b'96572 573572 574EILEEN MAYO [1906 - 1994]AVIATION POSTERCockatoo & Banksia, Australia, Fly Commuter Airlines1956 colour process lithograph, signed in image lower left, c.1967 Colour process lithograph,99.5 x 63.5cm. Linen-backed. 77 x 49.5cm. Linen-backed.Text at base reads: Australian National TravelText at top reads Melbourne, Sale, Bairnsdale, Association, Railway Building, Flinders St, Melbourne.Mallacoota, Albury, Merimbula, Shepparton, No. 109. Litho, McLarens, Melbourne. Horsham, Warracknabeal, Swan Hill.$3,0003,500 A rare poster of a very short-lived regional airline, which made its first flights in 1967.573 $8001,000MOVIE POSTER THE SEIGE OF PINCHGUT 5751959 Colour lithograph, March 2, 1978 I QUIT Melbourne Herald77 x 34cm. Linen-backed. newspaper poster. 65 x 51cm. Extremely rare.Text includes An escaped convict.in his gun-sights aSir John Robert Kerr, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC (19141991)shipload of dynamite.and the city of Sydney! His terms,was the 18th Governor-General of Australia.freedom or annihilation! Filmed in Australia. An EalingHe dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam film. Directed by Harry Watt. Associate Producer Ericon 11 November 1975, marking the climax of the most Williams. Screenplay by Harry Watt and Jon Cleary. significant constitutional crisis in Australian history.Distrib. by Warner Bros. On 9 November 1975, Kerr consulted the Chief Justice of the The Siege of Pinchgut (released in the US as Four DesperateHigh Court of Australia, Sir Garfield Barwick, seeking advice on Men) is a thriller filmed on location in Sydney. It was thewhether he had the constitutional power to dismiss Whitlam, and last film produced by Ealing Studios, and was enteredBarwick advised him, in writing, that he did. He also advised him into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival where it wasthat at least one other High Court justice, Sir Anthony Mason, nominated for the Golden Bear Award. It was not a successconcurred in this view. Kerr appears to have made up his mind at the box office however, the films reputation has risen inon that day to dismiss Whitlam. He felt it necessary not to recent years: Quentin Tarantino screened it at the Quentindisclose this intention to Whitlam and his ministers because of Tarantino Film Festival in Texas, and in 2006 it was restoredhis fear that Whitlam would advise the Queen to exercise her by the National Film and Sound Archive. It has historical value,constitutional power to terminate Kerrs commission as Governor-depicting postwar Sydney, its harbour foreshore and theGeneral. In so doing, Kerr was aware of the precedent set by remains of the Fort Macquarie Tram Depot which was beingSir Philip Game, the Governor of New South Wales, who had demolished for construction of the Sydney Opera House. dismissed Jack Langs government in 1932. Game had warned $8001,000 Lang in advance that if he, Lang, did not withdraw certain'