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Behind the Lines

Wrongs and Rights

Four panels. Three panels: a woman walks past societal issues not caring. Last panel: the woman is furious about a compulsory mask-wearing sign outside the store she is about to enter.

Fiona Katauskas
28 July 2020

COVID-19 triggered the emergence of conspiracy theories, behavioural changes and new turns of phrase. Here Katauskas depicts the so-called ‘Bunnings Karen’, a pejorative term based on a Melbourne woman who filmed herself refusing to wear a mask during the city’s second wave. This and similar events prompted legal and human rights organisations to speak out in order to correct misguided notions that mask requirements breached human rights or the Constitution.

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Audio described cartoons

Audio described cartoons

Hear audio descriptions of political cartoons from Behind the Lines exhibitions.

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