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Government spending [Paul Keating, John Stone] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 24 August 1983.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Treasurer Paul Keating's first budget is regarded as a tentative exercise - an attempt to provide the existing model with a little bit of auxiliary power. Many ALP supporters are not convinced, seeing it as not expansionary enough. Treasury Secretary John Stone is probably not convinced either.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
"Composition of memoranda - and public speaking" [John Stone] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 17 August 1984.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. In response to a Public Service board directive requiring all senior public servants to declare all their private financial interests (as well as those of their subordinates), Secretary of Treasury John stone dashes off a blistering letter to the acting Board Head questioning the legalities of the directive. In fact, Stone is famous for his scarifying correspondence to other seniors inside the Public Service. --Information supplied by Geoff Pryor
"I'm resigning" [John Stone, Paul Keating, ALP left] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on30 August 1984.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. John Stone, the acerbic Secretary of Treasury, has announced his intention to depart. There is uncertainty as to whether he is retiring, or resigning over policy differences with the Hawke Government - or as many in Labor circles prefer it, just simply 'getting lost'.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
[Paul Keating as Robin Hood and John Stone as Little John] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 24 August 1983.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. The front-page illustration for the paper's Federal Budget edition with Paul Keating as Robin Hood, and Treasury Secretary John Stone as Little John. Readers make of it what they will.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
[John Stone tied and gagged, as a burglar escapes with the contents of the blown safe] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 18 August 1982.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Treasury Secretary John Stone is mugged in a raid , when the Fraser Government brings down what is essentially a crude vote-buying Budget.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
"Please sir - they want some more!" [John Stone, Paul Keating] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 30 June 1983.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. It is the day of the Hawke Government's first Premiers' Conference, and presumably Paul Keating, the brand-new Treasurer will be telling John Stone, the flint-hearted Treasury Secretary, what he already knows when they're confronted by all the begging bowls.-- Information provided by Geoff Pryor.
"Oh - I've got nothing against a deregulated financial system - " [John Stone] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 13 December 1983.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Treasury Secretary John Stone, who is not infrequently seen taking drinks with departmental colleagues, would no doubt show a relaxed disposition over the Government's floating of the Australian dollar, but given his past opposition to the move, that might not be the actual truth.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
The Meretricious Players [John Stone, Bob Hawke] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 28 August 1984.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Acid-tongued John Stone, taking early retirement from his position as head of Treasury, seizes the opportunity to pay out on the Hawke Government while delivering the Shann Memorial Lecture at the University of Western Australia - as well as some of the other 'meretricious players' (a term he had used to describe Treasurer John Howard's advisers in the previous Government). In a literary allusion to George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', he likens Australia's business community to some of the novel's animal characters.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
The Meretricious Players present the comedy smash hit A Midsummer Night's Budget [John Howard, John Stone] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 26 November 1982.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. In a leaked confidential letter to a business magazine, Treasury Head John Stone causes consternation when he refers to Treasurer John Howard's advisers (as opposed to the departmental staff) as "the more meretricious players who flit across the private ministerial advisory stage" - if only because many have never heard of the word before.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
"He says he's not leaving the aircraft until sombody takes care of Hayden" [John Stone, Bill Hayden] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 29 August 1984.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings. Delivering the 1984 Shann Memorial Lecture, departing Treasury head John Stone levels a stinging attack on some of the fundamental elements of the Hawke Government's economic policy, particularly the area of youth unemployment. Hawke government heavies are not likely to let this go through to the keeper.--Information provided by Geoff Pryor
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