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...detail from Peter Kuper's "Sticks and Stones...
...Jurgis stands in the shadow of death in Peter Kuper's adapatation of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle...
...Peter Kuper's dedication to using comix to foment social change, or at least keep social inequities on the table, makes him one of a long history of politically aware comix makers. Of his two latest books, "Sticks and Stones" will likely age as poorly as the anti-Nixon spoofs from the underground era, but "The Jungle" successfully mixes both artistic and political agendas into a new work of engaged literature...
...Howard painted it from the start as a choice between the tried and the untested, and by the end of the campaign's first week, polls showed the Coalition gaining ground. Still, it wasn't a clear run for the government. Treasurer Peter Costello was forced yet again to deny interest in the leadership, and a group of senior economists publicly chided the government with a claim that interest rates were likely to rise after the poll whatever the result. It was in the second week that the race really fired, with the first big policy punches - Labor announcing...
...every time Labor championed health and education reform, the government retorted with its economic record. Into the final weeks of the campaign, whether it was Peter Costello announcing a GST windfall to state governments, advertisements depicting Latham as an "L-plate" financial manager who had left disaster in his wake after a 1990s stint as mayor of Sydney's Liverpool council, or Labor's timetable for submitting its policies for Treasury costing, economic stability was the government's mantra. At its campaign launch in Brisbane's stately City Hall on Sept. 26, before a crowd waving Australian flags, Howard unveiled...