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Australian political cartooning - Australia's Culture PortalAustralia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Since the 1830s, when political cartoons were first featured in Australian newspapers, they have provided satirical, witty or humorous comment on political and public affairs, social cus...
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...
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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 Austral...
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...
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Penguin Books Australia - Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 by Radcliffe Russ (ed) (website Penguin Books Australia )Not just a collection, more a subversive first draft of history, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 is the essential guide to the new Labor era. > An Australian family saga spanning three generations > by Bryce Courtenay> Coming 16 November 2009> Rea...
Reviews in Australian Studies, Vol 1, No 1 (2006) Home > Vol 1, No 1 (2006) > Lucas Best Australian political cartoons: 2005 edited by Russ Radcliffe....
South Australian cartooning icon Michael Atchison passed away 16 February 2009. Behind the Lines: The Years Best Cartoons brings together the best Australian political cartoons and illustrations collected by the National Museum of Australia in 2008. Mic...
South Australian cartooning icon Michael Atchison passed away 16 February 2009. Behind the Lines: The Years Best Cartoons brings together the best Australian political cartoons and illustrations collected by the National Museum of Australia in 2008. Mic...
South Australian cartooning icon Michael Atchison passed away 16 February 2009. Behind the Lines: The Years Best Cartoons brings together the best Australian political cartoons and illustrations collected by the National Museum of Australia in 2008. new...
Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Since the 1830s, when political cartoons were first featured in Australian newspapers, they have provided satirical, witty or humorous comment on political and public affairs, social cus...
Who we areHistoryMuseum volunteersThe buildingCorporate documentsCorporatePublicationsStaging your eventCopyright and Produ ... LibraryFeedbackContact usFriendsSponsorship opportu ... Bringing the House Down is a celebration of the best of Australian po...
Who we areHistoryMuseum volunteersThe buildingCorporate documentsCorporatePublicationsStaging your eventCopyright and Produ ... LibraryFeedbackContact usFriendsSponsorship opportu ... Bringing the House Down, the catalogue of the annual Bringing the Hou...
Reviewed by Tim RobertsReading 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, and...
Reviewed by Tim RobertsReading 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, and...
Not just a collection, more a subversive first draft of history, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 is the essential guide to the new Labor era. <a href="http://www.thebookabyss.com.au/inc/searchresults? s="Russ Radcliffe""> <a href="http://www.thebo...
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2008 by Russ Radcliffe . After more than a decade of John Howard and the divisive politics that defined his era, how will Australia's political cartoonists adjust to Kevin Rudd's kinder, gentler government? Books Alive...
Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists are already back on the job, pencils sharpened and eager to draw fresh blood. Not just a collection, more a subversive first draft of history, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 is the es...
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