Australian Cartoons

2008-490 22Aug08  New Ford personnel manager.
Recent Ford Job loses.
2008-455 7Aug08  Economic lion tamer.
Difficulty in controlling inflation.
2008-472 15Aug08  Those magnificent interest rates men.
High Australian bank interest rates.
2008-463 12Aug08  Going for broke.
High interest rates and the Olympic Games.
2008-454 7Aug08  Man does not live by bread alone.
High cost of groceries.
2008-448 5Aug08  The Reserve Bank assessing whether the economy is slowing.
The Reserve bank slow to react to the slowing economy.
2008-430 28July08  Qantas safety reputation.
Incident where a Qantas plan lost part of it's fuselage during a  flight.
2008-429 28July08 Retail price of petrol.
Petrol stations quick to pass on Wholesale petrol price rises to customers
but slow to to respond when the wholesale price of petrol falls.
2008-420 23July08 Fuelling the inflation fire.
Rising inflation rate primarily fuelled by the rapidly rising price of petrol.
2008-415P 21July08  The new Myer cosmetics counter.
Pocket cartoon that went with AAP story about Myer planing to open a store in Dubai.
2008-404 17July08  Australia's greenhouse gas reduction strategy.
Australia unwilling to reduce coal exports to tackle global warming.
2008-403 16July08  Interest rates on hold.
Australian banks raising their interest rates despite the
Reserve Bank putting official interest rates on hold.
2008-383P 10July08  The disappearing cash in the wallet trick.
Pocket cartoon that went with AAP article on the rapidly rising price of petrol.
2008-344 24June08 Modern version of The Man from Snowy River.
Inflation becoming a problem in Australia.
2008-335P 20June08 Richard Pratt's boxes.
Pocket cartoon that went with article about Richard Pratt facing
criminal charges over price fixing. Pratt's company makes boxes.
2008-314P 10June08  The hybrid car that will never be made.
Pocket cartoon that went with article on the announcement
that Toyota Australia will be making a hybrid car.
2008-284 27May08  Bringing down the price of petrol.
Kevin Rudd ineffectual in controlling the price of petrol.
2008-262 19May08  Installing solar panels.
Changes to solar power rebates by the Australian Government threatens
to force many solar power installation companies out of business.
2008-250 13May08  Ordinary people discuss the Federal budget.
Ordinary person's view of the bringing down of the Australian Federal budget.
2008-247 12May08  Westpacman.
Proposed merger of Westpac and St. George banks.
2008-242 9May08  Inflation control parachute.
The Reserve Bank's use of  interest rate rises to reduce
inflation hitting many ordinary people quite hard.
2008-232 6May08  Pegging down inflation.
Inflation still rising despite efforts to reign it in.
2008-189P 17April08  I'm very rich!
Pocket cartoon that went with an article about Australians becoming richer.
2008-171 10April08  The 2020 Summits.
Using the 2020 Summit to highlight the economic
hardship being experienced by many families.
2008-145 1April08  Successful loan applicant today.
Banks giving loans to high risk applicants.
2008-106 4Mar08  Reading about housing affordability.
Soaring cost of housing forcing people onto the streets.
2008-120 13Mar08  The tortoise and hare and fox race.
First home buyers being priced out of the housing market by investors.
2008-110 6Mar08  Battlers' rollercoaster.
Contrasting  share price fluctuations with the plight of battlers (poor people).
2008-109 5Mar08  Interest rates bowling balls.
Rising interest rates increasing the bankruptcy rate.
2008-102 4Mar08  Mr. Home Loan at the interest rate rises dentist.
Succession of interest rate rises causing a lot of pain for people with home loans.
2008-098 1Mar08  Modern horror story.
Housing affordability plummeting to a point that most young people can't afford to buy a home.
2008-093 28Feb08  Bursting bubbles.
Collapse of the ABC Learning Centres' share price.
2008-074 21Feb08  Changes to Australian Workplace Agreements.
The scrapping of AWAs.
2008-073 20Feb08  The impact of another tax cut.
Concerns that the impending tax cut will push up the inflation rate.
2008-063 15Feb08  The soaring eagle.
Interest rate rises negating any benefits from tax cuts.
2008-053P 12Feb08  Happy to get laid off.
Pocket cartoon that went with an article on the
closure of the Mitsubishi car plant in Adelaide.
2008-036 5Feb08  Raising interest rates.
Governments' risk a voter backlash when interest rates are on the rise.
2008-020P 29Jan08  Parents sending their kids back to school.
Pocket cartoon that went with an article on the high cost of sending children to school.
2007-665 25Oct07  The little inflation engine.
Tax cuts proposed by both Labor and the Liberals tipped to drive up inflation.
2007-699 12Nov07  Risky circus act.
The double whammy of inflation and interest
rate rises impacting on people with home loans.
2007-695 8Nov07  The interest rate rise moat.
Using the quote to "A man's home is his castle" to highlight the
threat rising interest rates pose to people with large home mortgages.
2007-689 5Nov07  Generation Rent.
Speculating that the generation that comes after
generation Y will be known as the Rent generation.
2007-691P 5Nov07  First home buyer today.
Pocket cartoon that went with article on housing affordability.
2007-669 26Oct07  Inflation balloons.
Rapidly rising price of vegetables in Australia.
2007-663 24Oct07 The nurse patient ratio applied to the bed patient ratio.
Nurses dissatisfied with the poor nurse patient ratio.
2007-607 2Oct07  Modern Three Little Pigs.
A look at mortgage stress through the Three Little Pigs tale.
2007-593 18Sept07  Credit card size.
Large and ever increasing credit card debt.
2007-561 5Sept07  The running of the Horse Flu Stakes.
Economic impact of the horse flu outbreak in Australia.
2007-545 30Aug07  Kevin Rudd's balanced industrial relations policy.
Both unions and business critical of Rudd's IR policy.
2007-527 22Aug07  Dog on treasury surplus tuckerbox.
Massive Federal government surplus.
2007-502 10Aug07  WorkChoices applied to Roman galley slaves.
WorkChoices is the the Federal Government's
program to further deregulate the labour market.
2007-495P 8Aug07  Interest rate rise to support.
Pocket cartoon that went with article
on the latest interest rate rise.
2007-471P 26July07  Paying off your mortgage.
Pocket cartoon that went with article on the high percentage
of total household income going to pay off the mortgage.
2007-458 20July2007   Australian convicts.
A housing shortage in Australia is having a crippling
effect on renters and people with mortgages.
2007-454 19July07  Four on the floor Ford Falcon.
600 jobs to go at the Ford engine plant.
2007-451 18July07  Driving and Australian made Ford car.
Closure of the Ford engine plant in Geelong.
2007-440 12July07  Company bankruptcy domino effect.
A look at the impact on small investors when a company collapses.
2007-429 6July07  Low-paid works wage rise.
$10.26 a week wage rise given to low payed workers by the Fair Pay
Commission in stark contrast to wage rises for higher salaried workers.
2007-388 21June07  The assent of communications man.
Fighting over the introduction of high speed broadband in Australia.
2007-361 12June07  Australian broadband internet wheels.
Poor standard of Australia's broadband internet network.
2007-351 6June07  Rollout of the new high speed cable.
Telstra stalling on the roll out of the new high speed internet
cable in an attempt to broker a more competitive deal.
2007-330 28May07  WorkChoices fairness test.
The Federal Government's introduction of a fairness test in
an attempt to soften the negative response to WorkChoices.
2007-313 22May07  WorkChoices : know were you stand.
The Impact of WorkChoices on Australian workers.
2007-310P 18May07  The boning of Eddie McGuire.
Eddie McGuire standing down as head of Channel Nine
amidst rumours that PBL were unhappy with his performance.
2007-306 18May07  Channel Nine logo.
Eddie McGuire standing down as head of Channel Nine.
2007-281 9May07  Corporate takeover turbulence.
The damaging impact on Qantas of the attempted
corporate takeover bid by a private equity consortium.
2007-280P 8May07  What remains the same.
Went with article on the Australian Federal Budget.
2007-279P 8May07  Trump cards in the election poker game.
Went with article on the Australian Federal Budget.
2007-278P 8May07  Federal Budget funding.
Went with article on the Australian Federal Budget.
2007-271 4May07  Softening of WorkChoices.
The Federal government's scaling back of WorkChoices legislation.
2007-233P 19April07  Broadband that Telstra is interested in.
Went with article on Telstra saying it will not role out a new high
speed broadband network unless it's profits can be guaranteed.
2007-189P 27Mar07  Petrol price rising.
Went with article on the price of petrol rising very rapidly.
2007-142P 7Mar07  The flying away kangaroo?
The takeover of Qantas may spell the end
to the airliner as an Australian company.
2007-122P 27Feb07  Ron Walker's radioactive sign.
Ron Walker is the head of a business consortium that has put
up a business proposal to build Australia's first nuclear reactor.
2007-076 8Feb07  Australian economy as a plane.
Contrasting performances of the mining and manufacturing sectors.
2007-03916  16Jan07  Petrol price not too high.
Complaints that petrol companies are not reducing
the price of petrol when the price of crude oil falls.
2006-664P 30Nov06  Today's definition of a secure job.
Went with article on lack of job security under the new IR laws.
2006-639 20Nov06  Telstra off and running.
Duel expectations of community service and profit maximisation
putting a heavy burden on the fledgling privatised Telstra.
2006-625 13Nov06  The house of cards today.
Society's heavy dependence on credit cards.
2006-630 14Nov06  Adjusting the legislation.
Adjustments to the IR reform legislation
doing little to allay workers' concerns.
2006-610 6Oct06  Interest rates reality TV.
Rising interest rates threatening those people heavily in debt.
2006-603 2Nov06  Interest rate rises hill.
Interest rate rises tougher on those in greater debt.
2006-606P 2Novo6  Tuesday's  betting odds.
Another interest rate rise is expected on Melbourne Cup Day.
2006-591P 26Oct06  Afford to buy another banana.
Went with article on the minimum wage case decision by the Far Pay Commission.
2006-580 20Oct06  Media deregulation restaurant.
Media ownership deregulation causing a media buy up feeding frenzy.
2006-558 9Oct06 The Telstra Three float.
Telstra Three float hampered by the lack of success
of the Telstra Two float due to poor share price.
2006-554P 6Oct06 High speed mobile phones.
Automatic sprinkler system switching on in the middle of the
launch of Telstra's new high speed mobile phone network.
2006-482 18Aug06   Australia's energy position.
Overview of Australia's energy position in
light of the rising price of imported oil.
2006-499 28Aug08  Telstra share floats 2.
Bleak outlook for the Telstra Three share float.
2006-485 21Aug06  We appear to have lost power.
Demise of the car parts company Ajax Fasteners
threatening the entire Australian car industry.
2006-467 10Aug06 Telstra services.
Big drop in Telstra profits.
2006-461 7Aug06  Calling the economic race.
The impact of rises in interest rates and petrol prices expressed as a race call.
2006-454 3Aug06  Worried about interest rates.
Increased financial pressure due to the latest interest rate rise.
22006-445 31July06  Interest rate rise bites.
A toothy view of the impact of interest rate rises.
006-441 28July06  Strong wages bargaining position.
Esoteric look at Industrial relations and the high price of bananas.
2006-437 27July06  Rising interest rates.
Claims that rapid increases in oil and banana prices
has created the impetus for an interest rate rise.
2006-404 11July06   The big petrol price rise.
Rapidly rising price of petrol reflected in "the big" Aussie kitsch culture.
2006-410 14July06  Future media ownership remote.
Speculation that the relaxation of Australian cross media ownership
laws will mean an even greater concentration of media ownership.
2006-398P 7July06  Not signing AWAs.
Went with article reporting that nearly 50,000 Australian
workers had signed the new AWA contracts.
2006-384 3July06  Is the Colliwobbles contagious?!
Falling ratings Channel Nine ratings, Eddie McGuire and the Collingwood Colliwobbles.
2006-379P 29June06  The AWA silent majority.
Prime Minister John Howard's dismissal of mass protests against his government's
workplace laws, insisting that a "silent majority" supports the controversial changes.
2006-334 9June06  East Timor threat.
The Australian Government not classifying Aussie soldiers In East Timor
as being in a threatening situation (which would attract a higher wage).
2006-327P 6June06  Channel Nine numbers.
A hundred people to lose their jobs at Channel Nine.