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Australian newspaper defies criticism, reprints Serena Williams cartoon

By Reuters
13 September 2018   |   5:30 am
Editorial cartoonist Mark Knight defends his controversial Serena Williams cartoon, saying it was 'nothing to do with gender or racism at all'

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