Vale a poet of pointed whimsy: Michael Leunig dies
Michael Leunig, the gentle Melbourne cartoonist, a beautiful soul, a gentleman with soft grey curls who understood, in his bones, that life is short, and often disappointing, has died.
Caroline Overington
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