Out of the Frying pan...?

Refugees voluntarily accepting asylum anywhere but Australia tells us something...  doesn't it?

Taxing matters.

In fact, they are matters with which normal punters should acqauint themselves. Why?

See today's breaking news. A survey has found that many of the biggest Australian companies hardly pay any taxation in this country at all. Presumably, taxation law is so lax that these 'bludgers' have a myriad of loopholes through which they can avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden in the country which provides them with their main marketing opportunities.

I wonder which list of Mr. Hockey's 'Lifters and Leaners' they appear on?

Mute Swan... or just switched off?

What a boil-over? Still, I feel sad for son Wes and his daughters who were attending their first-ever AFL Grand Final. He became a Swans supporter when posted to Sydney for a +/- 10 year work stint during the mid-nineties. The girls were both born there, so they have a legitimate excuse for the allegiance.

It's only a game folks... played at the highest level by largely very old kids! Get over it.

Cranking-up the Way-way back machine...

It was originally a week-end habit of this blog to feature older archival 'stuff' dragged back into the light from dusty drawers and folders as a change of pace from non-stop current affairs lampooning. I've let that slip a bit lately... so, let's go right back almost to the beginning of my scribbling career to see what evolved from my introduction to a 'mapping' pen and india ink.

This piece was done sometime towards the end of WW2 when I was perhaps 7 or 8 and living in the central Gippsland town of Morwell, where my dad was one of the two local police members. It was published in the kids section of the now long-defunct Melbourne Argus. The only evidence I now have is a battered c.1980s photocopy from the then badly age-browned and tattered remnant torn out of the original newspaper by my Mum. Poignantly, the original had a pencilled comment in my late Mum's hand-writing ... 'Rob got 5/- for this.'

Five bob was quite a 'princely' sum for a kid under 10 in those days. Woo-hoo! My professional cartooning career was up and away!

How's the weather up there?

If you ignore a thing for long enough... will it simply fade away? It seems our fearless leader is of that opinion.

Must try it on my attitude to politicians!

Smoke gets in your eyes?

Oh dear! 'Smokin' Joe and friend (see... I'm finally picking-up the jargon of fB) mislaid an idle $30. billion whilst doing their pre-budget sums earlier in the year.

Write this a hundred times on the black-board-  Smoking befuddles the mind!

She'll be 'Apples'?

Reports yesterday of new Apple i Phones becoming bent just by being carried in owner's pockets?

What next?!