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The Good Samaritan Grittily Rebooted For Our Modern Times

Thursday, September 22, 2011

  A5 print $44 A4 print $66 A3 print $88 Also available as a t-shirt, though there is quite a lot of writing, so people will be staring at your chest for quite a while. Buy at own risk.

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How about we just stop talking about the boats for a bit?

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

One of my all-time favourite cartoons is by Leunig from one of his earlier collections. It’s got two people roasting marshmallows around a campfire and one is saying to the other “What do you mean the acoustics could be better? What the hell are you talking about?” …or words to that effect. It’s funnier when [...]

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Messing around in boats

Monday, November 2, 2009

The boat people question is not, in fact, as complicated as everyone is making out. It boils down to the simple question: “How unpleasant a pack of arseholes do we want to be?” Acting like a complete pack of arseholes will undoubtedly deter people from wanting to come here, the downside being, of course, that [...]

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Go to the back of the queue

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

It was quite nostalgic dragging out the old Phil Ruddock cadaver, I mean caricature yesterday. Sadly for Phil, the days of mass hysteria over boat people are, like inarticulate US presidents, gone. Let’s hope so, anyway.

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