BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH



This cartoon is a direct response to the unsurprising leftist bias and dribble of the ABC and its unbalanced Monday night panel show called Q and A! featuring our illustrious leader Juliar Gillard.

If you missed it or want to see it all again then go to this link for episode #6:

Q stands for questions and as always most of the questions seemed almost as scripted as the hand picked leftist audience was. Laurie Oakes (a journalist of some note) even twittered in with a comment "Agree or disagree with her, she did an impressive job" I am paraphrasing but it was something like that.

A is for answers and as usual and as Laurie implied, she did an impressive job of NOT answering the questions directly but did admit to lying to the public pre-election, but that's okay because Juliar has redefined the word LIE to now being a misunderstanding between the definitions of an Emissions Trading Scheme, which she promised the voters apparently, and a Carbon Tax that the Greens deal was all about.

She and Tony Jones managed to get a nice dig into Talk Radio and all the shock jocks making us idiot puppet like people angry.

Well, what do I have to say about that? You know it's rubbish, as does any thinking person. We must really have them worried now. Can I suggest you get down to the local newsagents and pick up the latest copy of the Spectator Magazine, not just for the great cover art but for the brilliant and incisive piece on your Talk Radio and the attack on this bastion of free speech.

I guess the TEA Party movement must be starting to concern her a bit also, because she mentioned them a few times, unflatteringly of course and, like Joe Hockey, was in denial that they really do exist in Australia, WRONG AGAIN JULIAR.

This episode will come back to haunt Juliar in years to come as even she can see that the people are not as dumbed down as she and her party of social engineers think and that when you tell a LIE it will always come back to bite you on the bum.

As for the ominous warning, "Beware the Ides of March," it originated with the Roman ruler, Julius Caesar, who was assassinated on the Ides of March - March 15, 44 B.C.E.

In the ancient Roman calendar, each of the 12 months of the year had what was called an "ides." In March, May, July and October, the "ides" fell on the 15th day. In every other month, the "ides" fell on the 13th. The word "ides" is derived from the Latin: "to divide."

The "ides" were originally meant to mark the full moon - but since solar based calendar months and lunar based months are of different lengths, the "ides" quickly lost their original intent and purpose.

History lesson over, just download it, listen carefully to her and I am sure you will see what I am on about.

Quaking up to reality



What a weekend of disaster to fall upon the Japanese people! Subsequently the world will also be affected via the markets. You just have to thank your God or whoever you talk to in the quiet of your mind, for the great fortune of being here in Australia.

As we witnessed on our tellies walls of water literally washing away entire lives, no such tragedy has been visited on the good folk of the "lucky country" -- though we still have own special natural traumas, in the form of fire, drought and flooding rain, to deal with.

Well, our own PM, fresh from her historic and let's face it, patronising tour of the USA, has had to face her very own personal disaster and is now, I hope, "QUAKING UP TO REALITY" (pun intended).

Can you believe that according to the latest Herald-Neilsen poll, Julia Gillard is now facing a 34 percent preference as PM behind the man that she deposed as PM, the now Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, who is holding a lead over Gillard at 39 percent.

Polls, polls, polls I hear you say and yes the result is often about perception rather than reality and if this poll suits your bias then you would assume it accurate and true but I am sure the Gillard supporters don't agree.

With that said I do believe this poll is spot on because it is a tested theory and basically history repeating itself. Rudd was very unpopular when introducing his version of a Carbon Tax and as a result was opposed by the party because of his back flip on the ETS shortly after the then leader of the Federal Liberal Coalition, Malcolm Turnbull, was removed by his party for backing the extremely unpopular carbon trading scheme.

Therefore one would have to expect that if you lied about bringing in another version of the ETS prior to the election, the carbon tax, and then expect a different result to that of your predecessor, you must truly be either very stupid, deluded or trusting greatly in the advice of others. So which is it Prime Minister, are you making your own mistakes or is someone else helping you to lose your job?

Is Bob Brown and his Watermelon Party destroying the ALP from within, by forcing such destructive policy or is it Kevin who is the real mastermind of this Shakespearean plot to assassinate Juliar?

I am sure there will be book made in due time but then again the winners are the ones who write the history books. I guess the most obvious take here would be to remember the wise words of that great Spanish American philosopher, George Santayana.... "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".

The new feminist push for quotas



There are not enough women in Corporate Australia's big board offices? RUBBISH! One such recent claim here.

This is the cry of women who either haven't got what it takes to break through the so called "glass ceiling" or have tried and just can't get there yet: You poor dears. I wonder if Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kristina Keneally, Quentin Bryce, Gale Kelly, just to name a few Australian woman in the big world of Politics and Business, would be where they are now if it wasn't for their determination, courage, intelligence and talent? Of course not and they are not in these roles because they are simply female!

To say that there is a male conspiracy to keep the ladies down and back in the secretarial pool or behind the sink is just insulting to women in general. The sexual revolution of the fifties, sixties and seventies was certainly needed to iron out the many cases of unfair work and pay conditions for women in general.

I am sure there are presently enough anti discrimination laws in this country to protect a woman's wage rates and conditions if she feels that her sex is the cause of her not getting the same as the boys. In fact when it comes to industrial relations, women have it far better than men, especially when it comes to work status --- i.e. part time when looking after kids or the arrangements with maternity leave etc as opposed to paternal leave which is rarely offered to new fathers or even taken up. I bet there are many men out there who do not even know that they have such legal rights under this act.

International Women's Day is used as the catalyst for this annual debate but really it is just more of the same socialist agenda and now the talk is leading to the usual socialist need for more regulation of your life. To actually make it law (which is being proposed by the ACTU) to have a certain percentage of females in the corporate boardrooms, is not only more BIG BROTHER (or is it SISTER? No it's COMRADE) but to regulate the sexes of your employees is truly patronising women and insulting their ability to earn any position in any occupation via their own merit, which incidentally is the ONLY reason why anyone should be in any position of employment in the first place.

Tell the Marxist Germaine Greer's of this world that their bra burning days are well and truly over and that normal people in our society do not and should never see ones sex as a reason to employ or not employ a person. The job is sometime sexually orientated of course. Female fashion models need to be female, Ruby players in the NRL need to be male, some jobs are just done better by men and or by women but that doesn't mean that there are no male fashion models and no female rugby players, just not at certain levels yet and that can always change too. God knows so many so called "norms" in our society are under attack and sometimes this is for the better and sometimes for the worse but what is definitely for the worse is to legislate laws that say you must employ or appoint people based on sexual orientation. This is a slippery road into the dark if you ask me.

The return of Pauline Hanson‏



Pauline is back! You beauty. I applaud this gutsy and patriotic Australian. She is not a racist because she sees the many failing factors of multiculturalism and our current immigration policy, as many of us do! She isn't a hypocrite because she is the child of immigrants, married a European man, employed an Asian woman to run her business and rented her home to an Aboriginal family. Does that sound like a racist to you?

She is only guilty of rejecting the fear that comes with political correctness and is saying just what many, many are to afraid to in public and boy doesn't that rattle the left and the major parties! Oakeshott and Windsor should take a good look at this lady and learn just what it is to be a true independent.

What I like about this politician is that she really isn't one. She is on a crusade to return Australia to the great and multiracial nation that it once was and is certainly not short of the support of many Australians who believe in what she stands for. The leftist media are salivating at her reappearance because now they have a new football to kick around and chase all over. They will try to test her but clearly they have learnt nothing. The questions will always be about her time with One Nation and never about her policies on health, transport, law and order etc, which I have heard today and agree wholeheartedly.

Any independent person who scares the major and minor parties so much must be on a good thing. The writing was on the wall for the Libs in Queensland back in the early noughties and in 2003 she was seen as such a threat that she was unjustly imprisoned for fraud. She is in fact our first and let's hope only political prisoner ( Bronwyn Bishop said that) and it is with a bowed head of shame that I cannot deny the involvement or the Liberal Coalition in the crime to have her gaoled. Of course she was acquitted of the crime after doing some time and as far as I know has never seen a penny of compensation for being wrongfully imprisoned.

The ALP are not off the hook either as they were just as damning of her then and now the lame duck Premier Kristina Keneally, has immediately used her application to run in the next State Election for the NSW Upper House as an excuse to distance her party from the false allegations of her racism and undesirable policies.

Unlike the Keneally Governments many undesirable policies at least Pauline stands for honestly, integrity, courage and national pride. What does Kristina stand for other than waste and staying in power. The Greens have accused Pauline Hanson of having decisive policies! which is just about the most stupid thing I have ever heard because I doubt there is any one policy on the platform of any political party that can not be seen as decisive or controversial to someone. Must I remind the Greens of their long list of wacky minority policies, legalising some illicit drugs comes to mind!!!

So , GO PAULINE GO, get in there and speak up for the silent majority and try to keep the bastards honest..... if that is possible?

Independent Free Speech - WINDSOR STYLE‏



I as a political cartoonist have certainly had my share of threatening and insulting emails concerning my take on political and social issues. So what! I choose to stand up and have my say both with the written word and with my cartoons and as a result I have naturally received constructive and very nonconstructive critique for my efforts. Great I say, bring it on because that is the beauty of living in a country where freedom of speech is the foundation stone of our democracy. If Independent MP, Tony Windsor, thinks that he can please all the people all the time then he should get out of politics today!!!

His claim that talk show hosts are being used in a contrived attempt to bring down the Gillard/Brown government via public on air debate over the proposed Carbon Tax is beyond ridiculous and is a slap in the face of our democratic right to have our say. Surely as a politician, Tony Windsor would appreciate that he may have to make unpopular choices to further what he believes is in the best interests of the country. The Carbon tax is obviously one of those choices that he is backing -- and I am sorry to tell you this Tony, but you are most probably in the minority as to the ultimate value that this tax will have on the Australian economy and way of life. PM Gillard never had a mandate to introduce this Carbon Tax and neither do you. If thousands of Australians choose to write to newspapers and or ring up Talk Back radio stations to air their grievance about this policy then who are you to say that they can not? and just who do you think you are to create a conspiracy theory because a few hot heads have left a few nasty voice messages on your message service.

I don't agree with the tone or the words of these voice mailers and really if they have threatened you then clearly the Police will investigate that crime. In the meantime suck it up mate, stand up for what you believe in and stop comparing the act of one lone nut job in the USA with our public debate about a very public issue. If you can't stand the heat mate, get out of the kitchen!

And the winner is.........‏



My take today segues conveniently into the fact that the 83rd Academy Awards are being held -- and, like most Australians, I wish the Aussie actors who have been nominated all the best of luck and congratulations.

There is of course one Australian actor who has not been nominated but continues to take the world political stage in varied roles, depending on her direction of course. We heard prior to the 2010 Federal election only too clearly that the direction Julia Gillard wanted to take Australia was FORWARD. Now we hear that the direction that she wants to take us all in is BACKWARD!!!

Yes, thanks to her new role as the puppet Prime Minister of the Greens Party, Senator Bob Brown has directed his leading lady to introduce a carbon tax that will in a short time send many jobs offshore, raise the price of living, thus lowering the standards of living that we here in the "LUCKY" country have taken for granted for too long -- and, it must be said, have fought and died for. Yes backwards to the a pre-industrial age lifestyle and a third wold economy is the script Brown and his human-hating Greens wish all to accept as the movie genre of the year.

Dear Julia, obsessed with the office of Prime Minister and keeping the Labor Party in power has agreed to this pact with the far left socialists of the Greens. Is there anything or anyone who can stop this disaster from occurring?

Yes there is, YOU! When next you find yourself in a voting booth trying to decide who is best to run the country and protect our children's inheritance, then simply remember all that the Rudd/Gillard government have wasted your money on and the promises broken and all that the Godless Greens want done to our economy and our way of life. I think the choice for any thinking person is obvious enough.

It's true that life does imitate art from time to time and that's fine for Hollywood but in this case if we allow our life to be directed by the those who truly do live in a fantasy world then do not be surprised if you wake up one morning and find yourself living in that world.

In the next month or so there is going to be a massive rally in Canberra to show the real Julia or whoever this actress is on that day, that we the Australian people have beenTaxed Enough Already and that until the science regarding the question of anthropogenic climate change is thoroughly debated by those who do understand such science then Julia Gillard can take her great conviction that she bases this tax on, as her mandate to the next election and lets see if the people really do want this BIG NEW TAX!!!

I recommend that if you feel as passionately opposed to this tax as I do then write to your local federal member expressing this and sign the petition at this link .

THE REAL INCONVENIENT LIE‏



Who the hell would be surprised at this backflip? This PM and her government haven't kept one pre-election promise and I guess we are all cynical enough and apathy-affected never to put any credence in a pre-election pledge of any politician. But with that said, if any promise had to be broken then this is the one I was hoping she would keep. Julia wants a "great big new tax"

Clearly the deal done with the Greens and the Independents,(Oakeshott and Windsor ) by the ALP for the numbers needed to maintain government is now in play. Disgustingly this PM of ours has put her Labor Party's needs above that of the people by introducing a carbon TAX and with no real concern for those without, she is effectively destroying her party's chances of winning the next election......irony, I love it!

Most people are not sold on the false science of anthropogenic climate change (polls are bogus at best) and the rest are either so wedded to the religious ideology of Gaia, the mythological goddess personifying the earth, or are just too apathetic and ignorant to care or understand just what is happening and why. This is what Gillard and the Greens have been counting on to introduce two taxes ( the flood levy also pushed though on the same day ) whilst all of Australia is transfixed on the recent Earthquake disaster in New Zealand.

The fact is that she is on record as stating that no carbon tax will be introduced by a government that she leads........... well, clearly she is not running the government , Brown Milne, Oakshott and Windsor are and that is a travesty of our democracy. This minority government arrangement is unfair and unbalanced and needs to go. I am not sure if the politics of this will make it possible for Tony Abbott and the Coalition to stop this economic rape but I am sure if there was an election tomorrow, Gillard and her socialist criminals would be tossed out on their so called " feel good asses".

Everything will rise in price, from petrol to all goods and service and it will certainly be the elderly and the disabled and sick and those on minimum wage or welfare that will feel the effects of this tax more than ever. Hopefully this large segment of the Australian public will hold this government to account on the next election day.