The two cartoons below were 'spot' illos which appeared in TravelWeek during 1993.
The first ran with an article presaging appointment of Bronwyn Bishop as Minister for Tourism and Aviation should John Hewson succeed in leading a Coalition government after the federal election of that year. As I recall, the tourism industry absorbed the news fairly calmly, but the prospect spooked the flying folk a bit. Got to hand it to the lady though. The Hewson ascendancy never happened ... but, dear Bronwyn remains an elected member of parliament as I write this! Minister for longevity in the next Coalition government?
The second 'toon illustrated a story about a bitter stoush going on between Qantas and the then Northwest Airlines (a U.S. flag-carrier) over trans-pacific traffic marketing. It couldn't have been all that 'hot' though. That year I was able to safely travel to/from San Francisco on a 2 or 3 week holiday.
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