Tag: first dog

Humour

No cranks allowed at Abbott’s climate consensus centre: $4m for Bjørn Lomborg to lead the way on climate change? Not a problem for the Tony government, or for Australia’s ‘scientists’

Get the van, Craig.

Humour

Why live in the Nauru Tropical Containment Centre when you could live in Cambodia! Come to Cambodia, a land of no stray dogs and quality healthcare. Here is a fact sheet all about it that we have totally made up

first dog cambodia

Humour

This week’s hot picks in definitely not pirated television and film :Why do Australians refuse to pay for shows the rest of the world gets cheaper and sooner than the rest of us?

Offshore this!

Humour

You’re an Ibis? You want to work on Nauru? Where do you see yourself in five years?:When Gordon the unemployed Ibis accidentally applies for a job with Nauru operator Transfield Services, he gets more than he bargained for

First Dog on the Moon

Humour

A racist carrot reclaims Australia One morning, a carrot woke up and felt even more racist than usual. Then he discovered that Australia was facing an insidious threat

Free speech!

Humour

Won’t somebody think of the swift parrots?: Tasmania’s swift parrot population faces imminent collapse. Luckily there is a selfie-taking threatened species commissioner in the wings

First Dog on the Moon

Humour

NSW election: this state is full of wasps and weird birds and why won’t they leave me alone?: Another month, another election. Are the citizens of NSW angrier about having their sandwiches stolen in a park, or privatisation? Only time will tell

NSW

Humour

NSW election: an exclusive look inside First Dog’s exclusive look at democracy:I arrived in Sydney on Tuesday with an open mind and left having learned a lot about the election. That’s definitely what happened

One doggacino, please.

Uncategorized

Listen up, white people Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are being closed because they’re “unviable”. No, it’s not all about you, white people

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Humour

The rise and fall and rise and fall again of the Palmer United party Glenn Lazarus has broken up with Clive Palmer, but he’s just the latest flea to jump off the PUP

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Humour

The Intergenerational report: why doesn’t it mention penguins? The report’s flawed assumptions mean it ignored the important issues: pilchard tastiness, seal proliferation, and reality

First Dog 09 March

Humour

Lifestyle choices of the rich and racist:When did we become a nation of dirty rotten lifestyle choosers? Here are some of the other lifestyle choices lazy and greedy Australians are making

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Humour

First Dog: Facts about how data retention is bad in an easy and fun to consume format An exciting First Dog on the Moon community service announcement – because you people don’t seem to understand that data retention is mass surveillance and also bad

first dog data retention

Humour

Children in detention: how to make it (the report, not the ‘abuse’) go away From Gillian Triggs to nasty questions in the Senate, you need to do more than just sing “LALALALALALA I can’t hear you!” to manage criticism

Seriously though, call the cops.

Prime Minister

Reform is really hard : Beleaguered and embattled prime minister Tony Abbott attempts to make a not completely terrible career-saving speech

Beleaguered and embattled prime minister Tony Abbott attempts to make a not completely terrible career-saving speech

Reform is really hard

Humour

First Dog:. It’s time to play #spill the Liberal party leadership democracy . Left out of all the action in Canberra? Print out First Dog’s super-fun spill boardgame and make your own captain’s picks

Spill The Rerun First Dog on the Moon

Asylum Seekers

First Dog: seriously though, this refugee stuff is so boring Hey do you remember when that boatload of Sri Lankan asylum seekers got intercepted last year? Me neither

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Abbott

The thoroughly humiliating and extremely satisfying demise of Tony Abbott

Firstdog Abbottdemise FINAL

This political obituary is tastefully embargoed until Tony Abbott’s prime ministerial scone plops into the basket

Abbott

Reform is really hard

Reform is really hard

Beleaguered and embattled prime minister Tony Abbott attempts to make a not completely terrible career-saving speech

Humour, Politics

It’s hot! It’s Queensland! There’s an election! :The story so far… in 2012 an election happened in Queensland. Now another is happening. What’s different? This time, First Dog is there

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Humour, Politics

Will we still love Medicare in 2165?: First Dog on the Moon

firstdog medispace

It’s 150 years in the future and this is your Undersea Medispace Hyperclinic

Humour

A love letter to Medicare : First Dog

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Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo: Cartoonists don’t live by the sword, we live by the pen

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Pope Francis

First Dog on the Moon on Pope Francis – cartoon

First Dog on the Moon 02.01.15

Xmas Message

A Christmas message from Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin

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Victorian Election

Victorian elections: would you vote for a truther possum?

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ABC

ABC cuts: this government is looking out for people No cuts to education, no cuts to health … and no cuts to the ABC or SBS.

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Western Australia. Indigenous double cross

Listen up, white people Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are being closed because they’re “unviable”. No, it’s not all about you, white people

firstdog whitepeople

Wind farm sickness

First Dog on the Moon: do you have windfarm inquiry sickness?

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G20

Cringing Climate and Them

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Asylum Seekers, National Interest

This could be declared against “national Interest” and get me 5 years jail. What is the “national interest” today and who defines it?

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Humour, ISIS, Islamophobia, Media

Isis has sent a heartfelt letter of encouragement to the west. We give you the best extract

First Dog on the Moon on … Isis’s letter to the west

theguardian.com, Wednesday 24 September 2014 15.40 AES
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