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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Respawned: Queensland magazine the Cane Toad Times takes aim at a post-truth world

Left to right: Matt Mawson, Stephen Stockwell, Deborah Brown and Johnny La Rue
‘Ridicule is very powerful against oppressive forces.’ The Cane Toad Times collective: (from left) Matt Mawson, Stephen Stockwell, Deborah Brown and Johnny La Rue. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardian

A man whose pseudonym is Johnny La Rue is holding a yellowed magazine with two toad-headed lovers embracing on the front. He reads aloud a headline that would likely trigger a firestorm on social media were it written today.

“Who wrote that?!” he exclaims.

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