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Category Archives: Australian politics

Cartoon ideas for the next issue of Australian Socialist. Articles include an update on the Voice Referendum, AUKUS, the US Military Empire, the Doomsday Clock is ticking, Timor-Leste and Timor Sea Tasi Mane oil exploration, Death and Taxes, Indigenous Liberation and Socialism book review, the Emerging New World Economy, and more.

The Opposition’s ‘No’ campaign is scratching scabs on un-healed wounds. “A no vote would mean that ill will, prejudice and sheer bastardry had won.” Jack Thompson. Noel Peterson, asked about the future of reconciliation efforts if the referendum failed, he replied: “It’ll die. It’ll be dead.”

The ‘No’ campaign is paternalistic dreaming, a dead weight shackled to the failed old ways…

… instead of actually reducing global emissions …

Stan Grant, ABC journalist, steps away.

The Northern Territory government will allow a full-scale onshore gas industry to go ahead in the gas-rich Beetaloo Basin, five years after a moratorium on fracking was lifted.

Cartoons for Australian Socialist. The May issue will report on Australia in the international arena, and the AUKUS nuclear submarines deal.


Indigenous voice: Coalition digs in on ‘lack of transparency’ claim despite Labor releasing legal advice.

Pro Bono news finishes today. Here is the last cartoon.