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“Fearless Bob Brown comes to the rescue of another victim of racist land rights abuse.”

Posted by Tim B. on 06/29/2007 at 12:15 AM
  1. So, it was your idea all along Clare ?

    That cartoon is a gem.

    A small, bald, bespectacled old man standing between a drunk, armed with a big waddy and a decked woman, while the purse lipped wowser stands out of harms way, pointing and whingeing.

    What an irrelevant, ineffectual, mincing old queen you are Bob Brown.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 29 at 12:26 AM • permalink

  2. Mind where you’re poking that message stick, Bob, you could end up in the shit.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 29 at 12:28 AM • permalink

  3. “Mr. Spooner, please report for re-education.”

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 29 at 12:29 AM • permalink

  4. Now if the feds wanted to build a dam over the top of some abused Aboriginal kiddies Bob’d be positively proactive. He’d turn up with a kayak.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 29 at 12:29 AM • permalink

  5. Land Rights for Whales!

    Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 06 29 at 12:29 AM • permalink

  6. Wow.  Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but The Age?!

    Posted by Pixy Misa on 2007 06 29 at 12:30 AM • permalink

  7. Perhaps if National Parks and Wildlife declared some of the hydatids and other parasites infesting the populations of Northern Australian reserves as endangered Bob’d get on board- it’d be necessary to preserve those ecospheres then.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 29 at 12:33 AM • permalink

  8. Costa flogging Flannery in Parliament, an Age cartoonist ridiculing Bob Brown.

    All in one day ?

    Time for an uncharacteristically magnanimous act:

    Well dome Mr Costa.
    Well done Mr Spooner.
    Well done Age.

    I’m comin over all..dizzy.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 29 at 12:38 AM • permalink

  9. Pickles, it must be the effects of Global Warmening….

    Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 06 29 at 12:42 AM • permalink

  10. And I musn’t forget..

    Well done Warren Mundine

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 29 at 12:45 AM • permalink

  11. Bollocks to Bob Brown the bum bandit

    Posted by jobley on 2007 06 29 at 12:47 AM • permalink

  12. Is there a great hypocrite in Australian politics than Clare Martin? Even the increasingly deranged Jon Stanhope doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a devout socialist these days.

    Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 06 29 at 12:54 AM • permalink

  13. #8 the world is upside-down.  It’s the Reckoning…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 06 29 at 01:00 AM • permalink

  14. I can see the problem with all these politicians. No beards. Infidel Tiger has got it wrong.

    Posted by Pa Feral on 2007 06 29 at 01:00 AM • permalink

  15. #4 Habib, Save The Mighty Todd!

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 06 29 at 01:01 AM • permalink

  16. #12 Jack

    I think poor Clarey has found out the hard way, that there is a big difference between banging on about the problems of the NT on ABC radio and having to govern, make decisions and solve problems.

    There is nothing Territorians hate more than having Canberra exert any control over the NT, let alone marching in and taking control.

    I don’t think they’ll forgive her for this, nor should they.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 29 at 01:06 AM • permalink

  17. Well, colour me gobsmacked!

    A cartoon like Spooner’s in the Age ????

    Those popping sounds you can hear in the distance are the lefty heads exploding in Melbourne’s chic inner city cafes.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 06 29 at 01:24 AM • permalink

  18. We’re not in Kansas any more Toto….........

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 29 at 01:25 AM • permalink

  19. Imagine what Leunig’s take will be…incoherent, as usual.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 06 29 at 01:41 AM • permalink

  20. #19

    Imagine what Leunig’s take will be…incoherent, as usual.

    He probably won’t have a response. He’s never really done political satire as all he knows how to draw are ducks and it will be difficult to draw an aboriginal duck without it looking like this.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 06 29 at 01:55 AM • permalink

  21. I’ve noticed of late something of a realization on the Left that stuff has consequences. The Guardian ripped into Ban Moon when he blamed Darfur on global warming.

    Posted by phil_b on 2007 06 29 at 02:02 AM • permalink

  22. #19
    Lovely, Mr Lewis

    Cheers
    RodC

    Posted by Rod C on 2007 06 29 at 02:16 AM • permalink

  23. Sorry, should refer to #20

    Posted by Rod C on 2007 06 29 at 02:17 AM • permalink

  24. #20,

    Now you’re being completely daffy. It must be friday arvo.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 06 29 at 02:32 AM • permalink

  25. The Spice Girls re-united. Paris freed. Flannery pronounced “an idiot”.

    All things considered it had been a good week, deserving of a drink.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 29 at 02:39 AM • permalink

  26. Bob also comes to the rescue of self-abuse?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 29 at 02:40 AM • permalink

  27. That was in the Age? OMG.

    How long has Bobby Brown been in parliament? Plenty of time for him to have done something for our indigenous brothers and sisters rather than having a blow on the odd pink didge’

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 29 at 02:50 AM • permalink

  28. #19 and 21,

    I imagine that Leunig’s piece will go something like this:

    I was beaten at school by a man who looked like John Howard, how true it is that our desert kin are treated today as my errant schoolmaster treated me. I sat in a field thinking of why our world isn’t run by ducks. Ducks dont hate, hit or drink alcohol. Why can’t we all be like the brown skinned turkish man who hands me an equally brown coloured coffee each morning? Brown ducks, thats what our Aborigines are, all they need is some corn and a good rooting a bit of warm, affectionate love.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 29 at 02:55 AM • permalink

  29. Long-time Spooner watchers will not be surprised by this cartoon.  While he has done his share of Howard-bashing cartoons, he is not a knee-jerk leftist.  He’s particularly clear on Islamic fascism, and has done a number of strong drawings puncturing the useful-idiot pacifism and anti-Americanism of the elite left.  Spooner has amassed such cred that even the snivelling munchkin who now runs the Age wouldn’t dare touch him.  The same, alas, goes for Leunig.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 06 29 at 02:58 AM • permalink

  30. #28, Nic,

    And now Michael is going to bed. He forgot his tablets this morning and has had five bongs. The duck casserole was delicious.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 06 29 at 03:01 AM • permalink

  31. I can hazard a guess at Loonig’s take on this: an aboriginal family cowering in fear as a thuggish beast in Army camos, and with pointed teeth, slavers over them (think WW1 atrocity posters, etc., like this).

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 06 29 at 03:07 AM • permalink

  32. #5
    I remember as a kid in the 70’s a car sticker my old man had “land Rights for Gay Whales”

    Posted by am on 2007 06 29 at 03:39 AM • permalink

  33. OT

    ABC RN ‘Oz Talks’ on now:
    It’s your ABC
    As part of the ABC’s 75th anniversary celebrations, Aunty’s managing director, Mark Scott, will be the main guest on Australia Talks. Mark has agreed to handle your questions and comments about the future direction of your ABC.

    Presenter to MD: ABC staff object to screening TGGWS ... FFS! ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 29 at 04:28 AM • permalink

  34. It’s refreshing to see a bit fair play cartoonery at the Age.
    Imagine if Media Watch took to their own with similar clarity? It could become a show operating within it’s charter instead of being renegades.

    Posted by gubbaboy on 2007 06 29 at 04:40 AM • permalink

  35. Fair dinkum, that cartoon was in The Age? I had to have a second look to be sure.

    Shows there’s hope for everyone. Made my day.

    Posted by ann j on 2007 06 29 at 04:47 AM • permalink

  36. Spooner shows great passion here.
    He is a very fine draftsman and artist, as opposed to you know who in The Age and far better, incidentally, than Leak in The Australian.

    Posted by chrisgo on 2007 06 29 at 05:52 AM • permalink

  37. So that’s what lofty disdain actually looks like…I guess if anyone would know the wankers at the The Age would.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2007 06 29 at 05:52 AM • permalink

  38. Spooner perfectly captured my feelings when I read Brown’s comments.

    Hope it is turning point in Brown’s fortunes. A lot of people vote Green because they have been made to feel guilty with all this climate change crap. It is like voting “D.Duck”, a harmless protest that will have no effect on the scheme of things. But people might now view Brown is an evil little prick. There are plenty of other vote-wasters to choose from without picking that arsehole’s party.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 06 29 at 07:12 AM • permalink

  39. I agree with Noel Pearson, a man who has deeply impressed me for many years. Some action, ANY action, is better than continued inaction.

    Watching corrupt incompetents, spivs, liars, cheats, thieves and rapists from the dismal failure that was ATSIC on the TV whining about this action, to do something about a situation for which THEY were responsible as it happened on THEIR watch, made me sick in the guts. Now we have this disgusting excuse for a human being, the worthless waste of protoplasm and leader of the soy-latte mafia, the pederast Bob Brown, arguing along with the people responsible for doing nothing about this mess as it developed that no action is a better alternative.

    The ATSIC scum and Brown all deserve to be triced to the triangles and flogged.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 06 29 at 07:22 AM • permalink

  40. Worth Reading

    Posted by curious george on 2007 06 29 at 08:19 AM • permalink

  41. #25
    Is that who I think it is, IT?

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 29 at 08:21 AM • permalink

  42. #39
    Well said, MarkL.
    Money and manpower have been thrown at this problem for years; the people I am most angry with are the ones who had the power to help, and the money, yet feathered their own nests. And now they are decrying the plan by JWH to fix the problem.

    They don’t WANT the problems fixed. It’s their industry of employment.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 29 at 08:27 AM • permalink

  43. #40: It is, indeed. The article provides some very useful perspective.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 29 at 08:31 AM • permalink

  44. Although, MarkL, I don’t agree with the flogging. Too lenient!

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 29 at 08:32 AM • permalink

  45. The left are forced to listen to Noel Pearson, even when he says things they don’t like, because he’s black.  A white man who says the same things can easily be dismissed.  That’s why Bill Cosby in the US got away with saying the things he said to the African-American community.  No white person could ever say those things without being vilified as a racist, even though what they are saying is identical.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 29 at 09:18 AM • permalink

  46. Kae @41
    Yes, but it was a ploy to not link here.

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 06 29 at 12:53 PM • permalink

  47. #39 Mark L Shame on you

    I think your description of the wonderful senator bob bum is grossly out of whack.

    it is nowhere near as nice a maggot as you describe.

    Cheers
    RodC

    Posted by Rod C on 2007 06 29 at 05:42 PM • permalink

  48. #45, RebeccaH

    The left are forced to listen to Noel Pearson, even when he says things they don’t like, because he’s black.  A white man who says the same things can easily be dismissed.

    Precisely.  But not just because of the racism angle.  There was also all that post-modernist crap about not being able to understand a culture (and therefore having no right to comment on it) if you haven’t grown up within it.

    The other good things about Noel Pearson are that he’s male (Aboriginal culture is very misogynistic and male power within it has been augmented by the habit white public officials have had of assuming that male/female power relationships within Aboriginal society were the same as those of mainstream society) and he’s well educated so can’t be cowed by the lofty disdain of dimwit academics. 

    He’s exactly what was needed to cut through all the lefty do-gooder crap.

    Posted by Janice on 2007 06 29 at 10:43 PM • permalink

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