Norman Lindsay said the world is divided into Puddin' Owners and Puddin' Thieves. Former prime minister Paul Keating used to call his successor John Howard a Puddin' Thief, and accused the Liberal Party of repeatedly using Telstra as a Magic Pudding, ‘from which they could cut a slice to pay for their election commitments’.* More recently environmentalists have argued that we treat this continent as if it were a Magic Pudding, and thus are exhausting its resources.

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Norman Lindsay came from a family of ten children, five of whom became artists: his eldest brother Percy painted landscapes; Lionel was an illustrator, photographer and noted printmaker; his sister Ruby drew under the name of Ruby Lind; and younger brother Daryl was a painter, who served for a time as director of the National Gallery of Victoria.

Norman was as well known for his technical mastery and wild imagination as he was for the controversy surrounding his drawings of Australia's changing social attitudes for the Bulletin newspaper, and his liberal attitude towards sex in his life and work.