High-profile cartoonist Leunig is AXED over cartoon comparing Dan Andrews’ vaccine mandates to the Tiananmen Square massacre

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  • Source: The Daily Mail
  • 10/26/2021


Controversial cartoonist Michael Leunig has been axed from his prime spot in The Age newspaper after a cartoon comparing resistance against mandatory Covid vaccines to the fight for democracy in Tiananmen Square was censored.

'Apparently, I’m out of touch with the readership,' Leunig told The Australian's Media Diary of his sacking from providing the editorial page cartoon in Monday editions of the Melbourne-based publication.

Leunig's cartoon, which never made the paper, featured one of his typically fragile, big-nosed figures facing the silhouette of a tank with a syringe in place of the gun turret. 

Michael Leunig by John Englart is licensed under Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

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