Political Cartoons Thread (International & National)

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Free As A Bird
Paul Zanetti Monday 7 November 2016

 

[Maggie5]

Poor Zanetti still doesn't get it. Is that a chicken? Very apt?

 

[Pie eyed]

It's probably fitting that Leak will spend the rest of his career trying to prove he did not make a mistake, by revisiting it in every manifestation possible, when he could have simply apologised and in less than a 24 hour news cycle he'd just be another cartoonist again..

 

[kwikfix]

It's probably fitting that Leak will spend the rest of his career trying to prove he did not make a mistake, by revisiting it in every manifestation possible, when he could have simply apologised and in less than a 24 hour news cycle he'd just be another cartoonist again..

Why would he apologise ? He has been vindicated by WA's top cop. Would you rather sweep the problem under the table?

Bill Leak 18C cartoon accurate, says WA Police Commissioner

West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan says he does not consider Bill Leak’s cartoon racist. Picture: Will Russell

• The Australian
• 12:00AM October 21, 2016
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The image of an apprehended youth and his irresponsible parent in Bill Leak’s controversial cartoon is an accurate picture that regularly confronts West Australian police, says commissioner Karl O’Callaghan.

Western Australia’s top policeman said Leak’s cartoon was a reflection of what officers saw on a daily basis, particularly while dealing with troubled indigenous kids or their families.

Leak’s provocative cartoon depicted an indigenous policeman presenting an indigenous youth to his father in an outback setting and saying to the father: “You’ll have to sit down and talk to your son about personal responsibility.”

The indigenous father replies: “Yeah righto, what’s his name then?”

The cartoon’s critics have described Leak’s work as a smear of indigenous parents. It has triggered an investigation by the Human Rights Commission under section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

Mr O’Callaghan said he did not consider the cartoon racist.

When speaking of the cartoon, Mr O’Callaghan initially referred to a case of a 10-year-old boy, whose father, when found by police, refused to come to the police station and take responsibility for his son. The boy’s mother could not be found.

“The police ended up looking after that child for up to 12 hours trying to find a responsible adult, largely because the father of the child refused to take responsibility for him,” he said.

“After the kid was arrested, the father wanted nothing to do with him ... and it plays directly into what Bill Leak is trying to say in that cartoon. You have biological fathers, and mothers as the case may be, who simply don’t want the responsibility of looking after their kids.”

Mr O’Callaghan initially said the 10-year-old boy was indigenous. He later clarified that the boy was not indigenous but said his comments on dysfunctional families applied whether the children were indigenous or not.

“The fact that the 10-year-old was non-indigenous shows you how dysfunctional the family is,” he said last night.

“But Bill Leak’s cartoon is representative of a situation that is more common in the indigenous population than the non-indigenous one.

“The fact that most children in detention in WA are indigenous is a reflection of that. It’s an accurate representation. The situation where indigenous parents are reluctant to take responsibility is a more common one and is well-known to police.

“Any regional police officer, especially in the state’s north, recognises the scenario presented by Bill Leak.”

The 10-year-old boy had numerous convictions and was well-known to police, he said.

Charged with burglary and vandalism of a store with another boy, the 10-year-old was also charged with damaging a school on another occasion.

He was found in the company of two 13-year-old boys — one believed to be indigenous — who have also been charged with causing $100,000 in damage to Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community School last Saturday.

Mr O’Callaghan, who is a foster parent to two non-indigenous children, said it was “not uncommon” in West Australian regional towns and Perth’s suburbs for a child in trouble with police, or found wandering the streets, to be taken back to a parent but that parent refusing to take responsibility for the child.

“We take them back to the parent who often cannot care because they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or will not care,’’ Mr O’Callaghan said. “They say ‘I’m not interested, I don’t want the responsibility, you sort it out’. I think what Bill Leak is saying in this cartoon is exactly that.”

He stressed a lack of parenting was “not an exclusive problem of the indigenous communities, but it’s over-represented in those communities”. In the case of the 10-year-old, police eventually called in crisis carers and child protection to find a place for him.

Kalgoorlie residents are still reeling from a riot last month that followed the death of 14-year-old Elijah Doughty, who was knocked off a motorbike amid claims he had stolen it.

Mr O’Callaghan said children roamed the streets while child protection workers attempted to work with their dysfunctional parents to teach them to better care for them.

“These kids are still unsupervised, they’re still feral and they’re still having an impact on the community they live in,” he said.

 

[Father Jack]

Is WA's top cop the final arbiter on this?

 

[CM86]

Is WA's top cop the final arbiter on this?

These shitheels keep re-posting the comments from the WA commissioner... without realising that it destroys their own argument.

WA commissioner has made these comments, and isn't breaching the RDA. He isn't facing sanctions, in fact, he is free to say it as much as he wants. (encouraged in some places).
Almost like his comments aren't the same as the stupid racist cartoon that Leak scribbled.

 

[Father Jack]

How insecure must Leak be, to keep justifying himself?

 

[Pie eyed]

Why would he apologise ? He has been vindicated by WA's top cop. Would you rather sweep the problem under the table?

I wouldn't put much stock in WA's most Senior cops opinion on what is and is not racist.
Fair odds he's from Fremantle to make it an even more pointless contribution, his and yours.

 

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[CM86]

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There are a lot of existing cartoons that you can look back over and rub yourself to. You don't need to wait for Leak to s**t out new ones.

Look up stuff that Tom Metzger used to push, you'd love him. He was just a misunderstood social justice warrior as well. Like you and Leak.

I bet you can justify all three of these.

 

[FredLeDeux]

I wouldn't put much stock in WA's most Senior cops opinion on what is and is not racist.
Fair odds he's from Fremantle to make it an even more pointless contribution, his and yours.

A born again Christian who has actually involved himself and his family in caring for disadvantaged kids.

He has, however, had a number of documented difficulties in his public statements with the bit about "Thou shalt not bear false witness".

 

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[Pie eyed]

A born again Christian who has actually involved himself and his family in caring for disadvantaged kids.

He has, however, had a number of documented difficulties in his public statements with the bit about "Thou shalt not bear false witness".

Good on him for caring for kids.

 

[Pessimistic]

All govt established detainment camps. They jut didn't get off on sounding as cruel as possible

 

[Contra Mundum]

Poor Zanetti still doesn't get it. Is that a chicken? Very apt?

Is there any chance that Zanetti might try being funny?

 

[Contra Mundum]

Now I have seen it all! Hastie the Creationist Nut Bag that bags uses a quote from MLK as evidence of "cultural marxism'

 

[Contra Mundum]

How does it go again "the regressive left SJW nutbags are obsessed with cultural issues"

 

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[Pessimistic]

Didn't those words juts the get trump elected?

 

[Maggie5]

 

[TheWoodenSlug]

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Aren't cartoons supposed to be funny?

 

[Maggie5]

Aren't cartoons supposed to be funny?

Think you have posted under the wrong cartoon, check out those by Zanetti before you comment on this one.

 

[Father Jack]

Yeah, comedy exited stage right quite a few pages ago