The Hobart Mercury, 7 September 2010
Category Archives: political cartoons
The hayride to hell
The Australian, 7 September 2010
Look fellas, cobbers, mates, we know that it is in fact Bush Week and will remain so for the discernible future, but get a bloody move on. Yes, both options are rubbish, but if you’re a dam half-full kind of person that means it doesn’t really matter which one you choose, so just make a decision and we’ll all have somebody to blame for stuffing up the country again.
How to ease the sleaze
The Sunday Telegraph, 5 September 2010
Let’s face it, unless you’re a political cartoonist, the NSW state Labor government isn’t very good. To a satirist, it’s not just fish in a barrel, it’s a barrel full of stinking putrescent fish that have been out in the sun too long. I could expand on this thesis, but Joe Hildebrand has already done a perfectly good job of it in the Tele.
The hossie trap
The Hobart Mercury, 4 September 2010
Honesty and integrity are great things in a politician until it’s your bloke knocking back a billion clam bribe to give the libs the nod after your electorate’s been written off/taken for granted for the past two decades.
But seriously, too much pork is bad for your health and while the Royal Hobart Hospital does need knocking down and starting again, there’s a pretty good chance that Tony was talking about a Barnaby Billion or someone would have nicked his wallet out of his sandshoe while he was going for a bodysurf, or Joe would have blown it on a hundred million takeaway pizzas while preparing the 2011 Budget or it would have gotten lost down the back of Andrew Robb’s couch and subsequently sucked into the black hole created by the implosion of Bob Katter’s head when it turned out that we weren’t really going to Turn Back The Bananas…. anyway, you get my drift.
Far better just to get a half-arsed commitment from the ALP that won’t be nearly as much of a letdown in the long run.
Making ends meet
The Australian, 3 September 2010
All I can say is that it’s a huge relief to me and the rest of Australia that Rob Oakeshott was able to make the Liberal costings public before the Treasury leaker managed to do it. Turns out the leak might have been caused by some bloody great hole anyway.