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December 08, 2006
Steve Bell of the Guardian was selected as Political Cartoonist of the Year. Morten Morland, The Times cartoonist had his cartoon, 'Mind the Gap', selected as the winner in the Political Cartoon of the Year 2005 in the UK.
Moreland
The cartoon comments on the suspicion among London Tube users of innocent Muslims.The same suspicion is prevalent in Australia and it has been stirred along by conservatives opposed to a multicultural society. They, and the Howard government, are using code to say that Muslems are different and that they don't fit into the Australian community. What we then have is a growing fear and resentment of Muslims in the Australian nation.
Australian conservatives talk in terms of “integration” and say that people should stop talking about multi-culturalism and concentrate on common Australian values. Common Australian values give us social cohesion. Islam gives us division.
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Yes Captain Despicable is laying the groundwork for some nasty traps for Kevin Rudd and Labor. I think that the issues that you raise here are very difficult and very powerful and difficult to argue on a rational basis. Look for some Willie Horton type stuff to galvanise already indebted Australians and take their minds of some of the downside of 10 years of Liberal Government.