Fiona Katauskas
@FionaKatauskas
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Freelance cartoonist. Best-selling author. Political Junkie. Any resemblance between my views and those of any of my employers is completely coincidental
Gadigal country, Eora Nation, Sydney
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just astonishing how Linda Reynolds says she needs to defend her reputation from claims she was insensitive and uncaring about a victim of rape by....publicly denouncing and attempting to bankrupt that victim of rape
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I'm glad Assange is free but there's going to be quite the milkshake ducking when everyone finds out he's not the freedom-fighting righteous lefty hero they think he is.
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It would be good if the horror of the Bondi Junction massacre led to massive increases in mental health care, just as they would have led to massive increases in policing had it been a terrorist attack.
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‘So there’s this American-inspired group that’s using American advisors and American strategies to push American-style misinformation’
‘What are they called?’
‘Advance Australia’
#Dunkley
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This child was taken away from his parents because of POVERTY. They were without a place to stay because they could not afford rent and had to live in a tent. Their children were taken away BECAUSE THEY WERE POOR. Shame on a system that does this. SHAME
#EXCLUSIVE
INVESTIGATION:
A 10-year-old Indigenous boy has taken his own life while in the care of a State government.
#TheNightly
#auspol
#wapol
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@thomas_violence
They always have incredible videos for average songs. They must have very rich parents
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Explaining the name ‘Matildas’ to a non-Australian: It’s from an old colonial folk song that isn’t actually about a woman named Matilda but a man who
steals a sheep, shoves it in a sack then drowns himself rather than being caught by police
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It’s a constant source of sorrow and rage to me how few people stand up for public ed when it’s something that affects everyone whether they have kids or not. We need an educated society. Good public ed is essential for social equity.
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My guilty pleasure is reading Vikki Campion's dramatically overwritten portraits of conservative victimhood every Saturday.
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Serious Q- if Linda Reynolds believed BH, as she claims, why is she chumming around with and bitching about her to Bruce Lehrmann's lawyer? Why is she contacting BL's lawyer at all?
Wouldn't this weaken her argument that she did no wrong and was supportive?
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Shocked I am shocked to discover that after years and years of doing truly terrible things it turns Michael Pezzullo is a truly terrible person
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Four have gone missing but the private school one went to over ten years ago is relevant how?
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I must admit I was unaware of this. I have withdrawn my entry in this year's Walkleys.
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While I've got my rant on... Tax cuts are always treated as some universal positive. More money in your pocket! How could that be bad? TAX CUTS ARE NOT FREE. THEY TAKE MONEY FROM PUBLIC SERVICES. WHY DOES NOBODY MENTION THE ACTUAL COST OF PUTTING PUBLIC MONEY IN PRIVATE HANDS?
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Serious Q: on what grounds would police have taken Bruce Lehrmann into protection? His life wasn't under threat. Why is finding accommodation for him their responsibility?
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Quite sure who needs to hear this.
Not everything should be reduced to whether or not it's an election winning issue. Some things (eg genocide) are just fucking wrong & you need to take a stand. Please don't tell me that it won't end the war because being silent is 1000x worse
Not sure who needs to hear this
Gaza is not Australians number one issue
The average punter has no clue who Senator Payman is
Labor party, and parliamentary machinations, the electorate does not give a toss
Federal moved up 1% in the latest
#newspoll
back to election-winning
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Eric Abetz always looks and sounds like an Eric Abetz impersonator who is taking the caricature a bit too far
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Few things more disingenuous than a member of the Federal Coalition decrying the Voice as not doing enough to help FN people after spending the last 9 years not doing anything to help FN people
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Absolute gaslighting to say that people are "celebrating" October 7th.
Refusing to recognise the massively disproportionate suffering of Palestinians as well as Israel's pain is what will damage social cohesion.
Oh, and the rally is planned for the 6th, not 7th of October.
No one should celebrate October 7 as many Australians mourn loved ones killed then and since.
The largest loss of Jewish life since World War II. And an intolerable number of civilian deaths in Gaza, the West bank and now Lebanon.
Despite what Peter Dutton and the Greens
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In shocking news, being white, wealthy and entitled means you're way more likely to be believed and helped by police but way less likely to have any empathy for those who aren't like you
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Dear Brain Tumour God, I can think of at least 100 people more deserving than
@jonkudelka
. HMU for a list and you can do a swapsie.
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I cannot stress enough that a good public education system is good for EVERYBODY whether you're at school or not, whether it's private or public. Education is compulsory and we all need a well-educated society & a system which offers opportunities for people OF ALL BACKGROUNDS
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Amazing how the rusted-ons accuse you of being a Green or wanting the return of a Coalition govt when all you're asking is for Labor to be not-shit.
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Oh no I hope Mark Latham doesn’t get revenge on Pauline by burning One Nation to the ground that would be terrible
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Ten years later... my last ever cartoon for The Echidna. Economic squeeze means they've got no more money for cartoons :(
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Amazing how Linda Reynolds is insisting on saving her reputation by thoroughly, irredeemably trashing it
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Heartbreaking that America’s mayor will be remembered for a a massive defamation payout for insane, vicious lies targeting innocent people and not the joy he brought us with Four Seasons Total Landscaping
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Then fight it. Fight for public education. God knows few in politics ever do
This breaks my heart
12 public primary schools in Sydney have pulled out of their interschool sports competition bc the buses they need to get to the council playing fields are too expensive & unreliable & the teachers don’t have time to attend. 👇
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Diamonds may be one of the hardest substances on Earth but Arnott’s Ginger Nuts are close behind
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Aston La Vista, Baby.
My cartoon for today's Echidna
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It’s absolutely brain breaking that
@ChrisMinnsMP
is cutting funding to state schools. What does he think will be the outcome of this? Does he really not see the huge impact on educational standards, equity, employment, skills etc this will have medium & long term?
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Also hilarious how they’re pretending Valance is a genuine celebrity and not a washed up soap actor with a failed music career who thinks the fact she married a billionaire makes her opinion relevant
There is no evidence that this is happening. Especially given you’re citing someone living in the UK where the conservatives are about to be absolutely routed.
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A few years ago when I was on my sons' state high school P&C we had to raise funds to help fix the electrical wiring in the library
Private school splashes $85 million on new pool complex (not satire)
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Now do it everywhere else
We’ve just signed a $1.6 billion agreement to fully fund all WA public schools.
From Perth to Port Hedland, Bunbury to Broome, this deal will benefit every Western Australian public school student.
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What I really love about Oasis is how they combine overrated music with being obnoxious wankers
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Good on you,
@SenatorPayman
Labor Senator Fatima Payman says she is the first Labor member to cross the floor in three decades
@SBSNews
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anyway, a friend of mine who's been in Temp Protection Visa limbo for over ten years just got her Permanent Residency so good things can happen
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Me: *having paid no attention to the Aston by-election all day assuming a Liberal victory then checking out the results* HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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What Labor needs to understand is that cutting stage 3 tax cuts could RUIN their reputation for spinelessly caving to Coalition wedges
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Weird how journalists frothing over the gotcha "broken promises" schebang keep ignoring the fact that every single govt has done it (Howard's multiple, egregious "non-core promises" anyone? Anyone?) and are acting like this is the first time.
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Wow,
@KathyLette
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Oops by a Sky News celebrity panel regarding Tuvalu. Stunning.
No Further Comment.
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Who’s paying for Lehrmann’s legal fees? Does anyone know?
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Ask him about his family history with Indigenous people and whether he's ever reflected on it.
Great to spend some time with Alexander Downer AC, former Australian Foreign Minister for over a decade & our longest serving foreign minister. Fascinating to learn more about geopolitics from his experiences.
#alexanderdowner
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#foreignaffairs
#geopolitics
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Our media is completely incapable of discussing asylum seekers. No international context, no effort to explain any broader forces. Purely seen as a sort of invasion that only Aus experiences & that is within govt control
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This is evil. We are complicit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the IDF to set its sights on Rafah, where some 1.5 million Palestinians are taking refuge, ordering a combined plan for evacuating the population and destroying Hamas's local battalions.
#RNBreakfast
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As the Trump presidency has shown, the notion of "balanced" reporting is utterly farcical when one side acts in bad faith and floods the zone with misinformation
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I'm not one to draw Harry Potter analogies but James Patterson sure has a whiff of the Malfoys about him
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‘…the belief that the best way of honouring the memory of those who died in Auschwitz is to condone the mass killing of Palestinians so that Israeli Jews can feel safe again is one of the great moral perversions of our time.’
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So technically, Biden could shoot Trump on 5th Avenue and totally get away with it.
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First law of racism: calling it out is always worse than doing it.
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Alan Jones well goodness me I am shocked shocked I tell you it cannot be true
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Go Alan! Give it a red hot BenRobertsSmithing!
Alan Jones to sue Nine newspapers over ‘demonstrably false’ allegations of indecent assault
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Never met or knew Cal Wilson but bloody hell that news has left me feeling sad.
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RIP Katherine Campbell's career. Couldn't have happened to a horribler person.
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Here's a cartoon I did for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1999 (shoutout to my then-editor,
@BernardZuel
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#Coronation
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Jon’s new career as a beanie model is really taking off
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Public school teachers and parents have been saying this for many many years
A new report has found public schools are under resourced with inequality 'entrenched'. Education Minister Jason Clare says federal and state governments have to work together to fix funding and education gaps, to "level the playing field"
#RNBreakfast
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Love this! hahahahahah
So
#PeterDutton
needed all the details for The Voice but won’t give any for his
#nuclear
power plants?
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So when Jason Clare talks about boosting teacher numbers by lowering HECS etc, he is doing NOTHING to address the systemic underfunding of public education. WTF do state and federal governments think is going to happen when we keep shovelling $$$ at private ed & starve the state?
I'm doing a cartoon for a public ed magazine today. The topic is how principals aren't able to do their jobs because they're spending most of their time APPLYING FOR INDIVIDUAL GRANTS AND FUNDING TO KEEP THEIR SCHOOLS RUNNING AND FOR BASIC BUILDING MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS.
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So what? If they're fighting for the poor, good on em.
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As someone who's been in my kids' state school P&C for 8 years and who also lives near an exclusive private school, I see this massive, infuriating imbalance every day
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I'm old enough to remember when pretty much every media organisation regularly praised Abbott as a rare politician who actually understood and spent time with Indigenous people
Tony Abbott will be voting no to a couple of things that aren't actually on the ballot
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This is genuinely shocking. How is it that priv schools get taxpayer $$$ while pub ones that desperately need it do not? What’s the actual end game here? That state schools die out? That our ed system is outsourced to religious organisations for private/ Catholic education?
Labor is giving private schools $1 billion over the next four years for buildings and infrastructure.
How much do you think they've allocated to public schools?
Zero. Nothing. Not a cent.
It's no wonder these are the types of conditions our public school kids face.
Shameful.
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It would be really useful to the general cause of truth and decent journalism if the people who write about refugees and asylum seekers actually took the time to meet some of them rather than spewing pre-packaged propaganda that fits the bullshit narratives of the last 20 years
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@jjjove
I totally think he deserves to be free but the hero worship is seriously misguided. Aside from the rape charges, he was a Gamergater, sucked up to the exceedingly non freedom-loving Putin and probably helped (he certainly tried to) swing the election Trump's way.
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Last night I dreamt that
@firstdogonmoon
and i were at a weird cartoonist awards. We both won then got really drunk & I ended up with a huge tattoo covering my chest & stomach with an ad for the sponsor, Zed Beer. I woke in a panic about explaining it to my mum. I’m 53 years old.
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This is 100% spot on.
Funnily enough, the politicians and commentators who confidently claim that "money doesn't matter" in educational outcomes invariably send their kids to extremely expensive, taxpayer-subsidised private schools.
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Why hasn’t this toddler been taken into custody?!
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The Israel govt tells us who it is over and over again and we still insist on pretending we can't hear.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says starving Gazans "to death" may be moral, but the "world won't let us"
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“I have apologised to Corey for what I said and would not like to make public comment at the risk of causing him further hurt”.
How kind of Amanda to refrain from publicly saying something insulting to someone much more intelligent that she will ever be
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I'm doing a cartoon for a public ed magazine today. The topic is how principals aren't able to do their jobs because they're spending most of their time APPLYING FOR INDIVIDUAL GRANTS AND FUNDING TO KEEP THEIR SCHOOLS RUNNING AND FOR BASIC BUILDING MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS.
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Here's a cartoon from the last COP. Let's hope this COP makes it redundant
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