Someone in a letter to The Sydney Morning Herald didn't like the idea of a stamp with a picture of the Pope. It's fascinating to see the many ways in which anti-popery does manifest itself. But why whinge about a stamp bearing a pic of a pope? Surely, one with a papal image could not possibly be interpreted as a form of 'religious indoctrination'...
Australia has had stamps showing basketballers, jockey Roy Higgins on a horse, a swamp daisy, a woman putting radishes into a paper bag, a yellow-bellied sunbird, the Hubble space telescope, a box jellyfish, and even a stamp that showed Kath & Kim with a "Look at me!" heart in the background while Kimmy is stuffing some food into her mouth.
All those stamps were stuck onto envelopes without a hint of a complaint.
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