Nicole Kidman isn’t the only Australian great who is having a tough week.

“Our Nicole” may be going through it, as the world picks over the corpse of her marriage with all the decorum of a vulture on a dead wildebeest, but so too is another Aussie screen legend who is also known for his bold fashion choices.

Like Kidman, Sid the Seagull rose to fame in the Eighties.

Like Kidman, Sid has remained what my lawyers advise me to call remarkably well-preserved, despite the passing of time.

And, like Kidman, Sid has some cause for despair.

Sid was the fictional cartoon seagull of the Cancer Council’s Slip Slop Slap ads of the 1980s, which encouraged a generation of Australians to slip on a shirt, slop on some sunscreen and slap on a hat to combat high rates of skin cancer.

The campaign wa

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