Suburban development along the Murrumbidgee corridor threatens the “unicorn of the river”
(The Canberra Times, 8 March 2016)
How about never, is never good for you?
It was originally proposed by the Right as a delaying tactic, so it’s no surprise that the timing of any plebiscite on same-sex marriage is the subject of more division within the government.
(The Canberra Times, 8 March 2016)
Clean up in aisle 12
The head of the Prime Minister’s Department, Martin Parkinson, has been put in charge of the tax package cleanup
(Public Sector Informant, March 2016)
Dispatches from the Abbott insurgency
(The Canberra Times, 5 March 2016)
The long road to Rome
There were quiet, powerful words from abuse survivors who had travelled to Rome to witness Cardinal George Pell’s testimony to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
(The Canberra Times, 4 March 2016)
Some cartoons on Pell’s testimony (starting with an old one that still seemed appropriate, from 2013):
(The Canberra Times, 28 May 2013)
(2 March 2016)
(The Canberra Times, 2 March 2016)
Burning down the house
Stoking rage for electoral advantage always runs the risk of getting out of control, as the Republican establishment has discovered in the US Presidential primaries.
(The Canberra Times, 3 March 2016)
Pole sitting
Forget all that fancy digital wizardry, Australians lead the world in good old-fashioned stunt infrastructure.
(The Canberra Times, 1 March 2016 | cartoon gallery)
Tickets to ride
Who needs a microparty when you can get smuggled into the Senate on a major party ticket?
(The Canberra Times, 25 February 2016 | cartoon gallery)
(The Canberra Times, 11 September 2013)
Launch of the Defence White Paper
At a rough cost of $1 trillion dollars over the next two decades, the government prepares to send a vehicle into space.
(The Canberra Times, 25 February 2016 | cartoon gallery)