Brilliant cartoonist and wordsmith,Peter Burleigh, is back from a reformed Hemingway-like safari across North Australia , during which he shot no elephants and survived close encounters with UFOs, crocodiles , incredible thirst , dust, flies, bulldust artists galore and swarms of grey nomads. Burleigh has had his talented sketching digits up Darwin way since 1969 when he drew the above cartoon of Australia's frontline defence base , which was regarded as something of a joke in those days . Modern Darwin now bristles with jets, troops, tanks, warships and when they solve the little problem of invading feral wallabies closing the Tindal Air Force runway, no foreign power had better try and make a sneak attack. We are ready-Monday to Fridays ! Now in an amazing stroke of luck for Little Darwin readers across the globe, Burleigh, with media barons clamouring to sign him up, has kindly agreed to supply us with part of his latest grand road trip series - The BULLDUST DIARIES. Readers will recall his recent memorable articles on a night at the Paris Opera and misadventures in a Bedford van on the London to Marrakesh run which nearly sparked several international incidents that could have resulted in the incarceration in a dank dungeon of three of our finest , upstanding (at times) , young Australian brains.
