Better not upset the Pope, Albo!
PRE-ELECTION The 2025 election is looming, and you have not delivered on key environmental promises from the last election. That’s right. In fact, we have gone backwards on climate. Labor…
Messrs Albanese & Dutton – robot impersonators
At the conclusion of the recent election campaign, while gnashing my teeth, I mused … Why must we tolerate such underwhelming mediocrity? Australia deserves better than this. This campaign was…
Peter Dutton in polling doldrums
The boy stood on the burning deckHis name was Peter Dutton Twas in a sea of Liberal blueThat things were going quite askewTo be PM was his desireNot to be…
Plibersek feels the heat on Greens deal
Original post 3 December 2024Updated 13 April 2025 Prasinophobia is an intense and irrational fear of the colour green. One notable sufferer of this phobia is Anthony Albanese, whose symptoms…
RIP the Australian ‘fair go’
A bedtime story: Once upon a time, Australia was called the ‘land of the fair go’, and its people were proud of this national badge of honour. The ‘fair go’…
The heresy of DIY heaven
These huge green edifices have permeated the Australian suburban landscape as if cathedrals of a new-found religion. Sunday mornings at traditional Christian churches with steeples that once dominated the skyline,…
… not very much at all really. In fact, even less
Updated version He is the most powerful person in Australia. He is the symbolic ‘average viewer’ who influences television news content, which in turn affects polling, which in turn drives…
Dutton’s nuclear bombshell
Peter Dutton calls a media briefing. No video or audio allowed – only written notes: I am here to declare that my much-touted nuclear energy policy is a contrived load…
Hot planet – Carbonated
In creating this illustration, I chose Coca Cola as the most definitive symbol of the consumerist age. I am not suggesting that the carbonated drink is causing the ruination of…
On hold! That familiar phone fury
” Haven’t you been listening? I’ve told you 15 times, ‘We will be with you as soon as possible’, you numbskull.Your call is important to us, just like the thousands…
Petrol prices – True sentiments
Wife: Darling, please stop swearing and cursing petrol companies when the kids are in the car. They’ll think they are growing up in a world dominated by opportunistic corporate greed.…
Sexism – Ocker style
All too often, women who are only even slightly overweight, are out-and-out rejects in the eyes of sexist ockers who dismally fail the same test. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, but…