The “aw shucks, us too” taxation policy now adopted by the ALP strains beyond breaking point any reasonable definition of “alternative government”…or “Opposition”…or “Labor”…or “progressive”. Alas, many fewer words than those in this verbose header are more than enough to say everything that needs to be said about it…

…as Jon Kudelka has demonstrated in today’s edition of The Saturday Paper:

 

 

 

Here are two more of my favourite Kudelka cartoons:

 

 

 

 

The Saturday Paper lives here.

Click this for Kudelka’s Twitter feed.

Click here for a recent interview with Jon Kudelka.

This post concludes with a little extract from an earlier interview with him:

Name one person who makes your job easy?

Barnaby Joyce. If he didn’t exist, it would be necessary for cartoonists to invent a hat-wearing beetroot with an overinflated sense of self-importance only exceeded by its lack of self-awareness. The cartoonists of Australia thank you Barnaby, even if any remaining fish in the Murray-Darling do not.

 

Postscript:

If you would like to read a considered explanation of just why the taxation policies now co-sponsored by TweedleSco and TweedleAlbo are so dreadful for Australia’s future, click this.