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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Simon McCarthy

'Hang in there baby!': MP takes to the skies to open youth camps latest attraction

Hunter MOP Dan Repacholi takes a leap of PR faith on CRU Lake Mac's new zip line installed as part of a three-stage refurbishment of the Christian youth ministry's Lake Macquarie campus. Picture supplied

There is an infamous image of then-London mayor (later turned tragic PM) Boris Johnson dangling from a zipline over that UK city in 2012 when the Olympics came to town.

You know the one. When you see it, you can't help but imagine that famous image of a now long-dead cat in Victor Baldwin's 1971 poster aptly titled 'Hang in there, baby'. There's Boris, all bound up and waving his infantile Union Jacks, desperately trying to play down the fact that he was stuck, nevertheless insisting in his obvious stuckness that the contraption was "very well organised" before meekly suggesting that "someone get me a ladder". Hang in there, baby, indeed.

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