The Australian totalitarian megathread - She won't be right mate.
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There's a cartoonist who had been fired for drawing a cartoon who tells an inconvenient truth.
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Cartoonist Leunig axed from ‘The Age’ as “out of touch with readership”
Michael Leunig fired from 'The Age' after mandatory vaccination Tiananmen Square metaphor used in cartoon.
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"Out of touch with readership", yeah right. More like some truth who hurt these guys.
Cartoonist Michael Leunig has been fired after drawing a comparison between Tiananmen Square and resistance to mandatory vaccinations in Victoria. Source: @tim_jbo/Twitter
The five-decade-long cartooning career of Michael Leunig has drawn to an end. A cryptic statement was published in The Age last Monday October 18, 2021, saying that The Age was “trialling new cartoonists”.
Leunig has now confirmed this speculation in speaking to The Australian. “Apparently, I’m out of touch with the readership”, he said.
This axing comes after a controversial cartoon was rejected by The Age editor Gay Alcorn, and subsequently published by Leunig on his own website in late September, 2021. The cartoon (below) was a commentary on Victoria’s resistance to mandatory vaccination. The comic was ruled to be offensive, as it compared this current struggle in Australia, to the fight for democracy which led to the historic moment in Tiananmen Square. It was after this self-publication that Leunig received contact from Alcorn alerting him that his position as cartoonist had been terminated.
“It was a pretty blunt, discourteous and frustrating way to have a half-century of editorial cartooning at The Age brought to an end,” Leunig said of his dismissal.
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Out of touch with the Powers That Be (not necessarily the small hats, but Rupert Murdoch, Winnie the Pooh et al), their minions like dictator Dan, and their whores the journoscum class. Most countries have the same mix, altho Rupert Murdoch is more of a pest in his native land. Oh well. Sad. Fine cartoons.There's a cartoonist who had been fired for drawing a cartoon who tells an inconvenient truth.
Cartoonist Leunig axed from ‘The Age’ as “out of touch with readership”
Michael Leunig fired from 'The Age' after mandatory vaccination Tiananmen Square metaphor used in cartoon.
"Out of touch with readership", yeah right. More like some truth who hurt these guys.
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Holy shit. This isn't just a cartoonist, for anyone who's never eaten Australian confectionery or asked for a set of crayons on a Qantas flight. Leunig is the cartoonist.There's a cartoonist who had been fired for drawing a cartoon who tells an inconvenient truth.
Cartoonist Leunig axed from ‘The Age’ as “out of touch with readership”
Michael Leunig fired from 'The Age' after mandatory vaccination Tiananmen Square metaphor used in cartoon.
"Out of touch with readership", yeah right. More like some truth who hurt these guys.
I wanna compare this to firing Mr. Far Side or something but it's maybe beyond that since there has literally never been another Australian funny page guy who isn't godawful
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Well you're certainly doing your job today Mr. Sun
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There's a cartoonist who had been fired for drawing a cartoon who tells an inconvenient truth.
Cartoonist Leunig axed from ‘The Age’ as “out of touch with readership”
Michael Leunig fired from 'The Age' after mandatory vaccination Tiananmen Square metaphor used in cartoon.
"Out of touch with readership", yeah right. More like some truth who hurt these guys.
You can't fool me, that's a My Little Pony character
Yeah, this is pretty major, Leunig was the bourgeois Middle class voice of Melbourne. Holy fuck, that's insane....
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If Leunig is now considered 'too extreme' we really are fucked as a country...There's a cartoonist who had been fired for drawing a cartoon who tells an inconvenient truth.
Cartoonist Leunig axed from ‘The Age’ as “out of touch with readership”
Michael Leunig fired from 'The Age' after mandatory vaccination Tiananmen Square metaphor used in cartoon.
"Out of touch with readership", yeah right. More like some truth who hurt these guys.
Super-Chevy454
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Australia really need a miracle asap.
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Yeah cancelling leunig is bumping-into-walls stupid, sure way to activate the boomers
In other news, Dan's master ass rape plan is out and we're all fucked. Here's the President of the Vic Bar (I - mobilefag - crapped up adding images sorry, hopefully you can see them as attachments)
In other news, Dan's master ass rape plan is out and we're all fucked. Here's the President of the Vic Bar (I - mobilefag - crapped up adding images sorry, hopefully you can see them as attachments)
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Half a century of work, and they kick you out on a whim. Many have said that this pandemic has really shown who your true friends are, and they're damn right.There's a cartoonist who had been fired for drawing a cartoon who tells an inconvenient truth.
Cartoonist Leunig axed from ‘The Age’ as “out of touch with readership”
Michael Leunig fired from 'The Age' after mandatory vaccination Tiananmen Square metaphor used in cartoon.
"Out of touch with readership", yeah right. More like some truth who hurt these guys.
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"Professor Cowie said authorities wouldn't be disclosing the vaccination status of recent deaths"
This can only mean that vaccinated people are still dying in Victoria and the government is refusing to tell people about it. Otherwise they would be bleating about all deaths being unvaccinated endlessly.
This can only mean that vaccinated people are still dying in Victoria and the government is refusing to tell people about it. Otherwise they would be bleating about all deaths being unvaccinated endlessly.
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I looked into it and Leunig has actually been super anti-woke/anti-covid hysteria for a while now, which kinda blew my mind since he's always just been the guy who just doodles ducks on napkins and sells them somehow.
If you'd told me back as a child whose body was 80% made of Minties that this guy would one day be based as fuck, I'd have said "what the fuck does based mean, you time cunt".
They were just waiting for an excuse.
If you'd told me back as a child whose body was 80% made of Minties that this guy would one day be based as fuck, I'd have said "what the fuck does based mean, you time cunt".
They were just waiting for an excuse.
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I did not know he had turned into this, I just assumed he was always the safe Labor voting voice. This is legit fucked....
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Leunig has been around forever. The closest thing to a permanent institution Australian comics have.
I do disagree that he was the only good one, though. Bill Leak was great, but he had a heart attack and died, so he's not providing competition any more.
Probably his best work:
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Lol, I remember when this came out, and a bunch of cunts who defended Bill Henson's work a few years earlier on free speech grounds demanded Leaks get the boot. When I brought up this up, they said 'free speech isn't freedom from consequences!'I do disagree that he was the only good one, though. Bill Leak was great, but he had a heart attack and died, so he's not providing competition any more.
Probably his best work:
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Speaking of Bill Leak, he did another good one who get denounced in an archived article by Ben McLeay about a editorial toon on same-sex marriage.Leunig has been around forever. The closest thing to a permanent institution Australian comics have.
I do disagree that he was the only good one, though. Bill Leak was great, but he had a heart attack and died, so he's not providing competition any more.
Probably his best work:
For Bill Leak's benefit: Why it's not okay to compare gay people to Nazis
It's not at all okay to compare gay people fighting for their rights to Nazi Germany. We know this, you know this. Everyone knows this. Except, as it turns out, 'The Australian' cartoonist Bill Leak. So, purely for his benefit, comedian Ben McLeay explains why it's not okay to depict the LGBTIQ...
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Speaking of Bill Leak, he did another good one who get denounced in an archived article by Ben McLeay about a editorial toon on same-sex marriage.
For Bill Leak's benefit: Why it's not okay to compare gay people to Nazis
It's not at all okay to compare gay people fighting for their rights to Nazi Germany. We know this, you know this. Everyone knows this. Except, as it turns out, 'The Australian' cartoonist Bill Leak. So, purely for his benefit, comedian Ben McLeay explains why it's not okay to depict the LGBTIQ...web.archive.org
His son Johannes has taken over his job, and its one of those very rare occasions in nepotism where the son is as talented as the father
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