Summary

Avant Card postcard with the slogan 'I have an unjust country, that locks up refugees. They come to seek protection, we throw away the keys' and a cartoon image of a father, mother and child standing behind a barbed wire fence by Judy Horacek.

Judy Horacek is an Australian cartoonist, artist, writer and children's book creator. Horacek started her career as a writer, words are an important part of her cartoons, and sometimes dominate the pictures. Horacek's cartoons draw on a variety of social and political issues including: the Australian Republican Movement, women's issues, immigration, indigenous issues and FlyBuys. Her cartoons are often described as whimsical and quirky.

Physical Description

Postcard with cartoon image of a father, mother and child standing behind a barbed wire fence, with black text in the top left corner. The back of the card has printed black text.

Significance

This material demonstrates the community response to the hotly debated issues surrounding refugees and mandatory detention in Australia. This material represents a range of community responses to the refugee debate, as well a a variety of community and commercial organisations behind the ephemera.

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