The Calamitous Career of Dictator Bob
Coronation Press Pty. Ltd.
Australia
- Published
- 1951
- Page count
- 8?
- Cover price
- [none]
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Landscape (300mm x 165mm)
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Self cover
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic
- Trove version
- trove.nla.gov.au/version/189328546
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- Editing
- ?
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This cartoon booklet, satirizing Prime Minister Robert 'Bob' Menzies, was produced by the 'no' campaign in relation to the Australian Referendum held on 22 September 1951 to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws with respect to communists and communism where this was necessary for the security of the Commonwealth.
Frank Hardy states that a million copies were printed -- Hardy, Frank (intro.) (20 November 1953), 'Ambrose Dyson: Man and Artist of the People’, Melbourne: Ambrose Dyson Memorial Committee. See also 'Ambrose Dyson People's Artist' (25 November 1953). Tribune (Sydney, NSW: 1939-1976), p. 5. Retrieved 21 October 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212472305. (The booklet is available online at www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/objects/pdf/d0760.pdf and at the National Museum Australia http://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/object/58709) Other reports suggest 'over half a million' -- Aarons, Mark (2010) 'The Family File', Melbourne: Black Inc.
Indicia
Various versions exist:
Authorised by V. Bonner, 49 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. [Printed by G. Wheeler, Melbourne]
Authorised by L.J. McPhillips, 188 George St., Sydney for the Combined Federal Unions' Committees
Authorised by G. Seelaf, Trades Hall, Melbourne C.1.