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Can you negotiate with nature? #auspol #environment #climate ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Minister for the environment and water Watt is in the negotiation room to attempt to pass his environment laws. Various stakeholders are there, including financiers, miners, Gina holding someone’s balls, dejected First Nations, greens senators, etc. On the whiteboard is a complicated mess of formulae with lots of $ symbols, all leading back to the word at the top ‘elected’. Looking through the window is the silhouette of a hopeful child as Watt says, “ok, now we’ve decided the environment is already cooked - just a matter of whether we steam on ahead or take a more measured approach”.
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Popular #auspol #msm ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel title reads FTA Dilemma. At a tv studio there is a wall of tv monitors on which are many versions of OL Ley and representations of plummeting polls, popularity and relevance. On some screens is Littleproud, Trump, a crown, Andrew somebody with a pizza from Woking, all unpopular and falling more so. In front of the screens a silhouetted group of executives sit with only one agenda item on the table, it reads ‘Ratings Dire’. One exec says, “Ideas?”
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Passing another one #auspol #climate #environment ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
The Environment Perception Agency are set up with their truck in a clearing in the bush. PM Albanese is coming out from the bush satisfied, with a roll of toilet paper in one hand and a news paper in the other, a piece of paper is stuck to one of his feet. His environment (and water) minister, Murray Watt, is sitting by the campfire toasting marshmallows that have come from bags labelled ‘laws’, ‘policy’ and ‘codes of practice’. The campfire is made up of logs and old tyres that are labelled ‘integrity’, ‘future’, ‘courage’, ‘science’, ‘leadership’ and ‘morals’
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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A point of difference #auspol #netzero ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Editorial cartoon in three sections. OL Ley is in a meeting with her team when an anonymous person puts up their hand and says, “Or . . . we could go hard on climate, highlighting the government’s half-arsedness and ride on the will of the people to rescue the future of the planet by adopting policies of consequence while laying out a blueprint to detach ourselves from the teats of the fossil fuel behemoth to be the grown-ups for the forsaken children of the nation”. (next section) team sits in silence as Ley looks out from the picture, someone lets out a small ‘snort’. (final section) looking at the doorway from outside the room, the sign reads ‘Net Zero - yay or nay’, coming from the room is ‘cackle’ ‘pffffftt’ ‘HA HA’ ‘BWA’ ‘roar’ ‘Ha’ ‘snort’ ‘wheeeeeze’ ‘shriek’ and ‘Guffaw’.
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Recovering #Israel #Gaza #USPolitics #auspol
Single panel editorial cartoon. Text at the bottom reads ‘LIVE: Body of another hostage recovered’. In the foreground, two silhouetted figures are recovering a body bag, behind them the haunting spirits of 60,000+ watch on.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Spotlight spook (aka cartoonist on a watch list - again) #auspol #asio ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. A tv presenter says to camera, “After the break, ASIO Mick joins us for the latest goss from the secret biz”. Behind him, in the spotlight, in a purple sparkly trench coat, tended to furiously by a make up artist and a polisher, ASIO Mick (Burgess) is loving the limelight as he says quietly, “I’m ready for my close up”.
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Leading from the front #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Nationals leader is grinding the same battered old organ, handle labelled ‘turn to the right, while OL Susssan Ley is the dejected little monkey on the end of a string withe the tin cup that says ‘vote’.
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Summertime #auspol #climate #netzero ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Title at top - Summer 2035. A person is standing inside with a small child looking out a large window. Outside a fierce bushfire is coming across the nearby hills as embers rain down, in a distance a horse is fleeing. The child, looking up to the adult, says, “And, DID they lower energy prices?”
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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When the world needs a hero #USPolitics #Trump #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. A poster for ‘Indiana Jones and the Pedo Files’ - ‘the truth . . . is in the shitter’. Jones is standing outside the bathroom at Mar a Lago having discovered inside multiple document boxes among the cobwebs, they are labeled ‘Epstein’, ‘Shred’, ‘Hoax’, ‘Jeff Baby’, etc.
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Rude journalists #USPolitics #Trump #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Trump is entertaining Mohammed bin Salman in his Oval Office for the media. One of them must have annoyed him as his says to bin Salman, “Fake news. The worst. Don’t believe any of it!” Bin Salman leans forward, dagger down behind him and says, “Want me to sort?”
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Cop out #auspol #climate #fossilfuel ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Shows a pacific Island family at home, water floods through the house while outside toward the horizon coal ships and gas tankers pass by. One of the family is sitting at the table reading a paper, the headline reads ‘COP 31 to Türkiye’ and they are saying, “Oh no, looks like Australia has lost an opportunity to showcase its climate leadership in the pacific region” the others look sarcastically back.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Taking the Peace Plan #auspol #USPolitics #Ukraine #Russia ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in his office and looks somewhat bemused at a missile crashing through the roof, tearing through his Ukraine flag and impaling his desk. The missile is marked ‘Peace Plan’ and has a note on its nose cone that reads ‘surrender’.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Questionable #auspol #bom ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. A news reader crossing live to the (Australian) Bureau of Meteorology says, “So, what’s your best guess for Saturday’s weather?” The BoM person replies, “Well, that’s the $96.5M question”.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Solipsist Stunt #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
As Sen Hansen is leaping enthusiastically out of her props box, burqa in hand, two people are passing in the foreground. One says, “Solipsist Stunt?” the other replies, “Rhyming slang for racist”.
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Signs of the time #auspol #msm ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Signs saying (L-R going down) ‘mental health crisis’, ‘aged care’, ‘catastrophic fire danger’, ‘Palestinians STILL dying’, ‘caution bull dust ahead’, ‘no home ownership beyond this point’, ‘cost of living killing voters’, ‘Sudan 150k+ dead 12 million+ displaced’, ‘last rental for 1200kms’, ‘social support dire’, ‘heatwave storms cyclones’, ‘you are passing another extinction’, ‘emissions at 15.1 tons per capita’, ‘homelessness ahead’, ‘fossil fuel fantasies’, ‘old enough for prison too young for ubiquitous tech’. In front of all these signs is a large media scrum who have been distracted and are running toward a small figure in the background who has called out ‘burqa!’ and pointed off to the left.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Balance #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
2 panel editorial cartoon. Title at top ‘Balance’. Top panel labelled ‘Then’ - two debating teams either side with moderator between, team on the left has sign on table ‘Affirmative’, team on right ‘Negative’. Lower panel labelled ‘Now’ - exactly the same image but this time the left reads ‘Misinformation’, right reads ‘Disinformation’.
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Tyrants of the Caribbean #USPolitics #Trump #WarCrimes #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Title at top ‘Tyrants of the Caribbean’. A massive aircraft carrier with a giant golden ‘T’ as the figure head and flying the Jolly Roger, is bearing down on a tiny tall ship, as per the Black Pearl. Way at the back of the carrier, up in the crows nest, an orange figure can be seen and is crying out, “Take no prisoners!!”
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Well, the American version of Madame Tussauds looks a bit ordinary #USPolitics #UKPolitics #auspol
Photo in oval office with Trump, Stallone and various surgically (enhanced?) celebrities
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Steer-way to Heaven #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. ‘Steer-way to Heaven’. A Barnaby Joyce bull has burst through a farm gate into greener pastures and freedom, rattling empty bottles and cans and taking a dump on a sign reading ‘Nats’ that he has just trampled across. A Pauline Hanson cow is leaning coyly against the fence twirling her tail seductively. In the distant background, a Littleproud poddy calf looks on.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Sunset #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Abandoned theatre on the corner has on the marquee, ‘desire’ - ‘tragedy’ - ‘Barnaby’, in the window is the movie poster, ‘Sunset Blvd’ with Barnaby Joyce’s face belching, the orange background of One Nation. On the building a ‘one way’ sign points to the right, on the road a solitary tumble weed bounces in the opposite direction.
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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ICE age #USPolitics #Trump #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Two indigenous Americans overlooking an abandoned city. One says, “So still . . . So quiet . . . Not a soul to be seen”, the other replies, “Yep, I guess his great ‘let’s get rid of all the immigrants plan’ - has really paid off”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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A word from the ivory tower #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. The people have gathered at the foot of the parliamentary ivory tower to protest the price of energy and the removal of the energy rebate. At the top of the tower the treasurer calls down, “But they exported over $180 billion of gas & coal so taxing that would hurt them a lot more!”
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Ah the “French tuck”. Which probably originated in Brisbane.
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I saw a woman interviewed on News Breakfast today who went for a whole year without buying any new clothes.
AND wrote a book about it.
FUCK ME DEAD!
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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While we’re at it, who decided tops that look like they’re pulled off one shoulder were this summer’s must-have?
December 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM