The Australian 21 July 2011

I reckon that if you’re going to suggest to a room full of journalists that there are some hard questions to be answered, you should probably expect some enquiries about the details.

Now turnabout being fair play and all that, the media can hardly start complaining about being asked a few curly ones.However, at the risk of putting the dampeners on what is shaping up as a mighty fine pitchforks and flaming torches session (which as a cartoonist I am contractually obliged to encourage) when a government starts muttering about keeping the media honest, you want to keep a pretty sharp eye on exactly what it is they have in mind.

As keeping the government honest is traditionally the media’s job, you can start to see why working out what the hard questions actually are might be a harder question than it first looks.

The Australian 19 July 2011

Julia’s strategy for selling the carbon tax seems to be to visit every single square foot of the country, preferably wearing a hard hat and having morning tea, before the carbon tax kicks in and makes it prohibitively expensive.

Tony’s complementary strategy involves a similar cross-country effort in which he is required to personally shout NO at every person of voting age before the next election.

In this case I’m all for both of them partaking of a bit of direct action, saving a bit of carbon, and staying home tweeting competing slogans while wearing hard hats if they absolutely must.

The Australian 20 July 2011

Climate, carbon, crap, crazy, credibility. All these words are related in some way that Tony occasionally forgets in Non-Carefully-Scripted-Remark Land.