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Australian political cartooning - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian comedy - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Governors-General - Australia's Culture Portal

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia represents the monarch of Australia - currently Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The functions and roles of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers and judges, giving Royal Ass...

The Great Depression - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian humour - Australia's Culture Portal

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 birth of the newspaper in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

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Australian political cartooning - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

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...

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 by Russ Radcliffe   (website The Book Abyss )

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The Australian Cartoonists Association: Best Australian Political Cartoons 2007   (website Australian Black and White Artists' Club )

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The Best Australian Political Cartoons · Readings.com.au   (website Readings: Australia's Finest Book & Music Store )

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Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 · Readings.com.au   (website Readings: Australia's Finest Book & Music Store )

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National Museum of Australia - Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Cartoons   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

Who we areHistoryMuseum volunteersThe buildingCorporate documentsPublicationsStaging your eventCopyright and Produ ... LibraryFeedbackContact usFriendsSponsorship opportu ... Bringing the House Down is a celebration of the best of Australian political c...

National Museum of Australia - Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Cartoons   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

Who we areHistoryMuseum volunteersThe buildingCorporate documentsPublicationsStaging your eventCopyright and Produ ... LibraryFeedbackContact usFriendsSponsorship opportu ... Bringing the House Down, the catalogue of the annual Bringing the House Down p...

Best Australian political cartoons: 2005 edited by Russ Radcliffe. | Lucas | Reviews in Australian Studies   (website National Library of Australia (NLA) )

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....

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. > Crunch Time Cookbook by Michelle Bridges >Coming February 2010> Read more ... > &copy1998-2010 Penguin...

The Australian Cartoonists Association: Editorial/Political Cartoons   (website Australian Black and White Artists' Club )

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Media Release_Behind the Lines   (website State Library of Queensland )

6 November 2009 POLITICAL CARTOONISTS GO BEHIND THE LINES AT THE STATELIBRARY Through the eyes of Australiaís top cartoonists, Australian politics in 2008 is captured in an exhibition opening at the State Library of Queensland on 21 November. The Nationa...

Case, James Thomas (1884 - 1921) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

CASE, JAMES THOMAS (1884-1921), cartoonist, was born on 21 March 1884 at Boggy Creek near Caboolture, Queensland, son of Thomas Joseph Case, gardener, and his wife Margaret Elizabeth, n~®e Feenan. Worker (Brisbane), 4 Mar 1911, 28 Oct 1921; Daily Standar...

...the word, September.October 2005   (website Society of Editors ( South Australia) )

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...the Word January--February 2005   (website Society of Editors ( South Australia) )

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