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February 4, 2012
This is a superb political cartoon about contemporary political events in Australia. David Rowe is one of Australia's best political cartoonists and Fairfax should be credited with allowing his work to be in the public domain and not hidden behind behind the Australian Financial Review's pay wall.
David Rowe
One of the consequences of newspapers transitioning to a digital world is that their revenue drops, their capital value drops and they are obliged to cut costs until new revenue streams can come online. That means journalists, photographers, sub-editors etc are laid off as the news desk is downsized.
Is this happening to political cartoonists? I'm in no position to judge. I do know that David Rowe's cartoons are an integral part of Australian visual culture.
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