Fiona Katauskas is New Mtilda's former political cartoonist. Her work has also appeared in ABC's The Drum, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Financial Review and Scribe's Best Australian political cartoon anthologies.
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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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Please don't depict Tony Abbott in an immodest swimsuit anymore. At least depict him in a suit that he wears most of the time. I find it offensive to picture a Catholic politician in such a costume. You wouldn't put Julia Gillard in her swimming costume to depict her all the time. I'm sure she has gone swimming at some point of her life in public but no cartoonists have drawn her in such an undignified manner.
Trent ... yeah, you're right, Gillard in a swimsuit, that would be AWESOME! Maybe we can get Abbott to pose for a portrait in a Borat-style Mankini?
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Fiona Katauskas is New Mtilda's former political cartoonist. Her work has also appeared in ABC's The Drum, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Financial Review and Scribe's Best Australian political cartoon anthologies.