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John Spooner's political imagery « Previous | |Next »
November 06, 2005

It's a helluva image. I just love the roadster as a symbol of the market's prosperity/consumer ethos.

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John Spooner, Latham's Learners, Pen & ink & watercolour

It transcends its particular political moment of a federal election in 2004 to make a general point about the significance of education for the working poor, old-style blue collar industry workers, and the suburban aspirationals.

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John Spooner, The Liberal experience, Pen & ink & watercolour

Australia does need to take the high skilled road to education if it is to continue to prosper. Most of the reform focus up to now under John Howard's Liberals has been on the low skilled and dumbing down education to the basics.

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