Deutscher and Hackett

"My second essay into political car tooning was a vicious affair - an anti-Kerr, large watercolour drawing for a pro-Whitlam exhibition at the Hogarth Gallery, Paddington, during the election campaign following Mr Whitlam's dismissal. The theme of it was a large coloured map of Australia with a black line subdividing from West to East. On the left of it was the portal and part of the frontage of St Stephen's Church in Macquarie Street, on which a nasty anti-Kerr slogan had been printed. In an address in this church the Governor-General referred to the miscreant who had printed this graffiti on such a building. On my poster, underneath the illustration, I expressed agreement with Kerr's anti-defacement words but continued with the statement that the words on the church wall could easily be erased, whereas Kerr had gouged a line across Australia that would take generations to remove - or words to that effect. It is interesting to note that the drawing was purchased and taken to Canada."