1. 2012
  2. Asylum seekers

Line in the Sand

Peter Nicholson
The Australian

In June 2012 a boat carrying asylum seekers capsized midway between Indonesia and Christmas Island: 110 men were rescued and 90 died. Peter Nicholson’s cartoon appeared on the day Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, Steve Georganas and Judy Moylan convened a meeting to try and find a solution to the political impasse.