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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49003 At my desk.	government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Dec 4^th, 2022 at 12:08pm Quote: A federal government department ordered Walkley Award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight to take down a Herald Sun cartoon of Uluru The rest is paywalled. Anyone know what is going on?
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Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock
Reply #1 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 12:16pm

"A federal government department ordered Walkley Award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight to take down a Herald Sun cartoon of Uluru and demanded he apply for a permit to draw the rock."

https://twitter.com/RoadknightThe/status/1599177604007104513

So it doesn't matter how accurate a drawing is just say it is Uluru.

How about a caricature of Uluru? Would that need a permit as well? Roll Eyes

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Karnal Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95695 Gender:	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #2 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 12:36pm freediver wrote on Dec 4^th, 2022 at 12:08pm: Quote: A federal government department ordered Walkley Award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight to take down a Herald Sun cartoon of Uluru The rest is paywalled. Anyone know what is going on? Sometimes a question is just a question, no?
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Bias_2012 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10766 Gender:	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #3 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 12:51pm Which federal government department ordered the take down? Will we see an attack on the Sun Herald with "terrorist" spears thrown at cartoonists?
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Belgarion Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5422 Gender:	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #4 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:01pm I have had a look for some other sources but the only reference I can find is the paywalled Herald Sun article. Seems an interesting topic for debate here. Anyone got anything?
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Karnal Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95695 Gender:	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #5 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:23pm Bias_2012 wrote on Dec 4^th, 2022 at 12:51pm: Which federal government department ordered the take down? Will we see an attack on the Sun Herald with "terrorist" spears thrown at cartoonists? Good question. FD?
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Reply #6 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:26pm

Don't see how the gov has any right to ask this?

Don't like the cartoon at all but no way they don't have the right to print it.

Bad taste would make taking it down a good idea if they were to make that decision but not because of anything the gov has to say.

Why would they think that is Ayres rock - it looks nothing like it. Surely he can draw better than that ?

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demanded he apply for a permit to draw the rock.

Does it get any sillier.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49003 At my desk.	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #7 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:44pm Quote: Does it get any sillier. Yes, I suspect it will.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 48119 Gender:	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #8 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:53pm Well if they can ban Trump from the Media/Twitter/etc from running for President. I'm sure they can do whatever they bloody like here. Suck it up fairies.
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Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock
Reply #9 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:57pm

Jasin wrote on Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:53pm:

Well if they can ban Trump from the Media/Twitter/etc from running for President.
I'm sure they can do whatever they bloody like here.
Suck it up fairies.

It was reasonable for a twitter ban in response to using Twitter to stage an insurrection that got people killed.

As the instigator of an insurrection Trump should be barred from holding any public office in the future under the terms of the constitutions 14th amendment.

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Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock
Reply #10 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 2:39pm

Dnarever wrote on Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:57pm:

Jasin wrote on Dec 4^th, 2022 at 1:53pm:

Well if they can ban Trump from the Media/Twitter/etc from running for President.
I'm sure they can do whatever they bloody like here.
Suck it up fairies.

It was reasonable for a twitter ban in response to using Twitter to stage an insurrection that got people killed.

As the instigator of an insurrection Trump should be barred from holding any public office in the future under the terms of the constitutions 14th amendment.

It was an uprising against a tyrannical Swamp, and the citizens are allowed to do that according to their Declaration of Independence ... it's a pity that every citizen in the US didn't join them, the traitorous DemSwamp needs to be brought to heel before they destroy the United States completely

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Carl D Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9475 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #11 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 3:25pm Here you go, guys - the paywalled Herald Sun article. I'll have to do this in 3 parts. It should be readable. Part 1:
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Carl D Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9475 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #12 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 3:25pm Part 2:
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Carl D Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9475 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #13 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 3:27pm Part 3 which is the images in the article (couldn't include them in the above screenshots because they were WAY too large to read the text in the article by the time I reduced it below the 250 KB attachment size).
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49003 At my desk.	Re: government gags cartoonist on Ayers Rock Reply #14 - Dec 4^th, 2022 at 3:57pm So now we need permission from Aborigines to draw a picture of Ayer's Rock?
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