The government is making hard work of getting its childcare package through Parliament, having stuffed it into an Omnishambles Omnibus Bill that contains various “zombie measures” from the 2014 Federal Budget that the government refuses to let die.
Blackmailing the Senate to get onboard, with threats to NDIS funding, seems to have backfired.
(The Canberra Times, 11 and 16Â February 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Cartoonists around the world have been sharing drawings of fish on social media to publicize the plight of Iranian cartoonist Eaten Fish, stranded in immigration detention on Manus Island for years.
You can #AddAFish too, and sign the petition organised by the Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance to #BringThemHere.
Something from my sketchbook for the inaugural World Bonobo Day on 14 February 2017.
Includes specimens from Homo Australpoliticus, which remain unknown to science.
The government is trying to blame failures in the National Electricity Market on renewable energy. Ross Gittins sees the sleight of hand; Richard Denniss deploys a nice metaphor using prawns to completely demolish the stage.
Inside Parliament, ministers brandished a lump of coal; outside, Professor Clive Hamilton resigned from the Climate Change Authority. It is “crystal clear that the Government has no interest in sensible climate change policy”:
(The Canberra Times, 11 and 7Â January 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)