Penguin Books Australia

Alan Moir is one of Australia's wittiest and most insightful political cartoonists, and in this superb new collection, Are We Nearly There Yet?, he dissects the new Labor era in his own inimitable way.

From Kevin Rudd's extraordinary election victory over John Howard in 2007 to the election of 2010, Moir tells the story of this change from conservative governments to, well, slightly less conservative...

Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images...