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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Isn't there even more Olympics happening this year? 
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Jan 2, 2022 22:11
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Rall: Sorry Your Flat Screen TV Is Taking a Little Longer Than Usual Ted Rall posted:Tens of millions of Afghans face hunger and starvation this winter due to the collapse of the Afghanistan economy. As Americans whine that supply chain issues have slowed their ability to receive consumer goods, Afghans have a real supply-chain problem: they can’t get food because the United States has frozen the new Taliban government’s funds and refuses to lift brutal economic sanctions.
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Jan 3, 2022 10:05
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Broelman:  'You can't make everything free': PM rejects calls for free rapid antigen tests for everyone (SBS) "Prime Minister Scott Morrison says rapid antigen tests are not medicines and the federal government won't be heeding calls to make them free for all, adding that there are plans for concessional access." Leak, Son of Leak:  Victorian man charged with arson over fire that damaged entrance to Old Parliament House (ABC). The Australian's paywalled opinion piece has the title "Woke media asleep to burning irony of insult to democracy at Old Parliament House", presumably about how the police allowed protesters to perform an smoking ceremony.
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Jan 3, 2022 22:44
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Broelman:  A shortage of rapid antigen tests means people are scrambling across the cities in their search to find them. Pharmacists and retailers hope rapid antigen test shortages may ease in weeks (The Age). Also the general state of panic as case numbers in Australia double every few days. Leak, Son of Leak:  Scott Morrison pushes to reclassify Covid hospital admissions - with only 51 patients on ventilators despite Australia recording thousands of new cases every day (Daily Mail). Anyone admitted to hospital for any reason such as broken bones who is then found to have Covid is then treated as if they have Covid and added to the numbers, and Scott Morrison, the Daily Mail and Leak are arguing that they should not count. i.e.  Downes:  Concerns around e-scooters on roads around Launceston (Examiner) Letch:  Dyson:  The cartoonists at Nine/Fairfax papers are still mostly on break but there are cartoon/illustrations for the pieces for the 6 Jan Capitol attack anniversary and opinion pieces like "‘What’s the plan?’: Australia needs to prepare for the collapse of American democracy" (Dr Emma Shortis, SMH). Trapezium Dave fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jan 4, 2022 |
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Jan 4, 2022 22:17
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Rall: Both Political Parties Have Their Own Big Lie Ted Rall posted:Republicans adhere to the “big lie” that Joe Biden cheated Donald Trump out of the 2020 election. Meanwhile, Democrats adhere to a big lie of their own, namely that Donald Trump cheated Hillary Clinton out of the 2016 election. Clinton didn’t help when she recently read the speech she had prepared for her 2016 “victory.”
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Jan 5, 2022 09:05
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Broelman:  Novak Djokovic receives a COVID-19 vaccination exemption to enter Australia for Australian Open (ABC). This cartoon was made before this morning's news where Djokovic is held up in Melbourne airport: Novak Djokovic lands in Melbourne, but visa issues revealed as reason for delay in entry (ABC). Dyson:  Probably more of an illustration than a cartoon but falls into the category of making a coronavirus shape out of anything current that involves a round thing. Spooner:  I don't know if this is anything specific or it's just Spooner living his life. Warren Brown is back with his summary of the year: 
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Raised By Birds posted:Gary Varvel
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Jan 6, 2022 05:46
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Leak, Son of Leak:  Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open hopes dashed after visa cancelled at airport (Guardian) Broelman: 
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Jan 6, 2022 22:02
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Rall: Press Freedom for Us, Not for Assange Ted Rall posted:A judge has ordered the New York Times to exercise prior restraint in publishing materials that originated with Project Veritas, the right-wing hidden-camera organization. Newspapers and First Amendment groups are understandably concerned, but it’s hard to take them seriously about press freedom when they ignore, underplay or outright smear WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who is literally dying in a British prison awaiting extradition to the United States for espionage charges related to his journalism.
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Jan 7, 2022 09:50
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Leak, Son of Leak:  Scott Morrison tweeted "Mr Djokovic's visa has been cancelled. Rules are rules, especially when it comes to our borders. No one is above these rules.". Djokovic is also being kept in the Park Hotel where some refugees have been stuck for years, which at a glance I thought this cartoon was about however since Leak didn't draw any sign of them (and also because it's Leak) it isn't. Broelman:  Moir:  'Entirely predictable': experts accuse Dominic Perrottet over Omicron surge as NSW premier backflips on restrictions (Guardian). Oslo Davis:  Beaked whales wash ashore in Port Macquarie, aerial operation removes carcasses (ABC).
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Jan 7, 2022 22:29
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Broelman:  Children aged 5 to 11 are now eligible to get the vaccine (if they can find it, there is a supply shortage of the children's doses). Downes:  Herbert:  Djokovic stay brings spotlight to concerns of asylum seekers detained in Australian hotel (NBC News). Leak, Son of Leak:  Comedian Tom Ballard. Artists cancel Sydney Festival performances over decision to accept $20,000 from Israeli embassy (ABC).
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Jan 9, 2022 22:26
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Rall: Everyone Has an Opinion about Covid Ted Rall posted:I became sick and tested positive for COVID-19 on December 30. Within hours, everyone was expressing a strong opinion about it. Not that anyone was changing their mind about anything.
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Jan 10, 2022 09:17
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Broelman:  Novak Djokovic wins appeal against decision to cancel his Australian visa (Guardian). "World No 1 immediately released from detention, but immigration minister considering cancelling visa again." Brett Lethbridge:  Wilcox:  Scott Morrison with NSW premier Dominic Perrottet. Morrison denies 'letting the virus rip' (AFR). He instead said we're "pushing through". Leak, Son of Leak:  Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced a delay in starting the new school year, otherwise they would be opening at about the same time the state would be hitting the Omicron wave peak. Queensland records 18,000 new COVID-19 cases, school start date delayed for two weeks (ABC).
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Jan 10, 2022 21:59
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Mordaedil posted:Just noticed that the maze is just a bunch of tiled images of the same pattern, but there's an extra layer of the pattern on top of the entire thing, clearly misplaced.
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Jan 11, 2022 09:51
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Broelman:  Immigration minister Alex Hawke, who has the power to cancel visas and who may or may not kick Djokovic out of the Australian Open, Australia. Downes:  Wilcox:  Leak, Son of Leak:  Warren Brown:  This has to be a repeat Warren but still eyeroll worthy that the Daily Telegraph is still printing cartoons about how Sydney will catch Covid from Victorians in 2022.
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Jan 11, 2022 22:42
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Rall: Cartoonist's Dilemma Ted Rall posted:What's better to draw about, something people care about? Or something people should care about it? Guess which one pays better.
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Jan 12, 2022 09:09
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Wilcox:  NSW residents face fines over RAT reports (Canberra Times). "More than 50,000 NSW residents have registered positive at-home COVID-19 test results with the NSW government just hours after a new system went live. Residents aged 16 and older can now log any positive at-home tests they have taken this year via the ServiceNSW app or website, in a process Premier Dominic Perrottet said is "seamless". Uploading the positive result within 24 hours is mandatory from Wednesday, with residents facing a $1000 fine for failure to comply." Leak, Son of Leak:  Broelman:  Dyson:  Golding: 
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Jan 12, 2022 22:21
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Broelman:  Wilcox:  Leak, Son of Leak:  Sports journalist and presenter Peter FitzSimons who is currently chair of the Australian Republican Movement (i.e. to move Australia to a republic instead of a constitutional monarchy). 'People don’t want Trump or Shane Warne': Hybrid model proposed for Australian republic (SMH). Alternatively: Read Lisa Wilkinson's husband’s bizarre idea of how he thinks Australia should be run if it ditches the Queen - because he doesn't want SHANE WARNE elected the nation's President (Daily Mail).
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Jan 13, 2022 21:33
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Rall: Rather Have Trump Ted Rall posted:Biden’s defenders equate criticism of their president to support for Trump.
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Jan 14, 2022 08:09
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Broelman:  The immigration minister Alex Hawke decided to cancel Novak Djokovic's visa right before the evening news started yesterday so it may have caught a lot of cartoonists out (most of papers seem to be running repeats today, alternatively it's possible they all have caught Covid). Moir: 
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Jan 14, 2022 21:43
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Broelman 1:  Broelman 2:  Peter Broelman is filling in for Mark Knight so he included a quipping critter thing in the corner. Warren Brown:  Benke:  Kudelka: 
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Jan 16, 2022 21:41
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Rall: Still Don't Think He's Senile? Ted Rall posted:The filibuster is the most powerful legislative tool available to the minority in the United States Senate. Why on earth would Democrats want to get rid of it now that there is an overwhelming likelihood they will lose control of the Senate this November?
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I am 100% Rall has called Biden a senile idiot for not moving to end the filibuster, but I don’t hate myself enough to actually dig up the cartoon. 
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Jan 17, 2022 13:05
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Broelman:  Downes:  Wilcox:  ACCC cracks down on COVID-19 RAT price gouging (ABC). "The country's competition watch dog is referring some reports of significant price hikes on COVID-19 rapid antigen tests (RATs) to the Australian Federal Police (AFP)." Le Lievre:  On the racquet appear to be George Christensen, Craig Kelly and Matt Canavan. Scott Morrison has been under fire for hypocrisy by talking up being tough on vaccines for border entry for Djokovic while not doing anything about the politicians in their government or vote with them with strong anti-vaxxer stances. Warren Brown:  Spooner:  If global warming why volcanoes.
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Jan 17, 2022 22:39
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Broelman:  Scott Morrison forced to reprimand backbencher George Christensen over 'dangerous' COVID-19 vaccine comments (ABC). Also Victoria to issue emergency Code Brown alert for its health services due to Omicron wave (ABC). Le Lievre:  "Pushing through" the Omicron wave is Scott Morrison's new catchphrase (rather than "letting it rip"). Shakespeare:  Election race tightens after Morrison takes a summer battering (SMH). Morrison has the eagle picture in his office because he saw it as a divine sign that God wanted him to win the election and be PM (part of this story from last April). Downes:  Tasmanian premier Peter Gutwein, who announced that vaccinated travellers into Tasmania now don't have to provide a negative test or register their travel details. Warren Brown:  'Time for bed': Police called to move on partying Australian and England cricketers (SMH). The container is the Ashes urn. Lethbridge:  Spooner:  I think this started as a cartoon about how most Australian states are hopefully reaching the peak of Omicron infections and what happens next but the actual rat labelled "rat" going on about Dr. Fauci throws it off a little.
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Jan 18, 2022 22:51
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ungulateman posted:'RAT' in this case is a very odd play on words with 'rapid antigen test' Mentioning Dr. Fauci in an Aussie cartoon however is a dead giveaway about the particular sources the cartoonist is poisoning their brain with.
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Rall: If We Were on the Other Side of the Ukraine-Russia Crisis Ted Rall posted:First the United States and its allies pressure Russia by placing missiles in Poland, near its border. Then the West tries to expand NATO right up to the Russian border, by inviting Ukraine to join. When the Russians respond by massing troops along their own border, we have the unmitigated nerve to say that they are provoking us.
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Jan 19, 2022 08:33
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Broelman:  This is an actual thing Scott Morrison said. Warren Brown:  Man charged with murder after nine-year-old girl’s body found in a barrel near Blue Mountains (Guardian). AJ and Cleo were missing children who were found alive. Le Lievre:  About the code brown called across the hospitals in Victoria. Leak, Son of Leak:  Opposition leader Anthony Albanese. Lethbridge:  Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Queensland school children won't return to the classroom until February — and some parents aren't happy (ABC) Wilcox:  Various members of the government who are vocal anti-vaxxers.
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Jan 19, 2022 21:55
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Broelman:  Scott Morrison's plan to put high schoolers in forklifts fails to get off the ground (ABC). Wilcox:  Shakespeare:  NSW premier Dominic Perrottet with Scott Morrison. Le Lievre:  Leak, Son of Leak:  Letch:  Lethbridge:  Daniil Medvedev admonishes rowdy Australian Open crowd after defeating Nick Kyrgios (ABC) Harwood: 
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Jan 20, 2022 22:23
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Rall: Classic Inanity Was Much More Fun Ted Rall posted:Remember when stupid people talked about stupid things like reality TV and sports? Remember how annoying that was? Covid talk makes me really miss that.
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Broelman:  Claims federal government redirected RAT supplies from businesses referred to ACCC (ABC). "The federal government has started reporting claims it diverted rapid antigen test (RAT) supplies away from companies to its national stockpile to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)." Warren Brown:  Senior UK ministers head to Australia to cement defence and trade ties (Guardian). "Liz Truss and Ben Wallace aim to build on Aukus defence pact with Britain’s key ally". Also Morrison's attempt to get kids to drive forklifts to help with the supply crisis. Dyson:  Le Lievre:  Mark McGowan announces delay to WA border opening amid fears Omicron will 'cripple' state (ABC). "The planned reopening of Western Australia's border to the rest of the world on February 5 will be delayed indefinitely, Premier Mark McGowan has announced." Leak, Son of Leak:  I'm not sure what take the Australian is taking but it's about the fire lit at Old Parliament House in Canberra. Canberra police begin dismantling ‘sovereign citizens’ protest camp near Old Parliament House (Guardian). "Operation comes as two men allegedly involved in December protest granted bail by ACT magistrate who suggests 'get some good quality legal advice'." Lethbridge:  "The Sunshine State" is Queensland; the Courier Mail is reporting how Queensland tourism is taking a massive hit as the US and Europe put Australia on the no-fly list due to the Omicron wave. Moir: 
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Broelman:  Australian children’s group the Wiggles top Triple J Hottest 100 (Guardian). "Version of Tame Impala’s song Elephant edges out the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber in annual music poll". Warren Brown:  Beijing’s brazen bid to 'censor' Scott Morrison (Daily Telegraph, paywalled). "In a ‘blatant’ act of political censorship, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s account on a Chinese-owned social media site has been taken over and rebranded as a propaganda outfit." Or for a non-paywalled version, Scott Morrison's social media page is HACKED and turned into a bizarre pro-China propaganda site in a 'blatant act of censorship at the hands of Beijing' (Daily Mail). Downes:  Kudelka:  Lethbridge:  South-east Queensland mayors call for an end to the Queensland COVID check-in app (ABC).
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Broelman:  Brown:  Lethbridge:  Spooner:  Former Australian PM Paul Keating criticises Liz Truss over 'demented' China comments (Guardian). "Ex-leader targets UK foreign secretary’s remarks on potential China aggression in the Indo-Pacific, adding Britain suffers from 'relevance deprivation'". Link to Keating's op-ed. First Dog on the Moon: A whole new year of excitement and fun what does 2022 have in store for us?  Also, Rall: Your Government in Action  Ted Rall posted:When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, the US government should have began immediately shipping hundreds of masks to every American family from some giant warehouse somewhere. Now it's the third year of the pandemic and everyone is getting one. If it's the thought that counts, there hasn’t been much thought.
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: Straya Day Edition Broelman:  Part of Australia Day is questions about what it means to be Australian and also whether the anniversary of when soon-to-be Governor Arthur Philip first raised the Union Jack in Sydney Cove to claim the continent for George III and build a penal colony is the best defining moment for the country. Another part of Australia Day is having a day off. Brown:  Citizenship ceremonies are another part of Australia Day. Downes:  Grace Tame's frosty exchange with Prime Minister Scott Morrison brings tenure as Australian of the Year to an end (ABC). Grace Tame is an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and has been strongly critical of the government's inaction on dealing with their toxic workplace culture. Lethbridge:  Spooner:  Tennis Australia backflips on 'Where is Peng Shuai?' T-shirt ban at Australian Open (ABC). Wilcox: 
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VitalSigns posted:I don't see why the coyote is so horrified at his friend starting her own political party, she's just going to forget all about it in a week like always Frankly I'm all for Prickly City going back to having them running for office every two years because anything is better than them endlessly moping about the desert. I strongly doubt though that Stantis has the willpower these days to make anything stick until November.
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Broelman:  Paralympian and disability advocate Dylan Alcott named 2022 Australian of the Year (ABC) Brown:  Dyson:  Leak, Son of Leak:  Western Australian premier Mark McGowan. Despite WA having the borders shut to the rest of Australia they have an Omicron outbreak (currently with daily cases in the dozens, compared to thousands/ tens of thousands in other states). Le Lievre:  Nearly all the states have very limited restrictions at the moment but given the virus is everywhere and no-one wants to catch it a lot of people are in a state of self imposed semi-lockdown except this time without government support. Lethbridge:  Shakespeare:  Pub rock tennis: How Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis are bringing crowds back to doubles (ABC) Wilcox: 
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Broelman:  Brown:  Giant withdraws after declining pride jumper (Herald Sun). "Giants player Haneen Zreika will not play this weekend after deciding to wear the team’s pride jumper on religious grounds." Leak, Son of Leak:  New Chinese ambassador to Australia signals willingness to repair tense relations (SBS). Le Lievre:  Lethbridge:  Wilcox:  Based by the reaction of former Australian of the Year Grace Tame when meeting with Scott Morrison. Or possibly given the volley of opinion pieces the cartoon is a reaction to the reaction to the reaction to the reaction of Grace Tame meeting with Morrison.
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Epic High Five posted:Wait, is that Nordstream 2 or a tank barrel? the latter is obviously more likely but like, is that how they think tank barrels work? I guess the AFR editor thought it needed a label for their readers.
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Rall: Why Business Is so Bummed out about Inflation Ted Rall posted:The stock market is booming. Job growth is high. It’s never been easier to find a job already get a raise. But inflation is bumming out the business community and their conservative allies. also: https://twitter.com/TedRall/status/1486745922306510855 First Dog on the Moon: During a pandemic the healthcare system needs some effort and money YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT THAT IS YOUR JOB 
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