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.
Trumped
The Washington neocons are slowly working out how to throw a saddle on this unpredictable new chancer in the Whitehouse.
(The Canberra Times, 7, 8 and 19 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Easter spirit
The resurrection of the spirit of anti-racist solidarity, in the Australian Football League.
Unfortunately, some of my Christian sisters and brothers in Wagga Wagga have denounced this cartoon as “blasphemy”.
Everyone at the weekly ‘prayers in the park’ meeting on Easter Monday was “shocked and horrified”.
(The Canberra Times, 5 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Housing affordability
Having ruled out more effective measures that might tilt the property market in favour of those who want to buy home and away from those who want to speculate on a capital gain, the Treasurer floats the idea of allowing young people to use their superannuation savings for a house deposit.
(The Canberra Times, 13 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)