(The Canberra Times, 24 June 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Tag Archives: Abbott
The Finkel energy review
Giles Parkinson: “Finkel decoded: The good, the bad, and the very disappointing”
(The Canberra Times, 9 June, 15 June 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Gonski 2.0
(The Canberra Times, 22 June 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Schools funding
The government flips (again) on schools funding, embracing the needs-based model proposed by the Gonski review under the Gillard Labor government.
How should Labor and the Greens respond to Gonski 2.0?
(The Canberra Times, 9 and 19 May 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Budget 2017
The government blows up it’s old budget lines…
“…but the 2014 Budget mindset to demonise and impoverish the most disadvantaged continues.”
(The Canberra Times, 11 12 and 13 May 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)
The Deplorables
The ongoing guerilla campaign inside the Liberal Party seemed like a good opportunity to channel those old Action War Comics.
(The Canberra Times, 28 February 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Stick a fork in the myth of Moderate Mal, it’s done
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 7 January 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Turnbull kills off Abbott’s Green Army
“The decision will be handed down in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook on December 19”
Funded by cutting Landcare, a risible fig leaf for the Coalition’s nakedness on climate policy, and underfunded as a proper employment program, there were lots of reasons to facepalm Tony’s Green Army plan. But I can’t celebrate its demise. “It is not an environmental program. It is an employment program, and a bad one at that” said Greens leader Di Natale, Shouldn’t we be trying to develop programs that are both? Sounds like it was a good experience for many participants; was there scope to improve it? A voluntary scheme for unemployed kids, working with local groups, add a little more citizen science training to the environmental remediation work, and improve the pay rates?
(The Canberra Times, 6 December 2016 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Captain’s kickstarter
Drifting in the polls and facing a fractious crew, the Captain launches his 15 week voyage in search of political authority.
(The Canberra Times, 19 March 2016)