Topic tags: Fiona Katauskas, Scott Morrison
If there's one thing that the recent election campaign and its outcome demonstrated, it's the depth of the divisions that exist in our Australian community.
Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
What does it mean to be an Australian in times like these? What are the values that unite us?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: such prescience.
Spot on, Fiona. I just hope enough people get the reference, particularly those with the "...frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command."
Today's Fiona Katauskas cartoon is brilliant.
Triffic, Fiona. Not sure about the ‘sneer of cold command’, though, Bill Venables. More like the anxious smile of one who seeks to placate both God and Mammon....
Very clever. Yes, 'the sneer of cold command.' But also: 'Nothing beside remains.' Gillian
Oh how I love poetry and cartoon; so much can be said with so few words. Thanks Fiona...
Very clever indeed! 'Aussiemandias' - love it :-)
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