This is such a great episode. The historical context, the explanation of how our colonial mindset manoeuvred us into terrible multi-decade deals, the many ways in which we are losing out... Essential listening
And if you love it as I do it's all available for purchase on @bandcamp.com camp at a very reasonable price so you can blast it in your house and everywhere you go as I currently am
in case you do not have music nerds in your life to inform you of the joyful mind bending tectonic shift that is Angine de Poitrine, please enjoy, and understand you will never be the same again
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is it time we all switch back to Nokias and digital cameras? I've already brought a CD player and DVD player back into my media mix
Thank you for clothing him, David
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing an assembly of renewable energy solutions - solar panels, battery storage, high speed rail, electrified truck freight, EVs and charging infrastructure, wind turbines, and bicycles - put together in a shape that resembles a military tank. A different approach to a massive increase in military spending that would increase Australia's security and sovereignty in times of global unrest.
Best defence.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan in the driver's seat of a car. Her passengers are her new cabinet ministers: Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke, Box Hill's Paul Hamer, Eureka MP Michaela Settle, and Kororoit's Luba Grigorovitch. Allan (in a manner reminiscent of the Federal Government's recent advice on making petrol last longer during the fuel crisis), says, "Topped up with fresh cabinet energy and ready to roll! Did everyone remember to remove their excess weight from the past?" All eyes are on Grigorovitch, who glances nervously at what's stowed away in the boot: disgraced CFMEU head, John Sekta.
Draining relationships.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social
if the news is getting you down, a reminder that tea and hot toddies look remarkably similar
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Utterly bizarre how war policy is being decided and announced by an addled, deeply unqualified ignoramus from his bed at 4 in the morning on a social media platform he made up himself and everyone acts like it's normal.
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a living room where a mother is watching the evening news while two toddlers play happily and constructively on the floor - drawing, facilitating tea parties and building cooperatively with wooden blocks. On the TV screen is Donald Trump, mid-yell, waving his hands, throwing a tantrum of some kind. The toddlers observe this behaviour and one says to the other, "Frankly, I'm beginning to resent the comparison."
Unfair.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
Thank you! 🫡
I don't know how Dan Levy knows exactly when we need to see a new thing from him but somehow he does and he has a new show out today PRAISE BE
would other media outlets follow suit please? enough with the normalisation of the severely abnormal
Deadloch is one of the best things out there. MORE PLEASE
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing the Earth in a hospital bed, hooked up to a monitor and a drip. The monitor, measuring adrenaline and cortisol, the stress hormones registers erratic dips, troughs and spikes which are a match for President Trump's signature. The IV drip, labelled "patience" is running out. Over Iran and the Straight of Hormuz are a couple of basic bandaids, labelled "2 weeks". Not pictured is anyone in a position of authority doing anything meaningful to fix the root cause of the ailment.
Hypertension.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A couple of weeks in and cat is still big into lettuce play. This morning:
This is the laugh we needed.
A cartoon by Megan Herbert showing people all around the world in different situations - people getting married and guests attending a wedding, people performing in and watching a circus trapeze act, someone snorkelling and surrounded by fish, a person sitting on a remote mountaintop while meditating - all thinking the same thing: "Why don't they invoke the 25th?". The caption beneath the cartoon says "The whole world tries, and fails, to think about something else."
Seriously
I just went to see Project Hail Mary (brilliant) and was scared to turn my phone on afterwards in case he'd pressed any big red buttons while I was in the cinema
Great that this case will finally be prosecuted. Our usual reminder that it's now sub judice and everyone should stfu about it and let the process do its thing.
FFA. Today’s Age and SMH cartoon
Stars ‘n’ Snipes.
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Which emoji are we all at today? I'll start: 😑
Also, I've just added this toon to the store: totes, mugs, prints, have at it megan-herbert.myshopify.com/products/mug...
As an Australian, I couldn't shake my helmet habit when I lived in NL. But it's true: they are not needed when the cycling infrastructure is safe and designed to keep cars and bikes apart
Painted eggshells fragments by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt #Easter
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing various people filling up their various vehicles at a crowded petrol station. At the font of the queue is the NASA moon rocket Artemis II, being filled up by an astronaut. Next is a registered nurse driving a modest, older model car, in line with everyone else and filling up without any special provisions despite the fact that she's an essential worker. Waiting behind her is an oversized Ute clearly not being used for utility purposes but rather as a recreational vehicle. Its driver, leaning out of the window, yells at the astronaut, "Oi, gas guzzler! Leave some for the rest of us!", which results in an eyebrow raise from the RN.
Priorities in line.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a riot taking place on the steps of the Victorian Parliament building. Police are swarming the rioters in an effort to bring them under control. Two bystanders are commenting on the affray, the first person asking, "Protest?"and the second person replying, "Liberal party preselection meeting."
Run riot.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social
