Category Archives: political cartoons

Football dress code

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The Australian, 20 March 2004

Those who know me, or in fact just see me, will be aware that I’m not a stickler when it comes to sartorial elegance, however I do think a lockable belt would solve a lot of problems for the strapping young lads who play football professionally. This cartoon was drawn way back in 2004 when it was rugby league players having trouble keeping their dacks on, but is equally applicable to the AFL, I suspect.

Sitting on the dock of the bay

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The Hobart Mercury, 18 December 2010

If stopping the boats wasn’t code for punishing desperate people ostensibly for their own good, I’m sure there’d be less argument in this country about how to deal with asylum seekers.

Acting like arseholes in order to deter people from attempting to bootstrap themselves out of miserable circumstances is not a solution, Pacific or otherwise. Sure, boats are dangerous. So is locking people up for indefinite periods, so is sending refugees back where they came from, so is living in limbo as a non-citizen in Indonesia, so is rotting in a refugee camp for years on end.

There are no easy answers, but if you’re looking for an applicable Australian Value, then “Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right” wouldn’t be a bad start.

Cable with a white wine sauce

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The Australian, 17 December 2010

This is the real reason they’re out to get Assange.  As soon as cables start being written in chocolate on flaky pastry, things will calm down.