Cartoonist Larry Pickering At Center Of Australian Media Story

I sort of wondered when I did this year's birthday greeting for the Australian cartoonist Larry Pickering why there was a note about on his site cryptically referring to his site being attacked for political reasons; a flurry of articles like this one explained to me what's going on. I hadn't noticed, although the fact that Pickering had been doing a bunch of cartoons depicting Australia's prime minister naked had reached my attention and seemed to me more deeply unfortunate and sort of weird than it did a focused taking-the-piss or as pointed commentary. At any rate, I assume this stuff is interesting for itself if you follow that nation's politics, but I also imagine that how a cartoonist might operate as an independent journalistic voice is another takeaway just sitting there for people. I look forward to digging in a bit.
 
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