The Front Fell Off

“It has been towed beyond the environment”

The incident with the Kirki, a 210 metre long oil tanker, which caught fire in Western Australia was the subject of this famous Clarke & Dawe sketch, “The Front Fell Off” from A Current Affair.

Picture by Neil Eliot

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