Daddy What Did YOU Do?
Cathy Wilcox
8 September 2021
Occasionally, political cartoonists appropriate artworks or bits of material culture to make their point. Here Cathy Wilcox deploys her take on a British First World War recruiting poster by Savile Lumley. The Prime Minister made headlines for a trip home from Canberra that coincided with Father’s Day, when millions of Australians were in lockdown.
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