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)
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)
Was there a better student of the game, on either side of the ditch?
Vale John Clarke.
(The Canberra Times, 11 April 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
How game-changing energy policy is made.
(The Canberra Times, 17 March 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Your semi-regular reminder not to leave hapless pets trapped in parked cars.
Giles Parkinson runs a quick ruler over South Australia’s energy plan to deal with failures in the National Energy Market and the vacuum that is the Federal Government’s energy transition policy.
(The Canberra Times, 14 March 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
On the 100th anniversary of the women’s march that sparked a mass strike and toppled a Czar.
Anna Plowman writes about the modern day disaster capitalism facing the garment workers of Dhaka.
(The Canberra Times, 8 March 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
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)
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 16 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.
