Nothing to do with motorcycling, just an amusing Orwellian look at Hairy Maclary:

"Dogs are loyal, but they will wander: Lynley Dodd harnesses this duality of dogness to perfectly encapsulate the Jungian New Zealand subconscious of the 1983 zeitgeist. The New Zealander was a loyal dog, but at the same time he, and increasingly she, was also “off for a walk”. The Springbok tour of 1981 saw her off the leash for the first time and it is no accident that Dodd gave Hairy no South African friend – no “Koos Flippie Veldt with his snowy white pelt”...

http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary...t-of-the-gate/