Friday 29th of March 2024

the unlucky country — great place but the politics have sucked, are sucking and will sux...

lost

The trigger for the latest round of instability was Christopher Pyne breaking the iron-clad rule to never tell the truth — not even to factional allies. He deserves everything he gets, for joining an organisation which punishes its members for being truthful about something as basic as equality before the law. Interestingly, Pyne never once wavered from using the correct term, “marriage equality”. In contrast, Malcolm Turnbull referred to “gay marriage” more than once in response. These labels send different signals. Conservative opponents say "gay marriage", which tends to stigmatise rather than invoke the basic human right of equality.

The resultant mess even drew the attention even of the Washington Post, which did a routine write-up using the persistent yet erroneous idea that Turnbull is leftwing or progressive. There seems no logical reason for the WaPo to report on internal party politics here. Maybe it is because the New York Times recently expanded its reporting on Australia. Either way, the article noted that Australia has universal healthcare while Turnbull cosied up to Trump by congratulating him on the passage of a bill designed to trash affordable health care in the United States.

What a proud day for Malcolm Turnbull when the leading newspaper in Washington calls out his ideological hypocrisy.

It is tempting to kick back and watch Abbott do his wrecking ball routine with not a little schadenfreude, although the story arc is getting old. It is also entirely predictable. Just because the Liberal Party assumed they could do something Labor did but manage it better does not make it true. Even the most casual observer of Australian politics could deduce easily enough that when a deposed Abbott promised there would be "no wrecking, sniping or undermining" he was telling a(nother) bare-faced lie.

Read more:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/politics-is-b...

Cartoon at top from 2009, Moir. Self-explanatory, even 8 years later, during which we saw four Prime Ministers (including a loony bin one) and a plethora of opposition "leaders". Now after some adventure in the desert, Malcolm is leading the troops again, but to satisfy their hypocrisy, he bashes the poor and give tax cut to the rich...

 

Alan Moir (born 1945) is an Australian caricaturist and cartoonist who was born in New Zealand. He has been the Editorial Cartoonist for the Sydney Morning Herald since 1984, and previously The Bulletin and Brisbane's Courier-Mail. His work on international events is also syndicated regularly through The New York Times Syndicate.

Alan's credits include being six-time winner of "Australian Editorial Cartoonist of the Year", a Churchill Fellowship in 1999, Walkley award for Political Cartooning in 2000 and 2006 and the UN Award for Political Cartooning 2004. His work is held in several collections including the National Library of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the National Library of New Zealand, theState Library of New South Wales, the State Library of Queensland, the State Library of Victoria, and the Private Collection of Kofi Annan (the former Secretary- General of the UN).

In 2006 during the aftermath of the Danish Prophet cartoon controversy, he was invited to the Australian Senate to give a lecture on the history of political cartooning. He has published about a dozen books of cartoons over the years, the latest being "Are We Nearly There Yet?" which is a compilation of cartoons summarising the rise and fall of Australian ex PM Kevin Rudd. He has given talks on the History of Western Political Cartooning in Sydney and Canberra, NZ (Auckland and Wellington), India (New Delhi, Trivandrum, Kochi)

read more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moir

 

 

some gus toons... massacred or raped politics...

married

"being set up"

shooting stars

gay wedding

P&J

 

start at the beginning...

still short-changing the workers...

Ah memories... from 2005

purring...purring...