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Abbott taps provocateur Leak for his official portrait
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After cartoonist
Johannes Leak triggered a Twitterstorm last year when a hamfisted depiction of US Democratic vice-presidential candidate
Kamala Harris drew criticisms of racism, it was always going to take someone with nerves of steel to give Leak his next high profile gig.
Illustration: John Shakespeare
Step forward
Tony Abbott, who has handpicked Leak to paint his official portrait to be hung in Parliament House. Leak, a cartoonist at
The Australian who is the son of the broadsheet’s late celebrated cartoonist and provocateur