One of Indonesia's biggest-selling newspapers has depicted John Howard and Alexander Downer as a pair of sex-crazed dingoes, dragging media outrage over the Papua visa row down to a new low.
The front page of the Islamic-leaning Rakyat Merdeka (People's Freedom) newspaper was dominated by the cartoon of the two having sex under a palm tree on an otherwise barren island signposted "Papua".
Headlined "The adventures of two dingoes", the drawing shows Mr Howard as the dominant dog, shaking as he tells the foreign minister: "I want Papua!! Alex, try to make it happen".
Not that I like Honest John or Honest Alex, the cartoon is pretty low. I think fair minded Australians need to take to the streets and burn some embassies. No desecration of Australian family icons. I wonder what this newspapers position was on the Danish cartoons.
Not to be outdone, The Australian got in on the act on April 1. Not sure it was a joke. 
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