{"product_id":"best-australian-political-cartoons-2025","title":"Best Australian Political Cartoons 2025","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761381676\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025- the year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe established wisdom at the beginning of the 2025 election year was that Labor would likely scrape back into minority government with the help of the smaller parties. Even a Trump-lite Dutton government was an outside, but real, chance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut after seeing the real and unchecked Trump in action, we decided we didn't want any of that madness here, and the Coalition - more specifically, the Liberal Party - after a decade of negativity and culture warring, got their unambiguous comeuppance. While Teals-style candidates mostly held the line, the Greens took a severe beating as voters retreated into the imagined security of Albo's one-party state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf the Trump effect caused tremors in our domestic politics, globally it set off an earthquake. In trade relations, sanctions reduced established relationships with the US - even with long-time allies - to the crudely transactional. In case we had any doubts that the US-led post-1945 rules-based-system was over, 2025 dispelled them. The moral claims of that order, always dubious, were finally - even proudly - cremated in the ruins of Gaza and Ukraine. Forget international law- might has reasserted its traditional place in the ordering of nations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this profoundly disordered world, we have never needed the satirical insights of our great political cartoonists more. This year's collection features Dean Alston, Badiucao, Matt Bissett-Johnson, Peter Broelman, Warren Brown, Harry Bruce, Mark David, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Megan Herbert, Fi","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41498871595141,"sku":"PR399098","price":46.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNXEKHPKTCLA.jpg?v=1769229949","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/best-australian-political-cartoons-2025","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}