Pretzel
Glen Le Lievre
4 September 2021
Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, one of Australia’s leading epidemiologists and judge of the 2021 Political Cartoonist of the Year, found Glen Le Lievre’s cartoon struck a chord: ‘This cartoon beautifully illustrates the medical modellers being tied in knots to give the politicians the model they want.’
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