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CARTOON-BITES: MAPS AS METAPHORS
The shape of a Country is the perfect symbol for that Country! Cartoonists have been using these shapes to come up with relevant double metaphors for years to illustrate that Country and its social and political problems.
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Cartoon-Bites History of Australian radio in cartoon form.
The first radio “broadcast” in Australia was organised by Ernest Thomas Fisk of AWA on 19 August 1919. He arranged for the National Anthem to be broadcast from one building to another at the end of a lecture he’d given on the new medium to the Royal Society of New South Wales. en.wikipedia.org
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Cartoon-Bites Mining in Australia
Mining in Australia has long been a significant primary sector industry and contributor to the Australian economy by providing export income, royalty payments, and employment. Historically, mining booms have also encouraged population growth via immigration to Australia
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Cartoon-Bites Writers
There is a writer in all of us, and sometimes it takes a lifetime to find it out and also to hide from it as well.
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Cartoon-Bites Book Readers
Being addicted to reading books must be one of life’s greatest joys. Besides the experience and the knowledge acquired, the fact is, you can never be alone when you are reading.
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Cartoon-Bites Books
We live in an age where technology rules. Many people have said that the Book as we know it is Finished. Watching this life and death struggle, the Cartoonists have managed to take the sting out of the conflict with some very funny and thoughtful cartoons. The Moral of the story is just to keep reading!
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Warne’s World
Shane Warne in cartoon form. Shane Keith Warne was an Australian cricketer. (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) A right-arm leg spinner, he is widely considered as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history, and in 2000 he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler and the only one still playing at the time
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Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation.
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Real Estate
Australians are totally obsessed with Real Estate. While other countries go up and down in value, Australia’s Real Estate and housing market just continue to skyrocket in spite of the state of the economy.
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Australian floods and climate change
In the past few weeks, tens of thousands of Australians have had to evacuate their homes after devastating floods struck the eastern part of the country.
