An Australian cartoonist has sparked outrage on social media with a cartoon that compares the Victorian government to fascists over vaccinations.
Michael Leunig, a well-known cartoonist in Australia, created a cartoon earlier this year that showed a woman running away with her baby from a storm of oncoming needles.
Above the drawing, Leunig stated: "A mother’s love may be as great as any new vaccine that man has ever seen."
A new cartoon published today in "The Age" is of a similar position. This time, Leunig targets the Victorian government’s proposed new "no jab, no play" law that will prevent pre-schoolers from attending kindergarten if they haven’t been vaccinated.
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The proposed law will close a loophole that makes an exemption for parents who choose not to vaccinate their children on the grounds they are conscientious objectors.
State health minister Jill Hennessy dismissed the anti-vaccination argument in an interview with the ABC on Sunday, stating: "The science on this issue is really clear. Vaccinations save lives and we want parents to vaccinate their children unless there is a medical reason not to."
Today's cartoon has been met with some backlash on social media:
