Canberra day festival. 16th March 1974.

Aunty Jack was an Australian cult comedy show that ran during 1972 and 1973.

Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation – obese, moustachioed and gravel-voiced, part trucker and part pantomime dame – who habitually solved any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to “rip yer bloody arms off”. Visually, she was unmistakable, dressed in a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football socks, workboots, and a golden boxing glove on her right hand. She rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and referred to everyone as “me little lovelies” – when she was not uttering her familiar threat: “I’ll rip yer bloody arms off!”, a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular.

— Wikipedia.

Here she can be seen atop an army flat bed truck during the Canberra Day festival with her TV sidekicks Thin Arthur and Kid Eager.

I remember that dad was pretty chuffed that Aunty looked directly at the camera when he took this shot.

Project Re-Xpose.
I’m re-scanning my dad’s old 35mm slides. Many have not seen light for over 30 years.