Leunig saved from free-fall

This is what happens when the fact slams into me that I have been secretly and maliciously set up and framed and that the story will soon be on the wire and the twisting and distorting of my life is about to become extreme and that the consequences for me and my family could be dire.

Richard Cooke, a satirist at The Chaser, has confessed to entering a cartoon by Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig in a competition for cartoons about the Holocaust sponsored by Hamshahri, Iran's "best-selling" newspaper. ("Hamshahri, a Tehran-based paper, published a call for cartoons under the title: "What is the Limit of Western Freedom of Expression?" on its website.") So Leunig was set up, but not maliciously. Further, Cooke has apologised to Leunig, and his apology has been accepted. Unfortunately for Richard, the media will now presumably hound (chase?) him instead... and all over a bloody cartoon!

In other news, I found Azlan McLennan's site. It's here. He also appears to be a member of Resistance, which is surprising.