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Behind the Lines

Home Stretch

Scott Morrison drives a car on the edge of a cliff saying, 'See, folks - we've turned the corner and we're through the worst of it.' Three Labor premiers wait around corners with items to sabotage his car trip.

Johannes Leak
3 July 2021

Borrowing its setting and colour palette from Road Runner cartoons, Johannes Leak’s drawing highlights the politicisation of the pandemic response. At the start of July the Prime Minister, with the in-principle support of the National Cabinet, announced a four-phase roadmap out of COVID restrictions. Leak suggests the Labor premiers McGowan, Andrews and Palaszczuk would not make this a smooth ride.

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