Budget 2015 in front pages, cartoons (and a government info video)
There is rarely a richer time of year for cartoonists than budget season, and this year’s has proven no exception. Dr Mumbo has collated a few of the best (and the government’s handy budget overview video as well).
The Australian reflects on the differences between this year’s and last year’s budget, with PM Tony Abbott, treasurer Joe Hockey and his infamous cigar having a beer with Labor leader Bill Shorten:
The Herald Sun depicted Abbott, Hockey and Social Services Minister Scott Morrison steering a ship as cash blows around them:
The Daily Telegraph spruiks the emphasis on business and work in the budget, showing the same trio as three of the Seven Dwarves:
While the Courier Mail in Brisbane eschews cartoons to depict Joe Hockey as a mechanic ‘jumpstarting’ the economy:
And The West Australian showed Hockey and Abbott doing a clean up job complete with mop and bucket:
The Age riffed on the Mad Max fever currently gripping the nation:
While the Australian Financial Review was a little unnerving:
Fairfax papers online went with two images, the first showing Abbott and Hockey’s change of economic rhetoric, and the second with Hockey breaking the fiscal chains:
The government has also invested in its own cartoon to sell the budget – although it’s a less fun:
shame there wasn’t anything left in the budget to buy a less shit backing track for the officlal video.
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Suddenly… nothing happened.
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Being a Brisbane resident, the Courier Mail is the most pathetic excuse for a publication I’ve ever seen.
Even their attempt at humour is poor when compared to other metro cities.
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No wonder.
At 57 seconds, that third gear goes into action, stripping the cogs of the right hand gear.
Where’s “The Fixer” when you need him?
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