Max Gillies - Caricatures

Caricatures

Gillies, through his television programmes or theatre performances, has caricatured these people:

  • Australian Prime Ministers: Robert Menzies, William McMahon, Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Robert Hawke, John Howard.
  • Other Australian politicians: Alexander Downer, Amanda Vanstone, Iain Sinclair, Philip Ruddock, Sir John Kerr, Don Chipp, Andrew Peacock, Fred Nile, Russ Hinze, Bob Santamaria, Gareth Evans.
  • Australian Premiers: Neville Wran, Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
  • Australian businessmen: Kerry Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Alan Bond, John Singleton, John Elliott.
  • Australian writers: Phillip Adams, Bob Ellis, Geoffrey Blainey, Clive James, Gerard Henderson.
  • Foreign leaders: Ronald Reagan, Pik Botha, Margaret Thatcher, François Mitterrand, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Mikhail Gorbachev, David Lange, Queen Elizabeth II, George W. Bush, Pope John Paul II.
  • Other persons: Tony Barber, Sir David Attenborough, Jonathon Shier, D.D. McNicoll, The Alien, in As Time Goes By (1988), an Australian science fiction movie.

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