I hate airing my private thoughts publicly. I prefer to leave that to “the art”, and, importantly, I assume that nobody should need to know or care what I have to say about most things. And this holds, except that I have relevant personal experience about a current issue, and it may as well be…
Tag: Politics
“Our agency”
When I’m not drawing comics, I work as a service designer helping organisations improve by providing them with research, mapping and visual explainers showing them what’s going on with their service. I find myself working a lot with legacy organisations (old places. could be businesses, or govt bureaucracies) that have been around for a long…
What We Tell Them launch
Had a launch for my new book, What We Tell Them, at Readings Carlton this past week! What We Tell Them: A Storybook By Mr. Tony Abbott illuminates the words and actions of Australia’s most accidental PM and some of his lovable pals! It isn’t really a children’s book, unless you like your children sad….
Cub reporter Tristian goes to the Climate Strike, then meets Fraser Anning’s fanboys
This was originally published at Daily Review; thanks to them for doing so. Hi I’m Tristian, and this is a recap of what happened at the climate strike in Melbourne and at another thing I went to as well. It was a big weekend. Because I’m Australia’s youngest and best political journalist I thought it’s…
Select Committee into the Political Influence of Donations
I’m fascinated by lobbyists; the revolving door between lobbying and politics and the effect it has on the world. So when the Senate announced an inquiry into political donations I knew I wanted to pop along to the public hearings. Today’s was in Melbourne, so here’s my entirely editorial-free cartoon scribe. There’s a Canberra one…
Draw The Line
I contributed a couple pages to the new international anthology called Draw The Line. I thought it was a good idea — a large group suggests loads of political actions one can take if they’re frightened for the world as it is post-Trumkfpth, and illustrators pick which actions they’d like to illustrate. I chose “Look…