Cole Calls For Downer, Vaile

THINGS just get worse for Alexander Downer. Lampooned by Indonesian cartoonists and under siege for his handling of the AWB kickbacks scandal, the Foreign Minister - along with Trade Minister Mark Vaile - has now been asked to supply a written statement to the Cole inquiry.

Ministers To Give Awb Statements

THINGS just get worse for Alexander Downer. Lampooned by Indonesian cartoonists and under siege for his handling of the AWB kickbacks scandal, the Foreign Minister - along with Trade Minister Mark Vaile - has now been asked to supply a written statement to the Cole inquiry.

The Art Of Drawing Comic Relief From World Of Politics

JEFF Kennett has a pretty good idea why he has been a cartoonists' favourite. "I was a personality," he says.

Prime Examples

He may lack any definable physical feature but John Howard has provided ample fodder for cartoonists during his decade in power, writes The Herald's Peter Lewis.

Howard's Great Achievement: A Contented Country

TEN years after he brought the Coalition back to power, the Prime Minister, John Howard, is remarkably unchanged. His hair is greyer, certainly, and trimmed closer. He wears spectacles with enormous frames only in the imagination of cartoonists these days; the stylists have got to him, and his vision is corrected by near-invisible frameless lenses. Yet he speaks the same ideas in the same voice now as then. He is not careworn or fatigued. He completes his power walk each morning with the same ...