b'75PRIME MINISTERS & POLITICS515BILLY HUGHES carved wooden candle holder, 20th century,23.5cm high$120200 516GOUGH WHITLAMITS TIME original campaign T-shirt, size: medium, circa 1972.Its Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal-Country Party coalition) government. Labor put forward a raft of major policy proposals, accompanied by a television advertising campaign featuring prominent celebrities singing the very catchy jingle Its Time. The result was a resounding victory that saw Labor in power for the first time since 1949.$150250 517517BOB HAWKE & JOE CITIZEN RUBBERY FIGURESRubbery Figures was a satirical rubber puppet series and segment that screened in Australia in various forms from 1984 to 1990. The series ran on the ABC until 1988, when it was axed and subsequently revived as a segment on the Seven Networks Fast Forward in April 1989. It featured puppets of major political and social characters.The lot comprises of two of the original puppets created by Peter Nicholson; Bob Hawke with his trade-mark sideburns from his Trade Union days (and fitted with a small hose to facilitate crying at appropriate moments), and Joe Citizen who was called upon to provide vox-pop quotes from the man in the street. The puppets are accompanied by a written quote to the present vendor, offering the Bob Hawke, which was purchased, and a Bob Menzies, which was not. Accompanied by a boxed VHS video The Rubbery Years signed by Nicholson. (4 items).$1,0001,500518PAUL KEATING pottery character jug, late 20th century,14cm high, 17cm wide$150250 '