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, Bill Shorten
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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Talk about resorting to silence!
But then, the major parties historically have different approaches to opposition. A Coalition leader who's not in government is LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, focussing on aggressively and negatively attacking the Government on everything, while doing policy development "on the run". An ALP leader who isn't in government serves as SHADOW PM or SHADOW PREMIER, taking a low-key approach to opposition in and focussing on the future (the next election and their next period of government), i.e., developing alternative policies, developing an alternative leadership team, and rebuilding links with the electorate.
Er.... The LNP is in government for the present. Tony Abbott is the PM not Bill Shorten.
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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.