Fiona Katauskas' work has also appeared in ABC's The Drum, New Matilda, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Financial Review and Scribe's Best Australian political cartoon anthologies.
Topic tags: fiona katauskas, Scott Morrison, asylum seekers, Manus Island
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Well, after that excellent cartoon on Shorten, it's back to the main game, eh, Fiona? 1. Blood on Morrison's hands? For the record: no one has died at sea as a result of the Coalition policy: it's a policy which has (so far) actually prevented deaths. Around a thousand died at sea under Rudd/Gillard/Greens. I don't seem to remember any of your cartoons portraying them (and the Greens) with bloody hands. Which is it: splinters and beams, or pots and kettles? 2. How did all those people behind the nasty barbed wire get there? Again, for the record: it was Labor/Greens hubristic dismantling of the Howard scheme that opened the floodgates.
Why not keep Downer at home and send Morrison to London
Fiona correctly distinguishes between refugee deaths due to violence in Australia's custody, and deaths due to acts of God at sea. It is the Australian Nation as currently represented by Scott Morrison which has blood on its metaphorical hands.
HH - ditto. Also, Prof Triggs, HRC, do not treat with contempt the resounding result of the last election for tighter control of Aust borders. Too much drug, arms and human (of unknown character) trafficking is to the detriment of society. Our children will reap what we sow. What also galls me is the asylum seeker gravy train, as if there are not enough Aussie Lawyers/Advocates, what with foreign ones coming over to cash in on the act.
Good work, Fiona. It's a graphic commentary on a shameful policy. Your image has certainly ruffled feathers and made some people very defensive. Hit the mark, I'd say.
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Fiona Katauskas' work has also appeared in ABC's The Drum, New Matilda, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Financial Review and Scribe's Best Australian political cartoon anthologies.