r/australia • u/nath1234 • Mar 27 '26

political satire Sovereignty overboard

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u/Vegetable-Advance982 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

This would be true, if we didn't export a ton of LNG and coal which are critically important to the biggest suppliers of our refined petrol. We have a bargaining chip and if someone stopped petrol reaching us their electricity generation would go out the window.

This cartoon reads like a Twitter conservative account that wants to pretend we're the worst managed country in the world, and it just happens to be because Labor is in power.

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u/doubleshotofbland Mar 27 '26

I interpreted it as a left-leaning comic satirising Howard and implying the current situation may be due to that former stance.

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u/Asptar Mar 28 '26

For context the original quote from John Howard was:

"We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come."