David Pope

@davpope

Political cartoonist, Fairfax Media Australia

Canberra, Australia
Joined February 2011

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    Jan 26

    Mr Turnbull, the Prime Minister of Sydney, said protests over Australia Day showed there were people who disagreed over the date of Australia Day, “but not many”. Meanwhile, in Melbourne...

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  4. Jan 25

    26 hours catching trains from Adelaide to join the Long March for Justice, Freedom and Hope, 30 years ago today. Peter Chester turned that great Chips Mackinolty land rights artwork into the poster

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    Jan 23

    Here is ‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’, possibly the greatest short story by Ursula K Le Guin, definitely one of the greatest writers of her age, who died today at 88.

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    Jan 23
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    The family of Ursula K. Le Guin is deeply saddened to announce her peaceful death yesterday afternoon.

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  8. Jan 23

    The Dispossessed was one of my fave early reads. All her books. Sorry news. What a legend. Thank you Ursula Le Guin

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    Jan 21

    as a local opioid ban looms, this from in paints a sobering picture of the US experience

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    Jan 21

    Part One of three. Losing Paul: a story of prescription drugs, loss, and a seven-year-long inquest in

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    Jan 21

    The Inking Woman, drawn from the London Cartoon Museum of same name, on sale now. And, bonus, my cartoons are in it!

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  12. Jan 21

    The Oz gov's Strategy for Nature - a "wafer-thin plan...which reads like a Year 10 school assignment" - is open for public comment until March 16

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    Jan 15

    Against the more rational and sober side of myself, I decided to reply to the Daily Telegraph:

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  14. Jan 15

    The search for an alternative, unproblematic, day of celebration seems forlorn, a recipe for myth-making and forgetting (which I guess is the nature of most national days)

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  15. Jan 15

    I don't want to so much as . I want truth, reconciliation and a treaty, so any national day properly reflects the interwoven stories of transportation & exile, invasion, dispossession and survival.

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    Jan 9

    The Turnbull govenrment: a thread

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    Jan 9
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    Jan 8

    I'm glad people are finally taking Oprah seriously as a presidential candidate. I've been talking about this possibility for years, really ever since Trump announced his campaign. So as a historian of charisma, here are my thoughts on Oprah for president.

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    Jan 9

    I have covered news in Melbourne's west since 2010. If had been a thing, I may have noticed. Here are some things I have noticed.

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