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Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Running since 1996, the National Museum of Australia hosts the Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons exhibition. Every year, young Australian cartoonists are encouraged to enter the...
Comedy is central to Australian cultural identity. Comedy forms the basis of many forms of popular entertainment from live cabaret with stand up comedians to television sketch shows. Australia is a country of climatic and geographic extremes and Austral...
The Great Depression (1929-32) was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. Even before the devastating stock market crash on Wall Street (the centre of stock market trading in New York, United States of America), unemployment in Australia was...
Humour is seen in the Australian use of slang, and across media from cartoons in print, as sketches on radio, as comedy series on television, in films and with witty observations of life in Australian literature. Mocking the wowser is another common elem...
The Sydney Gazette, first published by ex-convict George Howe in 1803. George Howe was also permitted to print Australia's first newspaper from a humble shed located at the rear of Government House. The Sydney Gazette was the only newspaper circulated i...
Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Running since 1996, the National Museum of Australia hosts the Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons exhibition. Every year, young Australian cartoonists are encouraged to enter the...
>Reviewed by Tim Roberts>>>Reading Best Australian Political Cartoons 2007 provided me with a renewed surge of joy about the demise of the Howard Government. Of course, one doesnít read cartoons for their predictive skills ñ theyíre supposed to be funny,...
>Reviewed by Tim Roberts>>>Reading Best Australian Political Cartoons 2007 provided me with a renewed surge of joy about the demise of the Howard Government. Of course, one doesnít read cartoons for their predictive skills ñ theyíre supposed to be funny,...
Who we areHistoryMuseum volunteersThe buildingCorporatePublicationsStaging your eventCopyright and Produc ... Bringing the House Down, the catalogue of the annual Bringing the House Down political humour competition, draws together the best of Australian...
Who we areHistoryMuseum volunteersThe buildingCorporatePublicationsStaging your eventCopyright and Produc ... LibraryFeedbackContact usSponsorship opportun ... Bringing the House Down is a celebration of the best of Australian political cartooning. ...
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