The government announces changes to higher education funding: student fees up 8%, HECS debts to be repaid earlier, and budget cuts.
Keane in Crikey [paywalled]: What, exactly, motivates this government’s passionate loathing of young people?
(The Canberra Times, 2 May 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Rorts and blowouts: the folly of public subsidies to private providers of “human services”
(Public Sector Informant, May 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
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)
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)
Will the Australian government adopt a US-style Department of Homeland Security?
(The Canberra Times, 29 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
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)
(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
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
“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 Prime Minister tries a Trumpy tack on citizenship rules.
(The Canberra Times, 21 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)