How I became a player in the dark and mysterious politics of cassowary conservation | First Dog on the Moon

I single handedly saved the cassowaries with quite a lot of help from loads of other people who did all the work. Also, they're not saved. Yet

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Last week I did this cartoon about cassowaries, I had been meaning to do it for ages and it turned out to be quite timely. I unwittingly became a player in the dark and mysterious politics of cassowary conservation.

In January of this year I went to Brisbane for the Queensland state election and I did a different cartoon in which I unkindly suggested that a cassowary would make a better premier than either Campbell Newman or Annastacia Palaszczuk. How prescient.