Counting Continues in East Timor

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Type: Cartoons
Date: 4 September 1999
Place: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia; East Timor; Indonesia
Materials: Ink, Paper
Collection: Political Humour Competition 1999 collection
Accession number: 1999.0038.0079

Description

Depicts man wearing helmet marked 'UN', pointing at pair of feet protruding from sheet, with tag attached to toe. Another sheet, tag and pair of feet in background. Sign on wall: 'MORGUE'. Captions -- man: '.26, 27...'; at bottom: 'THE COUNTING CONTINUES / IN THE EAST TIMOR ELECTION'. Marked in top left corner: 'INKCINCT'. Papaer marked in bottom righ corner: '99779 WLD [symbol]'. Back marked '17' and 'AP'.

Exhibition: Bringing the House Down 1999 Entrant. Exhibition venue: Old Parliament House. Exhibition Category: East Timor.

About the collection

This collection consists of 134 political cartoons collected under the auspices of the National Museum's 1999 Political Humour Competition. The cartoons provide a satirical record of the major events and personalities in Australian politics in 1999. Major topics addressed within the collection include the Goods and Services tax, the Sydney Olympics, the 'cash comment controversy' on talkback radio, the defeat of Jeff Kennett in the Victorian election, Republic referendum, the independence struggle in East Timor, racism, Aboriginal land rights and Australia's international relations. There are a number of illustrations and caricatures of notable political figures including John Howard, Peter Costello, Jeff Kennett and Peter Reith. The collection features works from all of Australia's major metropolitan newspapers. Taken together the collection provides a wonderful archive of the best of Australian political cartooning in 1999.

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