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| Subject: Funny: Indonesian cartoonist recalled to ridicule OZschwitz PM Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:24 am | |
| The publication of a sexually lurid cartoon of Tony Abbott on the front page of Indonesia’s Rakyat Merdeka newspaper on Saturday is the second time in seven years that the same newspaper has courted the outrage of Australians by inking an offensive image of the Prime Minister.
The first time, in 2006, a cartoon of then Prime Minister John Howard in the guise of a dingo mounting his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, inflamed an already torrid diplomatic row.
Saturday’s edition of Rakyat Merdeka (The Free, or Freedom of the People) devoted the top left corner of its front page to a colour sketch of Tony Abbott as a peeping tom, cracking open a doorway marked “Indonesia” while apparently masturbating and exclaiming “Oh my God Indo ... So Sexy.”
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/abbott-cartoonist-recalled-to-ridicule-pm-20131124-2y3e9.html#ixzz2lY803IQu |
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