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Pat Hudson Cartoons
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Freelance Cartoonist | Caricaturist | Anything

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Leaving passing footprints on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people

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Steer-way to Heaven #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. ‘Steer-way to Heaven’. A Barnaby Joyce bull has burst through a farm gate into greener pastures and freedom, rattling empty bottles and cans and taking a dump on a sign reading ‘Nats’ that he has just trampled across. A Pauline Hanson cow is leaning coyly against the fence twirling her tail seductively. In the distant background, a Littleproud poddy calf looks on.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Balance #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
2 panel editorial cartoon. Title at top ‘Balance’. Top panel labelled ‘Then’ - two debating teams either side with moderator between, team on the left has sign on table ‘Affirmative’, team on right ‘Negative’. Lower panel labelled ‘Now’ - exactly the same image but this time the left reads ‘Misinformation’, right reads ‘Disinformation’.
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Signs of the time #auspol #msm ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Signs saying (L-R going down) ‘mental health crisis’, ‘aged care’, ‘catastrophic fire danger’, ‘Palestinians STILL dying’, ‘caution bull dust ahead’, ‘no home ownership beyond this point’, ‘cost of living killing voters’, ‘Sudan 150k+ dead 12 million+ displaced’, ‘last rental for 1200kms’, ‘social support dire’, ‘heatwave storms cyclones’, ‘you are passing another extinction’, ‘emissions at 15.1 tons per capita’, ‘homelessness ahead’, ‘fossil fuel fantasies’, ‘old enough for prison too young for ubiquitous tech’. In front of all these signs is a large media scrum who have been distracted and are running toward a small figure in the background who has called out ‘burqa!’ and pointed off to the left.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Solipsist Stunt #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
As Sen Hansen is leaping enthusiastically out of her props box, burqa in hand, two people are passing in the foreground. One says, “Solipsist Stunt?” the other replies, “Rhyming slang for racist”.
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Questionable #auspol #bom ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. A news reader crossing live to the (Australian) Bureau of Meteorology says, “So, what’s your best guess for Saturday’s weather?” The BoM person replies, “Well, that’s the $96.5M question”.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Taking the Peace Plan #auspol #USPolitics #Ukraine #Russia ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in his office and looks somewhat bemused at a missile crashing through the roof, tearing through his Ukraine flag and impaling his desk. The missile is marked ‘Peace Plan’ and has a note on its nose cone that reads ‘surrender’.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Cop out #auspol #climate #fossilfuel ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Shows a pacific Island family at home, water floods through the house while outside toward the horizon coal ships and gas tankers pass by. One of the family is sitting at the table reading a paper, the headline reads ‘COP 31 to Türkiye’ and they are saying, “Oh no, looks like Australia has lost an opportunity to showcase its climate leadership in the pacific region” the others look sarcastically back.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Cop out #auspol #climate #fossilfuel ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Shows a pacific Islam family at home, water floods through the house while outside toward the horizon coal ships and gas tankers pass by. One of the family is sitting at the table reading a paper, the headline reads ‘COP 31 to Türkiye’ and they are saying, “Oh no, looks like Australia has lost an opportunity to showcase its climate leadership in the pacific region” the others look sarcastically back.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Rude journalists #USPolitics #Trump #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Trump is entertaining Mohammed bin Salman in his Oval Office for the media. One of them must have annoyed him as his says to bin Salman, “Fake news. The worst. Don’t believe any of it!” Bin Salman leans forward, dagger down behind him and says, “Want me to sort?”
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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When the world needs a hero #USPolitics #Trump #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. A poster for ‘Indiana Jones and the Pedo Files’ - ‘the truth . . . is in the shitter’. Jones is standing outside the bathroom at Mar a Lago having discovered inside multiple document boxes among the cobwebs, they are labeled ‘Epstein’, ‘Shred’, ‘Hoax’, ‘Jeff Baby’, etc.
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Summertime #auspol #climate #netzero ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Title at top - Summer 2035. A person is standing inside with a small child looking out a large window. Outside a fierce bushfire is coming across the nearby hills as embers rain down, in a distance a horse is fleeing. The child, looking up to the adult, says, “And, DID they lower energy prices?”
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Leading from the front #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Nationals leader is grinding the same battered old organ, handle labelled ‘turn to the right, while OL Susssan Ley is the dejected little monkey on the end of a string withe the tin cup that says ‘vote’.
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Spotlight spook (aka cartoonist on a watch list - again) #auspol #asio ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. A tv presenter says to camera, “After the break, ASIO Mick joins us for the latest goss from the secret biz”. Behind him, in the spotlight, in a purple sparkly trench coat, tended to furiously by a make up artist and a polisher, ASIO Mick (Burgess) is loving the limelight as he says quietly, “I’m ready for my close up”.
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Recovering #Israel #Gaza #USPolitics #auspol
Single panel editorial cartoon. Text at the bottom reads ‘LIVE: Body of another hostage recovered’. In the foreground, two silhouetted figures are recovering a body bag, behind them the haunting spirits of 60,000+ watch on.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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A point of difference #auspol #netzero ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Editorial cartoon in three sections. OL Ley is in a meeting with her team when an anonymous person puts up their hand and says, “Or . . . we could go hard on climate, highlighting the government’s half-arsedness and ride on the will of the people to rescue the future of the planet by adopting policies of consequence while laying out a blueprint to detach ourselves from the teats of the fossil fuel behemoth to be the grown-ups for the forsaken children of the nation”. (next section) team sits in silence as Ley looks out from the picture, someone lets out a small ‘snort’. (final section) looking at the doorway from outside the room, the sign reads ‘Net Zero - yay or nay’, coming from the room is ‘cackle’ ‘pffffftt’ ‘HA HA’ ‘BWA’ ‘roar’ ‘Ha’ ‘snort’ ‘wheeeeeze’ ‘shriek’ and ‘Guffaw’.
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Passing another one #auspol #climate #environment ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
The Environment Perception Agency are set up with their truck in a clearing in the bush. PM Albanese is coming out from the bush satisfied, with a roll of toilet paper in one hand and a news paper in the other, a piece of paper is stuck to one of his feet. His environment (and water) minister, Murray Watt, is sitting by the campfire toasting marshmallows that have come from bags labelled ‘laws’, ‘policy’ and ‘codes of practice’. The campfire is made up of logs and old tyres that are labelled ‘integrity’, ‘future’, ‘courage’, ‘science’, ‘leadership’ and ‘morals’
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Popular #auspol #msm ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel title reads FTA Dilemma. At a tv studio there is a wall of tv monitors on which are many versions of OL Ley and representations of plummeting polls, popularity and relevance. On some screens is Littleproud, Trump, a crown, Andrew somebody with a pizza from Woking, all unpopular and falling more so. In front of the screens a silhouetted group of executives sit with only one agenda item on the table, it reads ‘Ratings Dire’. One exec says, “Ideas?”
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Can you negotiate with nature? #auspol #environment #climate ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Minister for the environment and water Watt is in the negotiation room to attempt to pass his environment laws. Various stakeholders are there, including financiers, miners, Gina holding someone’s balls, dejected First Nations, greens senators, etc. On the whiteboard is a complicated mess of formulae with lots of $ symbols, all leading back to the word at the top ‘elected’. Looking through the window is the silhouette of a hopeful child as Watt says, “ok, now we’ve decided the environment is already cooked - just a matter of whether we steam on ahead or take a more measured approach”.
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Because if you can make it there . . . #USPolitics #Mamdani #Trump ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Trump is farewelling a group of SUV’s that are leading the military. They have ICE signs on them, but you can just make out the original signage that reads ‘proud boys’. Trump says, “Give my regards to the new mayor . . . (In small text) cheat”.
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Easy to see through #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
PM Albanese is angrily walking his dog muttering to himself, “Not transparent? Really!?! Just ask anyone who knows me!” The dog looks up and replies, “Are you confusing it with hollow?”
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Don’t forget your poo-bag #auspol #leadership ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
OL Sussan Ley is depicted as a dog on a lead that is pulling her to the right. Her tail has Nats ldr Littleproud on the end of it, beckoning her to go the other way.
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Littleproudus Minor #auspol #NetZero ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. In an arid landscape, an arm in a hazmat suit has entered the frame with a brush and is gently uncovering a fossil of a littleproudus minor holding a fossilised sign that reads ‘No To Net Zero’.
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Rare Earth #auspol #climate #RareEarth ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Farm scene with green pastures, blue sky, a koan in a tree, sheep in the foreground and a mob of kangaroos in the background. In the middle a massive hole has been excavated and large piles of soil lay around, a cow is a top of one in the background a mining truck is entering crushing the trees. Running up from the hole is a (tiny in proportion) miner, holding aloft a small rock, as in a eureka moment.
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Triggered #auspol ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel - Murray Watt says to PM Albanese, “some people are saying perhaps we SHOULD have a climate trigger”, Albanese replies, “We already do, when the political climate starts looking a little grim, it will trigger the need to appear to be doing something consequential”.
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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It’s a bit fragile #auspol #USPolitics #Israel #Gaza ko-fi.com/hudsoncartoons
Single panel editorial cartoon. Two news readers, one says, “And we now cross to our correspondent on the spot in Gaza for the latest”, the looks concerned receding a message in their earpiece. Behind them on the monitor reads ‘LIVE: FRAGILE PEACE’ behind that, an explosion where one arm holding a microphone and a press helmet are blown into the air.
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM