The first cartoon, by Bennett, shows Julia Gillard talking to Wayne Swan. Where he says "there are rumours of a caucus plot to replace you with Rudd", to which she replies "of all the filthy lowdown tricks". This is ironic as recently Julia Gillard overthrew Kevin Rudd and the fact that she is acting as if it is the lowest of the low. However we have seen that Julia Gillard has done this herself and so has Tony Abbott. The picture also displays Julia Gillard being weighed down by an iron foot weight which has polls written on it. This evidently shows that the decisions that politicians make are effected by their attempts to win the polls. It also shows (possibly) that all the lies that politicians offer are there to help alleviate the weight of the polls.
The cartoon by Bennett shows people lining up for the theatre of which two shows are being played, 'An Inconvenient Truth' and 'A Reassuring Lie'. The cartoon displays everyone lining up for 'A Reassuring Lie' and no one in the line for 'An Inconvenient Truth'. This is humerus as it shows that the population would rather see a lie which is reassuring than a truth which they don't want to hear. But why?
It is possible that the lies politicians feed us is not completely their fault, rather because we want to hear these 'Reassuring Lies' they are giving them to us in return for our votes in election time. Is this a fair trade? Personally no! However, usually this ends up coming back to haunt them as, after they are elected into office, they cannot go through with what they offered. Personally I believe its time that the population begins asking for the 'Inconvenient Truth' rather than a 'Reassuring Lie' so that the government is not built on lies and deceit so that the population knows what each politician really has to offer!
(Top Image by Mois taken from http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/opinion/national-politics/)
(Bottom image by Bennett taken from http://www.skepticalscience.com/SkS-Weekly-digest_11.html)
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