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Cartoonists shine in unstable and disruptive political year

‘Behind the Lines 2017: The Three Ring Circus’ – an exhibition celebrating the role of political

cartoonists in Australia – was today unveiled at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old

Parliament House (MoAD).

The exhibition showcases the year’s best political cartoons, highlighting themes of freedom of the

press and democracy in action, and features work from John Shakespeare, David Rowe, Michael

Leunig, Cathy Wilcox and Mark Knight, among others.

“What better way to reflect on the tumultuous political year - from postal votes and citizenship chaos,

to penalty rates and constitutional recognition – than through the art form of political cartoons,” said

MoAD’s Director Daryl Karp.

“Behind the Lines 2017 showcases the spirit of Australia’s democracy in all its passion, scepticism

and humour.”

Holly Williams, curator of Behind the Lines 2017, said the theme for this year’s exhibition captures

the fascination the political year attracts.

“The Three Ring Circus represents a world where fact and fiction collide and ringmasters, jugglers and

acrobats have all stepped into the political big top,” said Ms Williams.

“It was a wild, entertaining, confusing and engrossing year that lends itself beautifully to the talents

of our cartoonists.”

Political cartoonist David Rowe claimed 2017’s Political Cartoonist of the Year award as part of the

launch of Behind the Lines 2017.

“David Rowe has met the events both at home and abroad with a dark intensity and unflinching pen.

The figures he draws become lurid, bordering on the grotesque as he gives visual form to our uneasy

feelings on the state of the world,” Ms Williams said.

An editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review, David has captured Australia’s political

landscape with bold brush strokes and biting humour since the late 80s.

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“It is wonderful to be recognised for your work, particularly during such an extraordinary year in

politics. The election of Donald Trump and the way local politics has played out in 2017 has given

political cartoonists so much material,” Mr Rowe said.

Behind the Lines 2017: The Three Ring Circus will be open to the public on Saturday 25 November

2017. Entry to the exhibition is free after museum admission. A travelling version of the exhibition will

also tour the following regional areas:

Tamworth Regional Gallery – 15 December 2017 to 4 February 2018

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery – 10 February to 29 March 2018

Parramatta Riverside Theatre – 11 April to 6 June 2018

Albury Library Museum – 23 June to 14 August 2018

Old Treasury Building, Melbourne – 27 August to 15 October 2018

Bunker Cartoon Gallery, Coffs Harbour – 26 October to 2 December 2018.

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Interview opportunities:

David Rowe, Behind the Lines 2017 Political Cartoonist of the Year

Daryl Karp, Director, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House

Holly Williams, Behind the Lines 2017 curator

Libby Stewart, Behind the Lines 2017 Executive Producer

Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post

Accompanying material:

The curator’s top five cartoons are available to download via Dropbox. Images must be used

with the credit provided:

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High res versions of other cartoons in the exhibition can be supplied on request

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EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Roll up, roll up to Behind the Lines 2017 and marvel at the political cartooning spectacle that

is The Three Ring Circus.

Showcasing the year’s best political cartoons, The Three Ring Circus captures a world where

fact and fiction collide and ringmasters, jugglers and acrobats have all stepped into the

political Big Top.

This year provided a cavalcade of political characters and plenty of sensational events to

capture the imagination of cartoonists and the public alike. There was citizenship chaos, calls

for constitutional reform and a postal plebiscite. The federal Budget caught attention with its

invitation to consider both ‘good debt’ and ‘bad debt’ and Donald Trump dominated front

pages with his compelling Twitter habit and outspoken responses.

With its many tumultuous events, 2017 was another rich year for our nation’s political

cartoonists who continue look behind the lines of the daily political sideshows to capture the

spirit of our democracy in all its passion, scepticism and humour.

Behind the Lines 2017 opens at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament

House (MoAD) on 25 November 2017.

MoAD is open 9am to 5pm daily. Entry to the exhibition is free after museum entry.

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2017 POLITICAL CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR: DAVID ROWE

Each year the Behind the Lines curatorial team review hundreds of political cartoons to

determine the cartoonist whose body of creative work best captures the mood and events of

the year. This year the Museum of Australian Democracy was delighted to announce David

Rowe as the 2017 Political Cartoonist of the Year for his consistently intelligent, insightful and

unique work.

David Rowe is a multi-award winning editorial cartoonist for the Australian Financial Review.

He has been capturing Australia’s political landscape with bold brush strokes, extraordinary

detail and biting humour since the late 80s.

This year’s exhibition includes an entire section of work dedicated to the 2017 Political

Cartoonist of the Year.

David Rowe Behind the Lines 2017 Hero Cartoon

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EXTRACT FROM DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION IN EXHIBITION

CATALOGUE - DARYL KARP

Laughter in troubling times

Australia has a strong democracy. Our traditions of free speech and a free media are deeply

ingrained in our political life, as is again demonstrated by this year’s crop of the best political

cartoons. And, yet, there is a sense that these are troubling times. Australians’ trust in their

politicians and institutions – including the media – continues to be eroded. Political groupings

of all persuasions seem unable to offer effective solutions to complex issues, and the

international situation seems more uncertain than at any time since the end of the Cold War.

Despite this, or perhaps because of it, cartoonists this year have responded to the political

milieu with glee and we have reacted to their work with laughter, sometimes tinged with

apprehension.

Political cartooning is part of a resilient democracy

At the Museum of Australian Democracy, our appreciation of the cartoonists’ skill is deepened

by the relevance of their work to issues that we engage with daily. Their audience, and visitors

to this exhibition, are empowered to read the day’s headlines secure in the knowledge that

we have a resilient democracy and we can shape our future as active citizens. For the Museum,

2017 was a year to look back as well as forward as our home, Old Parliament House,

celebrated its 90th birthday – a reminder of just how strong and stable our institutions are.

Now over 20 years old and still vibrantly strong, Behind the Lines is almost an institution in

its own right. Our Behind the Lines Political Cartoonist of the Year award is almost as

longstanding. Behind the Lines is an important part of what we do: celebrating our Australian

democracy and the power of our voices in it.

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EHXIBITION CURATOR HOLLY WILLIAMS ON ‘THE THREE RING

CIRCUS’

The theme

The Three Ring Circus, first coined as a term in 1881 for simultaneous performances, now

includes the definition as something wild, confusing, engrossing, or entertaining. As the

theme for this year’s Behind the Lines, the three-ring circus captures the feeling of a world

where fact and fiction seemingly collide.

Our cartoonists have been busy capturing this spirit of surprise and turbulence. As academics

Robert Phiddian and Haydon Manning remind us, “cartoons tell truth to power in ways power

would rather not hear”, something which lingered in the back of my mind when these

cartoons were being selected. The circus-based themes this year explore some of the

successes and failures of our democratic system – the persistence of free speech, the

pressures of lobby groups and the political wheeling and dealing under the glare of the media

spotlight.

Declining numbers

With the changing media landscape, fewer cartoonists are gracing the dwindling pages of

our daily newspapers. Their work is just as likely to be found on their social media feeds, or

sadly not at all. We are still fortunate to have the keen intelligence and rich visual skills of

some of finest in their craft.

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EXTRACTS FROM BEHIND THE LINES 2017 CATOLOGUE

FOREWORD - CATHY WILCOX: CARTOONIST OF YEAR 2016

Cartooning in a changing era

“What a year. What a ride! I’m not sure if political cartooning got easier or harder in the past

year, but it sure got faster and crazier.

The ‘easier’ thing about it, arguably, is that there’s been so much material to work with and

the proverbial blank page has never languished for more than a few minutes before a crowd

of possible themes competes to fill it.

The ‘harder’ thing is that the print news industry has continued to suffer ever

greater ‘disruption’ from a plethora of alternative news sources; and the continuing

Cathy Wilcox Super Housing The Sydney Morning Herald 21 April 2017

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challenge to monetise online content, which has led to tough decisions being made about

what can be afforded – and cartoonists have definitely suffered from the cuts.

This year has seen some of our greatest cartoonists have the chair pulled out from under

them in full or in part. (Alan Moir has been cut down to one day per week; Glen Le Lievre’s

spots in Fairfax have gone; as have Pat Campbell’s from the Canberra Times and regionals,

and Peter Broelman’s from Fairfax regional ...) Despite their award-winning brilliance, the bean

counters have deemed them dispensable. Only Bill Leak’s departure from News Limited, albeit

not in a manner or at a time of his choosing, cannot be attributed to cost cutting. May he rest

in peace.

Politics and personalities

Our politicians appropriate the ‘fake news’ meme, they mine the playbook of how to spin

‘alternative facts’, how to insidiously undermine opponents and how to hijack the latest

cultural idiom – identity politics, for example – and turn it back on its original user.

It remains the job of the cartoonist and the satirist to point out this is not normal, that ones

fake, and this person is lying. But we do so amid increasing undermining of the credibility of

mainstream news and the politicising of institutions that were previously held to be above

politics, like the Australian Human Rights Commission and the judiciary. This way lies

totalitarianism – as we see in practice in countries like Turkey, Malaysia and Iran – and

cartoonists are often visible casualties of that system.

The challenge for cartoonists

The challenge for political cartoonists is not only to look behind the lines of the daily political

games, but also to step further back and see what our politicians are really doing and how

that affects us. There are a thousand realities, and folly in all extremes, and we’re just dumb

humans performing the same tricks and making the same mistakes.

And so here’s the aptly named ‘Circus’ of our year in politics – perceived, analysed,

reinterpreted, exposed.

You have to admire cartoonists for finding new metaphors for the same old sideshow.”

Cathy Wilcox, Cartoonist

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CURATOR’S TOP FIVE CARTOONS – AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA USE

High-resolution images of the curator’s top five cartoons are available via Dropbox:

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Supplied photo credits must accompany publication.

CURATOR’S TOP FIVE CARTOONS: Image thumbnails, captions and credits

Credit:

Matt Golding Taking the Lead The Sunday Age 18 March 2017 Curator’s comments: Taking some of the most banal objects in daily life – the power board and the double plug – Matt Golding has succinctly summed up the complexity of the nation’s power dilemma.

Credit: Glen Le Lievre On a Roll Crikey 28 March 2017 Curator’s comments: Le Lievre’s cigar smoking fat cat presents a Sisyphean task for our PM. Drawn with a beautiful visual style featuring lovely little elements like the falling top hat, the bursting coat jacket and the cat’s smile we can almost feel sympathetic for Turnbull’s plight as he struggles under the pressure of big business interests.

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Credit: Cathy Wilcox Great Barrier Greef The Sydney Morning Herald 16 April 2017 Curator’s comments: While the debate rages in the media and in parliament, after record-breaking coral bleaching last summer Cathy Wilcox invites us to consider the long-term repercussions of our actions and what we stand to lose.

Credit: Alan Moir Closing the Gap The Sydney Morning Herald 16 February 2017 Curator’s comments: Moir’s poignant image, set under a night sky - which doubles as the Australian Flag - shows the huge distance that still needs to be bridged with Indigenous equality. This cartoon pricks the heart and the conscience.

Credit: David Rowe Behind the Lines 2017 – Hero Cartoon Curator’s comments: Although this cartoon doesn’t feature the painterly background Rowe’s work is often known for, it is full of the detail and sophisticated composition that he brings to his practice. Some of my favourite elements are the airy motifs he has peppered across the cartoon which give a great sense of movement. The air in Bill Shorten’s umbrella, the wind turbine and the flying Twitter birds, the precarious rope Trump is balanced on all give the feeling of being high above the ground, but for me it is the wind in Trump’s coat tails that sets the whole scene off.

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EXHIBITION THEMES

Behind the Lines 2017 reflects on the political year that was. The exhibition is presented in

eight themes:

ROLL UP! ROLL UP!

‘Roll up, roll up, to the Greatest Show on Earth!’ Yet again, the last year in politics has provided

plenty of sensational events to capture the imagination of cartoonists. During July and

August, the origins of politicians who were caught out by the Constitution’s Section 44

became a daily news item. The federal Budget caught attention with its invitation to consider

both ‘good debt’ and ‘bad debt’ – and then there were the rising power bills. Though rich in

fossil fuels, wind and sunshine, Australia, as our cartoonists suggest, may risk being energy

poor.

Brett Lethbridge Sitting Pat The Courier Mail 20 August 2017

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PLAYING TO THE CROWD

A good performer knows how to play to their audience. Successful politicians have always

had a feel for the crowd. Here are some of the year’s headline grabbers on everything from

touchy topics like new citizen tests to the intriguing syndrome of ‘alternative facts’.

Jon Kudelka Taking the Yeast The Australian 21 April 2017

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MONKEY BUSINESS

Some call them ‘scandals’, others, ‘events’. It wouldn’t be a year in politics without either. And

while any ‘event’ may, or may not, be a ‘scandal’, many attract attention. Pay rises for the local

member and negative gearing are hot topics for the ‘pub test’. And for cartoonists there is

fun to be had with serious issues like affordable housing, in light of many politicians having

an investment property … or six.

Peter MacMullin Death and Taxes The Sunday Mail 14 January 2017

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THE LION’S ROAR

When lion’s roar, they expect to be heard. We explore how cartoonists speak truth to power,

while tap-dancing across a shifting media landscape. This year saw First Dog on the Moon’s

cartoons increase in word count and, at times, despair as he develops his role as activist

agitator – a possible trajectory for the political cartoonist that is perceptively charted by

Andrew Weldon. Challenging issues continued to emerge, such as lack of progress on

Indigenous disadvantage and the reception of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Cathy Wilcox Indigenous Voice The Sydney Morning Herald 29 May 2017

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ELEPHANT IN THE BIG TOP

Sidestepping tricky issues in the media is a politician’s stock in trade. This year there was no

shortage of complex problems to challenge political figures as they chose when and if they

would be pinned down. Rising economic inequality, record bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef

and Australia’s contribution to global carbon emissions all featured strongly. However the

biggest ‘elephant’ was surely the irrepressible presence of Tony Abbott.

Andrew Weldon Adani Barney The Big Issue 9 June 2017

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GLOBAL RINGMASTERS

Since his inauguration in January, barely a day has gone by without the President of the

United States, Donald Trump, dominating front pages around the world. With his compelling

Twitter habit and outspoken responses to issues, Trump became one of the most visible faces

of the year. Cartoonists have focused on Trump and his blustering public exchanges with

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, provoking slightly nervous laughter from us in this

worrying state of affairs.

Christopher Downes President Trunbull Mercury 6 February 2017

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JUGGLERS AND ACROBATS

All eyes were on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull this year as he showed the skills of juggler,

acrobat and even contortionist to manage the factions and pressure groups across his party.

Eliciting our sympathy, Jon Kudelka’s mid-year cartoon captures the fraught position of the

major parties’ leaders with their respective ‘monkey’s of leaders past’ on their backs. Our

Prime Minister was not alone in requiring major people-management skills.

Jon Kudelka Monkey Business The Australian 21 July 2017

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HUMAN CANNONBALLS

The daredevil fired out of a cannon was one of the greatest thrills at the circus. The age of

the internet has replaced this spectacle with the extraordinary velocity deployed by some to

catch the public’s attention. The politicians here are notable for their having established

compelling personal brands that propel them into the public eye and political debate.

Mark Knight Untitled Herald Sun 20 July 2017

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dean Alston

Dean Alston is an editorial cartoonist for The West Australian. A past Walkley Award winner

for best cartoon, Alston has also worked as a cartographer and publican.

Peter Broelman

Peter Broelman is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist based in Adelaide. He has won

three Stanley awards for his editorial cartoons and, in 2005 and 2009, was awarded the

prestigious Gold Stanley award for Cartoonist of the Year. His work appears in regional

newspapers such as the Illawarra Mercury and Sunshine Coast Daily, amongst others.

Warren Brown

Warren Brown is the editorial cartoonist for The Daily Telegraph, for which he also writes a

weekly motoring column. Brown has won three Stanley awards for best editorial cartoon.

Pat Campbell

Pat Campbell is a cartoonist and illustrator. Campbell worked for The Canberra Times until

recently and Fairfax Media for 20 years. He has illustrated for various publications,

government departments and organisations such as the Australian Competition and

Consumer Commission, Macworld, Law Institute of Victoria and numerous design groups. He

is a Walkley Award winner, has won seven Stanley awards and was a recipient of the Bill

Mitchell Award for Young Cartoonist.

Christopher Downes

Christopher Downes lives in Hobart where he has been drawing cartoons for the Mercury

since 2010. He never expected that one day he would be a political cartoonist, but he is and

is stupidly happy about it.

Andrew Dyson

Andrew Dyson is a cartoonist and columnist for the Melbourne Age and The Sunday Age.

Danny Eastwood

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Danny Eastwood is a member of the Ngemba Tribe of western New South Wales. His mother

was a member of the Stolen Generations. Danny was born in Sydney and lived in the Eora

tribal area until he was 13.

Eastwood retired from the fire brigade after having had a stroke at age 52 and has since made

his living as an artist for more than two decades, doing commercial work, including cartoons

for the Koori Mail and jobs for companies like Coca-Cola.

Eastwood has won numerous awards for his artwork, including NAIDOC Artist of the Year, the

NAIDOC poster competition and the Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize.

First Dog on the Moon

First Dog on the Moon – also known as Andrew Marlton – wants everyone to know he has

won a Walkley and is a lovely fellow. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for Guardian

Australia.

Lindsay Foyle

Lindsay Foyle has been drawing cartoons professionally since 1975. He was deputy editor of

The Bulletin in the 1980s and worked on The Australian from 1996 to 2009 as a journalist and

cartoonist. He is currently working as a freelance cartoonist while writing books on Australian

cartooning. He also paints and his entry in the 2009 Glover Prize was exhibited.

Matt Golding

Matt Golding is a freelance cartoonist based in Melbourne and draws for The Sunday Age. He

has won a Walkley Award and seven Stanley awards. His first book, Three-second thoughts,

was published in 2009.

Judy Horacek

Judy Horacek is a freelance cartoonist and picture-book creator. Her cartoons have been

published widely in newspapers and magazines, including The Australian, The Canberra Times

and The Sydney Morning Herald. They currently appear regularly in The Age.

Fiona Katauskas

Fiona Katauskas is a freelance cartoonist based in Sydney. Her political work has been

published in a wide range of newspapers and magazines and currently appears regularly New

Matilda and Eureka Street.

Mark Knight

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Mark Knight is an editorial cartoonist for the Herald Sun and the Sunday Herald Sun. Knight

previously worked for the Australian Financial Review and the Melbourne Herald.

Jon Kudelka

Jon Kudelka is a freelance cartoonist based in Hobart. His work appears in The Australian, the

Hobart Mercury and on his website, www.kudelka.com.au. In 2008, Kudelka won a Walkley

Award for best cartoon and a Stanley Award for best political cartoonist.

Sean Leahy

Sean Leahy is a political cartoonist for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane and also writes and draws

the comic strip Beyond the Black Stump. He was previously cartoonist for Brisbane’s Sunday

Mail, Sunday Sun and the Daily Sun, as well as Perth’s Sunday Times and The West Australian.

In 2000, Leahy was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to undertake research into cartooning

overseas.

Glen Le Lievre

Glen Le Lievre is a cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald, the Melbourne Age and The

Sun-Herald. After a decade working in the United States, he now lives in Sydney. His drawings

have also appeared in Time, MAD, Playboy, Private Eye, Reader’s Digest and The New Yorker.

Le Lievre has previously been nominated for Walkley and Reuben awards and has won a

Stanley Award as best Single Gag Artist.

Brett Lethbridge

Brett Lethbridge is the illustrator and cartoonist for The Courier-Mail and The Sunday Mail in

Queensland. After working for a couple of decades he can confidently say that this is the best

of times for political source material.

Michael Leunig

Michael Leunig is an Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet whose

commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than 40 years. His newspaper

work appears regularly in the Melbourne Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He describes

his approach as regressive, humorous, messy, mystical, primal and vaudevillian.

Peter MacMullin

Peter MacMullin is an editorial cartoonist for Adelaide’s Sunday Mail. He previously worked

as a designer, illustrator and cartoonist for The Australian between 1990 and 1999 and for

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The Advertiser between 1999 and 2010. MacMullin has won three South Australian Media

awards for his artwork.

Alan Moir

Alan Moir is an editorial cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald. He has also worked for

The Bulletin and The Courier-Mail. He has won three Stanley awards, two Walkley awards and

the prestigious Gold Stanley.

Jim Pavlidis

Jim Pavlidis has been at The Age as a press artist, designer and illustrator/cartoonist in two

stints since 1987. His gap years of 1995–98 were spent at The Independent and the Daily Mail

newspapers in London, and at the Paris Free Voice. He won a Melbourne Press Club Quill

Award for best artwork in 2015.

David Pope

David Pope draws cartoons for The Canberra Times.

David Rowe

David Rowe is a daily editorial cartoonist for The Australian Financial Review. He also

occasionally creates satirical sculptures. Rowe has won numerous awards for his political

cartooning.

John Shakespeare

John Shakespeare is a Walkley Award-winning illustrator and cartoonist for The Sydney

Morning Herald. He has previously worked for The Courier-Mail and the Sydney Sun.

Greg Smith

Greg Smith is editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and Perth’s community newspaper

group. He previously worked for the Daily News.

Ron Tandberg

Ron Tandberg was first published in the Melbourne Age in 1972 and is famous for his pocket

cartoons. He is the winner of eight Walkley awards for best cartoon and two prestigious Gold

Walkley awards.

Andrew Weldon

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Andrew Weldon is a freelance cartoonist whose work appears regularly in Melbourne’ Age

and Sunday Age, and The Big Issue. His work has also appeared in publications including The

New Yorker, The Spectator and Private Eye. Weldon has published several children's books

including the Don’t look now series with Paul Jennings, as well as two collections of his

cartoons.

Cathy Wilcox

Cathy Wilcox is a cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald. She has

published two collections of her cartoons and has illustrated numerous children’s books.

Wilcox has won two Walkley awards for cartooning, an award from the National Museum of

Australia for political cartooning and three Stanley awards for single gag and political

cartoons.

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BEHIND THE LINES 2017: Image thumbnails and reference number

1 David Rowe Walking Dead The Australian Financial Review 9 May 2017

2 Jon Kudelka Better Not Pout The Australian 8 May 2017

3 Dean Alston Acceptable Gay Marriage The West Australian 1 August 2017

4 Andrew Weldon Gas Crisis The Big Issue 30 March 2017

5 Matt Golding Taking the Lead The Sunday Age 18 March 2017

6 Cathy Wilcox Fair Enough The Sydney Morning Herald 22 June 2017

7 Warren Brown Goneski The Daily Telegraph 3 May 2017

8 Brett Lethbridge Sitting Pat The Courier-Mail 20 August 2017

9 Lindsay Foyle Scrambled New Matilda 14 August 2017

10 Matt Golding The Dual-Citizenship Flagpole The Sunday Age 30 July 2017

11 Fiona Katauskas Taking Offence Eureka Street 21 March 2017

12 Jon Kudelka Liberum Oratio The Australian 27 March 2017

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13 Fiona Katauskas First Among Equals Eureka Street 24 January 2017

14 Jon Kudelka B(o)at Signal The Australian 22 May 2017

15 Jon Kudelka Taking the Yeast The Australian 21 April 2017

16 Glen Le Lievre Test Revised The Sun-Herald 23 April 2017

17 Warren Brown Testing Times The Daily Telegraph 21 April 2017

18 Danny Eastwood Happy NAIDOC – Our Languages Matter Koori Mail 12 July 2017

19 Michael Leunig Politician The Age 23 August 2017

20 Andrew Weldon Pundits The Big Issue 12 April 2017

21 Alan Moir Banks The Sydney Morning Herald 17 May 2017

22 Cathy Wilcox Communists The Sydney Morning Herald 8 June 2017

23 Mark Knight Untitled Herald Sun 7 June 2017

24 Jon Kudelka Daisy, Daisy The Australian 12 January 2017

25 Peter MacMullin Death and Taxes The Sunday Mail 14 January 2017

26 Ron Tandberg Clearing the Room The Age 10 March 2017

27 Peter Broelman Pollie Payrise Syndicated 24 June 2017

28 Peter Broelman Mc Barnaby's Syndicated 2 March 2017

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29 Ron Tandberg Balancing the Budget The Age 4 April 2017

30 Sean Leahy Corporate Caring and Sharing The Courier-Mail 3 April 2017

31 Judy Horacek Climate Scientists The Age 27 January 2017

32 Andrew Dyson Helping Hand The Age 2 June 2017

33 Alan Moir Closing the Gap The Sydney Morning Herald 16 February 2017

34 Danny Eastwood Closing the Gap, Government Style Koori Mail 26 July 2017

35 Andrew Weldon Journalists after Newspapers The Big Issue 27 May 2017

36 Mark Knight Untitled Herald Sun 20 June 2017

37 Cathy Wilcox Indigenous Voice The Sydney Morning Herald 29 May 2017

38 David Pope Constitutional Recognition Day The Canberra Times 25 May 2017

39 Fiona Katauskas Unreconciled Eureka Street 30 May 2017

40 First Dog on the Moon Tudging the Children Guardian Australia 4 March 2017

41 First Dog on the Moon Why Am I Like This? I Blame My Mum Guardian Australia 27 July 2017

42 David Rowe Morning, Malcolm The Australian Financial Review 27 February 2017

43 Andrew Weldon Adani Barney The Big Issue 9 June 2017

44 Cathy Wilcox Adani The Sydney Morning Herald 2 June 2017

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45 Andrew Weldon What Will We Say to Our Children? The Big Issue 12 May 2017

46 Glen Le Lievre Debbie Crikey 29 March 2017

47 David Pope Global Risks The Canberra Times 16 January 2017

48 Cathy Wilcox Great Barrier Greef The Sydney Morning Herald 16 April 2017

49 Cathy Wilcox Super Housing The Sydney Morning Herald 21 April 2017

50 Jon Kudelka Fair’s Fair The Australian 22 July 2017

51 Michael Leunig Bootstraps The Age 22 March 2017

52 Ron Tandberg Fair Go The Age 24 April 2017

53 Andrew Dyson Surprise Package The Age 8 June 2017

54 Andrew Dyson Four … Three … Two … Un The Age 2 May 2017

55 Andrew Weldon The Red Button The Big Issue 28 April 2017

56 Dean Alston The Ordue Hits the Fan The West Australian 12 April 2017

57 Sean Leahy Big Bang Theory The Courier-Mail 26 April 2017

58 Jim Pavlidis Paris Climate Accord The Age 6 June 2017

59 Pat Campbell No Laptops The Canberra Times 22 May 2017

60 Christopher DowneS President Trunbull Mercury 6 February 2017

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61 Greg Smith A Display of Character The West Australian 3 July 2017

62 David Rowe Clickety Clack The Australian Financial Review 3 July 2017

63 Glen Le Lievre On a Roll Crikey 28 March 2017

64 Glen Le Lievre Visitors Crikey 14 June 2017

65 Jon Kudelka It Ain’t Easy The Australian 19 July 2017

66 Judy Horacek Agree To Disagree The Age 8 June 2017

67 Pat Campbell Fudget Spinners The Canberra Times 29 May 2017

68 David Pope Revising the Narrative The Sydney Morning Herald 1 September 2017

69 Alan Moir I'm the Real Malcolm The Sydney Morning Herald 1 March 2017

70 Jon Kudelka Monkey Business The Australian 21 July 2017

71 Mark Knight Untitled Herald Sun 21 April 2017

72 John Shakespeare Make Australia … The Sydney Morning Herald 21 January 2017

73 John Shakespeare Let’s Twist Again The Sydney Morning Herald 22 July 2017

74 Matt Golding Circling Budgie Smugglers The Sunday Age 25 February 2017

75 Peter Broelman Mosul Smugglers Syndicated 12 July 2017

76 David Rowe Who’s With Me? The Australian Financial Review 7 February 2017

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77 David Rowe Come in, Come in The Australian Financial Review 18 July 2017

78 Mark Knight Untitled Herald Sun 20 July 2017

79 David Pope Mainstream Integration The Canberra Times 23 June 2017

80 Christopher Downes Putin on the Ritz Mercury 7 March 2017

81 Alan Moir Four Horsepersons The Sydney Morning Herald 9 March 2017

82 Cathy Wilcox Certidude (The Case Against) The Sydney Morning Herald 4 April 2017

83 David Rowe The Sniper The Australian Financial Review 28 June 2017

84 David Rowe Birds of Australia The Australian Financial Review 16 August 2017

85 David Rowe Such Are Lies The Australian Financial Review 23 April 2017

86 David Rowe Finkel Report The Australian Financial Review 14 June 2017

87 David Rowe Special, So Special The Australian Financial Review 2 February 2017

88 David Rowe Gonski Crock Monsieur The Australian Financial Review 20 June 2017