Grace
David Pope
4 March 2021
Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, became an icon for grassroots campaigns to address gendered violence, harassment and inequality. David Pope’s cartoon highlights the perceived muted response by the federal government and riffs on the Prime Minister’s comment at the height of the Black Summer bushfires, ‘I don’t hold a hose, mate’.
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