Bill Leak takes aim at ‘tantrum throwing Tweety Birds’ in robust defence of The Australia cartoon

Under fire cartoonist Bill Leak has defended his controversial cartoon in yesterday’s Australian, and drawn a cartoon portraying himself as the victim of “tantrum throwing” and “sanctimonious Tweety Birds”.

Leak, and his employers, faced widespread criticism of yesterday’s cartoon which appeared to suggest indigenous fathers do not know the names of their own children.

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Today’s Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian

Writing in today’s Australian, Leak mounted a defense of his work, branding those who attacked the cartoon as “racist” as suffering from what he called “Chronic Truth Aversion Disorder”.

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