“I think it highlights a very practised sense of victimhood, deeply ingrained and well rehearsed. It’s symptomatic of the sort of woke mindset which is: oppressors/oppressed, victims/oppressors; and she has almost reflexively turned herself into the victim of some unfair attack.

“This is the way these games are played these days by people who don’t understand that satire and the tradition of ridiculing politicians is a way of making robust commentary on affairs of the day.”

Leak’s cartoon portrayed Senator Faruqi wearing a Hamas headband and whitewashing a wall bearing the words ”October 7” while saying “What’s the big deal? It’s just a bit of paint …”

The cartoon followed her repeated refusals on the ABC’s Insiders program to call for the terror group to be dismantled, saying that was up to the Palestinian ­people to decide.

The Australian has told Senator Faruqi it will not accede to any of her “grossly hypocritical” demands, and that the cartoon – which it argues is clearly protected by truth and honest opinion defences – will remain online.

“The mere fact she got her nose out of joint about it means that her impulse is to cry racism and ring the lawyers – that’s the new game,” Leak says.

“I’ve done some really insulting and offensive cartoons about lots of people and they don’t ring the lawyers straightaway. So I think there’s an authoritarian impulse under the surface that says: everything that I don’t like, or that I disagree with, must be basically airbrushed and whitewashed out of existence.”

Senator Faruqi’s claim that the cartoon was “racist” – an allegation for which neither she nor her lawyers provided evidence – has left him even more perplexed.

“I’m just left scratching my head about that because I’ve given her the same kind of caricature, the same treatment, that I give every public figure.

“And she’s given no explanation as to how it was racist – unless she believes that to be portrayed in any negative light amounts to racism.

“She’s a sitting member of the Senate and being a woman of colour does not make her above criticism, and it does not turn every cartoon about her into an act of ­racism.

“I’m sure there are plenty of people who think that it would be great if the only people that could be lampooned were old, straight, white men, but everybody is on the receiving end of satire now and again if they’re in politics – it’s part of the game. She is a public figure.”


Precise: **** off.

Now it's the Mussos into the lawfare.... anything for a dollar....  FFS - we need an overhaul here in Oz.... drain the swamps.... make Australia great again...

Pakistan is not Arabic, it has Indo European language with population inflows from the Russian steppes. That's why she uses White wash, the racially dominant colour.

Frank wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2024 at 10:33am:



Johannes Leak should lookout or we'll have an Australian version of Charlie Hebdo on our hands.

Honestly this Mehreen Faruqi should just piss off back to Pakistan. Diversity?

She's  just divisive. If Pauline Hanson can't wear a Burka in Parliament then Faruqi shouldn't be allowed to wear symbolically terrorist HAMAS clothing.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2024 at 1:30pm:



You're just terribly afflicted mentally.

Don't engage with the trolls - the mentally deficient....... just retain your perspective and hit back with those 16"/38s.... the big and powerful shells of truth that cut through them like butter.

To work out gun size - multiply the round by the 'calibre' in inches.... 16*38 = 608 = 50.66 feet long barrel.  Longer than the older ones and thus capable of higher muzzle velocity and range .... shells traveled between USS Washington and IJNS Kirishima in a second or so over the under four miles range.

Don't talk to them, Indie - use the whip of facts - they can't stand it!!

PNS Faruqi had 20 pounder broadsides in action against ON Pauline firing hot oil scollops at long range and short fuse loaded in the chamber.  Pakis packed punches, Pauline pissed off parlez vous.