for the very first time with the Sydney Hilton bombing killing 3 people and injuring 11 others.
1978: 4 April. Cyclone Alby kills 5 people in Western Australia.
1978: 15 May. Australia's longest-serving prime minister Robert Menzies dies.
1978: 24 June. The inaugural Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, a gay rights march is held in Oxford Street, Sydney to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York.
1978: 21 November. Last day of commercial whaling in Australia.
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