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Michael Leunig: Controversial Australian cartoonist dies aged 79 following brutal sacking from The Age after 55-year tenure


Iconic Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig has died aged 79.

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. In the top left corner, the 76-year-old copied the iconic 'Tank Man' image showing a Beijing demonstrator standing in the path of a column of tanks at Tiananmen Square in 1989. The cartoonist made national headlines when he shared a cartoon that was rejected by the then editor Gay Alcorn because it was heavily critical of vaccine mandates (pictured)

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