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Click cartoon to enlarge
Article posted on Thursday 28 July 2011
ELECTION 2010:
Where parties stand on liberties
Article posted on Thursday 19 August 2010
Updated 19 Aug 10
CLA asked 10 questions of parties (and some independents) standing for the 2010 federal election. Here are the replies of those who took the trouble to respond.
Cartoon: thanks to Inkcinct, John Ditchburn - click to enlarge.
Compassion should underpin our new response to refugees
Article posted on Friday 01 May 2009
New arrivals seeking refuge should receive a different response from that of a decade ago, writes James Dunn, ex-diplomat and human rights expert. Australia has a moral obligation to show compassion to people 'facing the kind of despair we have never had to endure'. (Click cartoon to view)
Minister Conroy explains how net bans work...
Article posted on Thursday 26 March 2009See related CLA article
VALE: Michael Atchison
Article posted on Saturday 21 February 2009
Cartoonist Michael Atchison OAM died in February 2009 - CLA salutes his contribution to the community, including the four cartoons he generously donated to the CLA touring exhibition, 'Laughing With Knives'. During 40 years at the Adelaide Advertiser, Atchison received awards such as the 2004 SA Media Awards Hall of Fame, Australian Cartoonists' Association Jim Russell Award and highly commended in the national Walkley Awards. CLA's thoughts go out to his family, friends and colleagues.
Williams calls for change in appointing HC judges
Article posted on Tuesday 22 July 2008
See associated article here
Executive rule to be feared
Article posted on Wednesday 30 April 2008
Sharpe's take on Jack Waterford's article: Executive rule to be feared.
Hicks remains a prisoner of attitude
Article posted on Saturday 29 December 2007
Cartoon, thanks to Bill Leak, shows then-Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock explaining to Hicks how US and Australian law worked in his case.
Nothing about the USA's treatment of David Hicks - rendition, locking up, charging with a non-crime, plea bargaining to meet an Australian election deadline, or silencing from comment - showed American 'justice' in a favorable light.
Haneef: How a Minister's discretion failed the nation
Article posted on Sunday 23 December 2007
.. cartoon with thanks to Ian Sharpe, CLA member, of the Canberra Times
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Is this what's meant by ongoing training for workers?
Article posted on Saturday 27 October 2007
Canberra Times cartoonist and CLA member Ian Sharpe's comment on the Abjorensen article.
"Laughing with Knives"
Article posted on Wednesday 10 October 2007
John Ditchburn's take on how Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews might view the 'Scales of Justice' figure - from the exhibition
'Cartoonists are barometer of freedom'
Article posted on Tuesday 09 October 2007Canberra Times cartoonist (and artist also in his own right) Ian Sharpe made some telling remarks in his speech at the opening of the CLA cartoon exhibition Laughing With Knives, at the ACT Legislative Assembly on 8 October.
Would you like to be Laughing With Knives*?
Article posted on Wednesday 12 September 2007Link: http://www.cla.asn.au/Cartoons/laughing_with_knives.pdf
CLA's national touring cartoon exhibition, Laughing With Knives, opens 8 October 2007 at the ACT Legislative Assembly. If you would like the 60-cartoon exhibition to tour your area in 2008 or 2009, send us a suggestion for possible dates and venues in your home city/town.
FOI - a cartoonist view
Article posted on Saturday 01 September 2007
John Ditchburn's take on how all Australian governments now treat FOI - from the exhibition "Laughing with Knives" .
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