The government blows up it’s old budget lines…
“…but the 2014 Budget mindset to demonise and impoverish the most disadvantaged continues.”
(The Canberra Times, 11 12 and 13 May 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Tag Archives: Turnbull
Turnbull meets Trump
Delayed by a vote in the US House of Representatives to replace Obamacare (“Well done, congratulations,” Mr Turnbull said), the Australian PM has his first brief meeting with Trump on the USS Intrepid in New York.
(The Canberra Times, 5 and 6 May 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Force is strong with this one
Will the Australian government adopt a US-style Department of Homeland Security?
(The Canberra Times, 29 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Remembering to forget: Anzac Day 2017
(The Canberra Times, 22 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Historian Paul Daley reminds us the Indigenous ‘Great War’ was in Australia.
If Evans and Ørsted-Jensen are to be taken seriously (and on the basis of their research, first made public at the 2014 Australian Historical Association conference, they ought to be) that is another reason why Australia should engage in a mature discussion about the conflicts that raged across the frontier and perhaps cost some 65,000 lives in Queensland alone – more than the 61,000 Australian deaths in World War I, the conflict that has so embedded itself in Australian consciousness. If settler Australia is ever to deal properly with frontier conflict and its continuing legacy, that body-count comparison would be a good place to start.
Cartoon for Overland: 2001
March for science
“Malcolm once endorsed common sense positions on climate change. Then he became prime minister”.
Well common sense concern about, rather than positions on, at any rate.
(The Canberra Times, 22 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Adani coalmine and the Great Barrier Reef
Back-to-back coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef has left scientists in a state of despair.“I don’t really know what else the reef needs to do to signify that it’s in serious trouble.”
And a vast new coalmine planned nearby is set to contribute to the warming that makes those bleaching events more common.
“It’s either Adani or the Great Barrier Reef. Are we willing to fight for a wonder of the world?”
(The Canberra Times, 12 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Man from Snowy River v2.0
How game-changing energy policy is made.
(The Canberra Times, 17 March 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Driverless vehicle
Your semi-regular reminder not to leave hapless pets trapped in parked cars.
Giles Parkinson runs a quick ruler over South Australia’s energy plan to deal with failures in the National Energy Market and the vacuum that is the Federal Government’s energy transition policy.
(The Canberra Times, 14 March 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Deplorables
The ongoing guerilla campaign inside the Liberal Party seemed like a good opportunity to channel those old Action War Comics.
(The Canberra Times, 28 February 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
All aboard the Omnibus
The government is making hard work of getting its childcare package through Parliament, having stuffed it into an Omnishambles Omnibus Bill that contains various “zombie measures” from the 2014 Federal Budget that the government refuses to let die.
Blackmailing the Senate to get onboard, with threats to NDIS funding, seems to have backfired.
(The Canberra Times, 11 and 16 February 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)