Sloganology

Newcastle could be the place slogans come to die. One poster I saw in Belmont recently:

No War In Iraq!

Dated, 2002.
On the wall of the Community Arts Centre:

Vote 1 Beazley!

On the side of a building (under construction) in Charlestown:

Out John

And - most poignant of all - a sign I saw on a Union office just off Beaumont Street:

It's Over.

It was only afterwards that I saw the first two words, above that: Tell John

Newcastle, the most leftist, collectivised, unionised of all Australian cities - full of the echoes of past campaigns, littering the city, everywhere you go: past failures.

It's over

... But don't Tell John. Over and out.