A forgotten face

During the quiet Summer time on Radio National, they have an 'intern' on the job of summarizing what the papers are saying. Young Petra Kamula sounds like a charming lass, and probably got what passes these days for a good education, but it let her down this morning. Describing this cartoon by the Australian's Peter Nicholson, on the subject of lowered fitness standards for the Australian Defence Force, she described it as showing an 'Uncle Sam' figure. The cartoon, in fact, directly quotes the famous recruiting poster of General Kitchener, on which the equally famous James Montgomery Flagg poster, which does show Uncle Sam, was later based. (The significance of the reversed Australian flag on the uniform continues to elude me).