Still on the table?

On 14 May 2013 Treasurer Swan said, “While our economy remains resilient, powerful global forces and the stubbornly high Australian dollar have savaged budget revenues. This year we face the second largest revenue writedown since the Great Depression.” The Gillard government’s “absolute priority” was “to put in place very big reforms for the future”, a reference to the Gonski education reforms and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Reading between the lines

David Rowe has been working as a cartoonist for more than 20 years. Sometimes he has to draw a cartoon every day. When he is struggling to find an idea he just starts doodling which “seems to kick something into gear.”