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Nighthawks at the Sky After Dark Diner

A painting in the style of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks shows former Australian prime ministers at a bar, with someone tapping on the window.

In this work Matt Golding re-creates one of America’s most famous paintings, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942). Peter Dutton approaches an intimate bar, the Sky After Dark Diner, where former Liberal leaders Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott, seated next to Sky News host Peta Credlin, are being served by the channel’s owner, Rupert Murdoch.