Agnes Mack

David Pope in Canberra Times

after gillray

no oil painting

How Iran is hitting a 'vulnerability' of Trump's via the Gulf states Despite their immense wealth — and even their past capacity to influence the globe through their control over oil prices — the Gulf states don't have much ability to influence events in this war.

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Will Donald Trump’s quest for the Nobel Peace award be strengthened if he ends the war between the US and Iran?
Bill King, Camberwell
The Age, letters

How can Albanese celebrate his 30 years in parliament? Not everyone needs to come to the party

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Thousands of Australian travellers are stranded as airlines cancel flights into and out of the Middle East.

America first. Today’s Age cartoon

For sale: FIFA Peace Prize. Still in box. Hardly used by previous owner.
John Fife, Box Hill South
The Age, letters

After a disastrous 2025 election loss, the Liberal Party engages in some critical self-reflection
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Single frame. Trump at whiteboard with pointer. A line of backs of heads of various world leaders. (Macron Carney Albo Starmer Merz Von der Leyen). Written on whiteboard: “INTERNATIONAL RULES-BASED ORDER. 1. I RULE. 2. I ORDER THE REST OF THE WORLD AROUND.

Rules-based order.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Trump and Netanyahu side by side with nuclear bombs strapped to them. Trump says, “We can’t afford to let Iran have nuclear weapons.”

Nukes.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Ai R U OK? day. Today’s Age cartoon

Supporting ‘illegal aggression’ against Iran ‘the worst thing’ Australia could do, international law experts say Ben Saul says ‘rolling over’ after Israel and US attack is counterproductive for middle powers because it undermines rules-based order

Absolutely. We become responsible for a whole lot of outcomes that are entirely unknowable. The worst sort of reckless gambling, with innocent people (always) the losers.
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What Iran's reaction tells us about its future Cracks are appearing in Iran's regime, but sparking the change Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu want to see will likely take more than killing the Ayatollah.

Laura Tingle : "However, analysts have warned that destroying Iran's stockpiles of ballistic missiles and taking out the country's leadership are not necessarily enough to spark the regime change from within that both Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are encouraging."
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Iran's leader is gone, the limits that applied to battle likely are too The death of Iran's supreme leader leaves a power vacuum in a perilously unstable country. It could end with a military takeover and a new leader with a no-limits approach to war.

Allyson Horn : Iran's future sits on a precipice. What happens next is anyone's guess.
But previous limits that might have applied to battle and war are likely now gone.

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A contentious review into the Liberal Party’s disastrous election will be suppressed after Opposition Leader Angus Taylor met with top party figures and agreed to shelve the document, sparing the party from further humiliation

Some advice for the PM: there are many, many of us ″⁣difficult women″⁣ ... and we all vote.
Michelle Goldsmith, Eaglehawk
The Age letters

Single frame. Trump at the podium of the chamber, with US flag behind. He’s sitting on the bench, naked, a bowl of MAGA excrement between his legs, from which he’s hurling handfuls. Behind him, either side, JD Vance and Mike Johnson smiling and clapping. Title (bottom left) The State of the Union.

State of the Union.
My @smh cartoon.

Insiders Tim Wilson - Shadow Treasurer
9:01AM - 10:00AM

David Speers joins Shane Wright, Melissa Clarke and Mark Kenny to discuss capital gains tax and negative gearing reform, inflation, the PM's 'difficult' comment and hostile

Glen Le Lievre . Apologies for error

Glen Lievre in AFR

State election will be an acid test for One Nation, and for Albanese The March 21 poll is a referendum on the viability of Australia’s existing two-party system.

Peter Hartcher writes "Malinauskas says a party of government “must not only identify problems; it must talk about solutions. Otherwise, you’re just like them peddling junk answers to complex problems"
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Glen Lievre in AFR

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Ukraine voted for a comedian and got a leader. The US voted for a leader and got a clown.
Ray Brindle, Burwood
The Age, letters

Photo of me holding Amy Remeikis’s great book “Where it all went wrong: the case against John Howard”, which is more polite than the working title of “How Howard fucked us”

Get on it people!!

Available everywhere joy exists. (And even in those places it doesn’t).

Fleeing New Zealand to live in Australia? I’m right there with you, Jacinda Ardern | Johanna Cosgrove I overheard the news from Clarke Gayford on a dancefloor at 2am. I’m thrilled for our former first couple I got the news that Aotearoa’s most (internationally) famous prime minister is moving to Sydney in a way that is only possible in New Zealand. I was at the final Splore festival in Tāpapakanga at the weekend (one of our longest-running and arguably most beautiful festivals) when Clarke Gayford, Jacinda Ardern’s husband, popped up next to me on the dancefloor dressed as a giant toadstool. “Yeah, we’re moving to Sydney,” he said to a man in funereal pirate garb. “Can’t wait!” Maybe it was the joy of a perfect tracklist at 2am, maybe it was getting this breaking news from the horse’s mouth, but I felt thrilled for our former first couple. Like Splore, NZ has the hungover malaise of a party being cancelled and the lights going out. Johanna Cosgrove is an award-winning actor/writer/comedian. She will perform her show Sweetie at the Melbourne international comedy festival and is now in NZ filming an exciting top-secret feature film Continue reading...

Fleeing New Zealand to live in Australia? I’m right there with you, Jacinda Ardern | Johanna Cosgrove

Magda posted that she's done with chemotherapy and is in remission 😭 amazing news to kick off mardi gras weekend 😭