1. 2023
  2. Hot potato! Hot potato!

Lunch Break

Pat Hudson
self-published

June and July 2023 saw extreme weather events around the globe, from wildfires in Canada and Hawaii to torrential rain in Libya. In Pat Hudson’s cartoon, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek watches the unnerving news over her lunchbreak and then nonchalantly resumes approving mining applications. Plibersek has been criticised for approving some coal and gas projects since taking office, when the federal government has set a target of achieving net zero emissions in Australia by 2050.

A woman sits at her desk, eating her lunch whilst watching headlines about natural disasters, then says 'Oh well, back to it', reaching to a pile of paper marked 'mining approvals'.