Political columns, comment, cartoons and caricatures by Bruce Keogh
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is well known for her compassion towards refugees
Link to related column published in The Age 19 December 2014
AGONY OF CHILDREN TREATED WORSE THAN ANIMALS
Genuine refugees suffer on Nauru as the government works to break their spirits.
Backtrack to June 2012 ~ ABC News video of an emotional Hanson-Young wiping away tears in the Senate as she recounts the story of a young asylum seeker.
With apologies to Ned Kelly and Arthur Boyd
Link to related column published in The Age 27 August 2013:
ABBOTT FREES GAMBLING INDUSTRY FROM REFORM
The Coalition will rely on the clubs and gaming industry to develop support and counselling services for problem gamblers if it wins government.
”This is Dracula in charge of the blood bank,” Tim Costello said.
Mr Murdoch, no fool whatever his other failings, realised very early on that – just like a large shareholding in a company leads to control of the company – 70% media saturation can be turned into 100% control of political discourse.
… so writes David Horton in Independent Australia on 22 May 2013 headed :
Rupert Murdoch’s journalistic cancer
In retrospect: Q&A 14 May 2012 – gay marriage watershed moment
Joe Hockey verbatim: I must confess my views have changed since I’ve had children. I think in this life we’ve got to aspire to give our children what I believe is the very best circumstances, and that’s to have a mother and a father.
Penny Wong acknowledged that comments like Hockey’s were hurtful, and concluded by calmy saying: ”I know what my family is worth.”