Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in environment, politics on Apr 25th, 2007
I predict that, fore-going anything out of left field like 9/11, Howard will lose the next election because of his refusal to take global warming seriously. And it will be because the business end of town has already calculated the risks and wants action for their own stability. Businesses, states, unions, industries, universities and ordinary [...]
Posted in canberra, fun, politics, street art on Apr 23rd, 2007
Ah, yes! The wonderful irony of Canberra Liberal MLA, Steve Pratt, calling in the media to record him heroically scrubbing off graffiti, only to find that it was a legally commissioned work, and now he will be charged with vandalism of public art. It’s pure gold! I will refer you to Ampersand Duck’s full [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, news, politics on Apr 21st, 2007
Doctor making her mark: an encouraging piece about a program that is creating awareness and a platform for culture change in attitudes towards women within the Australian Footbal League. A similar program has been implemented by National Rugby League:
KAREN WILLIS: The NRL has said, “We don’t accept violence against women, and we think this is [...]
Posted in politics on Apr 17th, 2007
The US government should get real and implement strict gun control. I’m not holding my breath though.
You might think I’m on a real anti-Howard bender today, especially since I’ve also just decided its time to stop posting to my Vigil blog, but I swear this video was found quite accidentally while I was trying out the new Alpha search engine (very cool). It’s such a good caricature, both in looks and [...]
(photo via the Canberra Times)
Speaking of sculptures, one of my first blog posts was about Greg Taylor’s satirical bronze, If the boots don’t fit, which depicted the prime minister as dwarf ANZAC. I got a bee in my bonnet, and tracked it all over town. I was pleased to see that its still doing the [...]
Posted in illustration, politics, puppetry, puppets on Mar 29th, 2007
Ian Sharpe’s comment on the latest development in the travesty of justice that is David Hicks’ lot.
Posted in make, mask, photographs, photography, politics, portfolio on Feb 16th, 2007
An action shot of Joh Bjelke-Peterson welcoming guests to the launch of the Campaign - Federal Elections exhibition at Old Parliament House yesterday! Here is a slightly clearer one of him with Malcolm Fraser. Old Parliament House had a collection of the photographic masks of politicians, but I was asked to make the cartoon Joh [...]
Posted in canberra, politics, puppetry, puppets on Feb 11th, 2007
Last Tuesday I went to the David Hicks rally at Parliament House. I don’t much like going to protests, but sometimes you just have to? I wasn’t sure whether to take my vigil puppet, because although I knew he would attract attention, I didn’t want to imply that I thought it was a okay to [...]
Vigil for the fair treatment of David Hicks.