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home / archives / 1988 / 24th August

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Prime Minister Bob Hawke had famously said that 'No Australian child would be living in poverty by 1990'. The stringent Budget of 1988 raised the wholesale tax by 20%. This cartoon also drawn in the Budget Lock-up in Canberra.