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Fiona Katauskas
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Cartoonist for the Guardian (amongst others) , political junkie, best-selling author of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made. Sweary.

Gadigal Country. Australia
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ICYMI- yesterday's #climate #auspol cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
Murray Watt on the left is holding up the EPBC legislation, saying "It's NOW or NEVER!!" On the right a young girl is holding a sign saying "Time is running out!' as the Earth stands next to her, ringed in heat. She's saying "Funnily enough, we were JUST saying the same thing..."
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Here's a cartoon from a few years ago about ole Pauline
Two panelled cartoon. First panel has a close up scientist saying authoritatively "Pauline Hanson hasn't got a racist bone in her body" Panel 2: image has pulled out to show the scientist standing next to a picture of Pauline Hanson, pointing to it with a pointer saying "Everyone knows racism is found in the brain, heart and bile duct"
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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ICYMI- yesterday's #Auspol cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
TV show set for "The Blame Game" game show. Andrew Hastie is host, reading out from a card "Aside from the scourge of Net Zero, whose fault is the soaring cost of living?" a brightly lit board has the following options: A MIGRANTS taking our housing B MIGRANTS using our electricity C MIGRANTS (insert grievance here) D All of the above Sussan Ley is standing on the other side looking nervous and the contestant in the far right corner has their head in their hands and is sighing
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Whoohoo! Look what I’ve got! Can HIGHLY recommend these as an excellent Christmas gift for discerning family members or treat for yourself. Bloody love these anthologies. They’re both fantastic entertainment and a great historical resource. Keep the love of political cartoons alive!
Copy of Scribe’s Best Political Cartoons for 2025
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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ICYMI- yesterday’s cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
A group of 5 billionaires are drinking champagne on a yacht. Two (a man and woman) in the left have tshirts that say ‘Defend the 1%’ The man is saying ‘People say billionaires don’t contribute to society but we’re ALL about empowering minorities’
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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ICYMI- yesterday's #Mamdani #USpol cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
(may contain relevance to UK and Aus pol as well)
cartoon: in background is a shaking blue box with "Democratic Machine" which is pumping out generic people in suits on a conveyor belt. In front of it is a man and woman in suits. Zohran Mamdani is standing int the right hand corner grinning with a sign saying 'GOOD THINGS ARE POSSIBLE". The man is saying "We've spent YEARS developing passionless centrists whose every utterance is crafted by consultants and filtered through focus groups then HE comes along and ruins it all..."
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Excellent read, this
Sept edition of Meanjin with focus on 50th anniversary of Dismissal
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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ICYMI- yesterday’s cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
Cartoon: former Prince Andrew is grimacing and sweaty as he carries his bags off to the left. His assistant is looking over his shoulder saying ‘If it’s any consolation, Andrew, you’re not the only one giving royalty a bad name’ To the right sits a crowned w a throne with columns on either side topped by golden busts of Trump’s head. Bags lf money lie on the floor next to him and on the other side is a heavily chained and locked filing cabinet with ‘Epstein files’ written on it
November 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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quote with a vampire that isn't dracula

(possibly the best vampire of all)
Colin Robinson
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Hello, Police? I’d like to report a Font Crime
Sign outside a building that says ‘The Benedict’ in a curly font that is almost unreadable
October 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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ICYMI- my Saturday cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
Scene is a bar with a range of people in it all open mouthed in horror, transfixed by the TV on the wall showing Trump as Godzilla with a nappy on kicking over the Statue of Liberty as fire and destruction rage. One person is saying "Say what you like about the Trump presidency but it sure makes for compelling tv"
October 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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ICYMI - yesterday's cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
Anthony Albanese is talking to an advisor Advisor: The bad news- looks like you wont' get a one-on-one with Trump Albanese: And the good news? Advisor: Looks like you wont' get a one-on-one with Trump to their right is Trump as king on a throne with a red carpet leading up to it and a sign pointing in front of him saying 'Grovel here" TV cameras are pointing at him
September 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Sydney
Free Gaza rally photo
September 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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ICYMI- my #FreeSpeech cartoon for yesterday's @australia.theguardian.com
Four panel cartoon with title "The Amazing Adventures of a Free Speech Absolutist" Panel 1: Man in MAGA cap saying "Non-whites are trying to replace us!" Free Speech Absoutist responds- "The has the right to say it..." Panel 2: Woman with arms crossed saying "Black people only get jobs through DEI!" Free Speech Absoutist responds- "She's allowed to speak her mind..." Panel 3: Man sanctimoniously saying "Women should submit to their husbands!" Free Speech Absoutist responds- "It's all free speech.." Panel 4: Black woman saying "Political violence is always wrong. Racism and sexism are too..." Free Speech Absoutist responds- "WON'T SOMEBODY MAKE HER SHUT UP?!"
September 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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ICYMI- yesterday's #Gaza cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
Scene is bookshop with shelf saying "True Crime". Two horrified people are standing in front of it reading "UN COI REPORT ON GENOCIDE IN GAZA"
September 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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ICYMI- yesterday's @australia.theguardian.com cartoon
scene is Anthony Albanese sitting eating popcorn on a comfy chair. An aide is standing next to him and Barnaby, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Andrew Hastie are all standing arrogantly with arms crossed or hands on hips. Aide is saying "They SAY they're against net zero but it's amazing how they keep coming back to it." Hastie is leaning against a big sign that says " Days since Sussan Ley was publicly undermined by her coalition colleagues- 00" Sussan Ley is off the right with her head in her hand.
September 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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About to start this…
Cover of Randa Abdel-Fattah’s book, Discipline
September 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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There's a billum sale at Marrickville Yoga Centre. Beautiful bags and all proceeds go straight to the village.
Traditional colourful billum bags hanging in a warehouse
September 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Cartoon by Paul Noth from the New Yorker
Cartoon by Paul Noth in the New Yorker. A man is standing at his mailbox, looking at the recently arrived electricity bill. Next to his house is a vast data centre. Caption underneath "Chat GPT, why is my electric bill so high?"
September 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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ICYMI- yesterday's #Gaza #PressFreedom cartoon from @australia.theguardian.com
Cartoon is set in Gaza with rubble and bombs in the background. Two Gazans with Press jackets are standing in the foreground. One is holding up a vest with a target on it and is saying "In order to identify any remaining journalists, the IDF has requested we wear these..."
September 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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#ICYMI- yesterday's #AFL #homophobia cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
Title: AFL Club 2025 Scene is a young football player and an AFL executive. AFL exec is saying "We keep our trophies in the cabinet and our gay and bi players in the closet"
August 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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When I did this cartoon in April I had no idea how far Trump's interior design ambitions would actually go.
Cartoon at time of Pope Francis's funeral : scene is Melania, Trump and a cardinal walking through the heavily gilded and decorated Vatican. Trump is saying " I don't want to hear Pope Francis's views on inequality, refugees, climate change or Gaza but I WOULD like the number of his interior decorator"
August 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you.

I'm in safe hands
Cast of Brassic
August 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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ICYMI- yesterday's Netanyahu v Albanese cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
Two panel cartoon Panel 1: Netanyahu in cropped pic: "Anthony Albanese is weak..." Panel 2: Wider image with Gaza destruction and starving child in background "...when he should be caving to bullying and ignoring starving children like a REAL man"
August 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Serious Q- how will AI boost the average worker's salary by $4300? How has this been calculated? What are the factors involved?
2. The AI era dawns While business leaders and experts talk up the potential of AI, Sally McManus, the ACTU’s secretary, backed a worker-centric approach to rolling out the technology. Danielle Wood, the Productivity Commission’s chair, said AI could lift the average workers’ income by $4,300 per year over the coming decade.
August 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM