Dual Citizen-ship disease

It seems the federal parliament has been suddenly stricken by an epidemic of the dual-citizenship  virus, the main symptom of which appears as memory-loss.

Unless it is quickly brought under control, the knife-edge balance in the house of reps. is likely to be upset by members being obliged to resign willy-nilly due to strict eligibility requirements of the constitution.

Goodness gracious!

Fixed Terms for Federal Parliaments?

An extra year ostensibly giving elected representatives more time to implement their policy promises?

Judging by their average accomplishments over recent parliaments... one wonders if even 10 year stints would produce results from these professional snails?

 

Madagascar Ahoy!

Today I looked back over the past week's news stories to see if any logical or even remote connections could be fashioned into a cartoon theme.

Massive berg breaks away from the antarctic ice sheet and sails off to who knows where?
Could that involve migrating penguins seeking a warmer clime? If so, what destination?
Madagascar...of course! But, TV News tell us the indigenous Lemur population is facing
a bleak future because of habitat loss due to a mad rush to mine sapphires where once were
great rain forests!

    

Menzies' Legacy?

Having lived through the Menzies era, I can confidently opine that R,G. did not have people like Tony Abbott in mind when he became founder of the Australian Liberal Party. It was meant to be a centrist party based on liberal policies (note the 'small L') and in no way fostering the extreme right- wing aims of the British Conservative party. Indeed, one of the wartime leaders he is reported to have most disliked was Winston Churchill and that may well have partially driven his intentions to mould the Liberal party as a 'middle of the road' entity in the spectrum of Australian politics.

ANTipodes revisited.

Back in 2011 I authored a Cartoon blog hosted by an 'over 50s' web site based in Brisbane. One of the  regular mainstays of that effort was a single panel series titled ANTipodes which was a parody built around english language words containing the letters ANT (in that order) describing supposed activities of an ant colony.

At the time the space available for illustrations was quite restricted (e.g. initially 8x8 cms only) necessitating fairly simple drawing /text arrangements. I was then mostly using a VECTOR based drawing application which allows expansion or contraction of digital artwork without any loss of line clarity, so 'postage stamp' sized pieces of 2011 can be readily enlarged to 20x20cms with a key-click as was applied to the example on this post.

The G 19 Summit

I've been marooned in the doldrums since the end of June, lacking the drive necessary to produce cartoons even though an almost continuous parade of likely subject matter was passing my field of awareness on a daily basis. I'm happy to report that the G20 ...err G19 summit meeting in Hamburg has sparked a flicker of interest mainly focussed on the Trump appearance at his first big international political bun-fight.

Never thought I'd feel anything but disgust at this imposter's antics as he play-acts his tenure in the role of POTUS. However, I actually felt sorry for the bloke after viewing footage of his reaction to inter-action with the flock of other world leaders yesterday. He is obviously being cast as an 'outsider'
... largely (IMO) because he clearly acts as if he doesn't know what he is supposed to do and say in this level of leadership.