In Focus: 10 years of (not) Closing the Gap
This year Behind the Lines includes a new section that looks at how a significant issue has been portrayed over time. Year after year, one event in particular has generated some of the most impactful cartoons: the government’s annual release of the Closing the Gap Report. The following cartoons have been selected by Amy McQuire, a Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist, who has reported extensively on the lack of meaningful progress detailed in these reports.
The Gap
Cathy Wilcox, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age,
The Gap
David Rowe, The Australian Financial Review,
Closing the Gap - the Theory, the Practice
John Ditchburn, The Courier (Ballarat),
The Ignorance Gap
Fiona Katauskas, Eureka Street,
The Road to Reconcilation
Cathy Wilcox, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age,
Extreme Social Distancing
Andrew Weldon, The Big Issue,