The week that was in news: 'Cartoon style'

well i'm joined by the australian's chief cartoonist johannes leake johannes how are you oh well thanks jack good to see you yes very good to see you now let's go through the best cartoons of the week because there are some crackers in here now i really want to um start off with this one because it was a big media news story that we didn't get time to address on the show but the bizarre footage of the the the um adf uh twerking that the abc doctored to make it look like uh some of the the governor general was a sleazebag yes well uh didn't that get uh social media into a flurry and and uh you know and there were more always more twists and turns about that story at first it all looked uh rather inappropriate but then we found out that the way it was chopped together was was actually quite cheeky and and and quite misleading but look in my cartoon i just wanted to sort of highlight this situation we seem to find ourselves in australia where there are big things going on in the world at the moment you know you've got the rise of china chinese aggression uh you know playing out in in various places and you know there's uh there's an epic there's a pandemic going on there's all sorts of things but in australia we seem to be sort of sidetracked constantly by these niche issues and and these little uh these little controversies like you know like this particular event and and you know racism on the set of neighbors and that sort of thing so i just wanted to highlight the fact that they're you know there are big stories out there and sometimes we get so caught up in in some of these little side shows you know yeah and i guess those bigger stories are supposed to be the core duty of the abc rather than you know focusing on provocative dancing by by by a dance group um very very good very good cartoon let's have a look at this one from mark night now magda i'll read it out she says tonight i'll be eating my words criticizing the pm's wife and a large serving of humble pie obviously she did those ubereats ads where she she would say what she was eating but she got on a bit of strife this week what happened well as far as i know jack um she uh made it made a tweet they put out a tweet about uh jenny morrison and and you know this sort of insinuation that she's some kind of uh you know extremely conservative really big christian zealot or something i think that's sort of the narrative that magdalen likes to put out there um and uh and it was it was uncalled for and it was nasty um and then you know sure enough there was a backlash and uh and then she decided that you know that that was all very unfair on her and she's only trying to do the right thing in alerting people to what sort of a woman she really is and again you know these these things they blow up uh they're they're pretty undignified for just about everybody but i just didn't think mark's been brilliant in the way that he he latched onto those ubereats ads and uh and you know twisted the words around a bit to uh and and had magda sinking down into the couch like that you know she probably realized that it wasn't it wasn't a great idea in the first place to put out that tweet yeah look it was it was very very off-putting and and it's it kind of was contrary to you know a lot of the notions on the left of of treating people fairly you know those ideals the left normally likes to to think of themselves but you know if you're a conservative woman um i guess you're fair game for magna so that was definitely on interesting more serious note um this this cartoon uh that we've got up here mission accomplished um this is really interesting because obviously the troops were getting pulled out but do you of afghanistan do you think that it was you know appropriate for them to be pulled out of this juncture this cartoon is kind of making the point that there is a lot of mess there and there's a lot of work to be done well i i don't think anybody would dispute that um but yes the question of whether it's time to pull the troops out or whether that they need to be left there to continue the work that they've been doing is one that will be argued i'm sure for decades to come but i i think that what one thing that most people would agree on is is the fact that uh afghanistan was a mess um when when the you know the the allied forces turned up there and it remains a very precarious place uh the taliban look like they're you know they're sort of gaining strength again and uh there's also isis apparently in the wings um you know also looking for always looking for a power vacuum if they can find one so i think um the the future for afghanistan is still incredibly uncertain and i just i wanted to play in this cartoon with this idea that the americans have have been there now for 20 years they're packing up and leaving uh there's the famous banner the mission accomplished banner from uh 2003 when bush stood up in front of that banner on an aircraft carrier at the very sort of start of the iraq war and i thought it was appropriate to bring that back and and to show that well if that's not really what what mission accomplished looks like you know well said johannes league thank you so much for joining tonight uh that's all the time we've got unfortunately

Channel: Sky News Australia

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Length: 5min 19sec (319 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 16 2021