Category Archives: Australian politics

Philip Ruddock retires from politics

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The government has created a job with travel perks to entice a mate to retire from his safe Liberal seat, as preselection battles in the NSW branch of the Liberal Party heat up.

And to prove that satire is not dead, it’s a human rights envoy job.

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(The Canberra Times, 9 February 2016)

“Budget Emergency”. Ahahahaha.

I’ve never drawn anything as grand as David Rowe’s tattooed Ruddock (which a quick Google search has failed to locate, unfortunately). But here are a couple of Phils I managed to find in the archive – amending the Marriage Act to exclude same-sex marriages, and the legal treatment of David Hicks.

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New website

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The first Scratch! Media website was built last century in Notepad (‘Teach Yourself HTML4 in 24 Hours!’). It’s probably time to update it.

Please bear with me while I kick it into shape between daily deadlines. This cartoon outfit is not unlike the government’s tax reform one:

Cartoon of the government's tax reform process

(The Canberra Times, 9 February 2016)

The old site can be found here. And you can find all my recent cartoons in my Canberra Times gallery.