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Morrison Destroys Lifesaving Medevac Service

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December 4, 2019

The Medevac law was an essential lifeline for asylum seekers who continue to languish in offshore detention. This lifesaving service has been destroyed by the backward Australian government. Hope you’re happy #JacquiLambie and #ScottMorrison you are both the most un-Australian Australians in...

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LAWS

Blog, Featured, Illustration

November 8, 2016

It is deeply problematic and concerning to have a government that is actively introducing laws that permanently ban asylum seekers who arrive by boat from ever being allowed into Australia....

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#FeelTheBurn

Blog, Featured, Illustration

May 4, 2016

Peter Dutton, the oh so Honourable Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, has criticised refugee advocates for pressuring refugees to “behave in a certain way” after two asylum seekers tragically set themselves on fire whilst in detention. Mr Dutton, if refugee advocates had the kind of...

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What now, Tony?

Art & Design, Australia, Blog, Featured, Home, Illustration

September 9, 2015

After images surfaced online of the lifeless body of baby Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee who had drowned at sea whilst fleeing the current conflict, the world stopped in horror at the sheer magnitude of the humanitarian crisis that now engulfs the region. Closer to home, our Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who...

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The BS Border Force

Australia, Blog, Featured, Illustration, Politics, Staff Picks

August 29, 2015

The controversial “Operation Fortitude” has thankfully been cancelled. Australian Border Force officials were to be included in a major policing operation over the weekend in Melbourne’s CBD, but people power has prevailed, with protests bringing the operation to a halt… For...

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Bloody Boat People

Art & Design, Australia, Blog, Featured, Home, Illustration

February 15, 2015

  This illustration has been an incredible testament to the amazing people power of social media. After drawing it in 2012, I had it published online at The Window Dressers Arms. Soon after it was picked up on social media and went viral. The Asylum Seekers Resources Centre posted online and it quickly...

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Abbott Meets Ethnics

Australia, Blog, Illustration, Politics

July 3, 2014

A quick sketch I drew for an excellent satirical piece published on Sajjeling....

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Australia, the lucky country (just don’t mention Asylum seekers)

Australia, Blog

February 17, 2012

Welcome to Australia – the lucky country, where white people live happily ever after. A story in today’s Daily Telegraph, titled “Asylum seekers made to feel at home, thanks to a $10,000 welcome pack” really sums up the inherent racism that lurks beneath the façade of our so...

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