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Marta Balan

@martasb.bsky.social
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the backpacker
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The migration policy race. @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI alarms. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
walking red
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
housos
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
pub test
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 07/09/2026
What Pauline's sponsors hate more than anything else is poor people's money staying in poor people's hands, hence their tireless efforts to destroy the compulsory superannuation system.
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'Economically disastrous': One Nation early super plan slammed
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has defended a plan to allow workers  to divert some of their super to help pay the rent or mortgage.
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nationals Leader Matt Canavan blaming the “feminisation of our curriculum” for driving young boys towards the manosphere.
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How it is. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cartoonists like Cathy Wilcox are a gift to society who thankfully can’t, and won’t, be muzzled. Bernd Rieve, Brighton @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As the world warms, increasing the demands on water and power, who or what gets priority access to cooling: people or data centres (″⁣EPA’s data centre warning″⁣, 26/8)? Jenny Bone, Surrey Hills @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sick. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Four frames. 1. Terns on a beach. One says to another, “I feel sick.” 2. A fur seal on a beach beside lots of dead birds thinks, “I feel sick.” 3. A woman reads a series of news headline placards with “BIRD FLU JUMPS SPECIES”, “MORE HEAT WAVES, FIRES”, “NO END OF WARS”; she thinks, “I feel sick”. 4. The world, with fires and explosions everywhere, thinks, “I feel sick.”
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When the Israeli military investigates itself. @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Uninvited. My @smh and @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Three people on a couch watching tv. In the middle is a buff guy in sport gear with TShirt marked “SPORT BET FAST”. His feet are up on the coffee table and he’s hugging the others, Mr and Mrs in their team jerseys, uncomfortably close.
Mrs says, “I still don’t understand how he got in here…” Mr says, “It’s probably my fault - I didn’t opt out.”
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The 60-day cease-fire negotiations between the United States and Iran ended without results, pushing the two sides into a war of attrition in which each waits for the other to tire.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don’t ask me. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Six frames. 1. Fellow with clipboard bails up woman passer-by, says, “Excuse me, I’m doing a short survey. Do you think Australia takes in too many immigrants?” 2. She says,”I don’t know. I mean, are we talking about the immigrants who look after my mother in the aged care home?” 3. She continues: “Or the ones who come here to pick fruit for low wages so we have affordable fresh produce?” 4. “Or the ones working in construction to build our housing and infrastructure?” 5. “Or those training to be the medical specialists were short of?” 6. “I really don’t know. Maybe you could ask the government. They should know.”
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
political pokies
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sacrifice. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Title: “Somewhere on a tarmac in Türkiye.” Inside cabin of Aircraft One, a couple of people (press) sitting either side with a steward entering carrying drinks tray. One person on left says, “Why did President Trump get off this plane?” Steward says, “oh he just thought it would be better if we didn’t ALL get killed by Iran…” Woman on right of image says “You see, he’s ALWAYS making sacrifices.”
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
No access. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Left, people (a bloke in a red cap; a woman checking phone with security guard; a man with camera wearing News24 vest) entering a venue inside which are visible orange balloons, a man in an orange cap welcoming. Outside is a sign saying “ONE NATION PRESENTS PAULINE HANSON LIVE! -‘MY PLAN FOR USTRAYA’” and behind that a smaller sign saying “KEEP OUT: GUARDIAN, ABC, AGE.” To the right female reporter stands talking to camera saying, “Sadly, Mrs Hanson won’t give us access, so we can only assume that what she’s selling won’t stand up to scrutiny and is not in the public interest.”
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
RBA
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Gambling reform negotiations continue… @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
there we go..
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
You'got this Angus
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump’s Iran war cupboard. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
h5n1 advisory
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One Nation candidate media training @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Bang bang click. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Three vignettes. 1. Trump with an old-fashioned six-shooter pistol, says “TAKE THAT IRAN!” while gun goes “BANG BANG BANG BANG CLICK” 2. Trump looks at gun which now goes “CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK” 3. Trump holding gun arm behind back, bringing other hand up to ear, says, “I’m hearing Iran is ready to make a deal.”
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Political spinner @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
loony park
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Reformers’ prayer. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Title: “The Reformers’ Prayer”. On the left a man in a suit with hands clasped, head bowed but with one eye open, delivers a prayer to (on right) 6 more men in suits, some with one eye open and one passing a manilla envelope to another on the sly. The prayer: “Our faction of NSW Liberals - Reformers be our name. Our day will come; our policies done In government when we’re not in opposition. Give us this day our branches stacked. And forgive us our misuse of Catholic School funding, As we forgive those developers and hoteliers. Lead us not into progress But deliver us from “woke” For we are conservatives Wanting power and glory For ever and ever Ahhh… men.”
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
enter the dragon
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Burning. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Foreground left: large, windowless buildings. Background: fiery forest horizon and red to black sky. Foreground right: man on his phone saying, “Quick! We need more water to cool down the data centres that are overheating from processing all the news about unprecedented wildfires…”
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Josh Butler @joshbutler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Despite QLD & NT rejecting the federal government’s plans to mandate AI datacentres use renewable power, Labor will forge on with plans for energy & water usage rules Govt also examining whether it can set price protections to shield people from power bill spikes www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy
Federal-state stoush comes as rating agency warns that electricity bills could skyrocket
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Bedfellows. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Andrew Bragg entering Liberal Party Room where Angus Taylor and James Paterson are at a table smacking their foreheads, Jane Hume is looking on. Bragg says, “What?! I just said we might need to team up with the xenophobic nationalists to defeat the communists…”
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Josh Butler @joshbutler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Pauline Hanson has updated her parliamentary register of interests for her European trip - disclosing that Gina Rinehart paid for the flights www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
VicAlert
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
verbal gymnastics
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Trump Gulfing. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon.
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The art of the Iran war deal. @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
forced labour..
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Donald’s doorway effect. @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
back stage
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sit down.
Two frames. 1. Barnaby Joyce as on TV turning to shout “SIDDOWN!” 2. Two dogs on grass beside a fence, one black and white, the other curly blond. Black and white one says: “I was only asking if he regretted hitching his wagon to an even bigger attention seeker…”
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
one way street
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
not you..
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Holiday from reality. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a pile of mail, the kind you might see on the kitchen bench of a working class Australian who feels that they are sliding backwards in life, unable to afford the cost of living despite 'doing everything right', and whose frustration about this reality is causing them to turn away from the major political parties who must be to blame and towards an alternative minor party with no experience of governing that is nevertheless happy to harvest their rage and provide them with scapegoats for their anger (Immigrants! The elite! Indigenous Australians! Black and brown people! Multiculturalism!). On the top of the pile is a postcard from Pauline Hanson titled "Wish you were here!", showing her in different scenes enjoying her European vacation - High-fiving Tommy Robinson during an interview: "Fun times with the far, far right!"; floating in a pool with Gina Rinehart at a luxury Sicilian resort: "Poolside with my billionaire friends!"; being served champagne in a business class seat on a long haul flight: "Enjoying some of the perks of the job!". Beneath the postcard are various unopened bills marked with "balance overdue", "Collection notice" and "Final notice."
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
baggage
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
makeover..
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 07/07/2026
“When Belgium becomes the 51st state, it gets us back in the World Cup,” said Trump chaser.com.au/general-news...
Trump launches full scale invasion of Belgium
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
fiji
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