Flat White

Bill Leak’s cartoon is tragically true

4 August 2016

6:45 AM

4 August 2016

6:45 AM

Bill Leak’s cartoon in this morning’s edition of The Australian has attracted predictable outrage from both indigenous organisations and from many other well-meaning and reflexively anti-racist non-indigenous Australians.

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The cartoon shows a negligent Aboriginal father who, when asked by a policeman to talk to his delinquent son about personal responsibility, does not even know the boy’s name.

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