Rorts and blowouts: the folly of public subsidies to private providers of “human services”
(Public Sector Informant, May 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Author Archives: David
Pimping the Debt Truck
The “Debt and Deficit Disaster” truck they used to run down the previous government is getting a make-over.
(The Canberra Times, 27 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
The Bernardi First Party
Two micro conservative parties in South Australia have decided to merge, but the incoming senator for one of them is opting for independence.
(The Canberra Times, 27 April 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)
A brush with the truth
The latest negative impression painted by the Minister for Immigration is representative of the renowned Australian school.
(The Canberra Times, 26 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
A League of One’s Own
From my digital sketchbook, with the Wheeler Centre’s podcast on women’s sport and the AFLW in my ear.
“The way the football bounces, there’s something almost primal about it… like you’re hunting a rabbit” – Darcy Vescio, Carlton Blues
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)
Stockholm syndrome
The Prime Minister tries a Trumpy tack on citizenship rules.
(The Canberra Times, 21 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
#FreeTurkeyMedia
In the lead up to World Press Freedom Day on May the 3rd, add your name to Amnesty’s call to release imprisoned media workers in Turkey: “One third of all imprisoned journalists in the world are being held in Turkish prisons”.
And that continues to include cartoonist Musa Kart.
After five months in prison, Musa has finally been formally indicted. If found guilty, he faces a 29 year sentence.
