maybe a dingo ate your rioters
Getting rough down under:
SYDNEY (AFP) - Prime Minister John Howard has brushed off an Indonesian newspaper cartoon portraying the Australian leader and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as dingoes having sex.
The front-page cartoon in Monday’s Rakyat Merdeka paper reflected anger at an Australian decision to grant refugee visas to 42 asylum-seekers from the independence-minded Indonesian province of Papua.
The cartoon depicted a shaking Howard mounted on Downer with the prime minister saying: “I want Papua!! Alex! Try to make it happen.”
While admitting that the visas had strained ties with Indonesia, Howard was unfazed by the drawing.
“I’ve been in this game a long time. If I got offended by cartoons — golly heavens above, give us a break” he said.
Number of riots and murders blamed on the cartoon: 0.
Neil on
04.02.2006 @ 23:45
Interesting albeit distressing article for you: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1786422&page=1.
04.03.2006 @ 10:38
Post coming.