Notes
1. The following link, stating that “[t]he Operation Sovereign Borders policy has not changed or softened”, was last updated in October 2015: https://www.border.gov.au/about/operation-sovereign-borders/counter-people-smuggling-communication/english/outside-australia.
2. For a much more detailed, and contentious, discussion of comics-as-literature, see Meskin (Citation2009).
3. Among the oldest are the Kanozero Petroglyphs in north-western Russia, which were carved approximately 6000 years ago. One series of images depicts a hunter on skis tracking a bear, while another shows moose and bears being hunted with arrows. The petroglyphs are clear narratives of daily life in northern Russia and have proved invaluable to studies in both language development and prehistoric life.