First Dog on the Moon

First Dog on the Moon provides his unique perspective on events in Australia and around the world. Mr Onthemoon is Australia's only Walkley award-winning marsupial-based cartoonist and has done all sorts of things including books, radio, stage shows and a lot of lying down

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Pain
The pain and terror of these bushfires cannot be held in a single human heart
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January 3
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The Teenies: the worst decade in history? What was the defining thingo?
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Dec 20, 2019
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The Greta Thunberg Lovely award for driving bitter old white men apoplectic goes to ...
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Dec 18, 2019
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What would Jesus do? Things you're allowed to do if the religious discrimination bill passes
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Dec 17, 2019
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A thank you to First Dog on the Moon readers
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Dec 13, 2019
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There's an unprecedented environmental catastrophe and the Greens still can't get votes
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Dec 11, 2019
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THERE’S A WAR ON CHRISTMAS! (and if there isn’t we’ll start one)
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Dec 9, 2019
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Living through endless weeks of dirty air – it does your head in and your lungs
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Dec 4, 2019
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Oh my holly-filled trousers it's Christmas! So much SHOPPING! But wait!
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CHRISTMAS! CHRIMBO! BABY JESUS’ BIRTHDAY! Oh my holly-filled trousers there is so much to DO! So much SHOPPING! But wait! This year why not show your loved ones you really love them with the perfect gift.
Dec 3, 2019
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You know you're not legally required to like Jeremy Corbyn in order to vote for him right?
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Dec 3, 2019
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We get it, farming is hard, but if you can't make a go of it without killing 420 wedge-tailed eagles ...
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Nov 29, 2019
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Serial gateist Angus Taylor and the mystery of the faked documents
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Nov 27, 2019
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Ecoterrorism? Maybe we should start with ringing the doorbell of a mining magnate’s house
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Nov 25, 2019
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Australia
Are Australian banks and businesses free to do whatever they want? It certainly feels like it
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Nov 22, 2019
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Robodebt's methods are not just deliberately cruel - they may be against the law
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Robodebt was designed to work badly, and it did its job with ruthless inefficiency
Nov 21, 2019
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First Dog on the Moon's day out at the show with dogs adorably doing high jump
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On Saturday morning we parked the ute in the paddock behind the Anglican church in Ranelagh and took the shuttle bus about a kilometre down the road to the 2019 Huonville Agricultural Show. We had a lovely
Nov 18, 2019
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Manus Island
Here are some of the real quiet Australians
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Nov 15, 2019
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We mustn’t bring politics into the disastrous situation that was created by ... wait for it ... POLITICS
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Should we only talk about climate change outside the fire season? That’ll soon be one (single) Thursday in July (at long as it’s raining)
Nov 13, 2019
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It’s time! The ALP are doing some soul-searching to figure out how they so completely screwed up
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Nov 8, 2019
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I’m on the hunt for a new weather app, and I have a few fancy requirements
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I live in rural and regional Australia so I need an app that just works. Here are First Dog on the Moon’s top 10 iOS weather apps How good is the weather?! Everyone loves the weather but it will also to
Nov 6, 2019
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Is the Melbourne Cup so bad that even Australians can't handle it anymore? Even Taylor Swift cancelled!
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Nov 4, 2019
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Pademelons moved into our garden and while they were adorable they simply would not leave, and then ...
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Nov 1, 2019
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All that perfectly good water dumped into the ocean like some sort of enormous NATURE TOILET!
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And the people who got us here are screaming the loudest about how unfair it all is
Oct 30, 2019
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Will the brave and clever sulphur-crested cockatoo win bird of the year? Did a cockatoo write this?
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If you vote 1 emus they can keep boring everyone with stories of how they won TWO wars against the Australian army
Oct 28, 2019
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Uluru is a very important place, it's not Disneyland
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Oct 25, 2019
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Boris Johnson is trying to will Brexit into existence with every strand of his deliberately unfeasible hair
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It has gone horribly wrong from the very beginning and yet it just keeping going painfully, hilariously on and on and on
Oct 23, 2019
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Welcome to the Men's Rights Activists Seething Divorced Resentful Fathers Support Group
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With Pauline Hanson’s help we’ll finally have an inquiry into how the family court system is run by a coven of misandrists
Oct 4, 2019
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Stay relaxed and comfortable, the government knows exactly where you are at all times always
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Oct 2, 2019
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THE GRETA THUNBERG PROBLEM, so many men freaking out about the tiny Swedish climate demon
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Sep 27, 2019