Census
Mark Knight
For many people locked down in Australia’s eastern states, ‘census night’ was a small novelty in an otherwise unrelenting slog. Mark Knight embraces the situation and poses a crucial question about the cat’s state of mind. Mary-Louise McLaws, epidemiologist and judge of the 2021 Political Cartoonist of the Year, commented that she laughed out loud at this cartoon, imagining that ‘everyone was thinking of these alternative questions on the night’.
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