My Canberra Times colleague Markus Mannheim crunched the latest census data to test the stereotypes about those who live in the national capital.
Here’s my accompanying illustration for the front page, with initial concept sketches below, based on our city’s old concrete bunker bus shelters.
(The Canberra Times, 11 April 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
There was global outrage at the use of deadly force by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian protesters in Gaza (at least 60 protesters dead, more than 1700 wounded).
The response of Australia’s Foreign Minister was five bloodless sentences, none of which mention who, exactly, suffered the “loss of life and injury” and who did the killing.
If you are a human being, as you probably are, you might think it would be difficult to explain away the massacre of several dozen people… You would, however, be mistaken. Propaganda defending murder is both simple to produce and alarmingly common…
“How to defend a massacre”, Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs
The Foreign Minister is due to appear in the August issue of Vogue.
(The Canberra Times, 18 May 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Australian War Memorial should ditch sponsorship from weapons manufacturers implicated in crimes against humanity.
(The Canberra Times, 22 March 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
How did a tiny private foundation manage to jag nearly half a billion dollars in reef funding?
(The Canberra Times, 23 March 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
“Mr Turnbull may well have picked the wrong community to be dismissive about climate change”. After the Tathra bushfire.
(The Canberra Times, 21 March 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The amount of plastic pollution collecting in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is greater than previously estimated “and is growing exponentially”.
(The Canberra Times, 10 March 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
It was this time last year that Centrelink’s error-riddled “RoboDebt” automated compliance and debt recovery system was in the news.
For the monster, a bride.
(The Canberra Times, 13 January 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Bureau of Meteorology says 2017 was Australia’s third hottest year on record. Seven of Australia’s 10 warmest years have now occurred since 2005.
(The Canberra Times, 11 January 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Peter Dutton has joined sections of the media in kicking off the new year with a new “racialised moral panic”, doing burnouts in the new modified Home Affairs Department to prevent any clear-eyed analysis of crime in Victoria.
On the theme of making stuff up, we also began the new year learning the government ignored advice from Treasury in order to whip up fear around proposals to trim negative gearing.
What better metaphor to use than the stuff made up by satirist Ben Ward about the US President’s obsession with a Gorilla Channel?
(The Canberra Times, 5, 6 and 10 January 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
