Kudelka Cartoons

A lot of gall

kudelka — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:07:41 +0000

It says a lot about this election campaign that the most interesting player so far has been Kevin Rudd’s gallbladder. Okay, it’s wrong to be doing jokes about people going to hospital, but come on, the metaphorical knifing, the sneaky leaker, a spray from Mr Angry Pancreas Mark Latham, then an operation to remove an organ that stores bile? There’s probably a cartoon or two in that.

The Weekend Australian, 31 July 2010

The Hobart Mercury, 31 July 2010

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Under the knife… again

kudelka — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:38:13 +0000

Julia gets all the breaks.

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John Howard has been officially remaindered

kudelka — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:19:38 +0000

I got a request for a copy of 101 Uses For A John Howard the other day and have managed to dig the last carton out of the attic. Since he’s now an ex Prime Minister once removed, Johnny’s been officially remaindered at a never to be repeated $10 inc GST & postage.

Have a read and remind yourself of the good old days when we had a PM who was serious about stuff like climate change and was at least the genuine article (with an extra helping of Pauline Hanson) rather than John Howard Lite. I miss the little fella.

Buy the book for ten bucks here.

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How about we just stop talking about the boats for a bit?

kudelka — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:14:21 +0000

One of my all-time favourite cartoons is by Leunig from one of his earlier collections. It’s got two people roasting marshmallows around a campfire and one is saying to the other “What do you mean the acoustics could be better? What the hell are you talking about?” …or words to that effect. It’s funnier when you see it and comes to mind whenever Julia and Tony start banging on about boat people.

Refugees coming here by boat isn’t an ideal situation. I couldn’t agree more. Nonetheless, shit happens, and in the scheme of things, whatever you think about giving refugees a fair go, stopping the boats (or as is more likely, not stopping the boats) is going to have very little effect on our quality of life.

However, as details on stuff like climate change, health, education, industrial relations and the economy are a little abstract for a tasty sound bite, I’m sure we’ll be hearing lots more about boats in the weeks to come. We get the government we deserve, I suppose.

The Australian, 27 July 2010

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Hang on, aren’t worms hermaphrodites?

kudelka — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:07:31 +0000

The most (and possibly only) interesting thing about last night’s debate was the clear preference of the red worm for the chick and the blue worm for the chap. While this is possibly explained by the fact that the only straight answer you could probably get out of either candidate is their gender, the demonstrable love that the electorate is showing for leaders with corresponding XX or XY chromosomes does beg the question of why neither party is openly supporting gay marriage.

The Australian, 26 July 2010

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Just follow the recipe

kudelka — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:29:26 +0000

There are two cooking shows on tonight, and I don’t hold a lot of hope for the entree. On current form, it looks like the recipe for both apprentice master PMs will be “throw slogans into pot and stir vigorously”. Bon appetit.

Sunday Telegraph, 25 July 2010

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Please number your ballot paper randomly for the sake of democracy

kudelka — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:51:06 +0000

You have to admire the way Julia has taken the logical next step from having policy entirely driven by focus groups to simply making setting up a focus group the actual policy. While I’m sure that 150 people picked randomly out of the phonebook will definitely be able to sort out climate change in no time, there is in fact a mechanism for gauging the will of the people which we like to call an “election” and it does seem a shame not to use it, considering all the trouble people go to putting up the voting booths.

At least we’re all quite clear that Tony definitely probably might or might not think god will sort climate change out anyway with one of those floods or something depending on the direction the wind’s blowing at the time.

Both sides so far: zero out of ten. Please try harder, some of this stuff is actually quite important.

The Weekend Australian, 24-25 July 2010

The Hobart Mercury, 24 July 2010

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How ex is my parrot?

kudelka — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:12:17 +0000

It seems that Tony’s signed what looks suspiciously like an AWA during his interview for the job of PM. I suppose this means that if he sticks to the contract and doesn’t reintroduce Workchoices, that will show how well Workchoices would work, making not reintroducing Workchoices an excellent argument for reintroducing Workchoices. It’s all a bit confusing, but at least it’s a distraction from how annoying the words “moving”, “forward” and “together” are becoming.

The Hobart Mercury, 20 July 2010

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What, me, nervous?

kudelka — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:30:13 +0000

The Australian, 19 July 2010

Newspoll today had Julia, if not moving forward with confidence, at least up a bit on the Coalition. Just as well, probably.

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Marginal electorates bring your brollies

kudelka — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:17:14 +0000

Denison really needs to get a bit more organised if we ever want to get some decent swag out of a federal election. Next time somebody asks, it’s very simple, say Liberal or Green. Then we get stuff. Nobody’s going to hold you to it on the day.

The Hobart Mercury, 17 July 2010

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