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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel ya🤔...
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The inflation problem. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a single mother, recently made homeless after defaulting on her mortgage repayments (as evidenced by visible paperwork), setting up a new home in a tent with her two young children. Surrounded by their essentials stored in storage and plastic bags, the baby crawls on the grass, his older brother heats some food over a camp stove, and his exhausted-looking mother blows up an air mattress. Watching her, the boy says, "Is this what they means when they say 'inflation is the problem,' Mum?"
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two bad decisions by the umpires in a two minutes. #AFL #AFLfinals #AFLFreoLions
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How good would it be for Max Gawn to win the #Brownlow #AFL
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Swans are being hard done by by the umps tonight 😉 #AFL #AFLFinals #AFLswansfreo
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meanwhile, during the year leading up to 30 June 2026, the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people imprisoned in Victoria increased by nearly a quarter.
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Always! 🤎💛🤎 That has to be an omen surely! 😁 #AFLW #AFLWHawksRoos #Always #OurWay
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#SpringSt
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING Australia offers to give every American a Hemsworth and a new episode of Bluey if the Democrats win the midterms
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It wasn’t enough that a targeted campaign was used to defame and damage me by deliberately mischaracterising one cartoon. Now those same obsessive bullies are using other people’s posts about that cartoon to destroy their careers. Are we living under the Stasi now?
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
alborithm
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Neither of these teams will win the gf #AFL #AFLfinals #AFLcrowsDogs
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you've ever wondered what a witch hunt looked like, you're living in one right now.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Choices. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Paragraphs of text with small vignettes. First column: “HAPPY NEW YEAR” sign with balloons. “I sometimes think about a time when I was 16 at a New Year’s Eve party. 
Teens drank at parties then, and a log of pashing went on. It was all pretty tame.”(Image of awkward young couple pashing.)
“I liked boys a lot and at this party I got flirting with a guy…” (image of girl and guy facing each other at nigh under party lights.) “He told me he was 22, and I felt very grown up to have attracted his attention. He was surprised to discover my age.” Next column: (image of champagne bottle popping cork) “when midnight came, I hoped to have a New Year’s kiss with him. He gently declined, saying I was too young. I didn’t know what I didn’t know, and he knew better.” (Image of the same two people under fireworks, with man smiling holding hand up as “no”.)
“When I think about young men and schoolboys “getting themselves into situations”, I think about him. And all the choices we make.” (Image two guys laughing walking away from a girl crying, sitting on the ground.) (image of a speaker with “NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS” blaring.)
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Always worth remembering the extent to which John Howard diminished our ethics, & scorned humanity. The Tampa travesty was perhaps only outdone by his ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lies & support for subsequent invasion of Iraq. A miserly, misery man
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 25/08/2026
Everyone should know what she did in response to a thousand homes being lost to wildfire in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She did basic income before the hundreds of new pilot experiments, not because of the evidence, but I think because of her profound sense of empathy.
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Dolly Parton Knew What People Need
How the queen of country music gave unconditional cash to wildfire survivors — and proved basic income works
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punterspolitics.bsky.social @punterspolitics.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Another politician forgetting how paid sponsorship promotions work here on Instagram. Don't worry @albomp happy to help ya out champ. Gambling lobby got good bang for buck I reckon.
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@cathywilcox.bsky.social not only opened the door for me, she held my hand, cheered me on, and taught me everything possible to know about what good political cartooning is. I’m struggling to process the news of her departure. I am certain it will leave a gaping hole in the pages of the SMH and Age.
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Now ask the women at the club… #AFL #AFLW #SydneySwans
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#AFL Lift your game men!
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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal election" -- lots here from SMH as Brethren and Advance face the Committee on Electoral Matters www.smh.com.au/national/exc...
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Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal election
A digital trail of evidence and political and church insiders have revealed how the wealthy Christian sect mobilised influencers around the country to track and heckle candidates.
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excellent article from Kate O’Halloran. WOMEN ARE JUST SO TIRED! #AFL #Sydney #SydneySwans www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Swans' decision a step towards accountability, but misogyny at AFL core
Swans chairperson Andrew Pridham claims his players have "complete respect for women", but the week's events call for a reckoning with AFL culture.
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Rio Tinto made $17 billion profit last year. So naturally Aussie taxpayers are giving them $2.5 billion. Remember kids: welfare is only bad when poor people get it. #auspol
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s Freo’s to lose… the big dance that is. #AFL #AFLFreoCrows
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Slop. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Title - instruction: “[place cartoon here - ed]”. Appearance of yellow torn out lined note paper held in place by sticky tape. Text: “The Herald-Sun has this week published an AI cartoon, where previously they might have commissioned one of their (dwindling) stable of artists. And it makes sense. (Not the cartoon.) After all, what is a cartoon, but a picture with a caption and maybe some helpful labels to make a point? In this case, a point the editor who prompted it wanted to make.
I mean, how hard can cartooning be? We would all be doing them if it weren’t for our lack of drawing skill (and some cartoonists aren’t very skilled, let’s face it), and AI means nobody has to pay the outrageous fees that “artists” charge, while they can “borrow” their existing work to train AI. It’s literally a no-brainer!” (Small picture of a brain crossed out) “We can only hope they can keep up the quality, once the AI can only be trained using other AI cartoons.”
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Occupational classifications in the 2026 Australian Census. @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I watched this video yesterday about people saying that bsky.app/profile/huma...
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#SpringSt #Kew
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@cityofmelbourne.bsky.social Victoria used to be know as the garden state Also @boroondara.bsky.social need to lift our game. Way too many cars in the road in our ‘hood.
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hawthorn FC wearing Hawthorn Citz guernsey tonight! 😄 Go Hawks 🤎💛🤎 #AFL #AFLlionsHawks
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Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ ᵃᵘ ᶜᵇʳ ᶜᶠᶜ @richardtuffin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This one frame says so much. Good dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social Good dog.
A simple political cartoon showing a military tank facing a polar bear sitting on a melting piece of ice. Hand-written text at the top features the polar bear criticizing the logic of fighting wars for profit and destruction rather than to save the planet.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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Nat factor @natfactor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A homeless service with OZCARE shut down for over 9mths. St Vinnie’s has taken over. It used to sleep 200 men. Had a detox and large kitchen for anyone homeless to eat there. A free medical care unit and laundry. After the renovations it will sleep 115 people. No services apart from counselling.
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#MoonJoy Over Naarm 🌙✨💛
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#Auspol Another day of disappointment from @albomp.bsky.social & @australianlabor.bsky.social
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Two way street. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Title: “Two way street”. Scene: a road from foreground leading into distance. Left, a woman on a bicycle with a bag and backpack and a small child in a baby seat at the front, riding away from our viewpoint. At left, a series of roadside signs saying, “LEAVE AND I’LL MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL”; “LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO”; SHUT UP OR ELSE”; “BUT I LOVE YOU…”
On the right, driving toward us, a large truck driven by a barely visible man.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A draw would be nice… #AFL #AFLDeesCats
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#AusPol
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
#auspol
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Data houses. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame.  A row of data centres with construction team including Ute marked “DATA-CON”and crane upstage. Downstage a man in construction overalls marked “DATA-CON” talking to another in a suit with briefcase and rolled plans, says, “When the crash comes, we can refit them as cheap housing for people who don’t mind a lack of windows.”
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Remember, don’t waste any time arguing whether #ClimateChange “caused” the current #wildfires. Like EVERY consequence of the #ClimateCrisis, we KNOW that EACH WILDFIRE is made much more likely, and much worse, by the rapidly changing conditions from Climate Change. MORE LIKELY AND WORSE.
Wildfire images Smoke from wildfires covering the continent.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Word!
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'm sorry Anthony..
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The more I think about it: why was she even there? There are no genuine antisemitism allegations against ABC or SBS; she had none to add; and it’s got zero to do with Bondi. Why was she invited to appear again?? To slag off the public broadcasters? Issue wasn’t even in the terms of reference. wtf
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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Freo doing a Hawthorn?? 🧐🤷🏽‍♀️ #AFL #AFLFreoSwans
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Solomons..
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Genuinely Orwellian. Neither UNESCO nor @albomp.bsky.social's & Murray Watt's @australianlabor.bsky.social government should be taken seriously when they attempt to deceive us with utter nonsense that's grossly inconsistent with what science & our own eyes tell us. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Great Barrier Reef avoids World Heritage 'in danger' listing
The UN body raised "utmost concern" over the site's declining coral cover after mass bleaching events in 2024 and 2025.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Lucky kids. My @smh cartoon.
Four frames. Intro: “The Government’s new gambling add rules mean kiddies will only be free to see 3 ads per waking hour. So make them count!” Frame 1. Kid eating snack bar in front of TV saying “Cost of Living (TM) blah blah blah, but YOU COULD BE THE LUCKY WINNER…” 2. Kid with teddy and TV says, “Dad lost his job? You’re going to live with grandma? No better time to TRY YOUR LUCK!” 3. Kid with drink and TV says, “Australians are the world’s BIGGEST LOSERS and YOU COULD BE TOO!” 4. “And after they go to bed, we’ve got them covered…” kid in bed with phone saying, “Don’t forget to add your pocket money to Australia’s $32 billion GAMBLING BONANZA!”
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