It was this time last year that Centrelink’s error-riddled “RoboDebt” automated compliance and debt recovery system was in the news.
For the monster, a bride.
(The Canberra Times, 13 January 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Tag Archives: Turnbull
The politics of panic
Peter Dutton has joined sections of the media in kicking off the new year with a new “racialised moral panic”, doing burnouts in the new modified Home Affairs Department to prevent any clear-eyed analysis of crime in Victoria.
On the theme of making stuff up, we also began the new year learning the government ignored advice from Treasury in order to whip up fear around proposals to trim negative gearing.
What better metaphor to use than the stuff made up by satirist Ben Ward about the US President’s obsession with a Gorilla Channel?
(The Canberra Times, 5, 6 and 10 January 2018 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
A short summary of the key recommendations; the final report in full.
(The Canberra Times, 15 and 16 December 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
Beersheba and the politics of remembrance
A big moment stripped of context (the inspiration for this particular cartoon), as old lies are given new meaning.
(The Canberra Times, 1 November 2017 | Gallery of most recent cartoons)
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)
Wages growth
Wages growth remains stuck at record lows
(The Canberra Times, 18 May 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)