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Category Archives: Australian politics

We’re cooking …

Three degrees of global warming? No time to waste…

Meanwhile …

Ferrari dreaming …

In his submission to the Public Inquiry into AUKUS, former submariner and former senator Rex Patrick threaded a story throughout equating AUKUS with buying a Ferrari. Russell Rollason, secretary of the Australian Peace and Security Forum, one of the organizations supporting the Inquiry, thought the story might make a cartoon. This is my attempt, simplified…

And simplified even more, into a single picture …

To sum it up, Russell Rollason’s AUKUS impression drawn up….

Papered over …

Cartoon ideas from an opinion piece by John Bridgland continuing his exploration of the South Australian government exploitation of Adelaide’s 189-year-old park lands estate. Transparency campaigner and former SA senator Rex Patrick exposes the cozy relationship between Premier Malinauskas and the daily News Corp (Murdoch) newspaper The Advertiser …

We are not our own …

Cartoons from the latest Australia Socialist Journal.

Reviewing the AUKUS submarine contract …

Cartoon ideas from the Adelaide session of the Independent Review of the AUKUS Submarine Contract. More at the Australian Peace and Security Forum.

Submarines….whatever….it’s the Base.

Slurp ….

Mining giant BHP will continue to extract water from the Great Artesian Basin until at least 2036. Environmentalists and First Nations groups say a new agreement between the South Australian government and BHP…. does not do enough to end water extraction from the Great Artesian Basin.

BHP does not have a good environmental track record… here’s an example.

Guidance, from behind the curtain …

… and Paul Laris spells it out: ‘The greatest single cause of the recent rise of antisemitism in Australia is the behaviour of Israel, which the Australian Government has not condemned.’ See the full article here.

It doesn’t go away …

Ten years ago in South Australia as part of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission: SA citizens’ jury votes against storing nuclear waste. A demonstration of the real value of the citizen jury process. The AUKUS agreement with South Australian involvement in the building and maintenance of nuclear submarines challenges the citizen jury vote in 2016.

For a post on the 2016 Citizen’s Jury see here.

Park Lands chipped away …

As designed by William Light Adelaide was a city surrounded by wide parklands – parklands for all. Over many years they have been encroached upon by various developments, and this has ramped up under the Malinauskas government, encouraged by various influential groups, developers, lobbyists and more – as detailed by the Adelaide Parklands Association.

Glove Puppet government …

AUKUS – the incredibly expensive trilateral defense agreement between Australia, the UK, and the US, hasn’t actually given us anything. We are not consulted, have no valued voice … but then, we are very compliant … and complicit …