Promising architect and gifted illustrator Peter Burleigh was the subject of this 1969 drawing in Broadside , edited by Pete Steedman, which broke the shock news he was leaving Melbourne and going to Britain as a forelock- tugging , unpaid ambassador for Australia, with a food parcel for undernourished Prince Charles in his swag , which could have been purloined from the Department of Defence .
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Looking like Barry McKenzie , Burleigh is shown wearing a slouch hat , waving a flag , in a typical Australian setting , the Sydney Opera House in the background , a tree chopped down .
It quotes him as saying he wants to dispel the belief in the Mother Country that Australia is a land of kangaroos and meat pies . It was also his intention to inform Pommie Customs officers closely examining his luggage at London airport that Barry Humphries is a twisted intellectual .
Australia , he said , was a nation of thoughtful people, depicted in a drawing showing marchers with empty thought bubbles ; a member of the RSL carrying a banner reading BAN THE BUMS (not bombs) ; another goofy marcher with BAN THE WHORS on his T-shirt .
Burleigh also had a glowing (in the dark ) reference from the Victorian hanging Premier , Henry Bolte , to help swing open many pub doors and corridors of power in the Old Dart .
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