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Michael Leunig Michael Leunig i(A21094 works by) (a.k.a. M. Leunig)
Also writes as: Leunig
Born: Established: 1945 East Melbourne, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon Musings from the Inner Duck Michael Leunig , Melbourne : Penguin , 2015 8625364 2015 selected work picture book essay humour

'Musings From the Inner Duck, Michael Leunig's poignantly hilarious new cartoon collection, ranges from Curly Flat to the global positioning sausage, accompanied by the direction-finding duck.

'This collection of 138 cartoons tilts towards the whimsical, the wise and the sublimely misaligned; it's less heavily political than previous collections, although the political system cops a serve here and there. Mr Curly features often. There's the Global Positioning Sausage. The Effect of the Carbon Tax on Your Sausage. Duckwhistle Politics. A Soliloquy for Strange Times. The Ordinary Oddness of Existence. In a nutshell: all the questions (and some very funny answers) that can be put about human existence.

'Cartoons, reflections, musings, suggestions, reveries, rhymes, blessings, jokes, lamentations, theories, mysteries, tributes, lapses, and experiments.' (Publication summary)
1 Untitled i "Mister Rabbit came to Australia with his wife", Leunig , 2013 single work poetry satire
— Appears in: The Age , 29 March 2013; (p. 44)
1 Untitled i "There was an iron lady", Leunig , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 10 April 2013; (p. 19)
1 Stan the Fan i "I'm a huge fan of the fan", Leunig , 2013 single work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Age , 13 March 2013; (p. 49)
1 [Rivers of Grog] i "The rivers of grog are deep and wide", Leunig , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 8 February 2013; (p. 10)
1 Untitled i "Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the feast of Steven:", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21-22 December 2012; (p. 44) The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-23 December 2012; (p. 15)
1 Untitled i "Feed the inner duck", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 9 November 2012; (p. 14)
1 The Festival of Something or Other : Official Program Michael Leunig , 2012 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-11 November 2012; (p. 15) The Saturday Age , 10 November 2012; (p. 48)
1 Untitled i "Humanity the narcissist", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 November 2012; (p. 15) The Saturday Age , 3 November 2012; (p. 48)
1 Untitled i "Truth can be pourageous as a rotten lie", Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 10 October 2012; (p. 14)
1 Untitled i "How absoultely splendid", Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 3 October 2012; (p. 12)
1 Untitled i "God in all his wisdom hates", Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 28 September 2012; (p. 18)
1 Spring Love Song i "Life is just a little branch", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 8 September 2012; (p. 48) The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 September 2012; (p. 15)
1 Untitled i "if you don't have blood on your hands", Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 5 September 2012; (p. 12)
1 The Audacity of Gloom i "A bit of pessimism", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 August 2012; (p. 15)
1 Untitled i "I go to say good morning", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 18 August 2012; (p. 48) The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 August 2012; (p. 15)
1 Untitled i "Mankind may well have run amok", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 14 July 2012; (p. 48) The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 July 2012; (p. 17)
1 Self Esteem (A Winter Poem) i "My self esteem is low", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 2 June 2012; (p. 52) The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 June 2012; (p. 21)
1 Untitled i "Do not mock the little rock,", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 May 2012; (p. 21) The Saturday Age , 19 May 2012; (p. 52)
1 Dawdling and Ekeing i "I will dawdle, I will eke", Michael Leunig , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 April 2012; (p. 48) The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 April 2012; (p. 21)
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