Johannes Leak is an editorial cartoonist for The Australian. He was the winner of the Bill Leak Cartoonist of the Year Award at the News Awards in 2021, 2023 and 2025. His portrait of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is in the State Library of New South Wales collection, while his portrait of former prime minister the Hon Tony Abbott hangs in Australian Parliament House, Canberra.
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