A Stone In The River by Rachel Ang
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Fig. 1. If you go to Australia without a visa..., 2013. Australian Customs and Border Protection Service.
Fig. 2. Advertising material created to dissuade offshore people smuggling (or asylum seekers)..., c.2013-2019. Australian Government Department of Home Affairs.
Fig. 2. Phil May, “The Mongolian Octopus - Its Grip on Australia", The Bulletin, August 21, 1886.
Fig. 3. “The Chinese Pest”, Melbourne Punch, May 10, 1888.
Fig. 4. Bill Leak, editorial cartoon, The Australian, August 4, 2016.
Fig. 5. Ward O’Neill, “Hu Jintao”, Australian Financial Review, April 4, 2009.
Fig. 6. Michael Leunig, Mummy was Busy, October, 23 2019.
Fig. 7. Michael Leunig, Mothers, April 15, 2015 .
Fig. 8. Michael Leunig, Epiphany, August 19, 2015.
Fig. 9. Michael Leunig, Weirdo, November 25, 2017.
Fig. 10. Michael Leunig, Cancelled, cartoon, February 15, 2020.
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Photo by Tatjana Plitt
Rachel Ang
Author Bio
Rachel is an artist and writer working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne, Australia). Their work has been published by The New Yorker, The Washington Post and kuš! Rachel’s first book Swimsuit was published by Glom Press in 2018, and they were a contributor to the Eisner Award winning anthology, Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival in 2019. Rachel still lives in their hometown, where they draw comics and work in Architecture.