Background: we're having a federal election in July! It was announced on Mother's Day, and the following cartoons (the first from the day the election was announced, and the second from a few weeks into the campaign) are both from the same cartoonist Mark Knight.
Some side-notes:
- VCAA would never give you two visuals from the same source, and it's rare that you'd need to compare visuals anyway, but this week, I figured the best way for you to test your abilities in discerning the contentions of images was to play 'spot the difference,' so to speak :)
- The general arguments behind both of these cartoons are very similar, but there are some nuances worth discussing, so see how you go.
- You can refer to 'Cartoon 1' or 'the first cartoon' / 'Cartoon 2' or 'the second cartoon' if you need to compare them.
- For the uninitiated, the two 'heads' in both images (i.e. the eggs in C1 and the guys in suits in C2) are Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull - the leaders of the Labor Party and Liberal Party respectively.
Cartoon 1
(http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/e1351234ca08149c483dd1fbc2c6994c?width=1024&api_key=zw4msefggf9wdvqswdfuqnr5)
Cartoon 2
(http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/f700caa1bc432f2e39fa06450e832593?width=1024&api_key=zw4msefggf9wdvqswdfuqnr5)