Pop art, counterculture, beach pollution, unionism and the evil foreign menace are equally troublesome in this bleak 1971 cartoon originally published (so far undated) in the Australian newspaper.
‘This is the Dawning’ by Collete, from Stop Laughing this is Serious
The cartoon was spotted at Rozelle Markets in Jonathan King’s Stop Laughing this is Serious! a social history of Australia in cartoons, 1980.